| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 660 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Thematic essays -- The American short story cycle -- The American short story, 1807-1900 -- The African American short story -- The Asian American short story -- The Chicano-Latino short story -- The ecological short story -- Lesbian and gay short stories -- The Native American short story -- Non-English American short stories -- The American working-class short story -- American short stories of the Holocaust -- pt. 2. Individual writers and their work -- Alice Adams -- Sherwood Anderson -- James Baldwin -- John Barth -- Donald Barthelme -- Rick Bass -- Richard Bausch -- Charles Baxter -- Ann Beattie -- Saul Bellow -- Gina Berriault -- Doris Betts -- Paul Bowles -- Kay Boyle -- Ray Bradbury -- Kate Braverman -- Larry Brown -- Erskine Caldwell -- Hortense Calisher -- Truman Capote -- Raymond Carver -- Willa Cather -- John Cheever -- Sandra Cisneros -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn -- Robert Coover -- Lydia Davis -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Andre Dubus -- Deborah Eisenberg -- Stanley Elkin -- George P. Elliott -- John Fante -- James T. Farrell -- William Faulkner -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Richard Ford -- Mary Gaitskill -- William H. Gass -- Ellen Gilchrist -- Herbert Gold -- Ernest Hemingway -- Amy Hempel -- Mary Hood -- Langston Hughes -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Shirley Jackson -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Ring Lardner -- David Leavitt -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Meridel Le Sueur -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Jack London -- David Wong Louie -- Norman Mailer -- Bernard Malamud -- Bobbie Anne Mason -- Mary McCarthy -- Elizabeth McCracken -- Carson McCullers -- Thomas McGuane -- James Alan McPherson -- Nicholasa Mohr -- Lorrie Moore -- Toshio Mori -- Bharati Mukherjee -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Tim O'Brien -- Flannery O'Connor -- John O'Hara -- Tillie Olsen -- Simon Ortiz -- Cynthia Ozick -- Grace Paley -- Américo Paredes -- Dorothy Parker -- Jayne Anne Phillips -- Katherine Anne Porter -- William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) -- Annie Proulx -- Thomas Pynchon -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- Alberto Alvaro Ríos -- Philip Roth -- Damon Runyon -- J.D. Salinger -- Bienvenido N. Santos -- William Saroyan -- Delmore Schwartz -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Jean Stafford -- Wallace Stegner -- John Steinbeck -- Elizabeth Tallent -- Peter Taylor -- James Thurber -- John Updike -- Helena María Viramontes -- Anna Lee Walters -- Robert Penn Warren -- Sylvia A. Watanabe -- Eudora Welty -- Edith Wharton -- Joy Williams -- Tennessee Williams -- William Carlos Williams -- Tobias Wolff -- Richard Wright -- Hisaye Yamamoto -- Anzia Yezierska. |
| Summary |
More than 125 lucid essays on major writers and themes. Information and insight into the work of many of the finest short story writers in literary history. Part one--articles on stories that share a particular theme. Part two--individual writers and their work. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Short stories, American -- Dictionaries.
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Short stories, American. |
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Dictionaries.
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Short stories, American.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- Dictionaries.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Short stories, American -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Authors, American. |
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Biographies.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Bio-bibliography.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Dictionaries.
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Naslagwerken (vorm)
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Dictionaries.
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Biographies.
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Bibliographies.
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Bibliographies.
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| Added Author |
Gelfant, Blanche H., 1922-2013.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Columbia companion to the twentieth-century American short story. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2000 0231110987 (DLC) 00031610 (OCoLC)44132891 |
| ISBN |
0231504950 (electronic book) |
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9780231504959 (electronic book) |
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9781849720311 |
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1849720312 |
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0231110987 |
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9780231110983 |
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9780231110990 |
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