The American Short Story Cycle:

Constructs a history of community, family and temporality in American culture through one of the nation's most popular, yet unrecognized genresThe American Short Story Cycle spans two centuries to tell the history of a genre that includes both major and marginal authors, from Washington Irving...

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1. Verfasser: Smith, Jennifer J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
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Zusammenfassung:Constructs a history of community, family and temporality in American culture through one of the nation's most popular, yet unrecognized genresThe American Short Story Cycle spans two centuries to tell the history of a genre that includes both major and marginal authors, from Washington Irving through William Faulkner to Jhumpa Lahiri. The short story cycle rose and proliferated because its form compellingly renders the uncertainties that emerge from the twin pillars of modern America culture: individualism and pluralism. Short story cycles reflect how individuals adapt to change, whether it is the railroad coming to the small town in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919) or social media revolutionizing language in Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010). Combining new formalism in literary criticism with scholarship in American Studies, this book gives a name and theory to the genre that has fostered the aesthetics of fragmentation, as well as recurrence, that characterise fiction today.Key Features:Spans two centuries to tell the history of a neglected genre that includes major and marginal authorsCombines new formalism in literary criticism to scholarship in American StudiesConstructs a history of community, family, and temporality in American culture
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
ISBN:9781474423946
DOI:10.1515/9781474423946

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