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题名/责任者:

The American short story cycle / Jennifer J. Smith.

出版发行项:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2018]

ISBN:

9781474452694

ISBN:

9781474423939

ISBN:

1474423930

载体形态项:

v, 194 pages ; 25 cm.

个人责任者:

Smith, Jennifer J. (Jennifer Joan), author.

论题主题:

Short stories, American-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Short stories, American.

体裁索引词:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

中图法分类号:

I712.074

一般附注:

First paperback edition published in 2019.

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [182]-190) and index.

内容附注:

Introduction : Forming provisional identities -- Locating the short story cycle -- The persistence of place -- Writing time in metaphors -- Tracing new genealogies -- Resisting identity -- Atomic genre -- Coda : Novellas-in-flash and flash cycles.

摘要附注:

The 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.

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