Author: John G. Parks
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195131321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Offering significantly more comprehensive and inclusive coverage than similar anthologies, American Short Stories Since 1945 features over seventy short stories written between 1945 and the present. Editor John Parks annotates terms, allusions, and references with which students may be unfamiliar. He also provides brief biographies of the authors and an introductory chapter tracing developments in the short story form in the U.S. since World War II.
American Short Stories Since 1945
Author: John G. Parks
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195131321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Offering significantly more comprehensive and inclusive coverage than similar anthologies, American Short Stories Since 1945 features over seventy short stories written between 1945 and the present. Editor John Parks annotates terms, allusions, and references with which students may be unfamiliar. He also provides brief biographies of the authors and an introductory chapter tracing developments in the short story form in the U.S. since World War II.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195131321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Offering significantly more comprehensive and inclusive coverage than similar anthologies, American Short Stories Since 1945 features over seventy short stories written between 1945 and the present. Editor John Parks annotates terms, allusions, and references with which students may be unfamiliar. He also provides brief biographies of the authors and an introductory chapter tracing developments in the short story form in the U.S. since World War II.
We Are the Stories We Tell
Author: Wendy Martin
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 9780679728818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A collection of twenty-six of the finest stories by the finest women writers to come out of the U.S. and Canada in the past fifty years. Organized by publication date, authors include Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Margaret Atwood, Anne Tyler, Tama Janowitz, Sandra Cisneros, Mary Gordon, and Alice Walker.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 9780679728818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A collection of twenty-six of the finest stories by the finest women writers to come out of the U.S. and Canada in the past fifty years. Organized by publication date, authors include Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Margaret Atwood, Anne Tyler, Tama Janowitz, Sandra Cisneros, Mary Gordon, and Alice Walker.
American Short Story since 1950
Author: Kasia Boddy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748686533
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
This book focuses specifically on short fiction written since 1950, a particularly rich and diverse period in the history of the form. A selective approach has been taken, focusing on the best and most representative work.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748686533
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
This book focuses specifically on short fiction written since 1950, a particularly rich and diverse period in the history of the form. A selective approach has been taken, focusing on the best and most representative work.
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195092622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195092622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945
Author: John N. Duvall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories
Author: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547485859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time --
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547485859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time --
The Best American Short Stories of the Century
Author: John Updike
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.
American Short Story Cycle
Author: Jennifer J. Smith
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474423957
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Explores the contradictory position of Arabic being both the official language and marginalized in Israel
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474423957
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Explores the contradictory position of Arabic being both the official language and marginalized in Israel
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
Author: Tobias Wolff
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679745136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive. The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches. Contributors and stories include: Mary Gaitskill, "A Romantic Weekend"; Andre Dubus, "The Fat Girl"; Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried"; Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"; Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"; Mona Simpson, "Lawns"; Ann Beattie, "A Vintage Thunderbird"; Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"; Stuart Dybek, "Chopin in Water"; Ron Hansen, "Wickedness"; Denis Johnson, "Emergency"; Edward P. Jones, "The First Day"; John L'Heureux, "Departures"; Ralph Lombreglia, "Men Under Water"; Robert Olmstead, "Cody's Story"; Jayne Anne Phillips, "Home"; Susan Power, "Moonwalk"; Amy Tan, "Rules of the Game"; Stephanie Vaughn, "Dog Heaven"; Joy Williams, "Train"; Dorothy Allison, "River of Names"; Richard Bausch, "All The Way in Flagstaff, Arizona"; and more.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679745136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive. The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches. Contributors and stories include: Mary Gaitskill, "A Romantic Weekend"; Andre Dubus, "The Fat Girl"; Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried"; Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"; Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"; Mona Simpson, "Lawns"; Ann Beattie, "A Vintage Thunderbird"; Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"; Stuart Dybek, "Chopin in Water"; Ron Hansen, "Wickedness"; Denis Johnson, "Emergency"; Edward P. Jones, "The First Day"; John L'Heureux, "Departures"; Ralph Lombreglia, "Men Under Water"; Robert Olmstead, "Cody's Story"; Jayne Anne Phillips, "Home"; Susan Power, "Moonwalk"; Amy Tan, "Rules of the Game"; Stephanie Vaughn, "Dog Heaven"; Joy Williams, "Train"; Dorothy Allison, "River of Names"; Richard Bausch, "All The Way in Flagstaff, Arizona"; and more.
Postmodern American Fiction
Author: Paula Geyh
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393316988
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Collects works by sixty-eight authors, including William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Art Spiegelman, Lynda Barry, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Douglas Coupland
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393316988
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Collects works by sixty-eight authors, including William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Art Spiegelman, Lynda Barry, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Douglas Coupland