The American Short Story - short story, into the early 1950s and advent of television viewing;Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald - examples of writers, whose stories provided a crucial source of income;short stories, a source of income - readership of mass-circulation and literary magazines ...
J. B. Priestly complained that the American short story was of slight value in "helping American society to understand itself." This complaint is representative of many condemnations and detractions of what has often been called the most characteristic literary expression of America. Even Mr. ...
This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to O'Connor and Carver. The major writers in the genre are covere...
After making observations on the American short story of the '80s as framed by four authors or groups of authors: Carver, Paley, Dixon, and the so-called metafictionists (Barth, Barthelme, Gass, Sontag, Davenport), this study will focus on younger writers who either continue to write in a...
Origins of the American Short Story is an anthology of prose texts that first appeared in various American magazines in the latter half of the 18th century. These magazines, most of them short lived, represented a struggling literary culture that began to flourish only later in the next century...
short story n. A short piece of prose fiction, having few characters and aiming at unity of effect. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. ...
Maupassant and the American Short Story: The Influence of Form at the Turn of the Century . Pennsylvania State UP, 1994. 230 pp. $40.00. Short-story criticism has long suffered from a methodological fissure that splits the field into two distinct camps. On the one hand, historical surveys ...
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Known For: Father of the American short story, biographer, historian, diplomat Also Known As: Dietrich Knickerbocker, Jonathan Oldstyle, and Geoffrey Crayon Born: April 3, 1783 in New York City Parents: William Irving and Sarah Sanders