The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story / / ed. by Blanche Gelfant.
Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I. 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
- Part II. Individual Writers and Their Work
- Alice Adams (1926-1999)
- Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
- James Baldwin (1924-1987)
- John Barth (1930- )
- Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
- Rick Bass (1959- )
- Richard Bausch (1945- )
- Charles Baxter (1947- )
- Ann Beattie (1947- )
- Saul Bellow (1915- )
- Gina Berriault (1926- )
- Doris Betts (1932- )
- Paul Bowles (1910-1999)
- Kay Boyle (1902-1992)
- Ray Bradbury (1920- )
- Kate Braverman (1950- )
- Larry Brown (1951- )
- Erskine Caldwell
- Hortense Calisher (1911- )
- Truman Capote (1924-1984)
- Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
- Willa Cather (1873-1974)
- John Cheever (1912-1982)
- Sandra Cisneros (1954- )
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909-1971)
- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930- )
- Robert Coover (1932- )
- Lydia Davis (1947- )
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1953- )
- Andre Dubus (1936-1999)
- Deborah Eisenberg (1946- )
- Stanley Elkin (1930-1995)
- George P. Elliott (1918-1980)
- John Fante (1909-1983)
- James T. Farrell (1904-1979)
- William Faulkner (1897 -1962)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 -1940)
- Richard Ford (1944 - )
- Mary Gaitskill (1954 - )
- William H. Gass (1924 - )
- Ellen Gilchrist (1935 - )
- Herbert Gold (1924 - )
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 -1961)
- Amy Hempel (1951 - )
- Mary Hood (1946 - )
- Langston Hughes (1902 -1967)
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891 -1960)
- Shirley Jackson (1916 -1965)
- Jamaica Kincaid (1949 - )
- Ring Lardner (1885 -1933)
- David Leavitt (1961 - )
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - )
- Meridel Le Sueur (1900 -1996)
- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (1944 - )
- Jack London (1876 -1916)
- David Wong Louie (1954 - )
- Norman Mailer (1923 - )
- Bernard Malamud (1914 -1986)
- Bobbie Anne Mason (1940 - )
- Mary McCarthy (1912 -1989)
- Elizabeth McCracken (1966 - )
- Carson McCullers (1917 -1967)
- Thomas McGuane (1939 - )
- James Alan McPherson (1943 - )
- Nicholasa Mohr (1938 - )
- Lorrie Moore (1957 - )
- Toshio Mori (1910 -1980)
- Bharati Mukherjee (1940 - )
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899 -1977)
- Joyce Carol Oates (1938 - )
- Tim O'Brien (1946 - )
- Flannery O'Connor (1925 -1964)
- John O'Hara (1905 -1970)
- Tillie Olsen (1913?- )
- Simon Ortiz (1941 - )
- Cynthia Ozick (1928 - )
- Grace Paley (1922 - )
- Américo Paredes (1915 -1999)
- Dorothy Parker (1893 -1967)
- Jayne Anne Phillips (1952 - )
- Katherine Anne Porter (1890 -1980)
- William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862 - 1910)
- Annie Proulx (1935 - )
- Thomas Pynchon (1937 - )
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896 -1953)
- Alberto Alvaro Ríos (1952 - )
- Philip Roth (1933 - )
- Damon Runyon (1880 -1946)
- J. D. Salinger (1919- )
- Bienvenido N. Santos (1911 -1996)
- William Saroyan (1908 -1981)
- Delmore Schwartz (1913 -1966)
- Leslie Marmon Silko (1948 - )
- Jean Stafford (1915 -1979)
- Wallace Stegner (1909 -1993)
- John Steinbeck (1902 -1968)
- Elizabeth Tallent (1954 - )
- Peter Taylor (1917 -1994)
- James Thurber (1894 -1961)
- John Updike (1932 - )
- Helena María Viramontes (1954 - )
- Anna Lee Walters (1946 - )
- Robert Penn Warren (1905 -1989)
- Sylvia A. Watanabe (1953 - )
- Eudora Welty (1909 - )
- Edith Wharton (1862 -1937)
- Joy Williams (1944 - )
- Tennessee Williams (1911 -1983)
- William Carlos Williams (1883 -1963)
- Tobias Wolff (1945 - )
- Richard Wright (1908 -1960)
- Hisaye Yamamoto (1921 - )
- Anzia Yezierska (1881 -1970)
- Index
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