Handbook of the American Short Story / / ed. by Erik Redling, Oliver Scheiding.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Achilles, Jochen,; Balestrini, Nassim Winnie,; Basseler, Michael,; Bergmann, Ina,; Blin, Lynn,; Buchholtz, Mirosława,; Clark, Robert C.,; Coleman, Philip,; Däwes, Birgit,; Farrell, Susan,; Fash, Lydia G.,; Graybill, Mark S.,; Grimwood, Michael,; Guttzeit, Gero,; Hartmann, Johanna,; Hornung, Alfred,; Kelley, Christina,; Kersten, Holger,; Knopf, Kerstin,; Müller, Timo,; Nagel, James,; Newton, Frank,; Obenland, Frank,; Pöhlmann, Sascha,; Redling, Erik,; Rodiek, Nele,; Scheiding, Oliver,; Schlarb, Damien B.,; Schweighauser, Philipp,; Schäfer, Stefanie,; Straub, Julia,; Tangedal, Ross K.,; Tracy, Steven,; Völz, Sabrina,
• HerausgeberIn: Redling, Erik,; Scheiding, Oliver,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Handbooks of English and American Studies : Text and Theory ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 702 p.)

The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Editors’ Preface -- Contents -- 0 Introduction: The American Short Story – Past and Present -- Part I: Systematic Questions -- 1 Of Sketches, Tales, and Stories: Theoretical Reflections on the Genre of the Short Story -- 2 Canon Formation and the American Short Story -- 3 Current Approaches to the American Short Story -- 4 Textual Materiality, Magazine Culture, and the American Short Story -- Part II: Close Readings -- 5 Washington Irving (1783–1859) -- 6 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) -- 7 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) -- 8 Herman Melville (1819–1891) -- 9 Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens, 1835–1910) -- 10 Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932) -- 11 Kate Chopin (1850–1904) -- 12 Henry James (1843–1916) -- 13 Jack London (1876–1916) -- 14 Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938) -- 15 Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) -- 16 Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) -- 17 Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) -- 18 William Faulkner (1897–1962) -- 19 Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) -- 20 James Baldwin (1924–1987) -- 21 Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) -- 22 Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) -- 23 Grace Paley (1922–2007) -- 24 Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) -- 25 Tim O’Brien (1946–) -- 26 Raymond Carver (1938–1988) -- 27 Alice Walker (1944–) -- 28 Leslie Marmon Silko (1948–) -- 29 Sandra Cisneros (1954–) -- 30 Louise Erdrich (1954–) -- 31 Lydia Davis (1947–) -- 32 George Saunders (1958–) -- 33 Junot Díaz (1968–) -- 34 Yiyun Li (1972–) -- 35 N.K. Jemisin (1972–) -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- List of Contributors