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Ethnicity and the American Short Story

Product Description: First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Julie Brown (editor)

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9780815321057 | Routledge, June 1, 1997, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: First published in 1997.

Eight Lessons in Love: A Domestic Violence Reader

Product Description: The title of this book is deliberately ironic. Domestic violence is not about love as we understand it, but about the need for men to reassert their threatened or lost command in a relationship. Eight Lessons in Love is a critical study of fictional treatments of that ironic problem, offering a radical new way of reading and teaching those works as drastic lessons in power and control...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mark Spilka

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9780826211231 | Univ of Missouri Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The title of this book is deliberately ironic.

Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Charolotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction

By Janet Beer

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9780333545423 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1997, cover price $170.00 | also contains The Completely Useless Guide to London

The Composite Novel: The Short Story Cycle in Transition

Product Description: Critics have been aware for years that such literary works as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and James Joyce's Dubliners do not fit comfortably into established genres. By proposing the name composite novel and a supportive, comprehensive theory of genre for these works, Maggie Dunn and Ann Morris break new critical ground...read more

By Maggie Dunn and Ann R. Morris

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9780805709667 | Twayne Pub, January 1, 1995, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: Critics have been aware for years that such literary works as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and James Joyce's Dubliners do not fit comfortably into established genres.

Maupassant and the American Short Story: The Influence of Form at the Turn of the Century

Product Description: Maupassant and the American Short Story isolates and develops more fully than any previous study the impact of Maupassant's work on the writing of Ambrose Bierce, O. Henry, Kate Chopin, and Henry James. It introduces a new perspective to assess their canons, reviving the importance of many often-ignored stories and, in the cases of Maupassant and O...read more

By Richard Fusco

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9780271010816 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $66.95 | About this edition: Maupassant and the American Short Story isolates and develops more fully than any previous study the impact of Maupassant's work on the writing of Ambrose Bierce, O.

The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story: Language, Form and Ideology

Product Description: For the first time, the methods of deconstruction are used to challenge traditional critical approaches to the short story. Alongside a review of these approaches, Douglas Tallack discusses the work of 19th-century America's major writers: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Gilman and James...read more

By Douglas Tallack

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9780415077439 | Routledge, December 1, 1993, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: For the first time, the methods of deconstruction are used to challenge traditional critical approaches to the short story.

Rationalizing Genius: Ideological Strategies in the Classic American Science Fiction Short Story

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By John Huntington

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9780813514291 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: .

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9780813514307 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: .

The Short Story Cycle: A Genre Companion and Reference Guide

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By Susan Garland Mann

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9780313250811 | Greenwood Pub Group, January 1, 1989, cover price $70.00

Down Home: Origins of the Afro-American Short Story

By Robert A. Bone

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9780231068598 | Reissue edition (Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 1988), cover price $31.50

Since Flannery O'Connor: Essays on the Contemporary American Short Story

By Loren Logsdon and Charles W. Mayer (editor)

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9780934312066 | Western Illinois Univ, August 1, 1987, cover price $8.00

Literature's Silent Language: Nonverbal Communication

Product Description: This book suggests that an understanding of nonverbal communication can be applied to our reading of literature, thus enriching our comprehension of characters, style, and meaning - particularly in the short story. Its theoretical framework is established by drawing from the diverse research in nonverbal communication in psychology, physi- ology, anthropology, and sociology...read more

By Stephen R. Portch

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9780820401720 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 1, 1986, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This book suggests that an understanding of nonverbal communication can be applied to our reading of literature, thus enriching our comprehension of characters, style, and meaning - particularly in the short story.

The Afro-American Short Story: A Comprehensive, Annotated Index With Selected Commentaries

Product Description: This book provides both a comprehensive cross-reference to modern Afro-American short stories published from 1950-1982 and an analysis and commentary on modern short fiction. Over 850 stories written by approximately 300 authors are indexed...read more

By Preston M. Yancy

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9780313243554 | Greenwood Pub Group, February 1, 1986, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: This book provides both a comprehensive cross-reference to modern Afro-American short stories published from 1950-1982 and an analysis and commentary on modern short fiction.

The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story

Product Description: This collection addresses the key American short story writersÃ³Poe, Irving, Melville, Hawthorne, Twain, Crane, Bierce, Chopin, and JamesÃ³and addresses both the vision and the design of their collective achievement.

By A. Robert Lee (editor)

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9780389205937 | Barnes & Noble Imports, December 1, 1985, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This collection addresses the key American short story writersÃ³Poe, Irving, Melville, Hawthorne, Twain, Crane, Bierce, Chopin, and JamesÃ³and addresses both the vision and the design of their collective achievement.

Toward the End: Closure and Structure in the American Short Story

By John Gerlach

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9780817302344 | Univ of Alabama Pr, April 1, 1985, cover price $16.50

The American Short Story 1900-1945: A Critical History

An examination of the development of American short fiction includes discussions of the stories of authors such as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, and Eudora Welty

By Philip Stevick

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9780805793536, titled "The American Short Story, 1900-1945: A Critical History" | Twayne Pub, July 1, 1984, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An examination of the development of American short fiction includes discussions of the stories of authors such as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, and Eudora Welty

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9780805793567 | Reprint edition (Twayne Pub, September 1, 1984), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An examination of the development of American short fiction includes discussions of the stories of authors such as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, and Eudora Welty

American Short Story, 1945-1980: A Critical History

Traces developments in postwar American short fiction and discusses the most important works of a variety of modern writers

By Gordon Weaver

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9780805793505, titled "The American Short Story 1945-1980: A Critical History" | Twayne Pub, May 1, 1983, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Traces developments in postwar American short fiction and discusses the most important works of a variety of modern writers

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9780805793550, titled "The American Short Story 1945-1980: A Critical History" | Reprint edition (Twayne Pub, September 1, 1984), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Traces developments in postwar American short fiction and discusses the most important works of a variety of modern writers

9780788162428 | Diane Pub Co, June 1, 1983, cover price $13.00

The Short Story in English

Follows the development of the short story in the United States and England from its initial appearance in the late nineteenth century to the present

By Walter Ernest Allen

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9780198126669 | Clarendon Pr, December 1, 1980, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Follows the development of the short story in the United States and England from its initial appearance in the late nineteenth century to the present

American Short Story: A Critical Survey

The evolution of theme and narrative style in the short story is demonstrated in analyses of significant writers from Washington Irving to Flannery O'Connor

By Arthur Voss

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9780806116440 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, August 1, 1980, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The evolution of theme and narrative style in the short story is demonstrated in analyses of significant writers from Washington Irving to Flannery O'Connor

Women Writers of the Short Story: A Collection of Critical Essays

The short story writing of Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Katherine Ann Porter, Willa Cather, and Flannery O'Connor is assessed

By Heather McClave (editor)

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9780139624155 | Prentice Hall Direct, February 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The short story writing of Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Katherine Ann Porter, Willa Cather, and Flannery O'Connor is assessed

The Black American Short Story in the 20th Century: A Collection of Critical Essays

Product Description: This volume is a collection of essays on black short stories written between 1998 and 1976. It aims to say something about the black short story as a genre and the development of the racial situation in America as well. The primary aim is to introduce the reader to this long neglected genre of black fiction...read more

By Peter Bruck (editor)

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9789060320853 | Br Gruner Pub Co, December 1, 1977, cover price $102.00 | About this edition: This volume is a collection of essays on black short stories written between 1998 and 1976.

The American Short Story: Continuity and Change, 1940-1975

Charts the post-World-War II growth of the American short story in popularity and importance, assessing the contributions of significant authors and the genre's variety and achievement as the most accurate repository of our times

By William Harwood Peden

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9780395207208 | 2 revised edition (Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1975), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Charts the post-World-War II growth of the American short story in popularity and importance, assessing the contributions of significant authors and the genre's variety and achievement as the most accurate repository of our times

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