The American short story cycle [electronic resource] / Jennifer J. Smith.
Constructs a history of community, family and temporality in American culture through one of the nation's most popular, yet unrecognized genres. The American Short Story Cycle spans two centuries to tell the history of a genre that includes both major and marginal authors, from Washington Irving through William Faulkner to Jhumpa Lahiri. The short story cycle rose and proliferated because its form compellingly renders the uncertainties that emerge from the twin pillars of modern America culture: individualism and pluralism. Short story cycles reflect how individuals adapt to change, whether it is the railroad coming to the small town in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919) or social media revolutionizing language in Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010). Combining new formalism in literary criticism with scholarship in American Studies, this book gives a name and theory to the genre that has fostered the aesthetics of fragmentation, as well as recurrence, that characterise fiction today. Key Features:. Spans two centuries to tell the history of a neglected genre that includes major and marginal authors Combines new formalism in literary criticism to scholarship in American Studies Constructs a history of community, family, and temporality in American culture
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- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2018]
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction : Forming provisional identities -- Locating the short story cycle -- The persistence of place -- Writing time in metaphors -- Tracing new genealogies -- Resisting identity -- Atomic genre -- Coda : Novellas-in-flash and flash cycles.
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- Print version record.
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- Short stories, American > History and criticism.
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