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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 covered in depth with a general view of their work and detailed discussion of a number of examples of individual stories. The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to this rich literary tradition. It will be invaluable to students and readers looking for critical approaches to the short story and wishing to deepen their understanding of how authors have approached and developed this fascinating and challenging genre. Further reading suggestions are included to explore the subject in more depth. This is an invaluable overview for all students and readers of American fiction.

Fiction --- American literature --- Short stories, American. --- Nouvelle --- --Littérature américaine --- --Short stories, American --- History and criticism. --- Short stories, American --- History and criticism --- Short stories [American ] --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Littérature américaine

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Offering significantly more comprehensive and inclusive coverage than similar anthologies, this excellent and varied collection features seventy-nine of the best American short stories written between 1945 and the present. Taken together, these stories document the ever-changing reality of American life since World War II--who we are, where we have been, and where we might be going. Striving to make this anthology representative of all the literary voices of the period, editor John G. Parks includes work from such acclaimed authors as Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Flannery O'Connor alongside stories from writers who are no longer frequently anthologized, including John Gardner, James Alan McPherson, Leonard Michaels, Wright Morris, J. F. Powers, and James Purdy. Key African-American and new immigrant writers including James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Ernest J. Gaines, Jamaica Kincaid, Bharati Mukherjee, and Alice Walker are also represented, along with such important Asian-American and Latino writers as Frank Chin, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Helena Maria Viramontes, and Hisaye Yamamoto. The volume includes a brief biography for each featured author and an introduction that traces developments in the short story form in the United States. Providing a truly multifaceted look into the social, intellectual, and spiritual life of the period, American Short Stories Since 1945 is an exceptional text for courses in the short story, American literature, and creative writing.

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Fiction --- American literature --- English literature --- Short stories, English --- Short stories, American --- Nouvelles anglaises --- Nouvelles américaines --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism. --- -Short stories, American --- -Engels --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- novellen --- American short stories --- American fiction --- English short stories --- English fiction --- Nouvelles américaines --- Engels --- Short stories, English - History and criticism --- Short stories, American - History and criticism

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Fiction --- English literature --- Cycles (Literature) --- Cycles (Littérature) --- Cycli (Literatuur) --- O'Connor, Flannery Mary, 1925-1964. Everything That Rises Must Converge --- Short stories [American ] --- History and criticism --- American fiction --- 20th century --- Bibliography --- Joyce, James --- Hemingway, Ernest --- Welty, Eudora --- Updike, John --- Steinbeck, John --- Short story --- American fiction. --- Cycles (Literature). --- Cycles (Littérature). --- Nouvelle --- Nouvelles américaines --- Roman américain --- Short stories, American --- Short stories, American. --- Short story. --- Histoire et critique. --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism. --- 1900-1999.