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Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities Book

In the twentieth century, many great works of American fiction have taken the form of arranged collections of short stories by a single author, such as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio or Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time. This collection brings together eleven essays on important American story sequences and marks a pioneering investigation of a popular but seldom-discussed form of modernist writing.Read More

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    This book gathers together eleven essays on important American short story sequences of the twentieth century. The introduction elucidates problems of defining the genre, cites notable instances of the form, and explores the implications of its modern emergence and popularity. Subsequent essays discuss illustrative works by such figures as Henry James, Jean Toomer, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, John Updike, Louise Erdrich, and Raymond Carver. Each essay also considers implications of form and arrangement in the construction of composite fictions that often produce the illusion of a fictive community.

  • 0521430100
  • 9780521430104
  • 27 January 1995
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 240
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