The Cambridge introduction to the short story in English /

"The short story has become an increasingly important genre since the mid-nineteenth century. This book examines the development of the short story in Britain and other English-language literature, providing a chronological survey of the form, usefully grouping writers to show the development o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hunter, Adrian, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Colección:Cambridge introductions to literature.
Temas:
Short stories, English > History and criticism.
Short stories, English > English-speaking countries > History and criticism.
Nouvelles anglaises > Histoire et critique.
Nouvelles anglaises > Anglophonie > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Short stories, English
Englisch
Kurzgeschichte
Engelsk litteratur > historia > noveller.
English-speaking countries
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Nineteenth Century
  • Introduction: Publishers, plots and prestige
  • 1. Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy; 2. Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad
  • 3. The Yellow Book circle and the 1890s avant-garde
  • Part II. The Modernist Short Story
  • Introduction: 'Complete with missing parts'
  • 4. James Joyce
  • 5. Virginia Woolf
  • 6. Katherine Mansfield
  • 7. Samuel Beckett
  • Part III. Post-Modernist Stories
  • Introduction: Theories of form
  • 8. Frank O'Connor and Sean O'Faolain
  • 9. Elizabeth Bowen and V.S. Pritchett
  • 10. Angela Carter and Ian McEwan
  • Part IV. Post-colonial and Other Stories
  • Introduction: A 'minor' literature?
  • 11. Frank Sargeson and Marjorie Barnard
  • 12. James Kelman and Chinua Achebe
  • 13. Alice Munro.

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