An Organon of Life Knowledge : Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America /

Can fiction teach us how to live? This study offers a fresh take on the North American short story, exploring how the genre has engaged in the construction and circulation of 'life knowledge'. Echoing the resurgence of short story scholarship in recent years, it thus contributes to the gro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Basseler, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2019]
Colección:American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; 24.
Temas:
Short stories, American > History and criticism.
Short stories, American > Themes, motives.
Life in literature.
Fiction genres > History and criticism.
Nouvelles américaines > Histoire et critique.
Nouvelles américaines > Thèmes, motifs.
Vie dans la littérature.
Roman > Typologie > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Fiction genres
Life in literature
Short stories, American
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Life, Literature, and Knowledge: Theoretical Premises
  • 1. Literature, Life Knowledge, and 'Science for Living'
  • 2. The Knowledge of Literature: Positions, Debates, and Approaches
  • Part Two: The Genericity of Literary Life Knowledge in the Short Story
  • 4. The Short Story as an Organon of Life Knowledge: An Epistemological Approach to the Genre
  • 5. Life Knowledge as Projection: The Cognitive Work of Short Stories
  • 6. Life-Changing Experiences and Turning Points: The Crisis-Ridden Life Knowledge of the Short Story
  • 7. The American Short Story and the Temporalization of Life in Modernity: Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
  • Part Three: Stages of Life
  • Staging Life in the Short Story
  • 8. Epistemological Uncertainty and Knowledge of Maturation in Stories of Initiation: Sherwood Anderson's "I Want to Know Why", Eudora Welty's "A Visit of Charity" and "A Memory", and Junot Díaz's "Ysrael"
  • 9. Midlife Crisis as Turning Point for the 'Mature Moderns': John Cheever's "The Country Husband"
  • 10. Stories of 'Unlived' and Secret Lives: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sherwood Anderson, Henry James, and James Thurber
  • 11. Gerontophobia, Ageism, and the Wisdom of Later Life in Stories of Aging: Willa Cather's "Old Mrs. Harris" and Eudora Welty's "Old Mr. Marblehall"
  • 12. Understanding Life Retrospectively in Stories of Remembered Life: Willa Cather, William Saroyan, Russell Banks, Anthony Doerr
  • Coda: The Short Story as Epistemological Fiction Alice Munro's "What Do You Want to Know For?"

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