Description |
1 online resource (465 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Glance at the History of the Short Story In English; Chinua Achebe; Ama Ata Aidoo; Jessica Anderson; Margaret Eleanor Atwood; Toni Cade Bambara; John Simmons Barth; Donald Barthelme; Ann Beattie; Morley Callaghan; Angela (Olive) Carter; Raymond Carver; Sandra Cisneros; Robert Coover; Anita Desai; (Karen) Louise Erdrich; Richard Ford; Janet Frame; Ernest J. Gaines; Mavis Gallant; Nadine Gordimer; Patricia Grace; Gish Jen; Charles Richard Johnson; Elizabeth Jolley; Jamaica Kincaid |
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Maxine Hong KingstonDoris Lessing; Bernard Malamud; Bobbie Ann Mason; James Alan McPherson; Lorrie Moore; Bharati Mukherjee; Alice Munro; R.K. Narayan; Tim O'Brien; Michael Ondaatje; Cynthia Ozick; Grace Paley; Velma Pollard; Victor Sawdon Pritchett; Jean Rhys; Salman Rushdie; Samuel Dickson Selvon; Olive Senior; Leslie Marmon Silko; Amy Tan; William Trevor; Selected Annotated Bibliography; Index; About the Editors and Contributors |
Summary |
Although the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years. Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English includes alphabetically-arranged entries for 50 English-language short story writers from around the world. Most of these writers have been active since 1960, and they reflect a wide range of experiences and perspectives in their works. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes biography, a review of existing criticism, a lengthier analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography of primary a |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Short stories, American -- Dictionaries
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Short stories, English -- Dictionaries
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American fiction -- 20th century -- Dictionaries
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Commonwealth fiction (English) -- Dictionaries
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English fiction -- 20th century -- Dictionaries
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries
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Authors, Commonwealth -- Biography -- Dictionaries
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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries
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Authors, Commonwealth -- Biography -- Dictionaries
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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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Authors, American
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Authors, Commonwealth
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Authors, English
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Commonwealth fiction (English)
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English fiction
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Short stories, American
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Short stories, English
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dictionaries.
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Biographies
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Dictionaries
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionnaires.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Fallon, Erin, 1971-
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Feddersen, R. C
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Kurtzleben, James
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Lee, Maurice A
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Rochette-Crawley, Susan
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ISBN |
9781135976224 |
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1135976228 |
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1306110386 |
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9781306110389 |
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9781315063720 |
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1315063727 |
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