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Author:

Hunter, Adrian, 1971-

Title:

The Cambridge introduction to the short story in English / Adrian Hunter.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

vii, 202 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Short stories, English--History and criticism.
Short stories, English--English-speaking countries--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-196) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Cambridge introductions to literature

ISBN:

052168112X (pbk.)
9780521681124 (pbk.)
0521862590
9780521862592

LCCN:

2008296001

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)