The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story

ISBN: 9780521533812 出版年：2006 页码：304 Scofield Cambridge University Press

1. Introduction 2. The short story as ironic myth: Washington Irving and William Austin 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne 4. Edgar Allan Poe 5. Herman Melville 6. New territories: Bret Harte and Mark Twain 7. Realism, the grotesque and impressionism: Hamlin Garland, Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane 8. Henry James 9. Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman 10. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather and Edith Wharton 11. Growth, fragmentation, new aesthetics and new voices in the early twentieth century 12. O. Henry and Jack London 13. Sherwood Anderson 14. Ernest Hemingway 15. F. Scott Fitzgerald 16. William Faulkner 17. Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor 18. Charles Chesnutt, Richard Wright, James Baldwin and the African American short story to 1965 19. Aspects of the American short story 1930-80 20. Two traditions and the changing idea of the mainstream 22. The postmodern short story in America 22. Raymond Carver 23. Epilogue: the contemporary American short story Guide to further reading.