Handbook of the American Short Story
Handbook of the American Short Story

Author: Erik Redling

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-01-19

Total Pages: 712

ISBN-13: 3110587645

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The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.

A London Life, and Other Tales
A London Life, and Other Tales

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Alpha Edition

Published: 2023-05-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789357090469

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A London Life, and Other Tales, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors' original publications, the text is readable and clear.

Henry James and Modern Moral Life
Henry James and Modern Moral Life

Author: Robert B. Pippin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-07-19

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780521655477

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This book argues that Henry James reveals in his fiction a sophisticated theory of moral understanding.

William and Henry James
William and Henry James

Author: William James

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13: 9780813916941

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This collection of 216 letters offers an accessible, single-volume distillation of the exchange between celebrated brothers William and Henry James. Spanning more than fifty years, their correspondence presents a lively account of the persons, places, and events that affected the Euro-American world from 1861 until the death of William James in August 1910. An engaging introduction by John J. McDermott suggests the significance of the Selected Letters for the study of the entire family.

The Turn of the Screw Illustrated
The Turn of the Screw Illustrated

Author: Henry James

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-21

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13:

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The Turn of the Screw is an 1898Horrornovella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 - April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted.

The Enigma of Good and Evil: The Moral Sentiment in Literature
The Enigma of Good and Evil: The Moral Sentiment in Literature

Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-08-27

Total Pages: 865

ISBN-13: 1402035764

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Striking toward peace and harmony the human being is ceasely torn apart in personal, social, national life by wars, feuds, inequities and intimate personal conflicts for which there seems to be no respite. Does the human condition in interaction with others imply a constant adversity? Or, is this conflict owing to an interior or external factor of evil governing our attitudes and conduct toward the other person? To what criteria should I refer for appreciation, judgment, direction concerning my attitudes and my actions as they bear on the well-being of others? At the roots of these questions lies human experience which ought to be appropriately clarified before entering into speculative abstractions of the ethical theories and precepts. Literature, which in its very gist, dwells upon disentangling in multiple perspective the peripeteia of our life-experience offers us a unique field of source-material for moral and ethical investigations. Literature brings preeminently to light the Moral Sentiment which pervades our life with others -- our existence tout court. Being modulated through the course of our experiences the Moral Sentiment sustains the very sense of literature and of personal human life (Tymieniecka).