The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories

The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories

Author: Dorothy Abbott

Publisher: Signet Classic

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9780451523952

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Presents thirty-three stories by Southern writers--half by women and one third by blacks--that capture the richness and complexities of Southern life


The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories

The Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories

Author: Burton Raffel

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-11-02

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 9780451529633

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The best of American short fiction Spanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by Washington Irving * Nathaniel Hawthorne * Edgar Allan Poe * Herman Melville * Harriet Beecher Stowe * Bret Harte * Bayard Taylor * Rose Terry Cooke * Ambrose Bierce * Hamlin Garland * Mary E. Wilkens Freeman * Henry James * Charlotte Perkins Gilman * Sarah Orne Jewett * Grace Elizabeth King * Harold Frederic * Kate Chopin * Stephen Crane * Edith Wharton * Mark Twain * Jack London * F. Hopkinson Smith * Zona Gale * O. Henry * Sherwood Anderson * Ernest Hemingway * John Dos Passos * Stephen Vincent Benet * Willa Cather * William Faulkner * James Thurber * F. Scott Fitzgerald * William Saroyan


The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories

The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-05-02

Total Pages: 836

ISBN-13: 9780451530165

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For nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he was refining his craft and winning tremendous popularity with his short stories and sketches. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five of the very best of Mark Twain’s short pieces, from the classic frontier sketch “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” to the richly imaginative fable “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.” Compiled by Pulitzer Prize–winning Twain scholar and biographer, Justin Kaplan, this collection represents some of Mark Twain’s wittiest and most insightful writing.


Growing Up in the South

Growing Up in the South

Author: Suzanne Jones

Publisher: Perfection Learning

Published: 2003-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780756962258

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An amazing collection of 25 stories and memoirs, including such well-known authors as Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, Alice Walker, and Maya Angelou, and others, that explore different perspectives on living in the South.


Richard Wright

Richard Wright

Author: Keneth Kinnamon

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-11-04

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 1476609128

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African-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his searing autobiography (Black Boy) and fiction (Native Son). By 1947 he felt so unwelcome in his homeland that he exiled himself and his family in Paris. But his writings changed American culture forever, and today they are mainstays of literature and composition classes. He and his works are also the subjects of numerous critical essays and commentaries by contemporary writers. This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of those essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging from unpublished dissertations to book-length studies of African American literature and literary criticism. Also included as an appendix are addenda to the author's earlier bibliography covering the years from 1934 through 1982. This is the exhaustive reference for serious students of Richard Wright and his critics.


Dirt and Desire

Dirt and Desire

Author: Patricia Yaeger

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-02-15

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0226944921

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The story of southern writing—the Dixie Limited, if you will—runs along an iron path: an official narrative of a literature about community, about place and the past, about miscegenation, white patriarchy, and the epic of race. Patricia Yaeger dynamites the rails, providing an entirely new set of categories through which to understand southern literature and culture. For Yaeger, works by black and white southern women writers reveal a shared obsession with monstrosity and the grotesque and with the strange zones of contact between black and white, such as the daily trauma of underpaid labor and the workings of racial and gender politics in the unnoticed yet all too familiar everyday. Yaeger also excavates a southern fascination with dirt—who owns it, who cleans it, and whose bodies are buried in it. Yaeger's brilliant, theoretically informed readings of Zora Neale Hurston, Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, and Eudora Welty (among many others) explode the mystifications of southern literary tradition and forge a new path for southern studies. The book won the Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award given by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature.


The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story

The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story

Author: Michael J. Collins

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-04-30

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1009292854

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This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this Companion seeks to understand what the short story does – how it moves through national space, how it is always related to other genres and media, and how its inherent mobility responds to the literary marketplace and resonates with key critical themes in contemporary literary studies. The chapters offer authoritative introductions and reinterpretations of a literary form that has re-emerged as a major force in the twenty-first-century public sphere dominated by the Internet.