| Description |
xii, 315 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-307) and index. |
| Contents |
Washington Irving : intertextual framing and oral tradition in "The legend of Sleepy Hollow" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne : extratextual framing and sermonic rhetoric in "Wakefield" -- Herman Melville : intratextual framing in "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Rebecca Harding Davis : "Life in the iron mills" and the cross-gendered text -- Sarah Orne Jewett : "A white heron" and the power of suggestion -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman : "The yellow wallpaper," storytelling, and "getting real" -- Gertrude Stein : indirect speech in "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" -- Ernest Hemingway : repetition, stylization, and dialogue in "Hills like white elephants" -- Djuna Barnes : free indirect discourse and parody in "Run girls, run" -- Richard Wright : free indirect discourse, dialect, and empathy in "Almos' a man" -- Bobbie Ann Mason : "Shiloh" and the insides of history -- Raymond Carver : tense, telling, memory. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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| ISBN |
0893012025 (alk. paper) |
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