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Title The Columbia companion to the twentieth-century American short story / Blanche H. Gelfant, editor.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.0109 C723 2000    ---  Available
Description xiv, 660 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Thematic essays -- The American short story cycle -- The American short story, 1807-1900 -- The African American short story -- The Asian American short story -- The Chicano-Latino short story -- The ecological short story -- Lesbian and gay short stories -- The Native American short story -- Non-English American short stories -- The American working-class short story -- American short stories of the Holocaust.
pt. 2. Individual writers and their work -- Alice Adams -- Sherwood Anderson -- James Baldwin -- John Barth -- Donald Barthelme -- Rick Bass -- Richard Bausch -- Charles Baxter -- Ann Beattie -- Saul Bellow -- Gina Berriault -- Doris Betts -- Paul Bowles -- Kay Boyle -- Ray Bradbury -- Kate Braverman -- Larry Brown -- Erskine Caldwell -- Hortense Calisher -- Truman Capote -- Raymond Carver -- Willa Cather -- John Cheever -- Sandra Cisneros -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn -- Robert Coover -- Lydia Davis -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Andre Dubus -- Deborah Eisenberg -- Stanley Elkin -- George P. Elliott -- John Fante -- James T. Farrell -- William Faulkner -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Richard Ford -- Mary Gaitskill -- William H. Gass -- Ellen Gilchrist -- Herbert Gold -- Ernest Hemingway -- Amy Hempel -- Mary Hood -- Langston Hughes -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Shirley Jackson -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Ring Lardner -- David Leavitt -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Meridel Le Sueur -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Jack London -- David Wong Louie -- Norman Mailer -- Bernard Malamud -- Bobbie Anne Mason -- Mary McCarthy -- Elizabeth McCracken -- Carson McCullers -- Thomas McGuane -- James Alan McPherson -- Nicholasa Mohr -- Lorrie Moore -- Toshio Mori -- Bharati Mukherjee -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Tim O'Brien -- Flannery O'Connor -- John O'Hara -- Tillie Olsen -- Simon Ortiz -- Cynthia Ozick -- Grace Paley -- Americo Paredes -- Dorothy Parker -- Jayne Anne Phillips -- Katherine Anne Porter -- William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) -- Annie Proulx -- Thomas Pynchon -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- Alberto Alvaro Rios -- Philip Roth -- Damon Runyon -- J.D. Salinger -- Bienvenido N. Santos -- William Saroyan -- Delmore Schwartz -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Jean Stafford -- Wallace Stegner -- John Steinbeck -- Elizabeth Tallent -- Peter Taylor -- James Thurber -- John Updike -- Helena Maria Viramontes -- Anna Lee Walters -- Robert Penn Warren -- Sylvia A. Watanabe -- Eudora Welty -- Edith Wharton -- Joy Williams -- Tennessee Williams -- William Carlos Williams -- Tobias Wolff -- Richard Wright -- Hisaye Yamamoto -- Anzia Yezierska.
Subject Short stories, American -- Dictionaries.
American fiction -- 20th century -- Dictionaries.
Short stories, American -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
American fiction -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Added Author Gelfant, Blanche H., 1922-2013.
ISBN 0231110987 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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