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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679745136
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories written by Tobias Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1994 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive. The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches. Contributors and stories include: Mary Gaitskill, "A Romantic Weekend"; Andre Dubus, "The Fat Girl"; Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried"; Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"; Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"; Mona Simpson, "Lawns"; Ann Beattie, "A Vintage Thunderbird"; Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"; Stuart Dybek, "Chopin in Water"; Ron Hansen, "Wickedness"; Denis Johnson, "Emergency"; Edward P. Jones, "The First Day"; John L'Heureux, "Departures"; Ralph Lombreglia, "Men Under Water"; Robert Olmstead, "Cody's Story"; Jayne Anne Phillips, "Home"; Susan Power, "Moonwalk"; Amy Tan, "Rules of the Game"; Stephanie Vaughn, "Dog Heaven"; Joy Williams, "Train"; Dorothy Allison, "River of Names"; Richard Bausch, "All The Way in Flagstaff, Arizona"; and more.

The Picador Book of Contemporary American Stories

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Picador (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Picador Book of Contemporary American Stories written by Tobias Wolff and published by Picador (UK). This book was released on 1993 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of interesting short stories from authors such as Joyce Carol Oates and Raymond Carver.

Contemporary American Fiction

Author : Kenneth Millard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019267997X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Fiction written by Kenneth Millard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary American Fiction provides an introduction to American fiction since 1970. Offering substantial and detailed interpretations of more than thirty texts by thirty different writers, Millard combines them in an innovative critical structure designed to promote debates on cultural politics and aesthetic value. The book is the first of its kind to offer a wide-ranging survey of recent developments in the fiction of the United States. Recent novels by established writers such as John Updike and Philip Roth are analysed alongside the fiction of younger writers such as Gish Jen and Sherman Alexie. The books innovative structure encourages new ways of thinking about how American writers might be configured in relation to each other, while providing an analysis of how contemporary fiction has responded to changes in central areas of American life such as the family, the media, technology, and consumerism. Contemporary American Fiction is a substantial critical introduction to some of the most exciting fiction of the last thirty years, an eclectic and thorough advertisement for the extraordinary vitality of American fiction at the end of the twentieth century. This is an excellent introduction to the subject for undergraduate students of modern American literature.

Encyclopedia of the American Short Story

Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140754
Total Pages : 3225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Short Story written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 3225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-volume set that presents an introduction to American short fiction from the 19th century to the present.

The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780330343640
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 2002 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translations from Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Tamil and the South sit alongside writing in English, bringing to light the greatest and most engaging writers from India's recent history. With introductions to the writers and their work, this is an electic and enlightening anthology of Indian writing.

Short Story

Author : Paul March-Russell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074863214X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Short Story written by Paul March-Russell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new general introduction emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fiction.In twenty succinct chapters, the study paints a complete portrait of the short story - its history, culture, aesthetics and economics. European innovators such as Chekhov, Flaubert and Kafka are compared to Irish, New Zealand and British practitioners such as Joyce, Mansfield and Carter as well as writers in the American tradition, from Hawthorne and Poe to Barthelme and Carver.Fresh attention is paid to experimental, postcolonial and popular fiction alongside developments in Anglo-American, Hispanic and European literature. Critical approaches to the short story are debated and reassessed, while discussion of the short story is related to contemporary critical theory. In what promises to be essential reading for students and academics, the study sets out to prove that the short story remains vital to the emerging culture of the twenty-first century.

Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction

Author : Marco Caracciolo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803296738
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction written by Marco Caracciolo and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A storyteller's craft can often be judged by how convincingly the narrative captures the identity and personality of its characters. In this book, the characters who take center stage are "strange" first-person narrators: they are fascinating because of how they are at odds with what the reader would wish or expect to hear--while remaining reassuringly familiar in voice, interactions, and conversations. Combining literary analysis with research in cognitive and social psychology, Marco Caracciolo focuses on readers' encounters with the "strange" narrators of ten contemporary novels, including Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Caracciolo explores readers' responses to narrators who suffer from neurocognitive or developmental disorders, who are mentally disturbed due to multiple personality disorder or psychopathy, whose consciousness is split between two parallel dimensions or is disembodied, who are animals, or who lose their sanity. A foray into current work on reception, reader-response, cognitive literary study, and narratology, Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction illustrates why any encounter with a fictional text is a complex negotiation of interlaced feelings, thoughts, experiences, and interpretations.

The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 037571300X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the present, presenting today’s brightest talents in the company of their distinguished forbearers and likely heirs. The thirty-eight authors collected by novelist Amit Chaudhuri write not only in English but also in Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu. They include Rabindranath Tagore, arguably the first international literary celebrity, chronicling the wistful relationship between a village postal inspector and a servant girl, and Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee, represented by an excerpt from his classic novel about an impoverished Bengali childhood, Pather Panchali. Here, too, are selections from Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, R. K. Narayan’s The English Teacher, and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children alongside a high-spirited nonsense tale, a drily funny account of a pre-Partition Muslim girlhood, and a Bombay policier as gripping as anything by Ed McBain. Never before has so much of the subcontinent’s writing been made available in a single volume.

The Intermediality of Narrative Literature

Author : Jørgen Bruhn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137578416
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Intermediality of Narrative Literature written by Jørgen Bruhn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that narrative literature very often, if not always, include significant amounts of what appears to be extra-literary material – in form and in content – and that we too often ignore this dimension of literature. It offers an up to date overview and discussion of intermedial theory, and it facilitates a much-needed dialogue between the burgeoning field of intermedial studies on the one side and the already well-developed methods of literary analysis on the other. The book aims at working these two fields together into a productive working method. It makes evident, in a methodologically succinct way, the necessity of approaching literature with an intermedial terminology by way of a relatively simple but never the less productive three-step analytic method. In four in-depth case studies of Anglophone texts ranging from Nabokov, Chandler and Tobias Wolff to Jennifer Egan, it demonstrates that medialities matter.

The Art of Sympathy in Fiction

Author : Howard Sklar
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027233500
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Sympathy in Fiction written by Howard Sklar and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the sympathetic effects of stories, and the possible ways these feelings can contribute to what has been called the "moral imagination." This book examines the dynamics of readers' beliefs regarding fictional characters and the influence of those impressions on the emotions that readers experience.

How to Write Fiction (And Think About It)

Author : Robert Graham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350309176
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book How to Write Fiction (And Think About It) written by Robert Graham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a writer of fiction, this practical handbook will teach you how to acquire your own writer's tool-box. Here you will learn all about developing your craft. The wide-ranging exploration of fiction-writing skills contains many unique features, such as the focus on reflective learning and tuition on advanced skills including foreshadowing, transitions and producing short story cycles. Throughout, the approach is centred on 3 kinds of activity: - Examining the theory of particular fiction writing skills. - Analysing the practice of these skills in examples of published work. - Practising the use of skills in fiction-writing exercises. What makes this guide so distinctive, though, is the way it consistently asks you to reflect on your work, and stresses the importance of being able to articulate the processes of writing. Packed with wisdom about the art of fiction and filled with writing exercises, How to Write Fiction (and Think about It) examines the work of today's finest authors to teach you everything you need to know about writing short stories or longer fiction. Whether you are a student, a would-be professional author, or a general reader who simply likes to write for pleasure, this guide will equip you with a portfolio of key fiction-writing skills.

The Picador Book of Cricket

Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509841407
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Picador Book of Cricket written by Ramachandra Guha and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the finest writers on the game of cricket and an acknowledgement that the great days of cricket literature are behind us. There was a time when major English writers – P. G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alec Waugh – took time off to write about cricket, whereas the cricket book market today is dominated by ghosted autobiographies and statistical compendiums. The Picador Book of Cricket celebrates the best writing on the game and includes many pieces that have been out of print, or difficult to get hold of, for years. Including Neville Cardus, C. L. R. James, John Arlott, V. S. Naipaul, and C. B. Fry, this anthology is a must for any cricket follower or anyone interested in sports writing elevated to high art.

Birds of America

Author : Lorrie Moore
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307816885
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Birds of America written by Lorrie Moore and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs: A collection of twelve stories that’s “one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability" (The New York Times Book Review). A volume by one of the most exciting writers at work today, the acclaimed author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Self-Help. Stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter, and in the sheer beauty and power of their language. From the opening story, "Willing"—about a second-rate movie actress in her thirties who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human being—Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the unhinged, the lost, the unsettled of our America. In the story "Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People" ("There is nothing as complex in the world—no flower or stone—as a single hello from a human being"), a woman newly separated from her husband is on a long-planned trip through Ireland with her mother. When they set out on an expedition to kiss the Blarney Stone, the image of wisdom and success that her mother has always put forth slips away to reveal the panicky woman she really is. In "Charades," a family game at Christmas is transformed into a hilarious and insightful (and fundamentally upsetting) revelation of crumbling family ties. In "Community Life,"a shy, almost reclusive, librarian, Transylvania-born and Vermont-bred, moves in with her boyfriend, the local anarchist in a small university town, and all hell breaks loose. And in "Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens," a woman who goes through the stages of grief as she mourns the death of her cat (Anger, Denial, Bargaining, Häagen Dazs, Rage) is seen by her friends as really mourning other issues: the impending death of her parents, the son she never had, Bosnia.

Jesus' Son

Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031242874X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Jesus' Son written by Denis Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of spiraling grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost and found and lost again. The raw beauty and careening energy of Denis Johnson's prose has earned this book a place among the classics of twentieth-century American literature.

Conversations with Colum McCann

Author : Earl G. Ingersoll
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496812956
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Colum McCann written by Earl G. Ingersoll and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations with Colum McCann brings together eighteen interviews with a world-renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 literary debut, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews represent the development as well as the continuation of McCann's interests. The number and length of the later conversations attest to his star-power. Let the Great World Spin earned him the National Book Award and promises to become a major motion picture. His most recent novel, TransAtlantic, has awed readers with its dynamic yoking of the 1845-1846 visit of Frederick Douglass to Ireland, the 1919 first nonstop transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown, and Senator George Mitchell's 1998 efforts to achieve a peace accord in Northern Ireland. An extensive interview by scholar Cecile Maudet is included here, as is an interview by John Cusatis, who wrote Understanding Colum McCann, the first extensive critical analysis of McCann's work. An author who actually enjoys talking about his work, McCann (b. 1965) offers insights into his method of writing, what he hopes to achieve, as well as the challenge of writing each novel to go beyond his accomplishments in the novel before. Readers will note how many of his responses include stories in which he himself is the object of the humor and how often his remarks reveal insights into his character as a man who sees the grittiness of the urban landscape but never loses faith in the strength of ordinary people and their capacity to prevail.

The Picador Book of Latin American Stories

Author : Julio Ortega
Publisher : Pan Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780330339551
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The Picador Book of Latin American Stories written by Julio Ortega and published by Pan Books Limited. This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘This collection of thirty-nine Latin American short stories, emphasizing urban, cosmopolitan experience, resets the form . . . Among the best of the stories focusing on youthful rites of passage is Antonio Skarmeta’s “The Cyclist of San Cristobal Hill” in which the belief that his mother is dying makes an adolescent boy do well in a bicycle race. The exquisitely written “Don’t Tell Her You Love Her” by the Cuban writer Senal Paz concentrates the confusions and awkwardness of adolescence into a rich interior monologue relating how a boy’s plan to lose his virginity is nearly derailed by Che Guevara . . . This book has the huge merit of introducing a wealth of talented writers unknown in English; well over a third of the stories appear in English for the first time . . . by bombarding the reader with unfamiliar names speaking in a babel of new tones, Julio Ortega and Carlos Fuentes assert the continuing vigour of Latin American fiction’ Stephen Henighan, Times Literary Supplement

Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century

Author : David Pierce
Publisher : Cork University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781859182581
Total Pages : 1396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century written by David Pierce and published by Cork University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arranged chronologically by decade, from the 1890s to the 1990s, each decade is divided into two different types of writing: critical/documentary and imaginative writing, and is accompanied by a headnote which situates it thematically and chronologically. The Reader is also structured for thematic study by listing all the pieces included under a series of topic headings. The wide range of material encompasses writings of well-known figures in the Irish canon and neglected writers alike. This will appeal to the general reader, but also makes Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century ideal as a core text, providing a unique focus for detailed study in a single volume."--BOOK JACKET.