Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: The American Short Story Sequence – Definitions and Implications
- Henry James's Incipient Poetics of the Short Story Sequence: The Finer Grain (1910)
- Toomer's Cane as Narrative Sequence
- Hemingway's In Our Time: The Biography of a Book
- Wright Writing Reading: Narrative Strategies in Uncle Tom's Children
- The African-American Voice in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses
- Meditations on Nonpresence: Re-visioning the Short Story in Eudora Welty's The Wide Net
- Nine Stories: J. D. Salinger's Linked Mysteries
- Cheever's Shady Hill: A Suburban Sequence
- John Updike's Olinger Stories: New Light Among the Shadows
- Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: Narrative Communities and the Short Story Sequence
- From Anderson's Winesburg to Carver's Cathedral: The Short Story Sequence and the Semblance of Community
- Index
Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: The American Short Story Sequence – Definitions and Implications
- Henry James's Incipient Poetics of the Short Story Sequence: The Finer Grain (1910)
- Toomer's Cane as Narrative Sequence
- Hemingway's In Our Time: The Biography of a Book
- Wright Writing Reading: Narrative Strategies in Uncle Tom's Children
- The African-American Voice in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses
- Meditations on Nonpresence: Re-visioning the Short Story in Eudora Welty's The Wide Net
- Nine Stories: J. D. Salinger's Linked Mysteries
- Cheever's Shady Hill: A Suburban Sequence
- John Updike's Olinger Stories: New Light Among the Shadows
- Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: Narrative Communities and the Short Story Sequence
- From Anderson's Winesburg to Carver's Cathedral: The Short Story Sequence and the Semblance of Community
- Index
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- Modern American Short Story SequencesComposite Fictions and Fictive Communities, pp. viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995