Although the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years. Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English includes alphabetically-arranged entries for 50 English-language short story writers from around the world. Most of these writers have been active since 1960, and they reflect a wide range of experiences and perspectives in their works. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes biography, a review of existing criticism, a lengthier analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The volume begins with a detailed introduction to the short story genre and concludes with an annotated bibliography of major works on short story theory.
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A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English
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A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Glance at the History of the Short Story in English
- Chinua Achebe
- Ama Ata Aidoo
- Jessica Anderson
- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
- Toni Cade Bambara
- John Simmons Barth
- Donald Barthelme
- Ann Beattie
- Morley Callaghan
- Angela (Olive) Carter
- Raymond Carver
- Sandra Cisneros
- Robert Coover
- Anita Desai
- (Karen) Louise Erdrich
- Richard Ford
- Janet Frame
- Ernest J. Gaines
- Mavis Gallant
- Nadine Gordimer
- Patricia Grace
- Gish Jen
- Charles Richard Johnson
- Elizabeth Jolley
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Doris Lessing
- Bernard Malamud
- Bobbie Ann Mason
- James Alan McPherson
- Lorrie Moore
- Bharati Mukherjee
- Alice Munro
- R. K. Narayan
- Tim O’Brien
- Michael Ondaatje
- Cynthia Ozick
- Grace Paley
- Velma Pollard
- Victor Sawdon Pritchett
- Jean Rhys
- Salman Rushdie
- Samuel Dickson Selvon
- Olive Senior
- Leslie Marmon Silko
- Amy Tan
- William Trevor
- Selected Annotated Bibliography
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors
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