Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story
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Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story

  1. 319 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story

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In Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story, editors Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by literary critics from around the globe. Collectively, these critics argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American writers is integral to the development of the short story in each country as well as vital to the global status the contemporary short story has attained. This collection provides original analyses of both well-known Russian and American stories as well as some that might be more unfamiliar. Each essay is purposely crafted to display an appreciation of the techniques, subject matter, themes, and approaches that both Russian and American short story writers explored across borders and time. Stories by Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Krzhizhanovsky as well as short stories by Washington Irving, Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ursula Le Guin, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates populate this essential, multivalent collection. Perhaps more important now than at any time since the end of the Cold War, these essays will remind readers how much Russian and American culture share, as well as the extent to which their respective literatures are deeply intertwined.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 Calls from Beyond and Within
  6. 2 Empathy and Human Feeling in the Short Stories of O. Henry and Anton Chekhov
  7. 3 From Poe to James via Dostoevsky
  8. 4 “Smile and Scream” in The Little Review
  9. 5 The Resonance of Dostoevsky’s “Bobok” in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
  10. 6 Black in the USSR
  11. 7 Composing Thoughts
  12. 8 Outsiders and Others
  13. 9 “The Strange and the Commonplace in One”
  14. 10 Gorky’s Orphans
  15. 11 Vladimir Nabokov’s American Short Story Surrounded by the Image of Russia
  16. 12 Existential Quests in the Short Story
  17. 13 Divine Beings in Short Stories by Nabokov, García Márquez,and Le Guin
  18. 14 Two Ladies, Two Dogs
  19. 15 Food, Influence, the Short Story, Anton Chekhov, and Raymond Carver
  20. 16 Heterosexual Fictions
  21. 17 Aging and Death in Tolstoy and Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and Olive, Again
  22. 18 Tiny Haunted Empires
  23. Index
  24. About the Editors
  25. About the Contributors