The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

by Gelfant, Blanche H.

• ISBN13: 9780231110990
• ISBN10: 0231110995
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.

Author Biography

Blanche H. Gelfant: For many years she was the Robert E. Maxwell Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth. In recognition of her contributions as critic and scholar, the American Literature Division of the Modern Language Association has honored professor Gelfant with the Jay B. Hubbell Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
PART I. Thematic Essays
The American Short Story Cycle	9	(6)
The American Short Story, 1807-1900	15	(10)
The African American Short Story	25	(9)
The Asian American Short Story	34	(8)
The Chicano-Latino Short Story	42	(8)
The Ecological Short Story	50	(6)
Lesbian and Gay Short Stories	56	(8)
The Native American Short Story	64	(8)
Non-English American Short Stories	72	(9)
The American Working-Class Short Story	81	(13)
American Short Stories of the Holocaust	94	(11)
PART II. Individual Writers and Their Work
Alice Adams (1926-1999)	105	(4)
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)	109	(5)
James Baldwin (1924- 1987)	114	(3)
John Barth (1930- )	117	(4)
Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)	121	(6)
Rick Bass (1959- )	127	(3)
Richard Bausch (1945- )	130	(5)
Charles Baxter (1947- )	135	(3)
Ann Beattie (1947- )	138	(6)
Saul Bellow (1915- )	144	(5)
Gina Berriault (1926- )	149	(3)
Doris Betts (1932- )	152	(2)
Paul Bowles (1910-1999)	154	(4)
Kay Boyle (1902- 1992)	158	(4)
Ray Bradbury (1920- )	162	(4)
Kate Braverman (1950- )	166	(6)
Larry Brown (1951- )	172	(3)
Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987)	175	(5)
Hortense Calisher (1911- )	180	(4)
Truman Capote (1924-1984)	184	(4)
Raymond Carver (1938-1988)	188	(5)
Willa Cather (1873-1947)	193	(6)
John Cheever (1912-1982)	199	(6)
Sandra Cisneros (1954- )	205	(4)
Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909-1971)	209	(2)
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930- )	211	(4)
Robert Coover (1932- )	215	(4)
Lydia Davis (1947- )	219	(4)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1953- )	223	(3)
Andre Dubus (1936-1999)	226	(8)
Deborah Eisenberg (1946- )	234	(5)
Stanley Elkin (1930-1995)	239	(3)
George P. Elliott (1918-1980)	242	(3)
John Fante (1909-1983)	245	(3)
James T. Farrell (1904-1979)	248	(3)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)	251	(7)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)	258	(6)
Richard Ford (1944- )	264	(4)
Mary Gaitskill (1954- )	268	(4)
William H. Gass (1924- )	272	(4)
Ellen Gilchrist (1935- )	276	(6)
Herbert Gold (1924- )	282	(4)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)	286	(7)
Amy Hempel (1951- )	293	(4)
Mary Hood (1946- )	297	(3)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)	300	(5)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891- 1960)	305	(5)
Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)	310	(4)
Jamaica Kincaid (1949- )	314	(5)
Ring Lardner (1885-1933)	319	(6)
David Leavitt (1961- )	325	(4)
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- )	329	(4)
Mendel Le Sueur (1900-1996)	333	(4)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim (1944- )	337	(4)
Jack London (1876-1916)	341	(4)
David Wong Louie (1954- )	345	(4)
Norman Mailer (1923- )	349	(4)
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)	353	(5)
Bobbie Anne Mason (1940- )	358	(3)
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)	361	(5)
Elizabeth McCracken (1966- )	366	(3)
Carson McCullers (1917-1967)	369	(4)
Thomas McGuane (1939- )	373	(4)
James Alan McPherson (1943- )	377	(3)
Nicholasa Mohr (1938- )	380	(4)
Lorrie Moore (1957- )	384	(6)
Toshio Mori (1910-1980)	390	(4)
Bharati Mukherjee (1940- )	394	(5)
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)	399	(4)
Joyce Carol Oates (1938- )	403	(6)
Tim O'Brien (1946- )	409	(4)
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)	413	(7)
John O'Hara (1905-1970)	420	(3)
Tillie Olsen (1913?- )	423	(7)
Simon Ortiz (1941- )	430	(3)
Cynthia Ozick (1928- )	433	(6)
Grace Paley (1922- )	439	(5)
Américo Paredes (1915-1999)	444	(3)
Dorothy Parker (1893- 1967)	447	(5)
Jayne Anne Phillips (1952- )	452	(4)
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)	456	(6)
William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862-1910)	462	(6)
Annie Proulx (1935- )	468	(8)
Thomas Pynchon (1937- )	476	(4)
Marjorie Kinnon Rawlings (1896-1953)	480	(3)
Alberto Alvaro Rios (1952- )	483	(4)
Philip Roth (1933- )	487	(3)
Damon Runyon (1880-1946)	490	(4)
J.D. Salinger (1919- )	494	(7)
Bienvenido N. Santos (1911-1996)	501	(3)
William Saroyan (1908-1981)	504	(4)
Delmore Schwartz (1913 - 1966)	508	(4)
Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )	512	(3)
Jean Stafford (1915-1979)	515	(4)
Wallace Stegner (1909-1993)	519	(4)
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)	523	(3)
Elizabeth Tallent (1954- )	526	(4)
Peter Taylor (1917-1994)	530	(6)
James Thurber (1894-1961)	536	(4)
John Updike (1932- )	540	(7)
Helena Maria Viramontes (1954- )	547	(2)
Anna Lee Walters (1946- )	549	(5)
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)	554	(2)
Sylvia A. Watanabe (1953- )	556	(4)
Eudora Welty (1909- )	560	(9)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)	569	(4)
Joy Williams (1944- )	573	(6)
Tennessee Williams (1911- 1983)	579	(3)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)	582	(4)
Tobias Wolff (1945- )	586	(5)
Richard Wright (1908- 1960)	591	(5)
Hisaye Yamamoto (1921- )	596	(4)
AnziaYezierska (1881- 1970)	600	(5)
Index	605