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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Ring Lardner wrote in the tradition of a long line of American popular journalists and humorists who exploited slang and the illiteracies of vernacular speech for comic ends. In doing so, he transmuted what was initially...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Ring Lardner's devastating attacks on big cities (and, especially, resorts where you spend too much money to hobnob with people who at first snub you and then make you wish you had never met them) should give no one the...
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From:Contemporary Literature (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed
Not-so-distant relations: mass culture and literary capital in Twentieth-Century American literature
The differences between high culture and popular culture are explored in two books which are part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Andrew Levy's 'The Culture and Commerce of the American Short... -
From:Hecate (Vol. 35, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedFantastic Literature has proved a particularly fertile object of study with regard to the representation of the subject since, by its very nature, the fantastic stretches the conventions of fiction to their limits. Thus...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionWhen Williams wrote "The Use of Force" in 1933, as one of the contracted stories he had promised the editors of the proletarian magazine Blast, he was at the height of his social consciousness and his pain over the fact...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionMost of Bernard Malamud's short stories are love stories, though love stories of an unusual kind. They are not the typical Romeo and Juliet tales in which boy meets girl. They deal with different kinds of love—between...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionThe story "Old Red," by Caroline Gordon, describes a quiet crisis in the life of Aleck Maury, who at a family reunion reviews his 60 years of life and finds them wanting. Maury is viewed as the family idler and wastrel,...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionThe title of "El tajo" ("The Tagus") one of four novellas by Francisco Ayala included in the original edition of La cabeza del cordero (1949; The Lamb's Head, 1971), involves a complex play on multiple meanings of the...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersGrace Paley's literary career anticipates the emergence of feminism among both intellectuals and creative writers in the American 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In nearly all of her stories one senses the presence of a woman...
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From: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester[In the following essay, Munro examines the publishing histories of two little-known works by Dumas, the historical romance Le comte de Moret and the drama Pietro Tasca. This article is primarily concerned with the...
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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Sonkowsky has taught English at the University of Pennsylvania. In the following essay, he examines the “multiplicity of meanings” in Gogol's “The Overcoat” and asserts that it "[sheds] light . . . on modern life as it...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionSylvia Townsend Warner's prolific writing career encompassed many roles: novelist, poet, biographer, translator, editor, and short story writer. She is probably best known to American audiences for the 144 short stories...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionPerhaps there was a time when Flannery O'Connor was regarded chiefly as a cult author adored by Catholic readers on the basis of her unusual southern Catholic background, but those days are gone forever. Her fiction and...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersEllen Gilchrist made a splash on the literary scene in 1981 with a well-received collection of short stories entitled In the Land of Dreamy Dreams. In these stories Gilchrist details the lives of the beautiful and...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionOn 25 February, 1934, John Steinbeck wrote George Albee that he had completed a new story, "The Chrysanthemums," and commented that "it is entirely different and is designed to strike without the reader's knowledge. I...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)In twenty-five years of writing essays and short fiction, editing books and journals, and teaching writing, James Alan McPherson has established himself as an important voice in American literature. Recognition of his...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionOne of the targets in Barthelme's second collection of short stories, Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts, is society's blind gropings for truth. Barthelme probes the problems, if not the impossibility, of discovering...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionGiven the sprawling abundance of La Comédie humaine, one does not immediately think of Balzac as a master of concentration. In "The Unknown Masterpiece," however, we are challenged (and delighted) not by a work of...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)"Ethan Brand" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an imperfect work of art about an extremely potent idea. Subtitled "A Chapter from an Abortive Romance," it does not develop its title character in much depth and merely synopsizes...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionBy the time "The Wife of His Youth" appeared in the Atlantic Monthly (July 1898), Charles Waddell Chesnutt had already accumulated more than 30 publications, including three previous short stories in the Atlantic...