The American Short Story Cycle

by Jennifer J. Smith

Book Overview

Constructs a history of community, family and temporality in American culture through one of the nation's most popular, yet unrecognized genres
The American Short Story Cycle spans two centuries to tell the history of a genre that includes both major and marginal authors, from Washington Irving through William Faulkner to Jhumpa Lahiri. The short story cycle rose and proliferated because its form compellingly renders the uncertainties...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474452698
• ISBN13: 9781474452694
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"