The American Short Story Cycle

Edinburgh University Press
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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 that emerge from the twin pillars of modern America culture: individualism and pluralism. Short story cycles reflect how individuals adapt to change, whether it is the railroad coming to the small town in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919) or social media revolutionizing language in Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010). Combining new formalism in literary criticism with scholarship in American Studies, this book gives a name and theory to the genre that has fostered the aesthetics of fragmentation, as well as recurrence, that characterize fiction today.


  • | Author: Jennifer J. Smith
  • | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • | Publication Date: May 13, 2019
  • | Number of Pages: 208 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1474452698
  • | ISBN-13: 9781474452694
Author:
Jennifer J. Smith
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date:
May 13, 2019
Number of pages:
208 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1474452698
ISBN-13:
9781474452694