| The Short Story in English Contributor(s): Besner, Neil (Editor), Staines, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0195406834 ISBN-13: 9780195406832 Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada OUR PRICE: $55.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1991 Annotation: This new anthology for university students in both general courses and courses devoted to the short story presents the short-story form through classic texts in the English language. From early writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and Sara Jeannette Duncan, through twentieth-century figures such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and Flannery O'Connor, to contemporary voices like Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro, The Short Story in English shows the development of a major literary form. Half of its stories are by men, half by women, and one-third of the thirty writers included are Canadian. By representing writers with two stories, the anthology permits in-depth comparisons and stylistic analysis. The Short Story in English will become an indispensable textbook. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Dewey: 823.010 |
| LCCN: 2012464897 |
| Physical Information: 1.64" H x 6" W x 9" (2.39 lbs) 800 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This anthology for university courses (general literature and also the short story) presents the short-story form through its classic texts in the English language. An unusual feature of the selection is that almost all of the thirty writers included are represented by two stories, which will permit in-depth comparisons of stories and stylistic analysis. Half the stories are by men, half by women, and one-third of the writers are Canadian. |