Many critics of Henry James are aware that after he completed the arduous task of selecting his novels and tales for Scribner's or The New York Edition (1907-9), revising all the chosen texts and composing his dense theoretical Prefaces, James went on to write something important other than his now much interpreted travel memoirs and autobiographical volumes.
An edition of Modern American Short Story Sequences
(1995)
Modern American short story sequences
composite fictions and fictive communities
by J. Gerald Kennedy
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Its status as a genre unto itself often disputed, the short story sequence is a hybrid organism which defies the stereotypes imputed to more conventionally recognized forms of narrative, such as the short story and the novel. By resisting precise definition, it lays down a critical challenge to decode its perplexing formal ambiguities. Modern American Short Story Sequences meets this challenge by suggesting an entirely new means of inquiry.
Gathering together eleven new full-length essays, this book is an invitation to reconsider the short story sequence as a tradition proper, one formed in the twentieth-century crucible of American literature and one whose very inscrutability continues to provoke intense debate in the realm of fiction studies.
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Short stories, american, history and criticism, Fiction, technique, Community life, Narration (rhetoric), American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Literary form, History and criticism, American Short stories, Technique, Fiction, Community life in literature, Cycles (Literature), American fictionShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities
2011, Cambridge University Press
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Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities
2011, Cambridge University Press
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Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities
2009, Cambridge University Press
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Modern American short story sequences: composite fictions and fictive communities
1995, Cambridge University Press
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Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities
January 27, 1995, Cambridge University Press
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