Scribbling women & the short story form
Subtitle: approaches by American & British women writers
By: edited by Ellen Burton Harrington.
Contributors: Harrington, Ellen Burton.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781433100772
Subjects: Short stories, American -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Short stories, English -- History and criticism; English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Short story -- Authorship
Other titles: Scribbling women and the short story form
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Scribbling women and the outlaw form of the short story / Ellen Burton Harrington; title: A miniaturization of epic proportions : Harriet Prescott Spofford's "Circumstance" / Robert Coleman; title: Sexing the narrator : gender in Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the iron-mills" / Ruth Stoner; title: The short story as feminist forum : Louisa May Alcott's "Pauline's passion and punishment" / Miriam López-Rodríguez; title: The art of (dis)placement : Ruth Stuart and the characterization of African Americans at the turn of the century / Susan Prothro Wright; title: The linked excitements of L.T. Meade and... in the Strand magazine / Winnie Chan; title: Naturalism and the short story form in Kate Chopin's "The story of an hour" / Scott D. Emmert; title: Strategies of self-representation in "Natalie" by Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Margot Sempreora; title: Zitkala-Ša and Sui Sin Far's sketch collections : communal characterization as resistance writing tool / Vanessa Holford Diana; title: Laura's unconscious rejection of the short story in Katherine Anne Porter's "Flowering Judas" / Susana M. Jiménez-Placer; title: "Beyond human reach" : silence and continguity in Katherine Anne Porter's "Holiday" and "He" / Rachel Lister; title: Flannery O'Connor's "The temple of the Holy Ghost" and "Parker's back" as dermatology/theology / Sue Brannan Walker; title: Cynthia Ozick's "The pagan rabbi" and the seduction of the storyteller / Beth Ellen Roberts; title: Breaking it down : analysis in the stories of Lydia Davis / Karen Alexander; title: Silko, Le Sueur, and Le Guin : storytelling as a "movement toward wholeness" / Gayle Elliott.