Modern American Short Story Sequences
Subtitle: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780521430104
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; 20th Century American Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; USA; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Short stories, American--History and criticis; Short stories, American--History and criticism; 20th century; American fiction; Community life in literature; History and criticism; Short stories, American
First sentence: 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.