American short stories
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Many voices literature series; Many voices literature series
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Logan, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780756993023; 9780789170774; 9781933147673; 9780789170767; 9780789178671
Subjects: Literature; Study and teaching
Description: ... [T]his volume provides an overview of the American short story's development from its beginnings with Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe to the present."--To the reader.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Suppl. is Teaching and assessment resources.; title: Finding an American voice; title: New American voices; title: Voices of Modernism; title: Post-war voices; title: Voices of diversity and disillusionment; title: Contemporary voices.