Title: Modern American Short Story Sequences
First published: January 27, 1995
Description: 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.
Subjects: 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 fiction