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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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Community life in literature.
Cycles (Literature)
Fiction-- Technique.
Literary form.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Short stories, American-- History and criticism.
Communauté dans la littérature.
Cycles (Littérature)
Genres littéraires.
Narration.
Nouvelle-- Technique.
Nouvelles américaines-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.