The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story
- Authors
- Gelfant, Blanche H.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Tags
- literary criticism , american , general
- ISBN
- 9780231504959
- Date
- 2001-07-06T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 16.69 MB
- Lang
- en
Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories," and part 2 contains more than one hundred essays on the lives and work of individual writers, including engaging pieces on promising new writers.