Part II: The Transition into the New Century 10: The Short Stories of Stephen Crane
11: Kate Chopin
12: Frank Norris and Jack London
13: From “Water Drops” to General Strikes: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Short Fiction and Social Change
Part III: The Twentieth Century 14: The Twentieth Century: A Period of Innovation and Continuity
15: The Hemingway Story
16: William Faulkner’s Short Stories
17: Katherine Anne Porter
18: Eudora Welty and the Short Story: Theory and Practice
19: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Structure, Narrative Technique, Style
20: “The Look of the World”: Richard Wright on Perspective
21: Small Planets: The Short Fiction of Saul Bellow
22: John Updike
23: Raymond Carver in the Twenty-First Century
24: Multi-Ethnic Female Identity and Denise Chávez’s The Last of the Menu Girls
Part IV: Expansive Considerations 25: Landscape as Haven in American Women’s Short Stories
26: The American Ghost Story
27: The Detective Story
28: The Asian American Short Story
29: The Jewish American Story
30: The Multiethnic American Short Story
31: “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” American Restlessness and the Short-Story Cycle
Index
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