Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation : Short Stories Written for Magazines and Republished in Linked Story Collections.

Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation : Short Stories Written for Magazines and Republished in Linked Story Collections.

Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation is a study of the twentieth-century linked story collection in the United States. It emphasizes how the fictional form grew out of an established publishing model--individual stories printed in magazines, revised and expanded into single-author volum...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vechinski, Matthew James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Routledge, 2019.
Series:Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Short stories, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Serialized fiction > United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
American fiction
Serialized fiction
Short stories, American
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Note on the Text
  • 1 Linked Story Collections: Products of Republication
  • Introduction
  • The Textual Histories of Twice-Finished Tales
  • In Front of Actual Audiences
  • The Trouble with Genre
  • Calling a Collection a Collection
  • Chapter Summaries
  • 2 Modernity and Spiritual Isolation in Winesburg, Ohio: Sherwood Anderson, Young America, and Popular Socialism
  • Groping: Between Craft and Circumstance
  • Socialist Parables for The Masses
  • "Striking Out" in The Seven Arts
  • 3 "Can All This Be the Same Person?": Memoir and the Fragmented Self in Mary McCarthy's The Company She Keeps
  • "A Good Eye for Social Types"
  • Libelous Relationality
  • 4 Stories on Tape: John Barth Massaging the Medium in Lost in the Funhouse
  • From Exhaustion to Hybrid Energy: The Variable of Voice in Storytelling
  • Ambrose as "Wandering Hero": The "Life-Pattern" of Lost in the Funhouse
  • 5 Sameness-in-Difference and Audience Share: Individuals and Communities in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
  • Authenticity and Idealization in Women's Magazines
  • Escape Routes in "The Rules of the Game"
  • Vicarious Cultural Experiences in "The Joy Luck Club"
  • Chinese Fairy Tales and Faked Voices
  • Epilogue: Collections 2.0: The Imaginary Worlds of Linked Stories and the Internet Worlds of Periodicals
  • Index.

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