WRIT 139: The Story and the Writer: Context & Overviews

This new collection of scholarly essays explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Ranging across texts from different parts of the English-speaking world, it studies the form in its many guises and venues of publication.

Includes articles on the short stories of all American authors read in this class: John Cheever, Tillie Olsen, Bharati Mukherjee, Edith Wharton, Joyce Carol Oates, Ernest Hemingway. Each entry offers a brief biographical sketch, an overview of the author's career and major motifs, and analyses of at least two stories. (Also available in print in Clapp Reference PS374.S5 C57 2000)

Provides an accessible overview of short fiction by writers from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and other international sites.

Eleven essays by an international team of scholars explore aspects of Joyce's life and art, including his debt to Irish and European writers and traditions, his life in Paris, and the relation of his work to feminism, modernism, and postmodernism.

This collection of essays explores Faulkner's widespread cultural import. Drawing on a wide range of cultural theory, ten major Faulkner scholars examine the enduring whole of Faulkner's work and bring into focus the broader cultural contexts that lent resonance to his work.

Offers a comprehensive account of Kafka's life and work. Contributions cover all the key texts, and discuss Kafka's writing in a variety of critical contexts such as feminism, deconstruction, psycho-analysis, Marxism, Jewish studies.

The essays cover Wharton's most important novels as well as some of her shorter fiction, and utilise both traditional and innovative critical techniques, applying the perspectives of literary history, feminist theory, psychology or biography, sociology or anthropology, or social history.

This Companion serves both as an introduction for the interested reader and as a source of the best recent scholarship on the author and his works. In addition to analysing his major texts, the contributors provide insights into Hemingway's relationship with gender history, journalism, fame and the political climate of the 1930s.

Provides essential information about García Márquez's life and career, his published work in literature and journalism, and his political engagement.

This Companion includes new and probing readings of all of García Marquez's works, by leading international specialists. His life in Colombia, the context of Latin American history and culture, key themes in his works and their critical reception are explored in detail. (Also available in print in Clapp PQ8180.17.A73 Z6155 2010)

Situating Camus in his cultural and historical context, this Companion explores his best-selling novels, his ambiguous engagement with philosophy, his theatre, his increasingly high-profile work as a journalist and his reflection on ethical and political questions that continue to concern readers today.

Covers Conrad's cultural and historical situations and fictional techniques. A chronology and overview of Conrad's life precede chapters that explore significant issues in his major writings, and deal in depth with individual works. These are followed by discussions of the special nature of Conrad's narrative techniques, his complex relationships with late-Victorian imperialism and with literary Modernism, and his influence on other writers and artists. (Also available in print in Clapp PR6005.O4 Z569 1996)