Literary Genres: Form: Short Stories

Gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States.

A handy volume that presents an immediate introduction to American short fiction from the 19th century to the 1990s, the 675 alphabetically arranged entries consist of author biographies, literary terms, theories, themes, well-known characters, influential events, and summaries of major stories.

Coverage includes: major short stories and novellas; writers; important collections of short storie; and, important concepts and movements in British short fiction, including detective fiction, science fiction, and class.

Included are alphabetically arranged entries for roughly 50 English-language short story writers from around the world, such as Chinua Achebe, John Barth, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, and Amy Tan.