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In Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story, editors Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by literary critics from around the globe. Collectively, these critics argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American writers is integral to the development of the short story in each country as well as vital to the global status the contemporary short story has attained. This collection provides original analyses of both well-known Russian and American stories as well as some that might be more unfamiliar. Each essay is purposely crafted to display an appreciation of the techniques, subject matter, themes, and approaches that both Russian and American short story writers explored across borders and time. Stories by Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Krzhizhanovsky as well as short stories by Washington Irving, Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ursula Le Guin, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates populate this essential, multivalent collection. Perhaps more important now than at any time since the end of the Cold War, these essays will remind readers how much Russian and American culture share, as well as the extent to which their respective literatures are deeply intertwined.
Published | Mar 10 2021 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 318 |
ISBN | 9781793629883 |
Imprint | Lexington Books |
Dimensions | 228 x 161 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
As this collection of essays so clearly illuminates, when it comes to narrative, especially short narrative, there is more that unites us to the creative Russian mind than divides us. You might not believe that so many writers came out from under Gogol’s overcoat, but this collection will stimulate further consideration of how many writers owe their sophistication and subtlety to Chekhov. Even as the essays accentuate the short story’s unique ability to encourage empathy and depict the lives of marginalized people, they repeatedly remind us that the form’s primary requirement is the demand of close reading. Like the best criticism of the past, these essays will encourage perceptive criticism of the future.
Charles E. May, The New Short Story Theories
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