Connections and influence in the Russian and American short story. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jeff Birkenstein, Robert C. Hauhart.
• Editors: Birkenstein, Jeff; Hauhart, Robert C, 1950-
• Contents: Chapter 1: Calls from Beyond and Within: A Nonhuman Reading of the Short Stories of Nikolai Gogol and Washington Irving, <span style="font-style:italic;">Naruhiko Mikado Chapter 2: Empathy and Human Feeling in the Short Stories of O. Henry and Anton Chekhov, <span style="font-style:italic;">Iren Boyarkina Chapter 3: From Poe to James via Dostoevsky: Cognizing Doppelgangers in American and Russian Short Fiction, <span style="font-style:italic;">Irina Golovacheva Chapter 4: “Smile and Scream” in the Little Review: Russian Short Fiction and Transatlantic Avantgarde, <span style="font-style:italic;">Maria Krivosheina Chapter 5: The Resonance of Dostoevsky’s “Bobok” in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, <span style="font-style:italic;">Sahar J. Al-Keshwan Chapter 6: Black in the USSR: Langston Hughes, Ivan Turgenev, and the Radical Potential of the Short Story, <span style="font-style:italic;">Laura Ryan Chapter 7: Composing Thoughts: Reading Daniil Kharms’s Work in the Light of Short Story Collection Theory, <span style="font-style:italic;">Pedro Querido Chapter 8: Outsiders and Others: Revisiting Richard Wright’s “Underground Man”, <span style="font-style:italic;">Durthy A. Washington Chapter 9: “The Strange and the Commonplace in One”: Spirituality, Mystery, and the Personal Quest in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Anton Chekhov, <span style="font-style:italic;">Frank P. Fury Chapter 10: Gorky’s Orphans: The Unraveling of Socialist Humanism in Russian and African American Tramp Stories, <span style="font-style:italic;">Kevin Lucas Chapter 11: Vladimir Nabokov’s American Short Story Surrounded by the Image of Russia: “The Vane Sisters” in Nabokov’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Quartet, Kiyoko Magome Chapter 12: Existential Quests in the Short Story: Gogol’s “The Overcoat, ” Bellow’s “Looking for Mr. Green, ” and Cheever’s “The Swimmer”, <span style="font-style:italic;">Robert C. Hauhart Chapter 13: Divine Beings in Short Stories by Nabokov, Garcia Marquez, and Le Guin: A Secular Reading, <span style="font-style:italic;">Anastasia G. Pease Chapter 14: Two Ladies, Two Dogs: On Moral Luck and Determinism in Chekhov and Oates, <span style="font-style:italic;">Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis Chapter 15: Food, Influence, the Short Story, Anton Chekhov, and Raymond Carver, <span style="font-style:italic;">Jeff Birkenstein Chapter 16: Heterosexual Fictions: Ivan Turgenev's <span style="font-style:italic;">Fathers and Sons and, Jhumpa Lahiri's <span style="font-style:italic;">Interpreter of Maladies, Lucky Issar Chapter 17: Outsiders, Peasants, and Elderly Exiles in Elizabeth Strout’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Olive Kitteridge and <span style="font-style:italic;">Olive, Again, <span style="font-style:italic;">Christine Tachick Kern Chapter 18: Tiny Haunted Empires: Domestic Fabulism in the Home in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s “Quadraturin” and Kelly Link’s “Stone Animals”, <span style="font-style:italic;">Emrys Donaldson
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 813.0109; Comparative literature -- American and Russian; Comparative literature -- Russian and American; Short stories, Russian -- History and criticism; Short stories, American -- History and criticism; Russian literature -- Influence; American literature -- Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781793629890
• Related ISBNs: 9781793629883
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