Engl 565 American Genre: Short Story Cycles

Fall Semester 2005

MWF 10:00-10:50, Grubbs 312

Instructor: Dr. Kathleen L. Nichols

Resources

• Short Story Cycles

• Sequences, Anti-Sequences, Cycles, and Composite Novels: The Short Story in Genre Criticism--review of Dunn and Morris' book defining the short story cycle.
• Short Story Cycle--shorter definition, with specific examples.
• Female Expansion and Masculine Immobilization in the Short Story Cycle--scholarly article.

• Herman Melville

• Bartleby and Infantile Autism; A Naturalistic Explanation --scholarly article.
• Melville's Radical Resistance: The Method and Meaning of Bartleby --scholarly article.
• "Bartleby": The Walls of Wall Street --scholarly article.
• Melville's Short Fiction--review of several books on Melville's short fiction; changing trends in Melvillean criticism; interesting insights into aspects of The Piazza Tales.
• Mourning the transience of theory: Freudian analysis and Melville’s “The Piazza Tale”--scholarly article.
• "They but reflect the things": Style and Rhetorical Purpose in Melville's 'The Piazza Tale' --scholarly article.
• Benito Cereno --helpful study guide.

• Sarah Orne Jewett

• Visions of time in 'The Country of Pointed Firs' --scholarly article.
• A Woman's vision of Transcendence: A New Interpretation of the Works of Sarah ORne Jewett--scholarly article.
• A Revisitation of Transcendentalism within Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs --scholarly paper.

• Charles Chesnutt

• Earth-eating, Addiction, Nostalgia: Charles Chesnutt's Diasporic Regionalism--scholarly article.
• Other Nature: Resistance to Ecological Hegemony in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman --scholarly article.
• Washington, Dunbar, Chesnutt, and the "Minstrel Mask --helpful study guide.
• A Mind Enslaved?: The Interaction of Metaphor, Cognitive Distance, and Narrative Framing in Chesnutt's "Dave's Neckliss"--scholarly article.

• Sherwood Anderson

• Just the Tip of the Iceberg Theory: Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson's "Loneliness" --scholarly article.
• Winesburg, Ohio: A Modernist Kluge--scholarly article.

• Ernest Hemingway

• Just the Tip of the Iceberg Theory: Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson's "Loneliness" --scholarly article.
• Hemingway's Soldiers and their Pregnant Women: Domestic Ritual in World War I --scholarly article.
• Hemingway's In Our Time: A Cubist Anatomy --scholarly article.
• Hemingway's In Our Time: Cubism, conservation, and the suspension of identification--scholarly article.
• The Forgotten Female: Hemingway as Misogynist --helpful student paper.
• In Our Time --study questions and notes on Hemingway's story cycle.
• A River Runs Through It: Recollection, Return, and Renovation in Hemingway's In Our Time and Wordsworth's Prelude --scholarly paper.
• The 'Tribal' Legacy of Hemingway's Nick Adams--scholarly article.

• William Faulkner

• The Bear" in Go Down, Moses and Big Woods: Faulkner's (re)visions for a Deeper Ecology--scholarly article.
• The Political Economy of Southern Race: Go Down, Moses, Spatial Inequality, and the Color Line--scholarly article.
• A meeting with Old Ben: seeing and writing nature in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses--scholarly article.
• Imagined Edens and Lacan's Lost Object: The Wilderness and Subjectivity in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses--scholarly article.
• Women, Landscape and the Legacy of Gilgamesh in 'Absalom, Absalom!' and 'Go Down, Moses'--scholarly article.
• Elements of the carnivalesque in Faulkner's "Was"--scholarly article.
• William Faulkner Criticism--generous selections from a number of scholarly essays; focuses on Go Down, Moses.
• Rethinking Rider's Love: The Less-romantic Logic of Property and Space in "Pantaloon in Black"--scholarly article.
• Bear, Man, and Black: Hunting the Hidden in Faulkner's Big Woods--scholarly article.
• Moving Again among the Shades of Tall, Unaxed Trees": Regional Utopias, Railroads, and Metropolitan Miscegenation in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses--scholarly article.
• Faulkner and the "Doomed Wilderness" of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta--scholarly article.

• Eudora Welty

• Eudora Welty's Other short-Story cycle: A Reading of A Curtain of Green--scholarly article.

• N. Scott Momaday

• N. Scott Momaday's Rainy Mountain & Devil's Tower --photos.
• Lesson Plan: N. Scott Momaday --helpful background, comments, and definitions.
• Reading Questions for The Way to Rainy Mountain and "The Man Made of Words" --study guide; questions.
• Perpetuating Remembrance: N. Scott Momaday and Kiowa Storytelling --scholarly article.
• The "Way" To Rainy Mountain: A Review of a Historical Reconstruction --interesting essay.

• Flannery O'Connor

• The Dark Side of the Cross: Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction --helpful introduction.

• John Barth

• Done with Mirrors: Restoring the Authority Lost in John Barth's Funhouse --scholarly article.

• Sandra Cisneros

• "What is called Heaven": Identity in Sandra Cisneros's 'Woman Hollering Creek' --scholarly article.
• Haunting the Borderlands: La Llorona in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" --scholarly article.
• From Llorona to Gritona: Coatlicue in Feminist Tales by Viramontes and Cisneros --scholarly article.
• Gritos des de la Frontera: Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, and Postmodernism --scholarly article.
• “One foot in this world and one foot in that”: Woman Hollering Creek and the Bildungscomposite--thesis/dissertation on cisneros composite novel.
• Cuchicheos, Gritos y Silencios: Transbordering Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek into México y el Español --scholarly article.

• Sherman Alexie

• On Sherman Alexie --selections from scholarly commentary on Sherman.
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven By Sherman Alexie --book review.
• Hurricanes and Fires: Chaotics in Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven --scholarly article.
• Escape Stories: Narratives and Native Americans in Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven--scholarly article.

• Gerald Vizenor

• Gerald Vizenor, "Feral Lasers" --study questions.
• Blank books in Gerald Vizenor's "Almost Browne"--scholarly article.
• Reclaiming the Voice: Gerald Vizenor--Literary Trickster in a Postmodern Language Game--scholarly article.
• Gerald Vizenor in his Contexts--Chapter One in the book-length study Understanding Gerald Vizenor

• Gloria Naylor

• Recovering the Conjure Woman: Texts and Contexts in Gloria Naylor's 'Mama Day'--scholarly article.
• Gloria Naylor's Mama Day: Bridging Roots and Routes--scholarly article.

• Tim O'Brien

• The Things They Carried as Composite Novel --scholarly article.
• Truth and fiction in Tim O'Brien's "If I Die in a Combat Zone" and "The Things They Carried"--scholarly article.

• Louise Erdrich

• Louise Erdrich and Stories vs Chapters--interesting comments on a short story writer's blog.
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• Love Medicine: A Metaphor for Forgiveness--scroll down the page to this scholarly article.
• Questions of the Spirit: Bloodlines in Louise Erdrich's Chippewa Landscape--scroll down the page to this scholarly article. Several other Erdrich essays also included on this web page.

• Amy Tan

• "Only two kinds of daughters": Inter-monologue Dialogicity in 'The Joy Luck Club.' --scholarly article.
• Narrating Chinese m/others: New Orientalism in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club--scholarly article.