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

• The Composite Novel: The Short Story Cycle In Transition --review of Dunn and Morris' book defining the short story cycle.
• The Synchronic Series as the Origin of the Modernist Short Story --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.
• "They but reflect the things": Style and Rhetorical Purpose in Melville's 'The Piazza Tale' --scholarly article.
• Other Ghosts: Gothicism and the Bonds of Reason in Melville, Chesnutt, and Morrison --scholarly article.
• Benito Cereno --helpful study guide.

• Sarah Orne Jewett

• Visions of time in 'The Country of Pointed Firs' --scholarly article.
• A Revisitation of Transcendentalism within Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs --scholarly paper.

• Charles Chesnutt

• Other Ghosts: Gothicism and the Bonds of Reason in Melville, Chesnutt, and Morrison --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.
• The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tale --review of scholarly study of Chesnutt's collection; good on the context of the tales.

• Sherwood Anderson

• Pedagogy of the Undressed: Sherwood Anderson's Kate Swift - from the 'Winesburg, Ohio' Collection of Short Stories --scholarly article.
• The "Shadow People": Feodor Sologub and Sherwood Anderson's 'Winesburg, Ohio' --scholarly article.
• Just the Tip of the Iceberg Theory: Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson's "Loneliness" --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: Lyrical Dimensions --review of a scholarly study of cycle as a "modern poetic sequence."
• Hemingway's In Our Time: A Cubist Anatomy --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.
• It Was All a Pleasant Business: The Historical Context of "On The Quai At Smyrna" --scholarly article on In Our Time.

• William Faulkner

• Waves of time in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses --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.
• 'Tin Jesus': The Intellectual in Selected Short Fiction of Flannery O'Connor --scholarly paper.
• Anagogical Vision and Comedic Form in Flannery O'Connor: The Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable --scholarly article.
• O'Connor's Mrs. May and Oates's Connie: An Unlikely Pair of Religious Initiates - Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates --scholarly article.
• Mercy that Burns: Violence and Revelation in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction --scholarly article.

• John Barth

• Self-Knowledge and Self-Conception: The Therapy of Autobiography in John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse --scholarly article.
• Paradox of Origin: John Barth's 'Menelaiad' --scholarly article.
• 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.

• 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.

• Gerald Vizenor

• Postmodern Bears in the Texts of Gerald Vizenor --scholarly article.
• "Bad Breath": Gerald Vizenor's Lacanian Fable --scholarly article.
• Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition --book review.
• Landfill Meditations: Crossblood Stories --review of Vizenor's cycle.
• Gerald Vizenor, "Feral Lasers" --study questions.

• Gloria Naylor

• Magic and Memory in the Contemporary Story Cycle: Gloria Naylor and Louise Erdrich --scholarly article on Love Medicine and Women of Brewster Place.

• Tim O'Brien

• The Things They Carried as Composite Novel --scholarly article.

• Louise Erdrich

• Magic and Memory in the Contemporary Story Cycle: Gloria Naylor and Louise Erdrich --scholarly article on Love Medicine and Women of Brewster Place.
• The Short Stories of Louise Edrich's Novels --scholarly article.

• Amy Tan

• "Only two kinds of daughters": Inter-monologue Dialogicity in 'The Joy Luck Club.' --scholarly article.