- Title
- Modernizing the American Short Story
- Author/Creator
- Kasia Boddy
- Publication Details
- The Cambridge History of American Modernism, pp.253-267
- Annotation
- Traces the history of the rising status of short fiction (dating as far back as Poe) as an "efficient" and thoroughly modern expression of American literature, though one often freighted with concerns of commercialism, formulaic structures, and "standardization." Explores various modernist threads as the form developed in the 1910s and '20s and broke free of expectations. Introduces Hemingway by emphasizing what he learned from Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein leading up to the story-making "breakthroughs" of Three Stories and Ten Poems and In Our Time. Highlights "Out of Season" and "Hills Like White Elephants" and discusses impressions of Hemingway's fictions as poetry and even theater.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; New York
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015213298203691
Book chapter
Modernizing the American Short Story
The Cambridge History of American Modernism, pp.253-267
Cambridge University Press
2023
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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