Literature in America: The Short Story

Duration: 20

Year Published: 1962

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Relates the origin and development of the short story in American literature through the examples of composition by Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Stockton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Hamlin Garland, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, O. Henry, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and James Thurber. Traces the short story as it changed from romanticism to local color and then blended into realism and naturalism. The role of the American publishing industry is also shown.

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