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Connections and influence in the Russian and American short story /

"Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story illuminates the importance of the interconnectedness between Russian and American short stories. The reciprocal influence between the two was integral to the development of the short story in each country and of the modern genre...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Birkenstein, Jeff (Editor), Hauhart, Robert C., 1950- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
Subjects:
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.
Short stories, American.
Short stories, Russian.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface / Robert C. Hauhartand, Jeff Birkenstein Introduction.
  • 1. Calls from beyond and within : a nonhuman reading of the short stories of Nikolai Gogol and Washington Irving / Naruhiko Mikado
  • 2. Empathy and human feeling in the short stories of O. Henry and Anton Chekhov / Iren Boyarkina
  • 3. From Poe to James via Dostoevsky : cognizing doppelgangers in American and Russian short fiction / Irina Golovacheva
  • 4. "Smile and scream" in The Little Review : Russian short fiction and Transatlantic avant-garde / Maria Krivosheina
  • 5. The resonance of Dostoevsky's "Bobok" in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury / Sahar J. Al-Keshwan
  • 6. Black in the USSR : Langston Hughes, Ivan Turgenev, and the radical potential of the short story / Laura Ryan
  • 7. Composing thoughts: Reading Daniil Kharms's Workin the Light of Short Story Collection Theory / Pedro Querido
  • 8. Outsiders and others: revisiting Richard Wright's "Underground Man" / Durthy A. Washington
  • 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 / Frank P. Fury
  • 10. Gorky's orphans : the unraveling of socialist humanism in Russian and African American tramp stories / Kevin Lucas
  • 11. Vladimir Nabokov's American short story surrounded by the image of Russia : "The Vane Sisters" in Nabokov's Quartet interacting with Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" Kiyoko Magome
  • 12. Existential quests in the short story : Gogol's "The Overcoat", Bellow's "Looking for Mr. Green," and Cheever's "The Swimmer" / Robert C. Hauhart
  • 13. Divine beings in short stories by Nabokov, Garcia Marquez, and Le Guin: a secular reading / Anastasia G. Pease
  • 14. Two ladies, two dogs: on moral luck and determinism in Chekhov and Oates / Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis
  • 15. Food, influence, the short story, Anton Chekhov, and Raymond Carver / Jeff Birkenstein
  • 16. Heterosexual fictions: Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies / Lucky Issar
  • 17. Tolstoy's influence in Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge and Olive, again / Christine Tachick Kern
  • 18. Tiny haunted empires: domestic fabulism in the home in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's "Quadraturin" and Kelly Link's "Stone Animals" / Emrys Donaldson.
  • Index.
  • About the editors
  • About the contributors.