Download or read book Western Clearings the American Short Stories Series written by Caroline Kirkland and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Western Clearings written by Caroline Matilda Kirkland and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Western Clearings written by Caroline S. Kirkland and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864) was an American writer who had considerable fame and accolades from her three books, based on frontier life. This volume is a collection of her short stories.
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Download or read book American Short Stories written by Various Authors and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How few years comprise the history of American literature is strikingly suggested by the fact that so much of it can be covered by the reminiscence of a single man of letters. A life beginning in the ’20’s had actual touch in boyhood with Irving, and seized fresh from the press the romances of Cooper. And if the history of American literature be read more exclusively as the history of literary development essentially American, its years are still fewer. “I perceive,” says a foreign visitor in Austin’s story of Joseph Natterstrom, “this is a very young country, but a very old people.” Some critics, indeed, have been so irritated by the spreading of the eagle in larger pretensions as to deprecate entirely the phrase “American literature.” Our literature, they retort, has shown no national, essential difference from the literature of the other peoples using the same language. How these carpers accommodate to their view Thoreau, for instance, is not clear. But waiving other claims, the case might almost be made out from the indigenous growth of one literary form. Our short story, at least, is definitely American. The significance of the short story as a new form of fiction appears on comparison of the staple product of tales before 1835 with the staple product thereafter. 1835 is the date of Poe’s Berenice. Before it lies a period of experiment, of turning the accepted anecdotes, short romances, historical sketches, toward something vaguely felt after as more workmanlike. This is the period of precocious local magazines, and of that ornament of the marble-topped tables of our grandmothers, the annual. Various in name and in color, the annual gift-books are alike,—externally in profusion of design and gilding, internally in serving up, as staples of their miscellany, poems and tales. Keepsakes they were called generically in England, France, and America; their particular style might beGarland or Gem. The Atlantic Souvenir, earliest in this country, so throve during seven years (1826–1832) as to buy and unite with itself (1833) its chief rival, the Token. The utterly changed taste which smiles at these annuals, as at the clothes of their readers, obscures the fact that they were a medium, not only for the stories of writers forgotten long since, but also for the earlier work of Hawthorne. By 1835 the New England Magazine had survived its infancy, and the Southern Literary Messenger was born with promise. Since then—since the realisation of the definite form in Poe’s Berenice—the short story has been explored and tested to its utmost capacity by almost every American prose-writer of note, and by many without note, as the chief American form of fiction. The great purveyor has been the monthly magazine. Before 1835, then, is a period of experiment with tales; after 1835, a period of the manifold exercise of the short story. The tales of the former have much that is national in matter; the short stories of the latter show nationality also in form. Nationality, even provinciality, in subject-matter has been too much in demand. The best modern literature knows best that it is heir of all the ages, and that its goal should be, not local peculiarity, but such humanity as passes place and time. Therefore we have heard too much, doubtless, of local color. At any rate, many purveyors of local color in fiction have given us documents rather than stories. Still there was some justice in asking of America the things of America. If the critics who begged us to be American have not always seemed to know clearly what they meant, still they may fairly be interpreted to mean in general something reasonable enough,—namely, that we ought to catch from the breadth and diversity of our new country new inspirations. The world, then, was looking to us, in so far as it looked at all, for the impulse from untrodden and picturesque ways, for a direct transmission of Indians, cataracts, prairies, bayous, and Sierras. Well and good. But, according to our abilities, we were giving the world just that. Years before England decided that our only American writers in this sense were Whitman, Mark Twain, and Bret Harte,—seventy years before the third of this perversely chosen group complacently informed the British public that he was a pioneer only in the sense of making the short story American in scenes and motives,—American writers were exploring their country for fiction north and south, east and west, up and down its history. What we lacked was, not appreciation of our material, but skill in expressing it; not inspiration, but art. We had to wait, not indeed for Bret Harte in the ’60’s, but for Poe in the ’30’s. The material was known and felt, and again and again attempted. Nothing could expose more vividly the fallacy that new material makes new literature. We were at school for our short story; but we had long known what stories we had to tell. In that sense American fiction has always been American.
Download or read book The Development of the American Short Story written by Fred Lewis Pattee and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Stories of the West written by Peter Freese and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Palette der Geschichten aus dem Wilden Westen, die teilweise als Vorlagen für berühmte Filme dienten, reicht von Werken bekannter Klassiker des 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts, wie z. B. Bret Harte, Stephen Crane und O. Henry, bis zu modernen Verfassern aus der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Alle Texte sind sorgfältig annotiert und mit einem umfangreichen Aufgabenapparat versehen. Das Viewfinder-Konzept berücksichtigt neben den Themenheften auch literarische Ganzschriften, die entweder für sich oder in Kombination mit den einzelnen Themen ergänzend gelesen werden können. Themenorientierte Kursarbeit wird hierdurch erleichtert. Die Literaturtitel enthalten einen ausführlichen Einleitungstext und Aufgabenstellungen und sind mit Annotationen und Vokabelhilfen versehen.
Download or read book Representative American Short Stories written by Robert William Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Western Clearings Classic Reprint written by Caroline M. Kirkland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Western Clearings To write a book is no great matter - as is very evident from the multitudes of books which are written; to write a preface is quite a different thing. It is the very tyranny of fashion that requires something to be Said when there is nothing to say. But if one tells one's publisher so, he only says, Nothing can come of nothing; try again l and so one is thrust bodily before the public, like the little boy who clings to his mother's apron, and tries to get behind her chair, while all the family cry out at once, Johnny, make a bow l and when Johnny makes his bow after much suffering, the com pany do not even look at him In this last particular there is a decided affinity between our case and the little boy's, for the public in whose behalf prefaces are insisted upon, very seldom takes the trouble to glance at them after they are written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Advance of the American Short Story written by Edward Joseph O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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