An Organon of Life Knowledge: Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America (American Culture Studies, Bd. 24) - Softcover

Michael Basseler

 
9783837646429: An Organon of Life Knowledge: Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America (American Culture Studies, Bd. 24)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3837646424 ISBN 13: 9783837646429
Verlag: transcript Verlag, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Can fiction teach us how to live? This study offers a fresh take on the North American short story, exploring how the genre has engaged in the construction and circulation of 'life knowledge'. Echoing the resurgence of short story scholarship in recent years, it thus contributes a genre-focused perspective to the growing field of 'literature and knowledge' studies. Drawing on stories from the late 19th century to the present by authors such as Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Junot Díaz, and Alice Munro, Michael Basseler examines how knowledge about life and how to live it is generically constituted and, vice versa, how literary genres such as the short story are embedded in broader cultural frameworks of knowledge production.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Basseler (Dr. habil.), born in 1976, works as Academic Manager at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at the University of Gießen. His research focuses on US-American literature and culture as well as literary and cultural theory, especially the study of narrative, African American literature, and the short story. His current project deals with the concept of resilience from a literary and cultural perspective.

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Can fiction teach us how to live? This study offers a fresh take on the North American short story, exploring how the genre has engaged in the construction and circulation of 'life knowledge'. Echoing the resurgence of short story scholarship in recent years, it thus contributes a genre-focused perspective to the growing field of 'literature and knowledge' studies. Drawing on stories from the late 19th century to the present by authors such as Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Junot Díaz, and Alice Munro, Michael Basseler examines how knowledge about life and how to live it is generically constituted and, vice versa, how literary genres such as the short story are embedded in broader cultural frameworks of knowledge production.

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Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3837646424
ISBN 13 
9783837646429
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
276
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