{"product_id":"twentieth-century-american-fiction-in-circulation-paperback-softback","title":"Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation is a study of the twentieth-century linked story collection in the United States. It emphasizes how the fictional form grew out of an established publishing model—individual stories printed in magazines, revised and expanded into single-author volumes that resemble novels—which creates multiple contexts for the reception of this literature. By acknowledging the prior appearance of stories in periodicals, the book examines textual variants and the role of editorial emendation, drawing on archival records (drafts and correspondence) whenever possible. It also considers how the pages of magazines create a context for the reception of short stories that differs significantly from that of the single-author book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chapters explore how short stories, appearing separately then linked together, excel at representing the discontinuity of modern American life; convey the multifaceted identity of a character across episodes; mimic the qualities of oral storytelling; and illustrate struggles of belonging within and across communities. The book explains the appearance and prevalence of these narrative strategies at particular cultural moments in the evolution of the American magazine, examining a range of periodicals such as \u003ci\u003eThe Masses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLadies’ Home Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. The primary linked story collections studied are Sherwood Anderson’s \u003ci\u003eWinesburg, Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e (1919), William Faulkner’s \u003ci\u003eThe Unvanquished\u003c\/i\u003e (1938), Mary McCarthy’s \u003ci\u003eThe Company She Keeps\u003c\/i\u003e (1942), John Barth’s \u003ci\u003eLost in the Funhouse\u003c\/i\u003e (1968), and Amy Tan’s \u003ci\u003eThe Joy Luck Club\u003c\/i\u003e (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45547528388846,"sku":"9781032086729","price":67.19,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/twentieth-century-american-fiction-in-circulation-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}