A critical analysis of Hemingway's short fiction plus biographical information.

"Kuehl 'closely analyzes the works of short fiction that made F. Scott Fitzgerald, according to the author, one of the "few modern American masters of the form." The insights Kuehl shares with readers bring a richness and new dimension to our understanding of Fitzgerald's fiction and of the writer himself.'" Booklist.

This volume explores Cather's accomplishments in the story, and presents her views on the short story and its differences from the novel. The first section presents various approaches to selected short stories such as "The Enchanted Bluff, " Before Breakfast," and "Uncle Valentine." Some stories are paired and placed under headings of the collection, or under "Four Love Stories." The section on Cather the writer includes comments that support the...

This is a full-length study of Crane's short stories, tracing their formal development and relating Crane's work to the aesthetic principles of American modernism. As mirrors of his time, Crane's stories reflected the major forces that transformed American life between 1850 and 1900: the Civil War, industrialism and the rise of cities and slums, and the disappearance of the American frontier. Consequently, the predominant theme of much of Crane's...