Tracing the genre from its nineteenth-century antecedents to its present-day incarnations, my dissertation argues that the rise of the short-story cycle constitutes one of the most influential and generative developments in US literary history. Although...
First paragraph: During the summer of 1938, Sherwood Anderson began work on a new novel, but he was unhappy with the result. In a letter to a friend, he attributes the problem to form: “I...
A short article from Jennifer J Smith who is also the author of The American Short Story Cycle (2018). A review of this book can be found here. First paragraph (of the article): This spring...