TY - BOOK ID - 117297924 TI - An Organon of Life Knowledge PY - 2019 SN - 9783837646429 3837646424 9783839446423 3839446422 PB - Bielefeld DB - UniCat KW - 820-32 KW - 820-32 Engelse literatuur: kort verhaal; novelle KW - Engelse literatuur: kort verhaal; novelle KW - Fiction genres KW - Life in literature KW - Short stories, American KW - America KW - American Studies KW - General Literature Studies KW - Genre Theory KW - Life KW - Literary Studies KW - Literature and Knowledge KW - Literature KW - Narrative KW - Theory of Literature KW - American short stories KW - American fiction KW - Genre fiction KW - Genres, Fiction KW - Fiction KW - Literary form KW - History and criticism KW - Themes, motives KW - Short Story; Literature and Knowledge; Genre Theory; Narrative; America; Life; Literature; American Studies; Theory of Literature; General Literature Studies; Literary Studies KW - America. KW - American Studies. KW - General Literature Studies. KW - Genre Theory. KW - Life. KW - Literary Studies. KW - Literature and Knowledge. KW - Literature. KW - Narrative. KW - Theory of Literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:117297924 AB - 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. ER -