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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.

820-32 --- 820-32 Engelse literatuur: kort verhaal; novelle --- Engelse literatuur: kort verhaal; novelle --- Fiction genres --- Life in literature --- Short stories, American --- America --- American Studies --- General Literature Studies --- Genre Theory --- Life --- Literary Studies --- Literature and Knowledge --- Literature --- Narrative --- Theory of Literature --- American short stories --- American fiction --- Genre fiction --- Genres, Fiction --- Fiction --- Literary form --- History and criticism --- Themes, motives --- Short Story; Literature and Knowledge; Genre Theory; Narrative; America; Life; Literature; American Studies; Theory of Literature; General Literature Studies; Literary Studies --- America. --- American Studies. --- General Literature Studies. --- Genre Theory. --- Life. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature and Knowledge. --- Literature. --- Narrative. --- Theory of Literature.

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Fiction genres --- Fiction --- Civilization in literature --- Literaturwissenschaft --- Gattungstheorie --- Civilization in literature. --- Fiction. --- Fiction genres. --- History and criticism --- Literaturwissenschaft. --- Gattungstheorie.

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New scholarly essays on the short story in English as a phenomenon of world literature. This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Ranging across texts from different parts of the English-speaking world, it studies the form in its many guises and venues of publication. Why have writers of so many nationalities and dispositions found the short story amenable to experimentation and discovery? What is the history and origin of the modern short story, and what has been the role of the publishing business, of academic criticism, of the Creative Writing 'industry', and of the digital revolution in shaping and disseminating it over the past two centuries? This collection of innovative essays by new and established scholars explores these and other questions, addressing stories from around the world, and considering their relationship to place, identity, history and genre.

Short stories, English --- History and criticism --- E-books --- History and criticism.

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