HauhartĬhapter 13: Divine Beings in Short Stories by Nabokov, Garcia Marquez, and Le Guin: A Secular Reading, Anastasia G.
Green,” and Cheever’s “The Swimmer”, Robert C. FuryĬhapter 10: Gorky’s Orphans: The Unraveling of Socialist Humanism in Russian and African American Tramp Stories, Kevin LucasĬhapter 11: Vladimir Nabokov’s American Short Story Surrounded by the Image of Russia: “The Vane Sisters” in Nabokov’s Quartet, Kiyoko MagomeĬhapter 12: Existential Quests in the Short Story: Gogol’s “The Overcoat,” Bellow’s “Looking for Mr. WashingtonĬhapter 9: “The Strange and the Commonplace in One”: Spirituality, Mystery, and the Personal Quest in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Anton Chekhov, Frank P. Al-KeshwanĬhapter 6: Black in the USSR: Langston Hughes, Ivan Turgenev, and the Radical Potential of the Short Story, Laura RyanĬhapter 7: Composing Thoughts: Reading Daniil Kharms’s Work in the Light of Short Story Collection Theory, Pedro QueridoĬhapter 8: Outsiders and Others: Revisiting Richard Wright’s “Underground Man”, Durthy A. Henry and Anton Chekhov, Iren BoyarkinaĬhapter 3: From Poe to James via Dostoevsky: Cognizing Doppelgangers in American and Russian Short Fiction, Irina GolovachevaĬhapter 4: “Smile and Scream” in the Little Review: Russian Short Fiction and Transatlantic Avantgarde, Maria KrivosheinaĬhapter 5: The Resonance of Dostoevsky’s “Bobok” in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Sahar J. Perhaps more important now than at any time since the end of the Cold War, these essays will remind readers how much Russian and American culture share, as well as the extent to which their respective literatures are deeply intertwined.Ĭhapter 1: Calls from Beyond and Within: A Nonhuman Reading of the Short Stories of Nikolai Gogol and Washington Irving, Naruhiko MikadoĬhapter 2: Empathy and Human Feeling in the Short Stories of O. Stories by Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Krzhizhanovsky as well as short stories by Washington Irving, Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ursula Le Guin, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates populate this essential, multivalent collection. Each essay is purposely crafted to display an appreciation of the techniques, subject matter, themes, and approaches that both Russian and American short story writers explored across borders and time.
This collection provides original analyses of both well-known Russian and American stories as well as some that might be more unfamiliar. Collectively, these critics argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American writers is integral to the development of the short story in each country as well as vital to the global status the contemporary short story has attained. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by literary critics from around the globe. In Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story, editors Robert C.
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