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Teaching the Short-Story Cycle, Teaching American Literature
- Pedagogy
- Duke University Press
- Volume 16, Issue 2, April 2016
- pp. 207-227
- Article
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This article argues that the short-story cycle should be central to teaching American literature, because the genre crystallizes major tensions of American literary history: marginality and inclusion, the individual and the community, and the formation of a national literature from transnational and local materials.