The American Short Story Since 1950

ISBN-13: 9780748627660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 184 str.

Kaisa Boddy

Opis

The American Short Story since 1950 offers a reappraisal and contextualisation of a critically underrated genre during a particularly rich period in its history. It offers new readings of important stories by key writers including Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Lorrie Moore and Grace Paley. These readings are related throughout to the various contexts in which stories are written and published, including creative writing schools, story-writing handbooks, mass market and 'little' magazines.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: The American Short Story to 1950; 1. How to Write Short Stories; 2. The New Yorker Short Story at Mid-century; 3. Experimental Fiction in the 60s and 70s; 4. 'Experiment is Out, Concern is In'; 5. Turning Points and the American Short Story Today; 6. Sequences and Accumulations; Conclusion; Bibliography