Research Catalog

Title

The American short story since 1950 / Kasia Boddy.

Author

Boddy, Kasia

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2010.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

British Association for American Studies.

Description

177 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

This book offers a reappraisal of a critically underrated genre during a particularly rich period in its history. It is a book about some of the greatest postwar American writers, who consistently found in the short story a form well adapted to their most fundamental preoccupations, and about the literary cultures within which they wrote: the magazines they published in; the prizes they did or did not win; the university courses which taught them how to write, or enabled them to teach others how to write; and their (more often than not disappointing) sales figures. The book includes new readings of important stories by key writers including Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, Donald Barthelme, Grace Paley, Raymond Carver, Lorrie Moore, Tim O'Brien, Denis Johnson, Junot Diaz, Sherman Alexie, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Bezmozgis, Edward P. Jones, David Foster Wallace, Gish Jen, A.M. Homes and Lydia Davis. --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

BAAS paperbacks

Uniform Title

BAAS paperbacks.

Subject

• Short stories, American > History and criticism
• Korte verhalen
• Verenigde Staten

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-170) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : the American short story to 1950 -- How to write short stories -- The New Yorker short story at mid-century -- Experimental fiction in the 1960s and 1970s -- 'Experiment is out, concern is in' -- Turning points and the American short story today -- Sequences and accumulations.

ISBN

• 9780748627660 (pbk.)
• 0748627669 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 506174498
• SCSB-12299893

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library