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The American Short Story since 1950 / Kasia Boddy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: BAAS Paperbacks : BAASPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748627660
  • 9780748631636
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.0109054 22
LOC classification:
  • PS374.S5 B63 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 1960s and 1970s -- 4. ‘Experiment is Out, Concern is In’ -- 5. Turning Points and the American Short Story Today -- 6. Sequences and Accumulations -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- The British Association for American Studies (BAAS)
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 1960s and 1970s -- 4. ‘Experiment is Out, Concern is In’ -- 5. Turning Points and the American Short Story Today -- 6. Sequences and Accumulations -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- The British Association for American Studies (BAAS)

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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