Screen LibraryThe American short story since 1950
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Edinburgh University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Edinburgh |
| Publication Dates: | c2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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BAAS paperbacks |
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| Carrier Form: | 178 p.: ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780748627660 (pbk.) 0748627669 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | I712 |
| CLC: | I712.074 |
| Call Number: | I712.074/B666 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-170) and index. 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. 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 read |