The American short story : continuity and change, 1940-1975 /
Peden, William 1913-1999
The American short story : continuity and change, 1940-1975 / William Peden. - Second edition, revised and enlarged. - vi, 215 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Background and antecedents -- Publishers, publishing and the American short story since 1940 -- The period in retrospect : World War II to Watergate -- Metropolis, village and suburbia : the short fiction of manners -- A mad world, my masters -- "Oh, these jews -- these jews! Their feelings, their hearts!" -- The black explosion : "All things considered, the field is opening up more and more" -- Of war and peace and other matters: The wars and the short story. "The woods are full of regional writers". Spaceships, aliens, and bug-eyed monsters. "Fragments are the only forms I trust" : Barthelme and the Innovationists -- Some concluding remarks and informal postscript.
0395207207 9780395207208
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35655226k uri
75023089
013842926 Uk
Short stories, American--History and criticism
American fiction--History and criticism--20th century
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
PS374.S5 / P4343 1975
The American short story : continuity and change, 1940-1975 / William Peden. - Second edition, revised and enlarged. - vi, 215 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Background and antecedents -- Publishers, publishing and the American short story since 1940 -- The period in retrospect : World War II to Watergate -- Metropolis, village and suburbia : the short fiction of manners -- A mad world, my masters -- "Oh, these jews -- these jews! Their feelings, their hearts!" -- The black explosion : "All things considered, the field is opening up more and more" -- Of war and peace and other matters: The wars and the short story. "The woods are full of regional writers". Spaceships, aliens, and bug-eyed monsters. "Fragments are the only forms I trust" : Barthelme and the Innovationists -- Some concluding remarks and informal postscript.
0395207207 9780395207208
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35655226k uri
75023089
013842926 Uk
Short stories, American--History and criticism
American fiction--History and criticism--20th century
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
PS374.S5 / P4343 1975
