TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peden,William
TI  - The American short story: continuity and change, 1940-1975 
SN  - 0395207207
AV  - PS374.S5 P4343 1975
PY  - 1975///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
N1  - BIBINDX; 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; Also issued online
ER  -