The Short Story in Midcentury America : Countercultural Form in the Work of Bowles, McCarthy, Welty, and Williams /

The Short Story in Midcentury America provides in-depth case studies of four major writers of the post-World War II era--Paul Bowles, Mary McCarthy, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams--examining how they used the contained aesthetics of short fiction to map out an oppositional stance to the domina...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reese, Sam V. H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Williams, Tennessee > 1911-1983
Welty, Eudora > 1909-2001
McCarthy, Mary > 1912-1989
Bowles, Paul > 1910-1999
Kurzgeschichte
Short stories, American.
Counterculture in literature.
American fiction.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Short stories, American > History and criticism.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "A snail of language"
  • Writing counterculturally in midcentury America
  • Mary McCarthy and the containing mask
  • Tennessee Williams and the new school of decadence
  • Paul Bowles's verbal violence and patterns of words
  • Eudora Welty and the photographic capture
  • Conclusion.

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