Dlb 130: American Short Story Writers Since World War II

by Patrick Meanor

Beginning in the 1950s, the American short storys popularity began to wane when the reading public turned its attention to a new form of entertainment: television. Today, short stories are beginning to reemerge as a viable literary genre. The forty short-story writers presented in DLB 130 demonstrate an expanding diversity of writings, which can be divided into three major categories: realists or neorealists; postmodernists or metafictionists;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081035389X
• ISBN13: 9780810353893
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Gale Cengage
• Length: 419 Pages