The Short Story in Midcentury America - 9780807165768

The Short Story in Midcentury AmericaCountercultural Form in the Work of Bowles, McCarthy, Welty, and Williams\nAuthor(s): Sam V. H. Reese\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Louisiana State University Press, United States\nImprint: Louisiana State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780807165768, 978-0807165768\nSynopsis\nThe 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 dominant narratives, both political and literary, of mid-twentieth century [url] culture.\n\nSam V. H. Reese presents a new understanding of the connections between politics, ideology, and literary form, arguing that writers employed the short story to critique the cultural mores of the early Cold War. The four authors under discussion found themselves socially marginalized by mainstream [.