Dlb 86: American Short Story Writers 1910-1945, First Series

by Bobby Ellen Kimbel

American literature was in a state of flux between the first and second World Wars-the social upheavals of the postwar decade and the superb fiction to which they gave birth have made this the most consistently scrutinized of any period in American literary history. Those authors most closely identified with the modernist spirit in fiction discovered methods of protest deeply rooted in the literary imagination. Radical changes in language, style...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810345641
• ISBN13: 9780810345645
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Gale Cengage
• Length: 344 Pages