Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century

Book Overview

In 1953, Mary McCarthy published an article in Harper's entitled "Artists in Uniform" telling the story of a woman who encountered an anti-Semitic colonel on a train. Readers approached the tale as fiction, finding symbolic meaning in everything from what the Colonel ate to the clothes the woman wore. Soon after its appearance, McCarthy wrote a sequel called "Settling the Colonel's Hash" in which she explained that "there were no symbols in this story;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195059654
• ISBN13: 9780195059656
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"