In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William H. Gass
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Plot: Antistory
- Time of Work: The 1960's
- Setting: A small town in Indiana
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Mrs. Desmond, Billy Holsclaw, Uncle Halley, Mr. Tick
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Politics
- Locales: Indiana
The Story
Following the modernist tradition of elimination of traditional narrative line, this story could be loosely described as a series of thirty-six prose poems, repetitious in subject and title, connected only by two devices—the setting (a small midwestern town) and the first-person narrator. The shorter titles within the story at first glance seem quite straightforward: abstract, factual, almost guidebook dull. The longer titles tend to emphasize possessions of the narrator: “My House, This Place and Body.”
Closer inspection, however, reveals that the...
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