The Late Twentieth Century: 1960-2000 - Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
Introduction
In the final decades of the twentieth century, the American short story enjoyed what many critics have called a renaissance of interest among both popular readers and professional critics. Stimulated partially by the popularity of such writers as Raymond Carver, who specialized in the short story, and the willingness of such editors as Gordon Lish, who encouraged short-story writers, a large number of short-story collections began to be published in the 1970’s. So many have been published in the last few decades that this survey must focus only on the most...
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