Short Story Review Guide 2 Generally referring to radically experimental works of literature after World War II Post modernism era had a potential for mass destruction genocide similar to WWII Highlights the alienation of individuals and the meaninglessness of human existence It is an acknowledgement of chaos authors used literature art to document this chaos This chaos is often imitated and celebrated within the literature itself Post Modernism No high art this period mocked high art and embraced pop culture Saussure Introduced structural linguistics sign signifier signified eg object word for that object that object is now understood Derrida Said that structural linguistics was wrong we all have different ideas of the same object said that we identify signified through a series of signifiers eg tree plant liv ing William S Burroughs and Don Delillo are good examples of post modernist authors Born in 1946 in a small Minnesota town thought that people of city were conservative Attended MacLester College in Minnesota in 1968 he was drafted into the US Army Server from 1968 1970 in the Army including a deployment in Vietnam from 1969 1970 The company he was assigned to had been involved in the Mylai Massacre in Vietnam Vietnam was the first media war the media provided graphic pictures to world bad Came back went on to work as journalist with negative views about the war not too Has written many books most deal with Vietnam The Things They Carried 1986 Title The Things They Carried references physical and emotional burdens Won the National Book Award in 1978 for novel Going After Cacciato He is commonly said to blur fiction and reality Born in 1925 in Savannah Georgia both of her parents were Roman Catholic Father died of lupus when she was only 16 influence on her literature Loved her pet chickens ducks peacocks fowl and various other animals Went to Georgia State College for Women English major thought of self as cartoonist 1947 Graduated from the University of Iowa one of the top creative writing colleges Wrote Wise Blood in 1952 really her only notable novel primarily a short story au 1950 1951 she was hospitalized with lupus later her bones joints became weak couldn t O Connor won O Henry prize for short stories three times in 1957 1963 and 1964 Born in 1912 died in 1982 referred to as a 20th Century child lived in major events Sold first short story to the magazine The New Republic at the age of 17 At 23 he began to be a regular contributor to The New Yorker Tim O Brien stupid press fond of it Flannery O Connor thor walk John Cheever with their Family J D Salinger life Long thought of as popular fiction New Yorker style writer Later he won the Pulitzer Prize as well as the National Book Award Heavy drinker throughout his life also had questionable sexual orientation Many stories take place in Westchester NY as well as Connecticut When his stories are in NY the cities are usually Shady Hill St Botolphs or Bullet Park Typical character White Protestant Bored with Job Trapped in Lifestyle Out of Touch Another post modernist a contemporary of Flannery O Connor Won the O Henry award twice Stands for Jerome David Salinger lived from 1919 2010 91 years old at the end of his A New Yorker he was famous for not wanting to be famous Enrolled in Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania later took courses in a wide variety of colleges such as NYU and Columbia Has first short story published in 1940 shortly after he serves in WWII not a frontline 1945 marries a French woman named Silvia divorced a year later Wrote first short story in 1946 that was featured in The New Yorker 1948 he wrote stories that would eventually become part of his Nine Stories 1951 he wrote Catcher in the Rye 1953 Nine Stories 1961 Franny and Zooey 1963 Raise High the Roof Beams Nine Stories are the only short stories the rest are novels novellas 1972 has an affair with Joyce Maynard an 18 year old 1980 Salinger gives his last interview the last time he ever talked to a member of the 1992 part of his house managed to burn down managed to avoid talking to people Salinger vehemently protested turning his books into movies sued Pakistani director like Things to look for in Salinger s stories Youth Childhood Dialogue Storytelling and man press crazy WWII Storytelling WWII Youth Endings Bananafish Wiggly Eskimos Laughing Man Dinghy Esme X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Storytelling Youth Endings WWII X X Green My Eyes DeDaumier X X cap on the story Endings signifies endings to the story where not everything is resolved there is not a