A Web of Stories: An Introduction to Short Fiction ed. Jon & Marjorie Ford (Prentice Hall, 1998, 0-13-455651-8, 1232pp, tp, an)
Contents from publisher’s catalog.
- · I. Introduction to Short Fiction
- · 1. Reading Stories
- · 2. Writing about Stories
- · II. Stories and Casebooks
- · Casebook: The Folk Story: Tricksters and Lies
- · Helping to Lie (Germany) · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- · The Tall Tales (Burma) · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- · A Dispute in Sign Language (Israel) · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- · The Barn Is Burning (African American) · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- · The Emperor’s New Clothes · Hans Christian Andersen · ss (r)
translated from the Danish (“Kejserens nye Klæder”, Eventyr, Fortalte for Børn. Første Samling, Tredie Hefte, C.A. Reitzel, 1837).
- · Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon
- · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”
- · The Maypole of Merry Mount · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Token and Atlantic Souvenir 1836, 1835, as by The Author of “The Gentle Boy”
- · The Masque of the Red Death · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine May 1842, as “The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy”
- · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843
- · Hop-Frog · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Flag of Our Union March 17 1849
- · Casebook: Edgar Allan Poe
- · Preface to Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque · Edgar Allan Poe · pr Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque by Edgar A. Poe, Lea & Blanchard, 1840
- · from Marginalia · Edgar Allan Poe · ex (r)
- · Review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales · Edgar Allan Poe · br (r) [Ref. Nathaniel Hawthorne]
- · from Edgar Allen Poe · D. H. Lawrence · ar (r) [Ref. Edgar Allan Poe]
- · from “Meaning and ‘The Masque of the Red Death’” · Joseph Patrick Roppolo · ex (r) [Ref. Edgar Allan Poe]
- · from The House of Poe · Richard Wilbur · ex (r) [Ref. Edgar Allan Poe]
- · Looking Death in the Eye: Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” (student essay) · Patrick Weekes · ar (r) [Ref. Edgar Allan Poe]
- · Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.
- · Three Deaths · Leo Tolstoy · ss (r)
- · Political Economy · Mark Twain · ss (r)
- · Paste · Henry James · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly December 1899
- · A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886
- · The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)
translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884).
- · Confessing · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)
- · A Pair of Silk Stockings · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue September 1897
- · The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969
- · The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Monthly Magazine August 1910 (+1)
- · The Web of Circumstance · Charles Chesnutt · ss (r)
- · The Schoolmistress · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)
- · The Bet · Anton Chekhov · ss Best Russian Short Stories ed. Thomas Seltzer, Boni & Liveright, 1917
- · The Darling · Anton Chekhov · ss 1925
- · Casebook: Anton Chekhov
- · from The Letters of Anton Chekhov · Anton Chekhov · lt (r)
- · from The Fragments from Reminiscences · Maxim Gorky · ar (r) [Ref. Anton Chekhov]
- · from the Afterword to “The Darling” · Leo Tolstoy · ex (r) [Ref. Anton Chekhov]
- · Anton Chekhov · Conrad Aiken · ar (r) [Ref. Anton Chekhov]
- · from Chekhov’s Prose · Vladimir Nabokov · ar (r) [Ref. Anton Chekhov]
- · from Reality in Chekhov’s Stories · Eudora Welty · ar (r) [Ref. Anton Chekhov]
- · Chekhov and the Modern Short Story · Charles E. May · ar (r) [Ref. Anton Chekhov]
- · from Storytelling in a Double Key · Renato Poggioli · ar (r) [Ref. Anton Chekhov]
- · Inner and Outer Worlds: A Comparison of Chekhov’s “The Darling” and “The Schoolmistress” (student essay) · Joseph Hsieh · ar (r) [Ref. Anton Chekhov]
- · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892
- · The Dilettante · Edith Wharton · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine December 1903
- · The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Magazine June 1897
- · Hands · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Masses March 1916
- · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- · The Boarding House · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- · The Symbol · Virginia Woolf · ss Harper’s Magazine January 1986
- · A Report to an Academy · Franz Kafka · ss (r)
- · Wintry Peacock · D. H. Lawrence · ss Metropolitan August 1921
- · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss Harper’s Bazar July 1926
- · A Dill Pickle · Katherine Mansfield · ss The New Age October 4 1917, as “An Album Leaf”
- · The Garden-Party · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Saturday Westminster Gazette February 4 1922 (+2)
- · Casebook: Katherine Mansfield
- · from Katherine Mansfield’s Journal · Katherine Mansfield · ex (r)
- · from Katherine Mansfield’s Letters · Katherine Mansfield · ex (r)
- · from Katherine Mansfield · Middleton Murry · ar (r) [Ref. Katherine Mansfield]
- · from A Living Writer: Katherine Mansfield · Elizabeth Bowen · ar (r) [Ref. Katherine Mansfield]
- · from Illness, Gender, and Writing: The Case of Katherine Mansfield · Mary Burgan · ar (r) [Ref. Katherine Mansfield]
- · Joyce’s “Araby” and Mansfield’s “The Garden-Party”: The Epiphany of Adolescence (student essay) · Cathy Young · ar (r) [Ref. Katherine Mansfield]
- · The Jilting of Granny Weatherall · Katherine Anne Porter · ss Transition February 1929
- · Guy de Maupassant · Isaac Babel · ss (r)
- · The Baby Party · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss Hearst’s International February 1925
- · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930
- · Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939
- · Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition August 1927
- · The Book of Sand · Jorge Luis Borges · ss (r)
- · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937
- · The Séance · Isaac Bashevis Singer; translated by Roger H. Klein & Cecil Hemley · ss The Séance and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968
- · An Astrologer’s Day · R. K. Narayan · ss (r)
- · A Visit of Charity · Eudora Welty · ss Decision June 1941
- · A Worn Path · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1941
- · Casebook: Eudora Welty
- · Struggling Against the Plaid: An Interview with Eudora Welty · Jo Brans · iv (r) [Ref. Eudora Welty]
- · Words Into Fiction · Eudora Welty · ar (r)
- · Place in Fiction · Eudora Welty · ar (r)
- · Is Phoenix Jackson’s Grandson Really Dead? · Eudora Welty · ar Critical Inquiry September 1974
- · from Eudora Welty: Visited and Revisited · Ruth M. Vande Kieft · ar (r) [Ref. Eudora Welty]
- · from A Season of Dreams: The Fiction of Eudora Welty · Alfred Appel, Jr. · ar (r) [Ref. Eudora Welty]
- · The Shadow Child: A Sequel to “A Worn Path” (student essay) · Amanda Morgan · ar (r) [Ref. Eudora Welty]
- · The Norwegian Rat · Naguib Mahfouz · ss (r)
- · Clancy in the Tower of Babel · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker March 24 1951
- · The Five-Forty-Eight · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker April 10 1954
- · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”
- · Angel Levine · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary December 1955
- · King of the Bingo Game · Ralph Ellison · ss Tomorrow November 1944
- · How I Finally Lost My Heart · Doris Lessing · ss A Man and Two Women by Doris Lessing, MacGibbon & Kee, 1963
- · The Mother of the Child in Question · Doris Lessing · ss (r)
- · A Conversation with My Father · Grace Paley · ss New American Review #13, 1971
- · The Adventure of a Reader · Italo Calvino · ss (r)
- · Crimes of Conscience · Nadine Gordimer · ss 1982
- · The Rockpile · James Baldwin · ss from Going to Meet the Man, The Dial Press, 1965
- · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957
- · Casebook: James Baldwin
- · from The Art of Fiction: An Interview with James Baldwin · Jordan Elgrably & George Plimpton · ar (r) [Ref. James Baldwin]
- · Autobiographical Notes · James Baldwin · bg (r)
- · The Creative Process · James Baldwin · ar (r)
- · from “Sonny’s Blues”: James Baldwin’s Image of Black Community · John M. Reilly · ar (r) [Ref. James Baldwin]
- · Words and Music: Narrative Ambiguity in “Sonny’s Blues” · Keith E. Byerman · ar (r) [Ref. James Baldwin]
- · Baldwin, Bebop, and “Sonny’s Blues” · Pancho Savery · ar (r) [Ref. James Baldwin]
- · Listening to “Sonny’s Blues” (student essay) · Zachary Roberts · ar (r) [Ref. James Baldwin]
- · The Magic Chalk · Kobo Abe · ss (r)
- · Revelation · Flannery O’Connor · nv The Sewanee Review Spring 1964
- · Swaddling Clothes · Yukio Mishima · ss Cosmopolitan April 1966
- · The Evolution of Myopia · Clarice Lispector · ss (r)
- · The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World · Gabriel Garcia Marquez · ss The Leaf Storm and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, Cape, 1972
translated from the Spanish (“El ahogado más hermoso del mundo”).
- · The Madman · Chinua Achebe · ss (r)
- · Autobiography: A Self-Recorded Fiction · John Barth · ss Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth, Doubleday, 1966
- · The Sandman · Donald Barthelme · ss (r)
- · Circle of Prayer · Alice Munro · ss The Paris Review #100, Summer/Fall 1986
- · The Brown Chest · John Updike · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1992
- · Park Cinema · Elena Poniatowska; translated by Teresa Méndez-Faith & Elizabeth Heinicke · ss Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real ed. Celia Correas de Zapata, Arte Público Press, 1990
translated from the Spanish.
- · Almost Browne · Gerald Vizenor · ss (r)
- · Regarding the Problem of Newborn Piglets in Winter · Chen Rong · ss (r)
- · Snapshots of a Wedding · Bessie Head · ss The Collector of Treasures by Bessie Head, Africana, 1977
- · Why Don’t You Come Live with Me It’s Time · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Tikkun July/August 1990
- · Intimacy · Raymond Carver · ss Esquire August 1986
- · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981
- · Simmering · Margaret Atwood · ss Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood, Coach House, 1983
- · Raymond’s Run · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Something Else ed. Leo B. Kneer, Scott, Foresman and Co., 1970, as by Toni Cade
- · Nomad and Viper · Amos Oz · ss Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories by Amos Oz, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981
translated from the Hebrew (“Navadim ve-Tzefa”, Be-Artzot ha-Tan, 1965).
- · A Wife’s Story · Bharati Mukherjee · ss (r)
- · Airwaves · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1983
- · Doc’s Story · John Edgar Wideman · ss Esquire August 1986
- · Phantom Palace · Isabel Allende · ss (r)
- · Charles Atlas Also Dies · Sergio Ramírez · ss Playboy April 1985, as “Even Charles Atlas Dies”
- · A Loaf of Bread · James Alan McPherson · ss (r)
- · Letters from My Father · Robert Olen Butler · ss A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler, Henry Holt, 1992
- · Roselily · Alice Walker · ss In Love and Trouble by Alice Walker, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973
- · Lady’s Dream · Tobias Wolff · ss Harper’s Magazine December 1992
- · The Man I Killed · Tim O’Brien · ss (r)
- · Janus · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker May 27 1985
- · Yellow Woman · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974
- · Poor Visitor · Jamaica Kincaid · ss The New Yorker February 27 1989
- · A Window · Haruki Murakami · ss The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami, Knopf, 1993
- · The Two · Gloria Naylor · ex from The Women of Brewster Place, Viking, 1982
- · Not Like Us · Alberto Alvaro Ríos · ss (r)
- · El Radio · Gary Soto · ss (r)
- · Best Quality · Amy Tan · ss (r)
- · The Monkey Garden · Sandra Cisneros · ss (r)
- · Fleur · Louise Erdrich · ss Esquire August 1986
- · Eleanor’s Tale: The Leap · Louise Erdrich · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1990
- · Casebook: Louise Erdrich
- · from “An Interview with Louise Erdrich” · Nancy Feyl & Allan Chavkin · iv (r) [Ref. Louise Erdrich]
- · Where I Ought to Be: A Writer’s Sense of Place · Louise Erdrich · ar (r) [Ref. Louise Erdrich]
- · Comments on Erdrich’s “Love Medicine” · Kathleen M. Sands · ar (r) [Ref. Louise Erdrich]
- · Here’s an Odd Artifact for the Fairy-Tale Shelf · Leslie Marmon Silko · ar (r) [Ref. Louise Erdrich]
- · Review of Louise Erdrich’s The Beet Queen · Leslie Marmon Silko · br (r) [Ref. Louise Erdrich]
- · Race and Gender in Louise Erdrich’s The Beet Queen · Susan Meisenhelder · ar (r) [Ref. Louise Erdrich]
- · Storytelling: Tradition and Preservation in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks · Jennifer Sergi · ar (r) [Ref. Louise Erdrich]
- · Erdrich’s Dakota as Metaphor for American Culture: Review of Tales of Burning Love · Michael Lee · br (r) [Ref. Louise Erdrich]
- · A Cultural Heritage: Louise Erdrich’s Fiction. (student research essay) · Sage Van Wing · ar (r) [Ref. Louise Erdrich]
- · Ciudad Juárez · Elizabeth Tallent · ss Mississippi Review v18 #1, 1989
- · The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas · Reginald McKnight · ss The Kenyon Review Summer 1989
- · Gravity · David Leavitt · ss A Place I’ve Never Been by David Leavitt, Viking, 1990
- · III. Appendixes
- · A. A Brief History of the Story Form · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · B. B. Finding and Documenting Source Materials for Research Papers · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · Index · [uncredited] · ix (r)
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