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An Introduction to Fiction ed. Dana Gioia & X. J. Kennedy--- see under X. J. Kennedy.

The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction: Stories and Authors in Context ed. Dana Gioia & R. S. Gwynn (Longman US, December 2000, 0-801-33159-5, $48.00, 1952pp, tp)
Details from publisher’s catalog.

· About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg (r)

· I. Introduction

· The Art of the Short Story

· II. Origins of the Short Story

· Myth

· Traditional, Roman

· Pygmalion and Galatea · Ovid · ss (r)
from Ovid’s Metamorphosis as retold by Edith Hamilton.

· Traditional, African-American

· How the Snake Got Poison · [uncredited] · ss (r)
collected by Zora Neale Hurston.

· Fable

· The North Wind and the Sun · Aesop · ss (r)

· The Camel and His Friends (from the Panchatantra) · Bidpai · ss (r)

· Parable

· Independence · Chuang Tzu · ss (r)

· The Parable of the Prodigal Son · [uncredited] · ss from The King James Bible (r); from Luke 15:11-32.

· Folk Tale

· The Three Feathers · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss (r)
from German Folk Tales.

· The Donkey · Arabic · ss from The Thousand and One Nights (r)

· Legend

· St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio · Brother Ugolino Di Monte · ss (r)

· The Careless Rabbi · Martin Buber · vi The Tales of Rabbi Nachman by Martin Buber, Horizon Press, 1956

· Novella or Nouvelle

· The Pot of Basil · Giovanni Boccaccio · ss from The Decameron (r)
translated from the Italian (Decamerone, 1353).

· The One-Eyed Servant and His Wife · Margarite de Navarre · ss from The Heptameron (r)

· III. Stories

· Civil Peace · Chinua Achebe · ss (r)

· Dead Men’s Path · Chinua Achebe · ss (r)

· Author’s Perspective: Achebe on Modern Africa as the Crossroads of Culture · Chinua Achebe · ar (r)

· The Egg · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Dial March 1920, as “The Triumph of the Egg”

· Hands · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Masses March 1916

· Author’s Perspective: Anderson on Words Not Plot Give Form to a Short Story · Sherwood Anderson · ar (r)

· The Prophecy · Anjana Appachana · ss (r)

· Vegetable Love · Max Apple · ss (r)

· Happy Endings · Margaret Atwood · ss The Humanist September/October 1987

· Rape Fantasies · Margaret Atwood · ss (r)

· Author’s Perspective: Atwood on the Canadian Identity · Margaret Atwood · ar (r)

· Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957

· Author’s Perspective: Baldwin on Race and the African-American Writer · James Baldwin · ar (r)

· Time of Passage · J. G. Ballard · ss Science Fantasy #63, February 1964

· Night-Sea Journey · John Barth · ss Esquire June 1966

· The Indian Uprising · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker March 6 1965

· Janus · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker May 27 1985

· An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890

· Action Will Be Taken · Heinrich Böll · ss (r)

· The Library of Babel · Jorge Luís Borges · ss (r)
translated from the Spanish (“La biblioteca de Babel”, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, 1941).

· The Garden of Forking Paths · Jorge Luís Borges · ss (r)
translated from the Spanish (“El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan”, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, 1941).

· The Gospel According to Mark · Jorge Luís Borges; translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni · ss The New Yorker October 23 1971
translated from the Spanish (“El evangelio según Marcos”, La Nación, August 1970).

· Author’s Perspective: Borges on Literature As Experience · Jorge Luís Borges · ar (r)

· Greasy Lake · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The Paris Review #83, Spring 1982

· The Veldt · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 23 1950, as “The World the Children Made”

· Preparation · Robert Olen Butler · ss (r)

· Adam, One Afternoon · Italo Calvino · ss (r)
translated from the Italian (“Un pomeriggio, Adamo”, 1949).

· Author’s Perspective: Calvino on Myth Is the Hidden Part of Every Story · Italo Calvino · ar (r)

· The Guest · Albert Camus · ss (r)

· Author’s Perspective: Camus on Revolution and Repression in Algeria · Albert Camus · ar (r)

· Children on Their Birthdays · Truman Capote · ss (r)

· Author’s Perspective: Capote on the Technique of the Short Story · Truman Capote · ar (r)

· The Loves of Lady Purple · Angela Carter · ss Fireworks by Angela Carter, Quartet Books, 1974

· Author’s Perspective: Carter on the Fairy Tale · Angela Carter · ar (r)

· Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981

· A Small Good Thing · Raymond Carver · ss Ploughshares Summer/Fall 1982

· What We Talk About When We Talk About Love · Raymond Carver · ss What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, Knopf, 1981

· Author’s Perspective: Carver on “Commonplace but Precise Language” · Raymond Carver · ar (r)

· Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905

· Author’s Perspective: Cather on Art as the Process of Simplification · Willa Cather · ar (r)

· Red Wind [John Dalmas] · Raymond Chandler · nv Dime Detective Magazine January 1938

· Author’s Perspective: Chandler on Crime Fiction · Raymond Chandler · ar (r)

· Ancestors · Fred Chappell · ss (r)

· The Five-Forty-Eight · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker April 10 1954

· The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker July 18 1964

· Author’s Perspective: Cheever on Why I Write Short Stories · John Cheever · ar (r)

· The Lady with the Pet Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)

· Misery · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)

· An Upheaval · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)

· Author’s Perspective: Chekhov on Natural Description and “The Center of Gravity” · Anton Chekhov · ar (r)

· The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969

· The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour”

· Barbie-Q · Sandra Cisneros · ss Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros, Random House, 1991

· The Nine Billion Names of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Star Science Fiction Stories ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953

· The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Monthly Magazine August 1910 (+1)

· Author’s Perspective: Conrad on the Condition of Art · Joseph Conrad · ar (r)

· Blow-up · Julio Cortázar; translated by Paul Blackburn · ss End of the Game, and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar, Random House, 1967
translated from the Spanish.

· The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898

· The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Magazine June 1897

· Sorrow-Acre · Isak Dinesen · nv Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen, Putnam, 1942

· The Man Who Read a Book · Thomas Disch · ss The Hudson Review Spring 1994

· Author’s Perspective: Disch on Science Fiction, Youth Culture, and the Future · Thomas Disch · ar (r)

· The Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine February 1892, as “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”

· A Father’s Story · Andre Dubus · nv Black Warrior Review Spring 1983

· Author’s Perspective: Dubus on Religious Fiction · Andre Dubus · ar (r)

· A Party Down at the Square · Ralph Ellison · ss Esquire January 1997

· Author’s Perspective: Ellison on Race and Fiction · Ralph Ellison · ar (r)

· The Red Convertible · Louise Erdrich · ss Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984

· Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939

· Red Leaves · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 25 1930

· A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930

· Author’s Perspective: Faulkner on “The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself” · William Faulkner · ar (r)

· The Street-Sweeping Show · Feng Jicai · ss (r)

· Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931

· Author’s Perspective: Fitzgerald on from the Jazz Age to the Great Depression · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ar (r)

· A Simple Heart · Gustave Flaubert · nv (r)

· Author’s Perspective: Flaubert on the Labor of Style · Gustave Flaubert · ar (r)

· The Doll Queen · Carlos Fuentes; translated by Margaret S. Peden · ss Antæus #13/14, Spring/Summer 1974
translated from the Spanish (1969).

· Author’s Perspective: Fuentes on Mexico, the United States, and the Multicultural Future · Carlos Fuentes · ar (r)

· 1933 · Mavis Gallant · ss (r)

· Artificial Roses · Gabriel Garcia Marquez · ss (r)

· A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings · Gabriel Garcia Marquez · ss New American Review #13, 1971

· Died and Gone to Vegas · Tim Gautreaux · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1995

· Look on the Bright Side · Dagoberto Gilb · ss (r)

· The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892

· The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · na (r)
translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842).

· A Company of Laughing Faces · Nadine Gordimer · ss (r)

· Author’s Perspective: Gordimer on How the Short Story Differs from the Novel · Nadine Gordimer · ar (r)

· The Outcasts of Poker Flat [John Oakhurst] · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly January 1869

· Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”

· The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer March 1843

· Author’s Perspective: Hawthorne on the Public Failure of His Early Stories · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ar (r)

· Big Two-Hearted River, Part I and Part II · Ernest Hemingway · nv This Quarter Spring 1925

· Author’s Perspective: Hemingway on One True Sentence · Ernest Hemingway · ar (r)

· The Last Leaf · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World October 15 1905

· The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story #14, August 1933

· Sweat · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Fire!! November 1926

· Author’s Perspective: Hurston on What White Publishers Won’t Print · Zora Neale Hurston · ar (r)

· A Family Supper · Kazuo Ishiguro · ss Esquire March 1990

· The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948

· The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black & White April 16 1892

· Author’s Perspective: James on the Mirror of a Consciousness · Henry James · ar (r)

· In the American Society · Gish Jen · ss The Southern Review Summer 1986

· A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886

· Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914

· The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914

· Eveline · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914

· Author’s Perspective: Joyce on Epiphanies · James Joyce · ar (r)

· Before the Law · Franz Kafka · vi (r)

· A Hunger Artist · Franz Kafka · ss (r)

· The Metamorphosis [Gregor Samsa] · Franz Kafka · nv Parton Press, 1937
translated from the German (“Die Verwandlung”, Weisse Blätter Oct ’15).

· Author’s Perspective: Kafka on Discussing “The Metamorphosis” · Franz Kafka · ar (r)

· Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978

· “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1904

· Let the Old Dead Make Room · Milan Kundera · ss Esquire April 1974

· Odour of Chrysanthemums · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review June 1911

· The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss Harper’s Bazar July 1926

· The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review April 1922

· Author’s Perspective: Lawrence: The Novel Is the Bright Book of Life · D. H. Lawrence · ar (r)

· The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3 ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973

· Author’s Perspective: Le Guin: On “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar (r)

· A Woman on a Roof · Doris Lessing · ss (r)

· The Day Stalin Died · Doris Lessing · ss (r)

· Love · Clarice Lispector · ss (r)

· Jungle Video · Ralph Lombreglia · ss The New Yorker August 21 1989

· Author’s Perspective: Lombreglia on Creating “Jungle Video” · Ralph Lombreglia · ar (r)

· To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902

· A Little Incident · Lu Xun · ss (r)

· Midnight Mass · Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; translated by William L. Grossman & Helen Caldwell · ss 1963

· Angel Levine · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary December 1955

· Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Athenaeum November 26 1920

· Bliss · Katherine Mansfield · ss The English Review August 1918

· The Garden-Party · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Saturday Westminster Gazette February 4 1922 (+2)

· Author’s Perspective: Mansfield on “The Garden-Party” · Katherine Mansfield · ar (r)

· Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980

· The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant; translated by Marjorie Laurie · ss The House of Madame Tellier by Guy de Maupassant, Everyman's Library, 1934
translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884).

· Mother Savage · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903
translated from the French (“La mère Sauvage”, Le Gaulois, March 3, 1884).

· Author’s Perspective: Maupassant: The Realist Method · Guy de Maupassant · ar (r)

· Benito Cereno · Herman Melville · na Putnam’s Monthly October 1855 (+2)

· Lust · Susan Minot · ss The Paris Review #91, Spring 1984

· Patriotism · Yukio Mishima · ss Esquire April 1966

· How to Become a Writer · Lorrie Moore · ss (r)

· The Management of Grief · Bharati Mukherjee · ss Fiction Network 1988

· How I Met My Husband · Alice Munro · ss (r)

· Wild Swans · Alice Munro · ss Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro, The Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1978

· Author’s Perspective: Munro: How I Write Short Stories · Alice Munro · ar (r)

· Cloud, Castle, Lake · Vladimir Nabokov · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1941

· Trail of the Green Blazer · R. K. Narayan · ss Lawley Road by R. K. Narayan, Indian Thought, 1956

· In the Region of Ice · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1966

· Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966

· Author’s Perspective: Oates: Productivity and the Critics · Joyce Carol Oates · ar (r)

· The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986

· Good Country People · Flannery O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1955

· A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953

· Revelation · Flannery O’Connor · nv The Sewanee Review Spring 1964

· Author’s Perspective: O’Connor: The Element of Suspense in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” · Flannery O’Connor · ar (r)

· Guests of the Nation · Frank O’Connor · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1931

· I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”

· Author’s Perspective: Olsen: Women’s Silence · Tillie Olsen · ar (r)

· A Conversation with My Father · Grace Paley · ss New American Review #13, 1971

· My Life with the Wave · Octavio Paz · ss (r)

· Blind Girls · Jayne Anne Phillips · vi Sweethearts by Jayne Anne Phillips, Truck Press, 1976

· The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839

· The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844

· The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843

· Author’s Perspective: Poe: The Tale and Its Effect · Edgar Allan Poe · ar (r)

· The Jilting of Granny Weatherall · Katherine Anne Porter · ss Transition February 1929

· Flowering Judas · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Hound and Horn April/June 1930

· The Conversion of the Jews · Philip Roth · ss The Paris Review #18, Spring 1958

· The Man to Send Rain Clouds · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss (r)

· Inspector Maigret Pursues [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by J. E. Malcolm · ss Argosy (UK) January 1962, as “The Man on the Run”
translated from the French “L’Homme dans la rue”, Maigret et les petits cochons sans queue, Presses de la Cité, 1950).

· Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss (r)

· Author’s Perspective: Singer on the Character of Gimpel · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ar (r)

· Bang-Bang You’re Dead · Muriel Spark · nv Bang-Bang You’re Dead and Other Stories by Muriel Spark, Granada, 1982

· The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937

· The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald February 8 1891 - March 1 1891

· No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss (r)
story syndicated to newspapers and published by Cincinnati Enquirer and Newsday.

· A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ss (r)

· Author’s Perspective: Tan: Setting the Voice · Amy Tan · ar (r)

· The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker March 18 1939

· The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r)

· The Three Hermits · Leo Tolstoy · ss (r)

· Esther · Jean Toomer · ss Modern Review January 1923

· The Distant Past · William Trevor · ss (r)

· The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Mark Twain · ss The Californian December 16 1865
revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865).

· Author’s Perspective: Twain on the Lazy Method of Writing · Mark Twain · ar (r)

· Separating · John Updike · ss The New Yorker June 23 1975

· Author’s Perspective: Updike: Why Write? · John Updike · ar (r)

· Going to Russia · Guy Vanderhaeghe · ss Man Descending by Guy Vanderhaeghe, Macmillan of Canada, 1982

· Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973

· Kindred Spirits · Alice Walker · ss Esquire August 1985

· Author’s Perspective: Walker: The Black Woman Writer in America · Alice Walker · ar (r)

· Petrified Man · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Spring 1939

· Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1941

· Author’s Perspective: Welty: The Plot of the Short Story · Eudora Welty · ar (r)

· Roman Fever · Edith Wharton · ss Liberty November 10 1934

· The Happy Prince · Oscar Wilde · ss The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde, David Nutt, 1888

· Author’s Perspective: Wilde on the Aim of Art · Oscar Wilde · ar (r)

· In the Garden of the North American Martyrs · Tobias Wolff · ss Antæus #37, Spring 1980

· A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1921

· Author’s Perspective: Woolf on Women and Fiction · Virginia Woolf · ar (r)

· The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r)

· IV. Criticism and Sources

· Fact Into Fiction: Historical and Biographical Sources

· On Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”

· The Origins of “Cathedral” · Tess Gallagher · ar (r)

· The Origins of “Cathedral” · Tom Jenks · ar (r)

· On Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer”

· The Trial of Sidney Smith · [uncredited] · ar (r)

· The Sentencing of Sidney Smith · [uncredited] · ar (r)

· On Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat”

· The Sinking of the Commodore · Stephen Crane · ar (r)

· On Ralph Ellison’s “A Party Down at the Square”

· Lynching in Tennessee · James Weldon Johnson · ar (r)

· On Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

· “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ar The Forerunner October 1913

· On Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat”

· Eatonville When You Look at It · Zora Neale Hurston · ar (r)

· On London’s “To Build a Fore”

· London Defends the Factuality of “To Build a Fire” · Jack London · ar (r)

· On Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno”

· Particulars of the Capture of the Spanish Ship Tryal · Amasa Delano · ar (r)

· On Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”

· The Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action · Don Moser · ar (r)

· On Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried”

· Alpha Company · Tim O’Brien · ar (r)

· On Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to find”

· A Good Source Is Not So Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit · J. O. Tate · ar (r)

· On Leslie Marmom Silko’s “The Man to Send Rain Clouds”

· It’s Based upon Something Vaguely Similar · Leslie Marmon Silko · ar (r)

· On Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets”

· Amy Tan’s Unknown Chinese Family · Curt Schleier · ar (r)

· Critical Approaches to Fiction

· Formalist Criticism

· The Formalist Critic · Cleanth Brooks · ar (r)

· Light and Darkness in “Sonny’s Blues” · Michael Clark · ar (r)

· Biographical Criticism

· Chekhov’s Attitude to Romantic Love · Virginia Llewellyn Smith · ar (r)

· Biographical Background to “Babylon Revisited” · Jeffrey Meyers · ar (r)

· Historical Criticism

· Joyce’s Vision of Dublin · Seamus Deane · ar (r)

· The Argentinean Context of Borges’s Fantastic Fiction · John King · ar (r)

· Psychological Criticism

· The Destiny of Oedipus · Sigmund Freud · ar (r)

· The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart” · Daniel Hoffman · ar (r)

· Mythological Criticism

· Mythic Archetypes · Northrop Frye · ar (r)

· Myth in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” · Edmond Volpe · ar (r)

· Sociological Criticism

· Content Determines Form · Georg Lukacs · ar (r)

· Money and Labor in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” · Daniel P. Watkins · ar (r)

· Gender Criticism

· Toward a Feminist Criticism · Elaine Showalter · ar (r)

· Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper” · Juliann Fleenor · ar (r)

· Reader-Response Criticism

· An Eskimo “A Rose for Emily” · Stanley Fish · ar (r)

· Flannery O’Connor and Her Readers · Robert Brinkmeyer, Jr. · ar (r)

· Deconstructionist Criticism

· The Death of the Author · Roland Barthes · ar (r)

· Rigorous Unreliability · Barbara Johnson · ar (r)

· Cultural Studies

· Poststructuralist Cultural Critique · Vincent B. Leitch · ar (r)

· What Is Cultural Studies? · Mark Bauerlein · ar (r)

· V. Appendices

· A History of the Short Story · [uncredited] · ms (r)

· The Elements of Short Fiction · [uncredited] · ms (r)

· Writing About Fiction · [uncredited] · ms (r)

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