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, xxv+1924pp, tp, an)
- xvii · Preface · Dana Gioia & R. S. Gwynn · pr
- xxv · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg
- 1 · I. Introduction
- 3 · The Art of the Short Story · [uncredited] · ar
- 9 · II. Origins of the Short Story
- 11 · Myth
- 13 · Pygmalion and Galatea · Ovid · ss (r)
from Ovid’s Metamorphosis as retold by Edith Hamilton.
- 14 · How the Snake Got Poison · [uncredited] · ss (r)
collected by Zora Neale Hurston.
- 15 · Fable
- 16 · The North Wind and the Sun · Aesop · ss (r)
- 17 · The Camel and His Friends (from the Panchatantra) · Bidpai · ss (r)
- 18 · Parable
- 19 · Independence · Chuang Tzu · ss (r)
- 20 · The Parable of the Prodigal Son · [uncredited] · ss from The King James Bible (r); from Luke 15:11-32.
- 21 · Folk Tale
- 22 · The Three Feathers · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss (r)
from German Folk Tales.
- 25 · The Donkey · [uncredited] · ss from The Thousand and One Nights (r)
- 26 · Legend
- 27 · St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio · Brother Ugolino Di Monte · ss (r)
- 30 · The Careless Rabbi · Martin Buber · vi The Tales of Rabbi Nachman by Martin Buber, Horizon Press, 1956
- 31 · Novella or Nouvelle
- 32 · The Pot of Basil · Giovanni Boccaccio · ss from The Decameron (r)
translated from the Italian (Decamerone, 1353).
- 35 · The One-Eyed Servant and His Wife · Margarite de Navarre · ss from The Heptameron (r)
- 39 · III. Stories
- 42 · Civil Peace · Chinua Achebe · ss (r)
- 46 · Dead Men’s Path · Chinua Achebe · ss (r)
- 48 · Author’s Perspective: Achebe on Modern Africa as the Crossroads of Culture · Chinua Achebe · ar (r)
- 51 · The Egg · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Dial March 1920, as “The Triumph of the Egg”
- 58 · Hands · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Masses March 1916
- 62 · Author’s Perspective: Anderson on Words Not Plot Give Form to a Short Story · Sherwood Anderson · ar (r)
- 65 · The Prophecy · Anjana Appachana · ss (r)
- 78 · Vegetable Love · Max Apple · ss (r)
- 90 · Happy Endings · Margaret Atwood · ss The Humanist September/October 1987
- 92 · Rape Fantasies · Margaret Atwood · ss (r)
- 99 · Author’s Perspective: Atwood on the Canadian Identity · Margaret Atwood · ar (r)
- 102 · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957
- 124 · Author’s Perspective: Baldwin on Race and the African-American Writer · James Baldwin · ar (r)
- 129 · Time of Passage · J. G. Ballard · ss Science Fantasy #63, February 1964
- 139 · Night-Sea Journey · John Barth · ss Esquire June 1966
- 147 · The Indian Uprising · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker March 6 1965
- 153 · Janus · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker May 27 1985
- 158 · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890
- 166 · Action Will Be Taken · Heinrich Böll; translated by Leila Vennewitz · ss Eighteen Stories by Heinrich Böll, McGraw-Hill, 1966
translated from the German.
- 172 · 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).
- 177 · 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).
- 184 · 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).
- 188 · Author’s Perspective: Borges on Literature As Experience · Jorge Luís Borges · ar (r)
- 191 · Greasy Lake · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The Paris Review #83, Spring 1982
- 200 · The Veldt · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 23 1950, as “The World the Children Made”
- 212 · Preparation · Robert Olen Butler · ss (r)
- 220 · Adam, One Afternoon · Italo Calvino · ss (r)
translated from the Italian (“Un pomeriggio, Adamo”, 1949).
- 227 · Author’s Perspective: Calvino on Myth Is the Hidden Part of Every Story · Italo Calvino · ar (r)
- 230 · The Guest · Albert Camus · ss (r)
- 239 · Author’s Perspective: Camus on Revolution and Repression in Algeria · Albert Camus · ar (r)
- 242 · Children on Their Birthdays · Truman Capote · ss Selected Writings of Truman Capote by Truman Capote, Random House, 1963
- 254 · Author’s Perspective: Capote on the Technique of the Short Story · Truman Capote · ar (r)
- 257 · The Loves of Lady Purple · Angela Carter · ss Fireworks by Angela Carter, Quartet Books, 1974
- 266 · Author’s Perspective: Carter on the Fairy Tale · Angela Carter · ar (r)
- 269 · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981
- 280 · A Small Good Thing · Raymond Carver · ss Ploughshares Summer/Fall 1982
- 296 · 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
- 305 · Author’s Perspective: Carver on “Commonplace but Precise Language” · Raymond Carver · ar (r)
- 307 · Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905
- 321 · Author’s Perspective: Cather on Art as the Process of Simplification · Willa Cather · ar (r)
- 323 · Red Wind [John Dalmas] · Raymond Chandler · nv Dime Detective Magazine January 1938
- 358 · Author’s Perspective: Chandler on Crime Fiction · Raymond Chandler · ar (r)
- 361 · Ancestors · Fred Chappell · ss (r)
- 380 · The Five-Forty-Eight · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker April 10 1954
- 390 · The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker July 18 1964
- 398 · Author’s Perspective: Cheever on Why I Write Short Stories · John Cheever · ar (r)
- 402 · The Lady with the Pet Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)
- 414 · Misery · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)
- 418 · An Upheaval · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)
- 423 · Author’s Perspective: Chekhov on Natural Description and “The Center of Gravity” · Anton Chekhov · ar (r)
- 426 · The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969
- 430 · The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour”
- 432 · Barbie-Q · Sandra Cisneros · ss Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros, Random House, 1991
- 436 · The Nine Billion Names of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Star Science Fiction Stories ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953
- 442 · The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Monthly Magazine August 1910 (+1)
- 470 · Author’s Perspective: Conrad on the Condition of Art · Joseph Conrad · ar (r)
- 473 · 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.
- 484 · The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898
- 492 · The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Magazine June 1897
- 511 · Sorrow-Acre · Isak Dinesen · nv Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen, Putnam, 1942
- 534 · The Man Who Read a Book · Thomas Disch · ss The Hudson Review Spring 1994
- 543 · Author’s Perspective: Disch on Science Fiction, Youth Culture, and the Future · Thomas Disch · ar (r)
- 547 · The Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine February 1892, as “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”
- 566 · A Father’s Story · Andre Dubus · nv Black Warrior Review Spring 1983
- 581 · Author’s Perspective: Dubus on Religious Fiction · Andre Dubus · ar (r)
- 583 · A Party Down at the Square · Ralph Ellison · ss Esquire January 1997
- 587 · Author’s Perspective: Ellison on Race and Fiction · Ralph Ellison · ar (r)
- 590 · The Red Convertible · Louise Erdrich · ss Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984
- 598 · Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939
- 611 · Red Leaves · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 25 1930
- 627 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930
- 634 · Author’s Perspective: Faulkner on “The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself” · William Faulkner · ar (r)
- 636 · The Street-Sweeping Show · Feng Jicai · ss (r)
- 640 · Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931
- 655 · Author’s Perspective: Fitzgerald on from the Jazz Age to the Great Depression · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ar (r)
- 658 · A Simple Heart · Gustave Flaubert · nv Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert, 1877
translated from the French (“Un coeur simple”, Trois contes, G. Charpentier, 1877).
- 679 · Author’s Perspective: Flaubert on the Labor of Style · Gustave Flaubert · ar (r)
- 681 · The Doll Queen · Carlos Fuentes; translated by Margaret S. Peden · ss Antæus #13/14, Spring/Summer 1974
translated from the Spanish (1969).
- 692 · Author’s Perspective: Fuentes on Mexico, the United States, and the Multicultural Future · Carlos Fuentes · ar (r)
- 694 · 1933 · Mavis Gallant · ss (r)
- 701 · Artificial Roses · Gabriel Garcia Marquez · ss (r)
- 704 · A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings · Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss New American Review #13, 1971
- 710 · Died and Gone to Vegas · Tim Gautreaux · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1995
- 725 · Look on the Bright Side · Dagoberto Gilb · ss (r)
- 735 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892
- 748 · The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · na (r)
translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842).
- 770 · A Company of Laughing Faces · Nadine Gordimer · ss (r)
- 781 · Author’s Perspective: Gordimer on How the Short Story Differs from the Novel · Nadine Gordimer · ar (r)
- 784 · The Outcasts of Poker Flat [John Oakhurst] · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly January 1869
- 792 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”
- 801 · The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer March 1843
- 813 · Author’s Perspective: Hawthorne on the Public Failure of His Early Stories · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ar (r)
- 816 · Big Two-Hearted River, Part I and Part II · Ernest Hemingway · nv This Quarter Spring 1925
- 829 · Author’s Perspective: Hemingway on One True Sentence · Ernest Hemingway · ar (r)
- 831 · The Last Leaf · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World October 15 1905
- 837 · The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story #14, August 1933
- 845 · Sweat · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Fire!! November 1926
- 856 · A Family Supper · Kazuo Ishiguro · ss Esquire March 1990
- 865 · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948
- 873 · The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black & White April 16 1892
- 891 · Author’s Perspective: James on the Mirror of a Consciousness · Henry James · ar (r)
- 893 · In the American Society · Gish Jen · ss The Southern Review Summer 1986
- 905 · A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886
- 913 · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- 917 · The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- 947 · Eveline · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- 950 · Author’s Perspective: Joyce on Epiphanies · James Joyce · ar (r)
- 953 · Before the Law · Franz Kafka · vi (r)
- 954 · A Hunger Artist · Franz Kafka · ss (r)
- 960 · The Metamorphosis [Gregor Samsa] · Franz Kafka · nv Parton Press, 1937
translated from the German (“Die Verwandlung”, Weisse Blätter Oct ’15).
- 993 · Author’s Perspective: Kafka on Discussing “The Metamorphosis” · Franz Kafka · ar (r)
- 996 · Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978
- 999 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1904
- 1016 · Let the Old Dead Make Room · Milan Kundera · ss Esquire April 1974
- 1030 · Odour of Chrysanthemums · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review June 1911
- 1044 · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss Harper’s Bazar July 1926
- 1055 · The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review April 1922
- 1067 · Author’s Perspective: Lawrence: The Novel Is the Bright Book of Life · D. H. Lawrence · ar (r)
- 1070 · The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3 ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973
- 1074 · Author’s Perspective: Le Guin: On “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar (r)
- 1077 · The Day Stalin Died · Doris Lessing · ss (r)
- 1086 · A Woman on a Roof · Doris Lessing · ss (r)
- 1094 · Love · Clarice Lispector · ss (r)
- 1102 · Jungle Video · Ralph Lombreglia · ss The New Yorker August 21 1989
- 1114 · Author’s Perspective: Lombreglia on Creating “Jungle Video” · Ralph Lombreglia · ar (r)
- 1117 · To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902
- 1128 · A Little Incident · Lu Xun · ss (r)
- 1132 · Midnight Mass · Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; translated by William L. Grossman & Helen Caldwell · ss 1963
- 1138 · Angel Levine · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary December 1955
- 1147 · Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Athenaeum November 26 1920
- 1150 · Bliss · Katherine Mansfield · ss The English Review August 1918
- 1159 · The Garden-Party · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Saturday Westminster Gazette February 4 1922 (+2)
- 1169 · Author’s Perspective: Mansfield on “The Garden-Party” · Katherine Mansfield · ar (r)
- 1172 · Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980
- 1184 · 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).
- 1190 · 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).
- 1195 · Author’s Perspective: Maupassant: The Realist Method · Guy de Maupassant · ar (r)
- 1198 · Benito Cereno · Herman Melville · na Putnam’s Monthly October 1855 (+2)
- 1255 · Lust · Susan Minot · ss The Paris Review #91, Spring 1984
- 1263 · Patriotism · Yukio Mishima · ss Esquire April 1966
- 1282 · How to Become a Writer · Lorrie Moore · ss (r)
- 1289 · The Management of Grief · Bharati Mukherjee · ss Fiction Network 1988
- 1303 · 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
- 1315 · Author’s Perspective: Munro: How I Write Short Stories · Alice Munro · ar (r)
- 1318 · Cloud, Castle, Lake · Vladimir Nabokov · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1941
- 1325 · Trail of the Green Blazer · R. K. Narayan · ss Lawley Road by R. K. Narayan, Indian Thought, 1956
- 1330 · In the Region of Ice · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1966
- 1342 · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966
- 1354 · Author’s Perspective: Oates: Productivity and the Critics · Joyce Carol Oates · ar (r)
- 1356 · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986
- 1370 · Good Country People · Flannery O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1955
- 1384 · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- 1395 · Revelation · Flannery O’Connor · nv The Sewanee Review Spring 1964
- 1410 · Author’s Perspective: O’Connor: The Element of Suspense in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” · Flannery O’Connor · ar (r)
- 1414 · Guests of the Nation · Frank O’Connor · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1931
- 1424 · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”
- 1429 · Author’s Perspective: Olsen: Women’s Silence · Tillie Olsen · ar (r)
- 1432 · A Conversation with My Father · Grace Paley · ss New American Review #13, 1971
- 1438 · My Life with the Wave · Octavio Paz · ss (r)
- 1443 · Blind Girls · Jayne Anne Phillips · vi Sweethearts by Jayne Anne Phillips, Truck Press, 1976
- 1445 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839
- 1458 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844
- 1471 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843
- 1475 · Author’s Perspective: Poe: The Tale and Its Effect · Edgar Allan Poe · ar (r)
- 1477 · The Jilting of Granny Weatherall · Katherine Anne Porter · ss Transition February 1929
- 1483 · Flowering Judas · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Hound and Horn April/June 1930
- 1494 · The Conversion of the Jews · Philip Roth · ss The Paris Review #18, Spring 1958
- 1507 · The Man to Send Rain Clouds · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The New Mexico Quarterly v38 #4, 1969, as by Leslie Chapman
- 1512 · 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).
- 1523 · Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss (r)
- 1533 · 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
- 1536 · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937
- 1545 · The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald February 8 1891 (+3)
- 1565 · No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss (r)
story syndicated to newspapers and published by Cincinnati Enquirer and Newsday.
- 1569 · A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ss (r)
- 1583 · 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
- 1585 · The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r)
- 1624 · The Three Hermits · Leo Tolstoy · ss (r)
- 1631 · Esther · Jean Toomer · ss Modern Review January 1923
- 1637 · The Distant Past · William Trevor · ss (r)
- 1645 · 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).
- 1649 · Author’s Perspective: Twain on the Lazy Method of Writing · Mark Twain · ar (r)
- 1652 · Separating · John Updike · ss The New Yorker June 23 1975
- 1660 · Author’s Perspective: Updike: Why Write? · John Updike · ar (r)
- 1663 · Going to Russia · Guy Vanderhaeghe · ss Man Descending by Guy Vanderhaeghe, Macmillan of Canada, 1982
- 1671 · Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973
- · Kindred Spirits · Alice Walker · ss Esquire August 1985
- 1677 · Author’s Perspective: Walker: The Black Woman Writer in America · Alice Walker · ar (r)
- 1681 · Petrified Man · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Spring 1939
- 1690 · Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1941
- 1699 · Author’s Perspective: Welty: The Plot of the Short Story · Eudora Welty · ar (r)
- 1702 · Roman Fever · Edith Wharton · ss Liberty November 10 1934
- 1713 · The Happy Prince · Oscar Wilde · ss The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde, David Nutt, 1888
- 1719 · Author’s Perspective: Wilde on the Aim of Art · Oscar Wilde · ar (r)
- 1722 · In the Garden of the North American Martyrs · Tobias Wolff · ss Antæus #37, Spring 1980
- 1732 · A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1921
- 1733 · Author’s Perspective: Woolf on Women and Fiction · Virginia Woolf · ar (r)
- 1736 · The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r)
- 1747 · IV. Criticism and Sources
- 1749 · Fact Into Fiction: Historical and Biographical Sources
- 1750 · On Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”
- 1750 · The Origins of “Cathedral” · Tess Gallagher · ar (r)
- 1751 · The Origins of “Cathedral” · Tom Jenks · ar (r)
- 1752 · On Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer”
- 1752 · The Trial of Sidney Smith · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 1753 · The Sentencing of Sidney Smith · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 1756 · On Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat”
- 1756 · The Sinking of the Commodore · Stephen Crane · ar (r)
- 1760 · On Ralph Ellison’s “A Party Down at the Square”
- 1760 · Lynching in Tennessee · James Weldon Johnson · ar (r)
- 1762 · On Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
- 1762 · “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ar The Forerunner October 1913
- 1764 · On Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat”
- 1764 · Eatonville When You Look at It · Zora Neale Hurston · ar (r)
- 1766 · On London’s “To Build a Fire”
- 1766 · London Defends the Factuality of “To Build a Fire” · Jack London · ar (r)
- 1768 · On Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno”
- 1768 · Particulars of the Capture of the Spanish Ship Tryal · Amasa Delano · ar (r)
- 1776 · On Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
- 1776 · The Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action · Don Moser · ar (r)
- 1785 · On Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried”
- 1785 · Alpha Company · Tim O’Brien · ar (r)
- 1788 · On Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to find”
- 1788 · A Good Source Is Not So Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit · J. O. Tate · ar (r)
- 1791 · On Leslie Marmom Silko’s “The Man to Send Rain Clouds”
- 1791 · It’s Based upon Something Vaguely Similar · Leslie Marmon Silko · ar (r)
- 1793 · On Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets”
- 1794 · Amy Tan’s Unknown Chinese Family · Curt Schleier · ar (r)
- 1795 · Critical Approaches to Fiction
- 1796 · Formalist Criticism
- 1797 · The Formalist Critic · Cleanth Brooks · ar (r)
- 1798 · Light and Darkness in “Sonny’s Blues” · Michael Clark · ar (r)
- 1799 · Biographical Criticism
- 1800 · Chekhov’s Attitude to Romantic Love · Virginia Llewellyn Smith · ar (r)
- 1802 · Biographical Background to “Babylon Revisited” · Jeffrey Meyers · ar (r)
- 1804 · Historical Criticism
- 1805 · Joyce’s Vision of Dublin · Seamus Deane · ar (r)
- 1807 · The Argentinean Context of Borges’s Fantastic Fiction · John King · ar (r)
- 1809 · Psychological Criticism
- 1810 · The Destiny of Oedipus · Sigmund Freud · ar (r)
- 1811 · The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart” · Daniel Hoffman · ar (r)
- 1813 · Mythological Criticism
- 1814 · Mythic Archetypes · Northrop Frye · ar (r)
- 1815 · Myth in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” · Edmond Volpe · ar (r)
- 1817 · Sociological Criticism
- 1818 · Content Determines Form · Georg Lukacs · ar (r)
- 1818 · Money and Labor in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” · Daniel P. Watkins · ar (r)
- 1820 · Gender Criticism
- 1821 · Toward a Feminist Criticism · Elaine Showalter · ar (r)
- 1822 · Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper” · Juliann Fleenor · ar (r)
- 1823 · Reader-Response Criticism
- 1824 · An Eskimo “A Rose for Emily” · Stanley Fish · ar (r)
- 1825 · Flannery O’Connor and Her Readers · Robert Brinkmeyer, Jr. · ar (r)
- 1829 · Deconstructionist Criticism
- 1830 · The Death of the Author · Roland Barthes · ar (r)
- 1831 · Rigorous Unreliability · Barbara Johnson · ar (r)
- 1832 · Cultural Studies
- 1834 · Poststructuralist Cultural Critique · Vincent B. Leitch · ar (r)
- 1835 · What Is Cultural Studies? · Mark Bauerlein · ar (r)
- 1839 · V. Appendices
- 1841 · A History of the Short Story · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- 1863 · The Elements of Short Fiction · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- 1878 · Writing About Fiction · [uncredited] · ms (r)
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