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- Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American ed. Maria Mazziotti & Jennifer Gillan (Penguin USA 0-140-28063-4, Nov ’99, $14.95, 400pp, tp)
- The Bedside Esquire ed. Arnold Gingrich (Tudor, 1940, 703pp, hc)
- The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction: Stories and Authors in Context ed. Dana Gioia & R. S. Gwynn (Longman 0801331595, Dec 2000, $48.00, 1952pp, tp); Details from publisher’s catalog.
- • About the Authors • Misc. Material • bg
- • I. INTRODUCTION
- • The Art of the Short Story
- • II. ORIGINS OF THE SHORT STORY
- • Myth
- • Traditional, Roman
- • Pygmalion and Galatea • Ovid • ss; from Ovid’s Metamorphosis as retold by Edith Hamilton.
- • Traditional, African-American
- • How the Snake Got Poison • Anon. • ss; collected by Zora Neale Hurston.
- • Fable
- • The North Wind and the Sun • Aesop • ss
- • The Camel and His Friends (from the Panchatantra) • Bidpai • ss
- • Parable
- • Independence • Chuang Tzu • ss
- • The Parable of the Prodigal Son [from the King James Bible] • Luke 15:11-32 • ss
- • Folk Tale
- • The Three Feathers • Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm • ss; from German Folk Tales.
- • The Donkey [from The Thousand and One Nights] • Arabic • ss
- • Legend
- • St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio • Brother Ugolino Di Monte • ss
- • The Careless Rabbi • Martin Buber • ss
- • Novella or Nouvelle
- • The Pot of Basil [from The Decameron] • Giovanni Boccaccio • ss
- • The One-Eyed Servant and His Wife [from The Heptameron] • Margarite de Navarre • ss
- • III. STORIES
- • Civil Peace • Chinua Achebe • ss
- • Dead Men’s Path • Chinua Achebe • ss
- • Author’s Perspective: Achebe on Modern Africa as the Crossroads of Culture • Chinua Achebe • ar
- • The Egg [“The Triumph of the Egg”] • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Dial Mar ’20
- • Hands • Sherwood Anderson • ss Masses Mar ’16
- • Author’s Perspective: Anderson on Words Not Plot Give Form to a Short Story • Sherwood Anderson • ar
- • The Prophecy • Anjana Appachana • ss
- • Vegetable Love • Max Apple • ss
- • Happy Endings • Margaret Atwood • ss Humanist Sep/Oct ’87
- • Rape Fantasies • Margaret Atwood • ss
- • Author’s Perspective: Atwood on the Canadian Identity • Margaret Atwood • ar
- • Sonny’s Blues • James Baldwin • nv The Partisan Review, 1957
- • Author’s Perspective: Baldwin on Race and the African-American Writer • James Baldwin • ar
- • Time of Passage • J. G. Ballard • ss Science-Fantasy #63 ’64
- • Night-Sea Journey • John Barth • ss Esquire Jun ’66
- • The Indian Uprising • Donald Barthelme • ss New Yorker Mar 6 ’65
- • Janus • Ann Beattie • ss New Yorker May 27 ’85
- • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13, 1890
- • Action Will Be Taken • Heinrich Böll • ss
- • The Library of Babel • Jorge Luís Borges • ss Ficciones, Weidenfeld Nicolson, 1962
- • The Garden of Forking Paths • Jorge Luís Borges • ss Ficciones, Weidenfeld Nicolson, 1962
- • The Gospel According to Mark • Jorge Luís Borges • ss New Yorker Oct 23 ’71
- • Author’s Perspective: Borges on Literature As Experience • Jorge Luís Borges • ar
- • Greasy Lake • T. Coraghessan Boyle • ss
- • The Veldt [“The World the Children Made”] • Ray Bradbury • ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 ’50
- • Preparation • Robert Olen Butler • ss
- • Adam, One Afternoon • Italo Calvino • ss, 1949
- • Author’s Perspective: Calvino on Myth Is the Hidden Part of Every Story • Italo Calvino • ar
- • The Guest • Albert Camus • ss Atlantic Monthly Dec ’57
- • Author’s Perspective: Camus on Revolution and Repression in Algeria • Albert Camus • ar
- • Children on Their Birthdays • Truman Capote • ss
- • Author’s Perspective: Capote on the Technique of the Short Story • Truman Capote • ar
- • The Loves of Lady Purple • Angela Carter • ss Fireworks, 1974
- • Author’s Perspective: Carter on the Fairy Tale • Angela Carter • ar
- • Cathedral • Raymond Carver • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’81
- • A Small Good Thing • Raymond Carver • ss Ploughshares v8 #2&3 ’81
- • What We Talk About When We Talk About Love • Raymond Carver • ss
- • Author’s Perspective: Carver on “Commonplace but Precise Language” • Raymond Carver • ar
- • Paul’s Case • Willa Cather • nv McClure’s May ’05
- • Author’s Perspective: Cather on Art as the Process of Simplification • Willa Cather • ar
- • Red Wind [John Dalmas] • Raymond Chandler • na Dime Detective Jan ’38
- • Author’s Perspective: Chandler on Crime Fiction • Raymond Chandler • ar
- • Ancestors • Fred Chappell • ss
- • The Five-Forty-Eight • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Apr 10 ’54
- • The Swimmer • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Jul 18 ’64
- • Author’s Perspective: Cheever on Why I Write Short Stories • John Cheever • ar
- • The Lady with the Pet Dog • Anton Chekhov • ss
- • Misery • Anton Chekhov • ss
- • An Upheaval • Anton Chekhov • ss
- • Author’s Perspective: Chekhov on Natural Description and “The Center of Gravity” • Anton Chekhov • ar
- • The Storm • Kate Chopin • ss, 1898
- • The Story of an Hour • Kate Chopin • ss, 1894
- • Barbie-Q • Sandra Cisneros • ss
- • The Nine Billion Names of God • Arthur C. Clarke • ss Star Science Fiction Stories #1, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953
- • The Secret Sharer • Joseph Conrad • nv Harper’s Aug-Sep ’10
- • Author’s Perspective: Conrad on the Condition of Art • Joseph Conrad • ar
- • Blow-Up • Julio Cortázar • ss End of the Game and Other Stories, Random House, 1967
- • The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky • Stephen Crane • nv Scribner’s Jun, 1897
- • The Open Boat • Stephen Crane • nv Scribner’s Jun, 1897
- • Sorrow-Acre • Isak Dinesen • ss
- • The Man Who Read a Book • Thomas Disch • ss Interzone Sep ’94
- • Author’s Perspective: Disch on Science Fiction, Youth Culture, and the Future • Thomas Disch • ar
- • The Speckled Band [“The Adventure of the Speckled Band”; Sherlock Holmes] • Arthur Conan Doyle • nv The Strand Feb, 1892
- • A Father’s Story • Andre Dubus • nv, 1983
- • Author’s Perspective: Dubus on Religious Fiction • Andre Dubus • ar
- • A Party Down at the Square • Ralph Ellison • ss Esquire Jan ’97
- • Author’s Perspective: Ellison on Race and Fiction • Ralph Ellison • ar
- • The Red Convertible • Louise Erdrich • ss
- • Barn Burning • William Faulkner • ss Harper’s Jun ’39
- • Red Leaves • William Faulkner • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 25 ’30
- • A Rose for Emily • William Faulkner • ss The Forum Apr ’30
- • Author’s Perspective: Faulkner on “The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself” • William Faulkner • ar
- • The Street-Sweeping Show • Feng Jicai • ss
- • Babylon Revisited • F. Scott Fitzgerald • nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 ’31
- • Author’s Perspective: Fitzgerald on from the Jazz Age to the Great Depression • F. Scott Fitzgerald • ar
- • A Simple Heart • Gustave Flaubert • nv
- • Author’s Perspective: Flaubert on the Labor of Style • Gustave Flaubert • ar
- • The Doll Queen [1969] • Carlos Fuentes • ss Antæus #13/14 ’74
- • Author’s Perspective: Fuentes on Mexico, the United States, and the Multicultural Future • Carlos Fuentes • ar
- • 1933 • Mavis Gallant • ss
- • Artificial Roses • Gabriel Garcia Marquez • ss
- • A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings • Gabriel Garcia Marquez • ss New American Review
- • Died and Gone to Vegas • Tim Gautreaux • ss Atlantic Monthly Feb ’95
- • Look on the Bright Side • Dagoberto Gilb • ss
- • The Yellow Wallpaper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- • The Overcoat • Nikolai Gogol • nv, 1842
- • A Company of Laughing Faces • Nadine Gordimer • ss
- • Author’s Perspective: Gordimer on How the Short Story Differs from the Novel • Nadine Gordimer • ar
- • The Outcasts of Poker Flat • Bret Harte • ss Overland Monthly Jan, 1869
- • Young Goodman Brown • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss New England Magazine Apr, 1835
- • The Birthmark • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss The Pioneer Mar, 1843
- • Author’s Perspective: Hawthorne on the Public Failure of His Early Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ar
- • Big Two-Hearted River, Part I and Part II • Ernest Hemingway • ss This Quarter Spr ’25
- • Author’s Perspective: Hemingway on One True Sentence • Ernest Hemingway • ar
- • The Last Leaf • O. Henry • ss The Gentle Grafter, McClure, 1908
- • The Gilded Six-Bits • Zora Neale Hurston • ss
- • Sweat • Zora Neale Hurston • ss
- • Author’s Perspective: Hurston on What White Publishers Won’t Print • Zora Neale Hurston • ar
- • A Family Supper • Kazuo Ishiguro • ss Esquire Mar ’90
- • The Lottery • Shirley Jackson • ss New Yorker Jun 26 ’48
- • The Real Thing • Henry James • ss Black and White Apr 16, 1892
- • Author’s Perspective: James on the Mirror of a Consciousness • Henry James • ar
- • In the American Society • Gish Jen • ss
- • A White Heron • Sarah Orne Jewett • ss, 1886
- • Araby • James Joyce • ss
- • The Dead • James Joyce • ss
- • Eveline • James Joyce • ss
- • Author’s Perspective: Joyce on Epiphanies • James Joyce • ar
- • Before the Law • Franz Kafka • vi
- • A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka • ss
- • The Metamorphosis • Franz Kafka • nv, 1937
- • Author’s Perspective: Kafka on Discussing The Metamorphosis • Franz Kafka • ar
- • Girl • Jamaica Kincaid • ss
- • “They” • Rudyard Kipling • nv Scribner’s Aug ’04
- • Let the Old Dead Make Room • Milan Kundera • ss
- • Odour of Chrysanthemums • D. H. Lawrence • ss The English Review Jun ’11
- • The Rocking-Horse Winner • D. H. Lawrence • ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
- • The Horse Dealer’s Daughter • D. H. Lawrence • ss The English Review, 1923
- • Author’s Perspective: Lawrence: The Novel Is the Bright Book of Life • D. H. Lawrence • ar
- • 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
- • A Woman on a Roof • Doris Lessing • ss
- • The Day Stalin Died • Doris Lessing • ss
- • Love • Clarice Lispector • ss
- • Jungle Video • Ralph Lombreglia • ss New Yorker Aug 21 ’89
- • Author’s Perspective: Lombreglia on Creating “Jungle Video” • Ralph Lombreglia • ar
- • To Build a Fire • Jack London • ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 ’02
- • A Little Incident • Lu Xun • ss
- • Midnight Mass • Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis • ss, 1963
- • Angel Levine • Bernard Malamud • ss The Magic Barrel, Farrar, 1958
- • Miss Brill • Katherine Mansfield • ss, 1922
- • Bliss • Katherine Mansfield • ss, 1920
- • The Garden-Party • Katherine Mansfield • ss The Weekly Westminster Gazette Feb 4 ’22 (+2)
- • Author’s Perspective: Mansfield on “The Garden-Party” • Katherine Mansfield • ar
- • Shiloh • Bobbie Ann Mason • ss New Yorker Oct 20 ’80
- • The Necklace • Guy de Maupassant • ss
- • Mother Savage • Guy de Maupassant • ss
- • Author’s Perspective: Maupassant: The Realist Method • Guy de Maupassant • ar
- • Benito Cereno • Herman Melville • na
- • Lust • Susan Minot • ss The Paris Review, 1984
- • Patriotism • Yukio Mishima • ss Esquire Apr ’66
- • How to Become a Writer • Lorrie Moore • ss
- • The Management of Grief • Bharati Mukherjee • ss Fiction Network, 1988
- • How I Met My Husband • Alice Munro • ss
- • Wild Swans • Alice Munro • ss
- • Author’s Perspective: Munro: How I Write Short Stories • Alice Munro • ar
- • Cloud, Castle, Lake • Vladimir Nabokov • ss Atlantic Monthly Jun ’41
- • Trail of the Green Blazer • R. K. Narayan • ss
- • In the Region of Ice • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Atlantic Monthly Aug ’66
- • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Epoch Fll ’66
- • Author’s Perspective: Oates: Productivity and the Critics • Joyce Carol Oates • ar
- • The Things They Carried • Tim O’Brien • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- • Good Country People • Flannery O’Connor • ss Harper’s Bazaar Jun ’55
- • 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 • ss The Sewanee Review Spr ’64
- • Author’s Perspective: O’Connor: The Element of Suspense in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” • Flannery O’Connor • ar
- • Guests of the Nation • Frank O’Connor • ss
- • I Stand Here Ironing • Tillie Olsen • ss
- • Author’s Perspective: Olsen: Women’s Silence • Tillie Olsen • ar
- • A Conversation with My Father • Grace Paley • ss
- • My Life with the Wave • Octavio Paz • ss
- • Blind Girls • Jayne Anne Phillips • ss
- • The Fall of the House of Usher • Edgar Allan Poe • ss Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine Sep, 1839
- • The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] • Edgar Allan Poe • nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, 1844, 1844
- • The Tell-Tale Heart • Edgar Allan Poe • ss The Pioneer Jan, 1843
- • Author’s Perspective: Poe: The Tale and Its Effect • Edgar Allan Poe • ar
- • The Jilting of Granny Weatherall • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
- • Flowering Judas • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
- • The Conversion of the Jews • Philip Roth • ss The Paris Review Spr ’58
- • The Man to Send Rain Clouds • Leslie Marmon Silko • ss
- • Inspector Maigret Pursues [Insp. Jules Maigret] • Georges Simenon • ss, 1961
- • Gimpel the Fool • Isaac Bashevis Singer • ss
- • Author’s Perspective: Singer on the Character of Gimpel • Isaac Bashevis Singer • ar
- • Bang-Bang You’re Dead • Muriel Spark • nv
- • The Chrysanthemums • John Steinbeck • ss Harper’s Oct ’37
- • The Bottle Imp • Robert Louis Stevenson • nv New York Herald Feb 8-Mar 1, 1891
- • No One’s a Mystery • Elizabeth Tallent • ss Harper’s Aug ’85
- • A Pair of Tickets • Amy Tan • ss
- • Author’s Perspective: Tan: Setting the Voice • Amy Tan • ar
- • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty • James Thurber • ss New Yorker Mar 18 ’39
- • The Death of Ivan Ilych • Leo Tolstoy • ss
- • The Three Hermits • Leo Tolstoy • ss
- • Esther • Jean Toomer • ss
- • The Distant Past • William Trevor • ss
- • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County • Mark Twain • ss, 1867
- • Author’s Perspective: Twain on the Lazy Method of Writing • Mark Twain • ar
- • Separating • John Updike • ss New Yorker Jun 23 ’75
- • Author’s Perspective: Updike: Why Write? • John Updike • ar
- • Going to Russia • Guy Vanderhaeghe • ss
- • Everyday Use • Alice Walker • ss
- • Kindred Spirits • Alice Walker • ss Esquire Aug ’85
- • Author’s Perspective: Walker: The Black Woman Writer in America • Alice Walker • ar
- • Petrified Man • Eudora Welty • ss The Southern Review, 1939
- • Why I Live at the P.O. • Eudora Welty • ss Atlantic Monthly Apr ’41
- • Author’s Perspective: Welty: The Plot of the Short Story • Eudora Welty • ar
- • Roman Fever • Edith Wharton • ss Liberty Magazine Nov 10 ’34
- • The Happy Prince • Oscar Wilde • ss The Happy Prince and Other Tales, London: David Nutt, 1888
- • Author’s Perspective: Wilde on the Aim of Art • Oscar Wilde • ar
- • In the Garden of the North American Martyrs • Tobias Wolff • ss Antæus #37 ’80
- • A Haunted House • Virginia Woolf • vi Monday or Tuesday, London: Hogarth Press, 1921
- • Author’s Perspective: Woolf on Women and Fiction • Virginia Woolf • ar
- • The Man Who Was Almost a Man • Richard Wright • ss
- • IV. CRITICISM AND SOURCES
- • Fact into Fiction: Historical and Biographical Sources
- • On Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”
- • The Origins of “Cathedral” • Tess Gallagher • ar
- • The Origins of “Cathedral” • Tom Jenks • ar
- • On Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer”
- • The Trial of Sidney Smith • Misc. Material • ar
- • The Sentencing of Sidney Smith • Misc. Material • ar
- • On Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat”
- • The Sinking of the Commodore • Stephen Crane • ar
- • On Ralph Ellison’s “A Party Down at the Square”
- • Lynching in Tennessee • James Weldon Johnson • ar
- • On Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
- • “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ar
- • On Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat”
- • Eatonville When You Look at It • Zora Neale Hurston • ar
- • On London’s “To Build a Fore”
- • London Defends the Factuality of “To Build a Fire” • Jack London • ar
- • On Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno”
- • Particulars of the Capture of the Spanish Ship Tryal • Amasa Delano • ar
- • 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
- • On Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried”
- • Alpha Company • Tim O’Brien • ar
- • 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
- • On Leslie Marmom Silko’s “The Man to Send Rain Clouds”
- • It’s Based upon Something Vaguely Similar • Leslie Marmon Silko • ar
- • On Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets”
- • Amy Tan’s Unknown Chinese Family • Curt Schleier • ar
- • Critical Approaches to Fiction
- • Formalist Criticism
- • The Formalist Critic • Cleanth Brooks • ar
- • Light and Darkness in “Sonny’s Blues” • Michael Clark • ar
- • Biographical Criticism
- • Chekhov’s Attitude to Romantic Love • Virginia Llewellyn Smith • ar
- • Biographical Background to “Babylon Revisited” • Jeffrey Meyers • ar
- • Historical Criticism
- • Joyce’s Vision of Dublin • Seamus Deane • ar
- • The Argentinean Context of Borges’s Fantastic Fiction • John King • ar
- • Psychological Criticism
- • The Destiny of Oedipus • Sigmund Freud • ar
- • The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart” • Daniel Hoffman • ar
- • Mythological Criticism
- • Mythic Archetypes • Northrop Frye • ar
- • Myth in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” • Edmond Volpe • ar
- • Sociological Criticism
- • Content Determines Form • Georg Lukacs • ar
- • Money and Labor in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” • Daniel P. Watkins • ar
- • Gender Criticism
- • Toward a Feminist Criticism • Elaine Showalter • ar
- • Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper” • Juliann Fleenor • ar
- • Reader-Response Criticism
- • An Eskimo “A Rose for Emily” • Stanley Fish • ar
- • Flannery O’Connor and Her Readers • Robert Brinkmeyer, Jr. • ar
- • Deconstructionist Criticism
- • The Death of the Author • Roland Barthes • ar
- • Rigorous Unreliability • Barbara Johnson • ar
- • Cultural Studies
- • Poststructuralist Cultural Critique • Vincent B. Leitch • ar
- • What Is Cultural Studies? • Mark Bauerlein • ar
- • V. APPENDICES
- • A History of the Short Story • Misc. Material • ms
- • The Elements of Short Fiction • Misc. Material • ms
- • Writing About Fiction • Misc. Material • ms
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