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- An Introduction to Fiction ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia (Longman 0-321-01558-4, 1999, $50.00, 720pp, tp)
- • 1. Reading a Story
- • Fable and Tale
- • The Appointment in Samarra • W. Somerset Maugham • ss
- • Godfather Death • Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm • ss
- • Independence • Chuang Tzu • ss
- • Plot
- • The Short Story
- • A & P • John Updike • ss
- • John Updike on Writing, Why Write? • John Updike • ar
- • What’s the Plot
- • 2. Point of View
- • A Rose for Emily • William Faulkner • ss The Forum Apr ’30
- • The Tell-Tale Heart • Edgar Allan Poe • ss The Pioneer Jan, 1843
- • Cathedral • Raymond Carver • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’81
- • Miss Brill • Katherine Mansfield • ss, 1922
- • Katherine Mansfield on Writing, Creating “Miss Brill” • Katherine Mansfield • ar
- • How Point of View Shapes a Story
- • Student Essay: Raymond Carver’s Use of First-Person Point of View in “Cathedra
- • 3. Character
- • The Jilting of Granny Weatherall • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
- • Everyday Use • Alice Walker • ss
- • Gimpel the Fool • Isaac Bashevis Singer; trans. by Saul Bellow • ss
- • Isaac Bashevis Singer on Writing, “The Character of Gimpel” • Isaac Bashevis Singer • ar
- • How Character Creates Action
- • 4. Setting
- • The Storm • Kate Chopin • ss, 1898
- • To Build a Fire • Jack London • ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 ’02
- • Greasy Lake • T. Coraghessan Boyle • ss
- • A Pair of Tickets • Amy Tan • ss
- • Amy Tan on Writing, Setting the Voice • Amy Tan • ar
- • How Time and Place Set a Story
- • 5. Tone and Style
- • A Clean, Well-Lighted Place • Ernest Hemingway • ss Scribner’s Mar ’33
- • Barn Burning • William Faulkner • ss Harper’s Jun ’39
- • Irony
- • The Necklace • Guy de Maupassant • ss
- • The Gospel According to Mark • Jorge Luís Borges • ss New Yorker Oct 23 ’71
- • Ernest Hemingway on Writing, the Direct Style • Ernest Hemingway • ar
- • Be Style Conscious
- • 6. Theme
- • The Open Boat • Stephen Crane • nv Scribner’s Jun, 1897
- • Young Goodman Brown • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss New England Magazine Apr, 1835
- • The Parable of the Prodigal Son [from the King James Bible] • Luke 15:11-32 • ss
- • Harrison Bergeron • Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • ss F&SF Oct ’61
- • Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., on Writing, the Themes of Science Fiction • Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • ar
- • Stating the Theme
- • 7. Symbol
- • The Chrysanthemums • John Steinbeck • ss Harper’s Oct ’37
- • The Lottery • Shirley Jackson • ss New Yorker Jun 26 ’48
- • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973
- • Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing, Note on “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” • Ursula K. Le Guin • ar
- • Recognizing Symbols
- • Student Essay
- • An Analysis of the Symbolism in Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” • Misc. Material • ms
- • 8. Evaluating a Story
- • Jungle Video • Ralph Lombreglia • ss New Yorker Aug 21 ’89
- • Ralph Lombreglia on Writing, Creating “Jungle Video” • Ralph Lombreglia • ar
- • Know What You’re Judging
- • 9. Reading Long Stories and Novels
- • Sonny’s Blues • James Baldwin • nv The Partisan Review, 1957
- • The Metamorphosis • Franz Kafka • nv, 1937
- • Franz Kafka on Writing, Discussing “The Metamorphosis” • Franz Kafka • ar
- • Leaving Things Out
- • Student Essay
- • Kafka’s Greatness
- • 10. A Writer in Depth
- • Everything That Rises Must Converge • Flannery O’Connor • ss New World Writing #19, NAL, 1961
- • 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
- • Flannery O’Connor on Writing, The Element of Suspense in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” • Flannery O’Connor • ar
- • Flannery O’Connor on Writing, The Serious Writer and the Tired Reader • Flannery O’Connor • ar
- • How One Story Illuminates Another
- • 11. Stories for Further Reading
- • Civil Peace • Chinua Achebe • ss
- • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13, 1890
- • A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain • Robert Olen Butler • ss
- • Paul’s Case • Willa Cather • nv McClure’s May ’05
- • The Five-Forty-Eight • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Apr 10 ’54
- • The Lady with a Pet Dog • Anton Chekhov • ss
- • The Story of an Hour • Kate Chopin • ss, 1894
- • Barbie-Q • Sandra Cisneros • ss
- • Battle Royal [from The Invisible Man] • Ralph Ellison • ex New York: Random House, 1947
- • 1933 • Mavis Gallant • ss
- • A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings • Gabriel Garcia Marquez • ss New American Review
- • The Yellow Wallpaper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- • The Defeated • Nadine Gordimer • ss
- • On the Road • Langston Hughes • ss Esquire Jan ’35
- • Sweat • Zora Neale Hurston • ss
- • In the American Society • Gish Jen • ss
- • Araby • James Joyce • ss
- • Girl • Jamaica Kincaid • ss
- • The Rocking-Horse Winner • D. H. Lawrence • ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
- • The Soong Sisters • Sky Lee • ss
- • A Woman on a Roof • Doris Lessing • ss
- • Angel Levine • Bernard Malamud • ss The Magic Barrel, Farrar, 1958
- • Shiloh • Bobbie Ann Mason • ss New Yorker Oct 20 ’80
- • How I Met My Husband • Alice Munro • ss
- • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Epoch Fll ’66
- • The Things They Carried • Tim O’Brien • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- • First Confession • Frank O’Connor • ss Harper’s Bazaar Jul ’39
- • I Stand Here Ironing • Tillie Olsen • ss
- • The Man to Send Rain Clouds • Leslie Marmon Silko • ss
- • No One’s a Mystery • Elizabeth Tallent • ss Harper’s Aug ’85
- • The Catbird Seat • James Thurber • ss New Yorker Nov 14 ’42
- • A Visit of Charity • Eudora Welty • ss
- • The Use of Force • William Carlos Williams • ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories Nov/Dec ’33
- • 12. Writing About Literature
- • Beginning
- • Discovering and Planning
- • Drafting and Revising
- • The Form of Your Finished Paper
- • Documenting Your Sources
- • Reference Guide for Citations
- • Keeping a Journal
- • The Girl Writing Her English Paper • Robert Wallace • ss
- • 13. Writing About a Story
- • Explicating
- • Student Essay (Explication)
- • Analyzing
- • Student Essay (Analysis)
- • Student Card Report
- • Comparing and Contrasting
- • Suggestions for Writing
- • 14. Writing and Researching on the Computer
- • Writing and Revising
- • Using Spell-Check Programs
- • Researching on the World Wide Web
- • Two Ways to Start Researching
- • Plagiarism
- • Literature Online
- • 15. Critical Approaches to Literature
- • Formalist Criticism
- • The Formalist Critic • Cleanth Brooks • ar
- • Light and Darkness in “Sonny’s Blues” • Michael Clark • ar
- • On Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” • Robert Langbaum • ar
- • Biographical Criticism
- • The Relationship of Poet and Poem • Leslie Fiedler • ar
- • Chekhov’s Attitude to Romantic Love • Virginia Llewellyn Smith • ar
- • On Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” • Brett C. Millier • ar
- • Historical Criticism
- • Imagism • Hugh Kenner • ar
- • Southern Sources of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” • Sally Fitzgerald • ar
- • On Langston Hughes • Darryl Pinckney • ar
- • Psychological Criticism
- • The Destiny of Oedipus • Sigmund Freud • ar
- • The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart” • Daniel Hoffman • ar
- • Poetic Influence • Harold Bloom • ar
- • Mythological Criticism
- • Mythic Archetypes • Northrop Frye • ar
- • Myth in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” • Edmond Volpe • ar
- • Lucifer in Shakespeare’s Othello • Maud Bodkin • ar
- • Sociological Criticism
- • Content Determines Form • Georg Lukacs • ar
- • Money and Labor in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” • Daniel P. Watkins • ar
- • Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln • Alfred Kazin • ar
- • Gender Criticism
- • Toward a Feminist Poetics • Elaine Showalter • ar
- • Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper” • Juliann Fleenor • ar
- • The Freedom of Emily Dickinson • Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar • ar
- • Reader-Response Criticism
- • An Eskimo “A Rose for Emily” • Stanley Fish • ar
- • “How Do We Make a Poem?” • Robert Scholes • ar
- • Filling the Gaps in Hamlet • Joel Wingard • ar
- • Deconstructionist Criticism
- • The Death of the Author • Roland Barthes • ar
- • Rigorous Unreliability • Barbara Johnson • ar
- • On Wordsworth’s “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” • Geoffrey Hartman • ar
- • Cultural Studies
- • Poststructuralist Cultural Critique • Vincent B. Leitch • ar
- • What Is Cultural Studies? • Mark Bauerlein • ar
- • The Stance of Observation in William Blake’s “London” • Heather Glen • ar
- 25 And Under Fiction ed. Susan Ketchin & Neil Giordano (W.W. Norton & Company 0-393-31610-6, May ’97, $12.00, 227pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- A Treasury of Short Stories ed. Bernardine Kielty (Simon and Schuster, 1947, 849pp, hc)
- xi • Foreword • Bernardine Kielty • fw
- • NINETEENTH CENTURY
- • European
- • 1
- 3 • Yermolaï and the Miller’s Wife • Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev • ss
- 12 • The Death of Ivan Ilyitch • Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoi • na
- 54 • A Day in the Country • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov • ss
- • 2
- 60 • A Passion in the Desert • Honoré de Balzac • ss The Strand Feb, 1891
- 71 • A Simple Heart • Gustave Flaubert • nv
- 94 • Two Little Soldiers • Guy de Maupassant • ss
- 100 • The Last Lesson • Alphonse Daudet • ss
- • 3
- 109 • The Steadfast Tin Soldier • Hans Christian Andersen • ss, 1838
- 113 • Germelshausen • Friedrich Gerstäcker • ss
- 133 • The Saint Joseph’s Ass • Giovanni Verga • ss
- • 4
- 142 • A Lodging for the Night • Robert Louis Stevenson • ss Temple Bar Oct, 1877
- 175 • Quattrocentisteria • Maurice Hewlett • ss The Bibelot v2, 1896
- 170 • The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • nv The Strand Aug, 1891
- 187 • Without Benefit of Clergy • Rudyard Kipling • ss
- 204 • The Tragedy of a Comic Song • Leonard Merrick • ss Metropolitan Magazine May ’07
- 212 • The Money Box • W. W. Jacobs • ss The Strand Jul ’02
- 221 • The Secret Sharer • Joseph Conrad • nv Harper’s Aug-Sep ’10
- • American
- 251 • The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunado] • Edgar Allan Poe • ss Godey’s Lady’s Book Nov, 1846
- 257 • A Horseman in the Sky • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Apr 14, 1889
- 263 • The Hiltons’ Holiday • Sarah Orne Jewett • ss The Century Sep, 1893
- 275 • The Griffin and the Minor Canon • Frank R. Stockton • ss St. Nicholas Magazine Oct, 1885
- 286 • The Pace of Youth • Stephen Crane • ss
- 294 • To Build a Fire • Jack London • ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 ’02
- 307 • The Coming Out of Maggie • O. Henry • ss
- 313 • The Altar of the Dead • Henry James • na Terminations, Harper, 1895
- 339 • Afterward • Edith Wharton • nv The Century Jan ’10
- • OF OUR TIME
- • European
- • 1
- 362 • Sorrow-Acre • Isak Dinesen • ss
- • 2
- 386 • The Storyteller • Frank O’Connor • ss Harper’s Bazaar Nov ’37
- 393 • The Old Hunter • Liam O’Flaherty • ss
- 400 • Sinners • Seán O’Faoláin • ss
- • 3
- 408 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • D. H. Lawrence • ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
- 420 • The Doll’s House • Katherine Mansfield • ss The Nation Feb 4 ’22
- 426 • Mackintosh • W. Somerset Maugham • nv
- 450 • Young Archimedes • Aldous Huxley • nv Little Mexican, Chatto & Windus, 1924
- 475 • Bella Fleace Gave a Party • Evelyn Waugh • ss
- 483 • Joining Charles • Elizabeth Bowen • ss
- 493 • Beware of the Dog • Roald Dahl • ss Harper’s Oct ’44
- • 4
- 502 • The Mezzotint • M. R. James • ss Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Edward Arnold, 1904
- 511 • The Story of a Panic • E. M. Forster • nv Independent Review Mar ’04
- 527 • The Open Window • Saki • ss The Westminster Gazette Nov 18 ’11
- 531 • The Beckoning Fair One • Oliver Onions • na Widdershins, Secker, 1911
- 577 • A Haunted House • Virginia Woolf • vi Monday or Tuesday, London: Hogarth Press, 1921
- 580 • Adam and Eve and Pinch Me • A. E. Coppard • ss Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, Golden Cockerell Press: Berkshire, 1921
- 589 • The Voice in the Night • William Hope Hodgson • ss Blue Book Nov ’07
- 599 • Bird of Prey • John Collier • ss Presenting Moonshine, New York: Viking, 1941
- • American
- • 1
- 606 • I’m a Fool • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Dial Feb ’22
- 615 • Some Like Them Cold • Ring Lardner • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 1 ’21
- 629 • Blood Pressure • Damon Runyon • ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 5 ’30
- 640 • Babylon Revisited • F. Scott Fitzgerald • nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 ’31
- 655 • Night Club • Katherine Brush • ss Harper’s Sep ’27
- 665 • A Telephone Call • Dorothy Parker • ss The Bookman Jan ’28
- • 2
- 670 • The Snows of Kilimanjaro • Ernest Hemingway • nv Esquire Aug ’36
- 687 • The Leader of the People • John Steinbeck • ss Argosy (UK) Aug ’36
- 699 • Price’s Always Open • John O’Hara • ss New Yorker, 1939
- 705 • The Tuxedos • Jerome Weidman • ss New Yorker, 1938
- 711 • Act of Faith • Irwin Shaw • ss New Yorker Feb 2 ’46
- • 3
- 724 • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty • James Thurber • ss New Yorker Mar 18 ’39
- 729 • Sacre du Printemps • Ludwig Bemelmans • ss Small Beer, New York: Viking, 1939
- 734 • Seventy Thousand Assyrians • William Saroyan • ss
- 742 • O’Halloran’s Luck • Stephen Vincent Benét • ss The Country Gentleman May ’38
- 754 • Tom Whipple • Walter D. Edmonds • ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 25 ’39
- 769 • Silent Snow, Secret Snow • Conrad Aiken • ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Oct ’32
- • 4
- 783 • Sex Education • Dorothy Canfield • ss The Yale Review Win ’46
- 793 • Petrified Man • Eudora Welty • ss The Southern Review, 1939
- • 5
- 804 • The Hound • William Faulkner • ss Harper’s Aug ’31
- 814 • No Door • Thomas Wolfe • ss
- 823 • Saturday Afternoon • Erskine Caldwell • ss
- 829 • Almos’ a Man • Richard Wright • ss Harper’s Bazaar, 1940
- 839 • The Old Order • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
- First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers ed. Kathy Kiernan (Little, Brown 0316492043, 1994, hc); Contents from Powells.com
- The Best American Short Stories 2001 ed. Barbara Kingsolver & Katrina Kenison (Houghton Mifflin, 2001, tp); [DKL]
- ix • Foreword • Anon. • fw
- xiii • Introduction • Barbara Kingsolver • in
- 1 • Servants of the Map • Andrea Barrett • nv Salmagundi, 2000
- 44 • The Fireman • Rick Bass • ss The Kenyon Review, 2000
- 62 • Think of England • Peter Ho Davies • ss Ploughshares, 2000
- 78 • Labors of the Heart • Claire Davis • ss Ploughshares, 2000
- 95 • The Mourning Door • Elizabeth Graver • ss Ploughshares, 2000
- 105 • After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town • Ha Jin • nv TriQuarterly, 2000
- 138 • Brothers and Sisters Around the World • Andrea Lee • ss New Yorker Feb 7, 2000
- 146 • Boys • Rick Moody • ss Elle, 2000
- 152 • Rug Weaver • Barbara Klein Moss • nv Georgia Review, 2000
- 176 • Post and Beam • Alice Munro • nv New Yorker Dec 11, 2000
- 201 • The Raft • Peter Orner • ss Atlantic Monthly, 2000
- 205 • Betty Hutton • Roy Parvin • nv Five Points, 2000
- 241 • Illumination • Nancy Reisman • ss Tin House, 2000
- 256 • The Secrets of Bats • Jess Row • ss Ploughshares, 2000
- 271 • Nobody Listens When I Talk • Annette Sanford • ss Descant, 2000
- 275 • My Mother’s Garden • Katherine Shonk • nv Tin House, 2000
- 296 • What I Saw from Where I Stood • Marisa Silver • ss New Yorker, 2000
- 311 • The Apple Tree • Trevanian • ss The Antioch Review, 2000
- 326 • Personal Archaeology • John Updike • ss New Yorker May 29, 2000
- 334 • My Baby... • Dorothy West • ss Connecticut Review, 2000
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