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- Cabbage and Bones: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Irish American Womens Fiction ed. Caledonia Kearns (Holt 0-805-05579-7, Nov 97, $24.95, 304pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.
- · Foreword · Maureen Howard · fw
- · Introduction · Caledonia Kearns · in
- 3 · Noel Coward and Mrs. Griffin · Ruth McKenney · ss, 1938
- 11 · C.Y.E. · Mary McCarthy · ss, 1944
- 21 · excerpt from The Parish and the Hill · Mary Doyle Curran · ex, 1948
- 35 · excerpt from Hour of Spring · Maureen Howard · ex, 1948
- 56 · excerpt from Bridgeport Bus · Maureen Howard · ex, 1965
- 69 · Life After Death · Elizabeth Cullinan · ss, 1976
- 86 · One of Them Gets Married · Jean McGarry · ss, 1985
- 97 · The Lover of Horses · Tess Gallagher · ss, 1986
- 111 · Nijinsky · Maura Stanton · ss, 1988
- 129 · Queen Wintergreen · Alice Fulton · ss, 1992
- 144 · excerpt from At Weddings and Wakes · Alice McDermott · ex, 1992
- 164 · Marys Departure · Kathleen Ford · ss, 1993
- 182 · My Fathers Boat · Mary McGarry Morris · ss, 1993
- 199 · My Fathers Alcoholism · Eileen Myles · ss, 1994
- 214 · excerpt from One True Thing · Anna Quindlen · ex, 1994
- 228 · Versus · Jennifer C. Cornell · ss, 1996
- 233 · Pork Chops · Eileen Fitzgerald · ss, 1996
- 251 · City Life · Mary Gordon · ss Ploughshares v22 #1 96
- 272 · Daily Affirmations · Erin McGraw · ss, 1996
- 294 · Famine Fever · Helena Mulkerns · ss, 1996
- 301 · Achill Ancestors and a Stranger · Maureen Brady · ss, 1997
- 314 · excerpt from The Map of Ireland · Stephanie Grant · ex, 1997
- 324 · The Other Woman · Valerie Sayers · ss, 1997
- 337 · How Ireland Lost the World Cup · Annie Callan · ss, 1997
- 351 · About the Authors · Misc. · bg
- The Best American Short Stories 1998 ed. Garrison Keillor (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-87515-3, Oct 98, $27.50, 352pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.
- · Foreword · Garrison Keillor · fw
- · Introduction · Garrison Keillor · in
- · Appetites · Kathryn Chetkovich · ss Zyzzyva, 1997
- · The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue · Poe Ballantine · ss The Sun, 1997
- · Body Language · Diane Schoemperlen · ss Story Spr 97
- · Chance · Edith Pearlman · ss The Antioch Review, 1997
- · Cosmopolitan · Akhil Sharma · ss Atlantic Monthly Jan 97
- · Elvis Has Left the Building · Carol Anshaw · ss Story Spr 97
- · Every Night for a Thousand Years: a Story of the Civil War · Chris Adrian · ss New Yorker Oct 6 97
- · Flower Children · Maxine Swann · ss Ploughshares Fll 97
- · Glory Goes and Gets Some · Emily Carter · ss Open City, 1997
- · The Half-Skinned Steer · E. Annie Proulx · ss Atlantic Monthly Nov 97
- · Morphine · Doran Larson · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review, 1997
- · Mr. Sweetly Indecent · Bliss Broyard · ss Ploughshares Fll 97
- · My Father on the Verge of Disgrace · John Updike · ss New Yorker Mar 10 97
- · Penance · Matthew Crain · ss Harpers May 97
- · People Like That Are the Only People Here · Lorrie Moore · ss New Yorker Jan 27 97
- · Tea at the House · Meg Wolitzer · ss Ploughshares Fll 97
- · Unified Front · Antonya Nelson · ss The Midwesterner, 1997
- · Wayne in Love · Padgett Powell · ss New England Review, 1997
- · Welding with Children · Tim Gautreaux · ss Atlantic Monthly Mar 97
- · Would You Know It Wasnt Love · Hester Kaplan · ss Gulf Coast, 1997
- · Contributors Notes · Misc. · bg
- · 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1997 · Misc. · ms
- · Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories · Misc. · ms
- 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 New Yorker Jul 22 61
- · John Updike on Writing, Why Write? · John Updike · ar
- · Whats 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 Carvers 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 Youths 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 Scribners Mar 33
- · Barn Burning · William Faulkner · ss Harpers 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 Scribners 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 Harpers 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 Steinbecks The Chrysanthemums · Misc. · 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 Youre Judging
- · 9. Reading Long Stories and Novels
- · Sonnys 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
- · Kafkas Greatness
- · 10. A Writer in Depth
- · Everything That Rises Must Converge · Flannery OConnor · ss New World Writing #19, NAL, 1961
- · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery OConnor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing, ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- · Revelation · Flannery OConnor · ss The Sewanee Review Spr 64
- · Flannery OConnor on Writing, The Element of Suspense in A Good Man is Hard to Find · Flannery OConnor · ar
- · Flannery OConnor on Writing, The Serious Writer and the Tired Reader · Flannery OConnor · 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
- · Pauls Case · Willa Cather · nv McClures 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 #13 71
- · 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 OBrien · ss Esquire Aug 86
- · First Confession · Frank OConnor · ss Harpers Bazaar Jul 39
- · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss
- · The Man to Send Rain Clouds · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss
- · No Ones a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss Harpers 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 Sonnys Blues · Michael Clark · ar
- · On Robert Brownings My Last Duchess · Robert Langbaum · ar
- · Biographical Criticism
- · The Relationship of Poet and Poem · Leslie Fiedler · ar
- · Chekhovs Attitude to Romantic Love · Virginia Llewellyn Smith · ar
- · On Elizabeth Bishops 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 Faulkners Barn Burning · Edmond Volpe · ar
- · Lucifer in Shakespeares 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 Wordsworths 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 Blakes 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 Millers 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, 1888
- 133 · The Saint Josephs 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 Lifes Handicap, Macmillan, 1891
- 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 Harpers Aug-Sep 10
- · American
- 251 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunado] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godeys Ladys 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 Youths 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 OConnor · ss Harpers Bazaar Nov 37
- 393 · The Old Hunter · Liam OFlaherty · ss
- 400 · Sinners · Seán OFaoláin · ss
- · 3
- 408 · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
- 420 · The Dolls 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 Harpers 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 · Im 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 Harpers 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
- 699 · Prices Always Open · John OHara · 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 Story Jun 37
- 734 · Seventy Thousand Assyrians · William Saroyan · ss Lovat Dicksons Magazine Jan 35
- 742 · OHallorans 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 Harpers Aug 31
- 814 · No Door · Thomas Wolfe · ss
- 823 · Saturday Afternoon · Erskine Caldwell · ss
- 829 · Almos a Man · Richard Wright · ss Harpers Bazaar, 1940
- 839 · The Old Order · Katherine Anne Porter · ss
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