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)
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- About the Authors · [Misc.] · bg
- I. INTRODUCTION
- The Art of the Short Story
- II. ORIGINS OF THE SHORT STORY
- Myth
- Traditional, Roman
- Pygmalion and Galatea · Ovid · ss; from Ovids 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 Mens Path · Chinua Achebe · ss
- Authors Perspective: Achebe on Modern Africa as the Crossroads of Culture · Chinua Achebe · ar
- The Egg · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Dial Mar 1920, as The Triumph of the Egg
- Hands · Sherwood Anderson · ss Masses Mar 1916
- Authors 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 1987
- Rape Fantasies · Margaret Atwood · ss
- Authors Perspective: Atwood on the Canadian Identity · Margaret Atwood · ar
- Sonnys Blues · James Baldwin · nv The Partisan Review 1957
- Authors Perspective: Baldwin on Race and the African-American Writer · James Baldwin · ar
- Time of Passage · J. G. Ballard · ss Science-Fantasy #63 1964
- Night-Sea Journey · John Barth · ss Esquire Jun 1966
- The Indian Uprising · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker Mar 6 1965
- Janus · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker May 27 1985
- 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 The New Yorker Oct 23 1971
- Authors Perspective: Borges on Literature As Experience · Jorge Luís Borges · ar
- Greasy Lake · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The Paris Review Spr 1982
- The Veldt · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 1950, as The World the Children Made
- Preparation · Robert Olen Butler · ss
- Adam, One Afternoon · Italo Calvino · ss 1949
- Authors Perspective: Calvino on Myth Is the Hidden Part of Every Story · Italo Calvino · ar
- The Guest · Albert Camus · ss Atlantic Monthly Dec 1957
- Authors Perspective: Camus on Revolution and Repression in Algeria · Albert Camus · ar
- Children on Their Birthdays · Truman Capote · ss
- Authors Perspective: Capote on the Technique of the Short Story · Truman Capote · ar
- The Loves of Lady Purple · Angela Carter · ss Fireworks 1974
- Authors Perspective: Carter on the Fairy Tale · Angela Carter · ar
- Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss Atlantic Monthly Sep 1981
- A Small Good Thing · Raymond Carver · ss Ploughshares v8 #2&3 1981
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love · Raymond Carver · ss
- Authors Perspective: Carver on Commonplace but Precise Language · Raymond Carver · ar
- Pauls Case · Willa Cather · nv McClures May 1905
- Authors Perspective: Cather on Art as the Process of Simplification · Willa Cather · ar
- Red Wind [John Dalmas] · Raymond Chandler · na Dime Detective Magazine Jan 1938
- Authors Perspective: Chandler on Crime Fiction · Raymond Chandler · ar
- Ancestors · Fred Chappell · ss
- The Five-Forty-Eight · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker Apr 10 1954
- The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker Jul 18 1964
- Authors 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
- Authors 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 Vogue Dec 6 1894, as The Dream of an Hour
- 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 Harpers Aug-Sep 1910
- Authors 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 Scribners Jun 1897
- The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribners Jun 1897
- Sorrow-Acre · Isak Dinesen · ss
- The Man Who Read a Book · Thomas Disch · ss The Hudson Review Spr 1994
- Authors Perspective: Disch on Science Fiction, Youth Culture, and the Future · Thomas Disch · ar
- The Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Feb 1892, as The Adventure of the Speckled Band
- A Fathers Story · Andre Dubus · nv 1983
- Authors Perspective: Dubus on Religious Fiction · Andre Dubus · ar
- A Party Down at the Square · Ralph Ellison · ss Esquire Jan 1997
- Authors Perspective: Ellison on Race and Fiction · Ralph Ellison · ar
- The Red Convertible · Louise Erdrich · ss
- Barn Burning · William Faulkner · ss Harpers Jun 1939
- Red Leaves · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 25 1930
- A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum Apr 1930
- Authors 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 1931
- Authors Perspective: Fitzgerald on from the Jazz Age to the Great Depression · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ar
- A Simple Heart · Gustave Flaubert · nv
- Authors Perspective: Flaubert on the Labor of Style · Gustave Flaubert · ar
- The Doll Queen [1969] · Carlos Fuentes · ss Antæus #13/14 1974
- Authors 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 #13 1971
- Died and Gone to Vegas · Tim Gautreaux · ss Atlantic Monthly Feb 1995
- 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
- Authors 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
- Authors 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 1925
- Authors Perspective: Hemingway on One True Sentence · Ernest Hemingway · ar
- The Last Leaf · O. Henry · ss The Trimmed Lamp, McClure 1907
- The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story Aug 1933
- Sweat · Zora Neale Hurston · ss
- Authors Perspective: Hurston on What White Publishers Wont Print · Zora Neale Hurston · ar
- A Family Supper · Kazuo Ishiguro · ss Esquire Mar 1990
- The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker Jun 26 1948
- The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black and White Apr 16 1892
- Authors 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 · na The Dubliners, London: Cape 1914
- Eveline · James Joyce · ss
- Authors 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
- Authors Perspective: Kafka on Discussing The Metamorphosis · Franz Kafka · ar
- Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · ss
- "They" · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribners Aug 1904
- Let the Old Dead Make Room · Milan Kundera · ss
- Odour of Chrysanthemums · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review Jun 1911
- The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson 1926
- The Horse Dealers Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review Apr 1922
- Authors 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
- Authors 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 The New Yorker Aug 21 1989
- Authors Perspective: Lombreglia on Creating Jungle Video · Ralph Lombreglia · ar
- To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youths Companion May 29 1902
- A Little Incident · Lu Xun · ss
- Midnight Mass · Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis · ss 1963
- Angel Levine · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary Dec 1955
- Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss 1922
- Bliss · Katherine Mansfield · ss Bliss, and Other Stories, Constable 1920
- The Garden-Party · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Weekly Westminster Gazette Feb 4 1922 (+2)
- Authors Perspective: Mansfield on The Garden-Party · Katherine Mansfield · ar
- Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker Oct 20 1980
- The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant · ss
- Mother Savage · Guy de Maupassant · ss
- Authors 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 1966
- 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
- Authors Perspective: Munro: How I Write Short Stories · Alice Munro · ar
- Cloud, Castle, Lake · Vladimir Nabokov · ss Atlantic Monthly Jun 1941
- Trail of the Green Blazer · R. K. Narayan · ss
- In the Region of Ice · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Atlantic Monthly Aug 1966
- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fll 1966
- Authors Perspective: Oates: Productivity and the Critics · Joyce Carol Oates · ar
- The Things They Carried · Tim OBrien · ss Esquire Aug 1986
- Good Country People · Flannery OConnor · ss Harpers Bazaar Jun 1955
- 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 1964
- Authors Perspective: OConnor: The Element of Suspense in A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery OConnor · ar
- Guests of the Nation · Frank OConnor · ss
- I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss Tell Me a Riddle, Delacorte 1956
- Authors Perspective: Olsen: Womens Silence · Tillie Olsen · ar
- A Conversation with My Father · Grace Paley · ss New American Review #13 1971
- 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 Burtons Gentlemens Magazine Sep 1839
- The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Years Present for 1845, Carey & Hart 1844
- The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer Jan 1843
- Authors 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 1958
- The Man to Send Rain Clouds · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss
- Inspector Maigret Pursues [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; trans. by J. E. Malcolm · ss Argosy (UK) Jan 1962, as The Man on the Run; translator uncredited here, translated from the French LHomme dans la rue in Les petits cochons sans queue (Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1950).
- Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss
- Authors Perspective: Singer on the Character of Gimpel · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ar
- Bang-Bang Youre Dead · Muriel Spark · nv
- The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harpers Oct 1937
- The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald Feb 8-Mar 1 1891
- No Ones a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss Harpers Aug 1985
- A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ss
- Authors Perspective: Tan: Setting the Voice · Amy Tan · ar
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker Mar 18 1939
- The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na
- 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
- Authors Perspective: Twain on the Lazy Method of Writing · Mark Twain · ar
- Separating · John Updike · ss The New Yorker Jun 23 1975
- Authors Perspective: Updike: Why Write? · John Updike · ar
- Going to Russia · Guy Vanderhaeghe · ss
- Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harpers Apr 1973
- Kindred Spirits · Alice Walker · ss Esquire Aug 1985
- Authors 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 1941
- Authors Perspective: Welty: The Plot of the Short Story · Eudora Welty · ar
- Roman Fever · Edith Wharton · ss Liberty Nov 10 1934
- The Happy Prince · Oscar Wilde · ss The Happy Prince and Other Tales, London: David Nutt 1888
- Authors Perspective: Wilde on the Aim of Art · Oscar Wilde · ar
- In the Garden of the North American Martyrs · Tobias Wolff · ss Antæus #37 1980
- A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday, London: Hogarth Press 1921
- Authors 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 Carvers Cathedral
- The Origins of Cathedral · Tess Gallagher · ar
- The Origins of Cathedral · Tom Jenks · ar
- On Joseph Conrads The Secret Sharer
- The Trial of Sidney Smith · [Misc.] · ar
- The Sentencing of Sidney Smith · [Misc.] · ar
- On Stephen Cranes The Open Boat
- The Sinking of the Commodore · Stephen Crane · ar
- On Ralph Ellisons A Party Down at the Square
- Lynching in Tennessee · James Weldon Johnson · ar
- On Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper
- "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ar
- On Zora Neale Hurstons Sweat
- Eatonville When You Look at It · Zora Neale Hurston · ar
- On Londons To Build a Fore
- London Defends the Factuality of To Build a Fire · Jack London · ar
- On Herman Melvilles 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 OBriens The Things They Carried
- Alpha Company · Tim OBrien · ar
- On Flannery OConnors 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 Silkos The Man to Send Rain Clouds
- Its Based upon Something Vaguely Similar · Leslie Marmon Silko · ar
- On Amy Tans A Pair of Tickets
- Amy Tans Unknown Chinese Family · Curt Schleier · ar
- Critical Approaches to Fiction
- Formalist Criticism
- The Formalist Critic · Cleanth Brooks · ar
- Light and Darkness in Sonnys Blues · Michael Clark · ar
- Biographical Criticism
- Chekhovs Attitude to Romantic Love · Virginia Llewellyn Smith · ar
- Biographical Background to Babylon Revisited · Jeffrey Meyers · ar
- Historical Criticism
- Joyces Vision of Dublin · Seamus Deane · ar
- The Argentinean Context of Borgess 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 Faulkners 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 OConnor 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.] · ms
- The Elements of Short Fiction · [Misc.] · ms
- Writing About Fiction · [Misc.] · ms
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