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xiii, 926 p. : ports. ; 23 cm. |
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"52 great authors, their best short fiction, and their insights on writing"--Cover. |
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Part I. Introduction. The art of the short story.-- Part II. Stories [A-J]. Chinua Achebe : Dead men's path ; Author's perspective, Achebe : modern Africa as the crossroads of culture -- Sherwood Anderson : Hands ; Author's perspective, Anderson : Words not plot give form to a short story -- Margaret Atwood : Happy endings ; Author's perspective, Atwood : On the Canadian identity -- James Baldwin : Sonny's blues ; Author's perspective, Baldwin : Race and the African-American writer -- Jorge Luis Borges : The garden of forking paths ; Author's perspective, Borges : Literature as experience -- Albert Camus : The guest ; Author's perspective, Camus : Revolution and repression in Algeria -- Raymond Carver : Cathedral ; A small, good thing ; Author's perspective, Carver : Commonplace but precise language -- Willa Cather : Paul's case ; Author's perspective, Cather : Art as the process of simplification -- John Cheever : The swimmer ; Author's perspective, Cheever : Why I write short stories -- Anton Chekhov : The lady with the pet dog ; Misery ; Author's perspective, Chekhov : Natural description and "The center of gravity" -- Kate Chopin : The storm ; The story of an hour ; Author's perspective, Chopin : My writing method -- Sandra Cisneros : Barbie-Q ; Author's perspective, Cisneros: Bilingual style -- Joseph Conrad : The secret sharer ; Author's perspective, Conrad : The condition of art -- Stephen Crane : The open boat ; Author's perspective, Crane : The sinking of the Commodore -- Ralph Ellison : A party down at the square ; Author's perspective, Ellison : Race and fiction -- William Faulkner : Barn burning ; A rose for Emily ; Author's perspective, Faulkner : The human heart in conflict with itself -- F. Scott Fitzgerald : Babylon revisited ; Author's perspective, Fitzgerald : On his own literary aims -- Gustave Flaubert : A simple heart ; Author's perspective, Flaubert : The labor of style -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez : A very old man with enormous wings ; Author's perspective, Garcia Marquez : My beginnings as a writer -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman : The yellow wallpaper ; Author's perspective, Gilman : Why I wrote "The yellow wallpaper" -- Nikolai Gogol : The overcoat ; Author's perspective, Gogol : On realism -- Nadine Gordimer : A company of laughing faces ; Author's perspective, Gordimer : How the short story differs from the novel -- Nathaniel Hawthorne : Young Goodman Brown ; The birthmark ; Author's perspective, Hawthorne : On the public failure of his early stories -- Ernest Hemingway : A clean, well-lighted place ; Author's perspective, Hemingway : One true sentence -- Zora Neale Hurston : Sweat ; Author's perspective, Hurston : Eatonville when you look at it -- Shirley Jackson : The lottery ; Author's perspective, Jackson : The public reception of "The lottery" -- Henry James : The real thing ; Author's perspective, James : The mirror of a consciousness -- Ha Jin : Saboteur ; Author's perspective, Jin : Deciding to write in English -- James Joyce : Araby ; The dead ; Author's perspective, Joyce : Epiphanies. |
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Part II[ Cont.]. Stories [K-W]. Franz Kafka : Before the law ; The metamorphosis ; Author's perspective, Kafka : Discussing The metamorphosis -- D.H. Lawrence : Odour of Chrysanthemums ; The rocking-horse winner ; Author's perspective, Lawrence : The novel is the bright book of life -- Ursula K. Le Guin : the ones who walk away from Omelas ; Author's perspective, Le Guin : On "The ones who walk away from Omelas" -- Doris Lessing : A woman on a roof ; Author's perspective, Lessing : My beginnings as a writer -- Jack London : To build a fire ; Author's perspective, London : Defending the factuality of "To build a fire" -- Katherine Mansfield : Miss Brill ; The garden-party ; Author's perspective, Mansfield: On "The garden-party" -- Bobbie Ann Mason : Shiloh ; Author's perspective, Mason : Minimalist fiction -- Guy de Maupassant : The necklace ; Author's perspective, Maupassant: The realist method -- Herman Melville : Bartleby, the scrivener : a story of Wall-Street ; Author's perspective, Melville : American literature -- Yukio Mishima : Patriotism ; Author's perspective, Mishima : Physical courage and death -- Alice Munro : How I met my husband ; Author's perspective, Munro : How I write short stories -- Joyce Carol Oates : where are you going, where have you been? ; Author's perspective, Oates : Productivity and the critics -- Flannery O'Connor : A good man is hard to find ; Revelation ; Author's perspective, O'Connor: The element of suspense in "A good man is hard to find" -- Edgar Allan Poe : The fall of the House of Usher ; The Tell-tale heart ; Author's perspective, Poe : The tale and its effect -- Katherine Anne Porter : Flowering Judas ; Author's perspective, Porter : Writing "Flowering Judas" -- Leslie Marmon Silko : The man to send rain clouds ; Author's perspective, Silko : the basis of "The man to send rain clouds" -- Isaac Bashevis singer : Gimpel the Fool ; Author's perspective, Singer: The character of Gimpel -- Leo Tolstoy : The death of Ivan Ilych ; Author's perspective, Tolstoy : The moral responsibility of art -- John Updike : Separating ; Author's perspective, Why write? -- Alice Walker : Everyday use ; Author's perspective, Walker : The Black woman writer in America -- Eudora Welty : Why I live at the P.O. ; Author's perspective, Welty : The plot of the short story -- Edith Wharton : Roman fever ; Author's perspective, Wharton : The subject of short stories -- Virginia Woolf : A haunted house ; Author's perspective, Woolf : Women and fiction. |
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Part III. Writing. Elements of short fiction -- Writing about fiction -- Critical approaches to literature. Formalist criticism : Light and darkness in "Sonny's Blues" / Michael Clark -- Biographical criticism : Chekhov's attitude to romantic love / Virginia Llewellyn Smith -- Historical criticism : The Argentine context of Borges's fantastic fiction / John King -- Psychological criticism : The father-figure in "The tell-tale heart" / Daniel Hoffman -- Mythological criticism : Myth in Faulkner's "Barn Burning" / Edmond Volpe -- "Sociological criticism : Money and labor in "The rocking-horse winner" / Daniel P. Watkins -- Gender criticism : Gender and pathology in "The yellow wallpaper" / Juliann Fleenor -- Reader-response criticism : An Eskimo "A Rose for Emily" / Stanley Fish -- Deconstructionist criticism : The death of the author / Roland Barthes -- Cultural studies : What is cultural studies? / Mark Bauerlein. Part IV. Glossary of literary terms. |
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Short stories.
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Short story.
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| Added Author |
Gioia, Dana.
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Gwynn, R. S.
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| ISBN |
0321337220 (pbk.) |
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