An Introduction to Fiction ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia (Longman US, 1999, 0-321-01558-4, $50.00, 720pp, tp, an)
- · 1. Reading a Story
- · Fable and Tale
- · The Appointment in Samarra · W. Somerset Maugham · ss The Star July 9 1936
- · Godfather Death · Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss (r)
- · Independence · Chuang Tzu · ss (r)
- · Plot
- · The Short Story
- · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961
- · John Updike on Writing, Why Write? · John Updike · ar (r)
- · What’s the Plot
- · 2. Point of View
- · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930
- · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843
- · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981
- · Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Athenaeum November 26 1920
- · Katherine Mansfield on Writing, Creating “Miss Brill” · Katherine Mansfield · ar (r)
- · 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 Transition February 1929
- · Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973
- · Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer; translated by Saul Bellow · ss Partisan Review May/June 1953
- · Isaac Bashevis Singer on Writing, “The Character of Gimpel” · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ar (r)
- · How Character Creates Action
- · 4. Setting
- · The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969
- · To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902
- · Greasy Lake · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The Paris Review #83, Spring 1982
- · A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ss (r)
- · Amy Tan on Writing, Setting the Voice · Amy Tan · ar (r)
- · How Time and Place Set a Story
- · 5. Tone and Style
- · A Clean, Well-Lighted Place · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1933
- · Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939
- · Irony
- · The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant; translated by Marjorie Laurie · ss The House of Madame Tellier by Guy de Maupassant, Everyman's Library, 1934
translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884).
- · The Gospel According to Mark · Jorge Luís Borges · ss (r)
translated from the Spanish (“El evangelio según Marcos”, La Nación, August 1970).
- · Ernest Hemingway on Writing, the Direct Style · Ernest Hemingway · ar (r)
- · Be Style Conscious
- · 6. Theme
- · The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Magazine June 1897
- · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”
- · The Parable of the Prodigal Son · [uncredited] · ss from The King James Bible (r); from Luke 15:11-32.
- · Harrison Bergeron · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961
- · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., on Writing, the Themes of Science Fiction · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ar (r)
- · Stating the Theme
- · 7. Symbol
- · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937
- · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948
- · 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 (r)
- · Recognizing Symbols
- · Student Essay
- · An Analysis of the Symbolism in Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- · 8. Evaluating a Story
- · Jungle Video · Ralph Lombreglia · ss The New Yorker August 21 1989
- · Ralph Lombreglia on Writing, Creating “Jungle Video” · Ralph Lombreglia · ar (r)
- · Know What You’re Judging
- · 9. Reading Long Stories and Novels
- · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957
- · The Metamorphosis [Gregor Samsa] · Franz Kafka · nv Parton Press, 1937
translated from the German (“Die Verwandlung”, Weisse Blätter Oct ’15).
- · Franz Kafka on Writing, Discussing “The Metamorphosis” · Franz Kafka · ar (r)
- · 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 ed. Stewart Richardson & Corlies M. Smith, J.B. Lippincott Company, 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 · nv The Sewanee Review Spring 1964
- · Flannery O’Connor on Writing: The Element of Suspense in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” · Flannery O’Connor · ar (r)
- · Flannery O’Connor on Writing: The Serious Writer and the Tired Reader · Flannery O’Connor · ar (r)
- · How One Story Illuminates Another
- · 11. Stories for Further Reading
- · Civil Peace · Chinua Achebe · ss (r)
- · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890
- · A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain · Robert Olen Butler · ss New England Review 1991
- · Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905
- · The Five-Forty-Eight · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker April 10 1954
- · The Lady with a Pet Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)
- · The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour”
- · Barbie-Q · Sandra Cisneros · ss Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros, Random House, 1991
- · Battle Royal · Ralph Ellison · ss Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art October 1947
- · 1933 · Mavis Gallant · ss (r)
- · A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings · Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss New American Review #13, 1971
- · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892
- · The Defeated · Nadine Gordimer · ss (r)
- · On the Road · Langston Hughes · ss Esquire January 1935
- · Sweat · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Fire!! November 1926
- · In the American Society · Gish Jen · ss The Southern Review Summer 1986
- · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- · Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978
- · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss Harper’s Bazar July 1926
- · The Soong Sisters · Sky Lee · ss (r)
- · A Woman on a Roof · Doris Lessing · ss (r)
- · Angel Levine · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary December 1955
- · Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980
- · How I Met My Husband · Alice Munro · ss (r)
- · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966
- · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986
- · First Confession · Frank O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2720, March 1 1939
- · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”
- · The Man to Send Rain Clouds · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Winter/Spring 1969, as by Leslie Chapman
- · No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss (r)
story syndicated to newspapers and published by Cincinnati Enquirer and Newsday.
- · The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 14 1942
- · A Visit of Charity · Eudora Welty · ss Decision June 1941
- · The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933
- · 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 (r)
- · 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 (r)
- · Light and Darkness in “Sonny’s Blues” · Michael Clark · ar (r)
- · On Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” · Robert Langbaum · ar (r)
- · Biographical Criticism
- · The Relationship of Poet and Poem · Leslie Fiedler · ar (r)
- · Chekhov’s Attitude to Romantic Love · Virginia Llewellyn Smith · ar (r)
- · On Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” · Brett C. Millier · ar (r)
- · Historical Criticism
- · Imagism · Hugh Kenner · ar (r)
- · Southern Sources of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” · Sally Fitzgerald · ar (r)
- · On Langston Hughes · Darryl Pinckney · ar (r)
- · Psychological Criticism
- · The Destiny of Oedipus · Sigmund Freud · ar (r)
- · The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart” · Daniel Hoffman · ar (r)
- · Poetic Influence · Harold Bloom · ar (r)
- · Mythological Criticism
- · Mythic Archetypes · Northrop Frye · ar (r)
- · Myth in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” · Edmond Volpe · ar (r)
- · Lucifer in Shakespeare’s Othello · Maud Bodkin · ar (r)
- · Sociological Criticism
- · Content Determines Form · Georg Lukacs · ar (r)
- · Money and Labor in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” · Daniel P. Watkins · ar (r)
- · Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln · Alfred Kazin · ar (r)
- · Gender Criticism
- · Toward a Feminist Poetics · Elaine Showalter · ar (r)
- · Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper” · Juliann Fleenor · ar (r)
- · The Freedom of Emily Dickinson · Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar · ar (r)
- · Reader-Response Criticism
- · An Eskimo “A Rose for Emily” · Stanley Fish · ar (r)
- · “How Do We Make a Poem?” · Robert Scholes · ar (r)
- · Filling the Gaps in Hamlet · Joel Wingard · ar (r)
- · Deconstructionist Criticism
- · The Death of the Author · Roland Barthes · ar (r)
- · Rigorous Unreliability · Barbara Johnson · ar (r)
- · On Wordsworth’s “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” · Geoffrey Hartman · ar (r)
- · Cultural Studies
- · Poststructuralist Cultural Critique · Vincent B. Leitch · ar (r)
- · What Is Cultural Studies? · Mark Bauerlein · ar (r)
- · The Stance of Observation in William Blake’s “London” · Heather Glen · ar (r)
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