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Contents Preface xxx Introduction to Short Fiction The Truth of Fiction xxx The Experience of Fiction xxx The Elements of Fiction xxx Theme xxx Plot xxx Character xxx Conflict xxx The Narrator and Point of View xxx Setting and Atmosphere xxx Language xxx Tone xxx The Interpretation of Fiction xxx Reading Fiction Who Are We as Readers? xxx What Kind of Story Are We Reading? xxx Realistic and Non-Realistic Fiction xxx Myth, Legend, Allegory, Parable, Fable, Tale, Fairy Tale, Folk Tale, Tall Tale xxx The Romance, Realism, Local Color, Naturalism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, Magical Realism, New Realism, Hypertext Fiction xxx Detective Fiction, Mystery, Ghost Story, Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction xxx The Short Story, The Short Short Story, The Long Short Story xxx Asking Questions about the Story xxx Questions about the Story's Background xxx Questions about the Story xxx Questions about the Story's Deep Structure and Theme xxx Keeping a Reading Journal xxx Recording Impressions xxx Recording Factual Data xxx Graphing Plots and Conflicts xxx Using Your Senses and Skills xxx Annotating a Story with Personal Impressions xxx Annotating a Story for the Elements of Fiction xxx Short Fiction Chinua Achebe Dead Men's Path xxx Iqbal Ahmad A Bicycle xxx Sherman Alexie Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at Woodstock xxx Isabel Allende And of Clay Are We Created xxx Dorothy Allison I'm Working on My Charm xxx Context: Dorothy Allison Context xxx Sherwood Anderson I Want to Know Why xxx Margaret Atwood Rape Fantasies xxx James Baldwin Sonny's Blues xxx Honore de Balzac A Passion in the Desert xxx Toni Cade Bambara The Lesson xxx Donald Barthelme A City of Churches xxx Ann Beattie What Was Mine xxx Ambrose Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge xxx Jorge Luis Borges The Other Duel xxx T. Coraghessan Boyle Greasy Lake xxx Alice Carey The Pride of Sarah Worthington xxx Angela Carter The Werewolf xxx A Writer in Depth Raymond Carver Cathedral xxx Errand xxx A Small, Good Thing xxx Context: Raymond Carver About the Story "Errand" xxx Oscar Casares Yolanda xxx Willa Cather Paul's Case xxx John Cheever The Swimmer xxx A Writer in Depth xxx Anton Chekhov The Darling xxx Gooseberries xxx The Lady with a Dog xxx Context: Harold Bloom Summary Observations on the Short Story xxx Anton Chekhov From His Letters xxx Vladimir Nabokov Chekhov's "The Lady with the Little Dog" xxx Charles Chesnutt The Doll xxx A Writer in Depth xxx Kate Chopin Regret xxx A Respectable Woman xxx The Story of an Hour xxx Context: Kate Chopin On Certain Brisk, Bright Days xxx Sandra Cisneros Barbie-Q xxx Samuel Clemens The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County xxx Colette The Other Wife xxx Joseph Conrad The Heart of Darkness xxx Julio Cortazar Axolotl xxx Stephen Crane The Open Boat xxx Context: Stephen Crane Stephen Crane's Own Story xxx Philip K. Dick We Can Remember It for You Wholesale xxx Isak Dinesen The Blue Jar xxx A Writer in Depth xxx Ralph Ellison Battle Royal xxx King of the Bingo Game xxx A Party Down at the Square xxx Context: Ralph Ellison What America Would Be Like Without Blacks xxx William Faulkner Dry September xxx A Rose for Emily xxx Ida Fink A Scrap of Time xxx F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited xxx E. M. Forster Mr. Andrews xxx Context: E. M. Forster Plot xxx Mary Wilkins Freeman Old Woman Magoun xxx Carlos Fuentes Chac-Mool xxx Mary Gaitskill Tiny, Smiling Daddy xxx Gabriel Garcia Marquez Tuesday Siesta xxx William Gibson Johnny Mnemonic xxx Dagoberto Gilb Hollywood! xxx Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper xxx Nikolai Gogol The Overcoat xxx Context: Frank O'Connor The Legacy of Gogol's "The Overcoat" xxx Nadine Gordimer The Life of the Imagination xxx Nathaniel Hawthorne The Birthmark xxx Young Goodman Brown xxx Context: Edgar Allan Poe The Brief Prose Tale xxx Bessie Head Looking for a Rain God xxx Context: Bessie Head Let Me Tell a Story Now xxx Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants xxx Zora Neale Hurston Spunk xxx Shirley Jackson The Lottery xxx Context: Shirley Jackson Biography of a Story xxx Henry James The Real Thing xxx Sarah Orne Jewett A White Heron xxx Denis Johnson Car Crash While Hitchhiking xxx James Joyce Araby xxx The Dead xxx A Writer in Depth xxx Franz Kafka A Country Doctor xxx A Hunger Artist xxx The Metamorphosis xxx Context: Harold Bloom Summary Observations on the Short Story xxx Milan Kundera From Somewhere Behind xxx Vladimir Nabokov Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" xxx Jamaica Kincaid Girl xxx Perri Klass Not a Good Girl xxx Milan Kundera Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead xxx Context: Milan Kundera From Somewhere Behind xxx Hanif Kureishi My Son the Fanatic xxx Mary Lavin My Vocation xxx D. H. Lawrence The Rocking-Horse Winner xxx David Leavitt Gravity xxx Ursula K. Le Guin The Professor's Houses xxx Context: Ursula K. Le Guin From "Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?" xxx Nickolai Leskov The Alexandrite xxx Context: Walter Benjamin From "The Storyteller" xxx Doris Lessing A Sunrise on the Veld xxx Jack London To Build a Fire xxx Naguib Mahfouz Half a Day xxx Katherine Mansfield A Dill Pickle xxx Miss Brill xxx Bobbie Ann Mason Shiloh xxx W. Somerset Maugham The Outstation xxx Guy de Maupassant The Necklace xxx Herman Melville Bartleby the Scrivener xxx Yukio Mishima Patriotism xxx Bharati Mukerjee A Father xxx Vladimir Nabokov The Passenger xxx Context: Vladimir Nabokov Chekhov's "The Lady with a Dog" xxx Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" xxx Jonathan Nolan Memento Mori xxx A Writer in Depth Joyce Carol Oates Shopping xxx Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? xxx Why Don't You Come Live with Me It's Time xxx Context: Joyce Carol Oates The Making of a Writer xxx "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film xxx Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried xxx Flannery O'Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find xxx Frank O'Connor Guests of the Nation xxx Context: Frank O'Connor The Legacy of Gogol's "Overcoat" xxx Tillie Olsen I Stand Here Ironing xxx Grace Paley A Conversation with My Father xxx A Writer in Depth Edgar Allan Poe The Cask of Amontillado xxx The Fall of the House of Usher xxx The Purloined Letter xxx Context: Edgar Allan Poe The Brief Prose Tale xxx Katherine Anne Porter Flowering Judas xxx The Grave xxx Context: Katherine Anne Porter The Writing of "Flowering Judas" xxx Reynolds Price An Evening Meal xxx Tomas Rivera . . . And the Earth Did Not Devour Him xxx Salman Rushdie Good Advice Is Rarer than Rubies xxx Donatien Alphonse Francois compte de Sade The Lady of the Manor of Longeville, or a Woman's Revenge xxx Jean Paul Sartre Erostratus xxx Context: Jean Paul Sartre From For Whom Does One Write? xxx A Writer in Depth Leslie Marmon Silko Lullaby xxx Storyteller xxx Yellow Woman xxx Context: Leslie Marmon Silko Through the Story We Hear Who We Are xxx Isaac Bashevis Singer Gimpel the Fool xxx Susan Sontag The Dummy xxx Context: Susan Sontag From Against Interpretation xxx John Steinbeck Chrysanthemums xxx Amy Tan A Pair of Tickets xxx Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych xxx John Updike A&P xxx Luisa Valenzuela The Verb to Kill xxx Helena Maria Viramontes The Moths xxx A Writer in Depth Alice Walker To Hell with Dying xxx Roselily xxx The Welcome Table xxx Context: Alice Walker The Old Artist: Notes on Mr. Sweet xxx Alice Walker An Interview with Eudora Welty xxx David Foster Wallace Suicide as a Sort of Present xxx Context: David Foster Wallace Act Natural xxx Eudora Welty Petrified Man xxx A Worn Path xxx Context: Alice Walker An Interview with Eudora Welty xxx Eudora Welty Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead? xxx Edith Wharton Mrs. Manstey's View xxx John Edgar Wideman Dumballah xxx William Carlos Williams The Use of Force xxx Jeanette Winterson Newton xxx Context: Jeanette Winterson From A Work of My Own xxx Virginia Woolf Kew Gardens xxx Context: Virginia Woolf From Craftsmanship xxx Richard Wright The Man Who Was Almost a Man xxx Context: Jean Paul Sartre From For Whom Does One Write? xxx Banana Yoshimoto Love Songs xxx Anzia Yezierska Hunger xxx Hypertext Fiction Mary-Kim Arnold and Mathew Derby Kokura xxx http://www.eastgate.com/Kokura/ Michael Joyce Reach xxx http://www.uiowa.edu/ iareview/tirweb/hypermedia/michael_joyce/ReachTitle.html Context: Michael Joyce From Hypertext Narrative xxx Deena Larsen Ferris Wheel xxx http://www.uiowa.edu/ iareview/tirweb/hypermedia/deena_larsen/index.htm Context: Writers on Writing xxx Dorothy Allison Context xxx Walter Benjamin From The Storyteller xxx Harold Bloom Summary Observations on the Short Story xxx Raymond Carver About the Story "Errand" xxx Anton Chekhov From His Letters xxx Kate Chopin On Certain Brisk, Bright Days xxx Stephen Crane Stephen Crane's Own Story xxx Ralph Ellison What America Would Be Like without Blacks xxx E.M. Forster Plot xxx Bessie Head Let Me Tell a Story Now . . . xxx Shirley Jackson Biography of a Story xxx Michael Joyce From Hypertext Narrative xxx Milan Kundera From Somewhere Behind xxx Ursula K. Le Guin From "Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?" xxx Katherine Mansfield A Letter to Richard Murray xxx Vladimir Nabokov Chekhov's "The Lady with the Little Dog" xxx Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" xxx Joyce Carol Oates The Making of a Writer xxx "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film xxx Flannery O'Connor On Her Own Work xxx Frank O'Connor The Legacy of Gogol's "Overcoat" xxx Edgar Allan Poe The Brief Prose Tale xxx Katherine Anne Porter The Writing of "Flowering Judas" xxx Jean Paul Sartre From For Whom Does One Write? xxx Leslie Marmon Silko Through the Story We Hear Who We Are xxx Susan Sontag From Against Interpretation xxx Alice Walker An Interview with Eudora Welty xxx The Old Artist: Notes on Mr. Sweet xxx David Foster Wallace Act Natural xxx Eudora Welty Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead? xxx Jeanette Winterson From A Work of My Own xxx Virginia Woolf From Craftsmanship xxx Approaching Fiction Critically xxx The Formalist, New Critical Approach xxx The Biographical Approach xxx The Historical and the New Historicist Approach xxx The Psychological Approach xxx The Mythological Approach xxx The Sociological/Marxist Approach xxx The Feminist Approach and Gender Studies xxx The Ecocritical Approach xxx The Reader Response Approach xxx The Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Approaches xxx Approaching Fiction Through Film Listening to, Reading, and Viewing Stories xxx Language and the Language of Film xxx Narrative Structure, Narrative Rhythm-Plot xxx Editing and Plot Rhythms xxx Editing and Transitions xxx Flashbacks, Dream Sequences, and Internal Thoughts xxx Elliptical Sequences xxx Mise-en-Scene-Character, Conflict, Setting xxx Actors and Acting xxx Sets and Wardrobes xxx Lighting Effects xxx Sounds and Soundtrack xxx Mise-en-Shot-Point of View, Language, and Tone xxx Photographic Qualities xxx Film Speed xxx Perspective of the Image xxx Framing xxx Movement xxx Duration xxx Adapting Short Fiction into Film xxx The Market xxx Faithfulness of Adaptation xxx The Art of Fictional Narration xxx A List of Short Fictions and Filmed Adaptations xxx Short Fictions and Films on Related Topics or Themes xxx Writing about Fiction Think about Your Purpose xxx Summarize xxx Analyze xxx Explicate xxx Evaluate xxx Think about Your Reader xxx Think about Your Critical Approach xxx Develop a Thesis xxx Return to the Story xxx Review Your Annotations and Questions xxx Review the Elements of Fiction xxx Make Lists xxx Freewrite xxx Review Biographical, Historical, and Critical Sources xxx Locate Sources xxx Books and Academic Journals xxx Databases xxx The World Wide Web xxx Evaluate Sources xxx Decide on Organization xxx Write a Draft xxx Revise and Edit xxx Fill in Details xxx Save Revisions xxx Prepare Final Draft xxx Sample Student Essays xxx A Summary xxx An Analysis of Seven Elements of Fiction xxx An Analysis of One Element of Fiction xxx An Explication xxx An Essay Employing a Personal Response xxx An Essay Using a Critical Approach xxx An Evaluation xxx A Researched Essay xxx An Analysis of a Filmed Adaptation xxx Glossary of Terms for Short Fiction xxx Chronological List of Writers and Titles xxx Acknowledgments xxx Index of Titles xxx
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Short stories.