The story and its writer : an introduction to short fiction
The story and its writer : an introduction to short fiction
/ [edited by] Ann Charters
- Compact sixth edition
- xx, 1060 pages
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : the story and its writer Part I. Stories The lone ranger and Tonton fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie Hands / Sherwood Anderson Happy endings / Margaret Atwood Sonny's blues / James Baldwin The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara Black man and white woman in dark green rowboat / Russell Banks An occurrence at owl creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce The end of the duel / Jorge Luis Borges The bath / Raymond Carver A small, good thing / Raymond Carver What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver Paul's case / Willa Cather The swimmer / John Cheever Angel [the darling] / Anton Chekhov The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov The story of an hour / Kate Chopin The house of Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad The open boat / Stephen Crane Night women / Edwidge Danticat Battle royal / Ralph Ellison The red convertible / Louise Erdrich A rose for Emily / William Faulkner That evening sun / William Faulkner Tiny, smiling daddy / Mary Gaitskill A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman The ultimate safari / Nadine Gordimer Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemmingway The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston Rip Van Wrinkle / Washington Irving The lottery / Shirley Jackson A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett Araby / James Yoyce The dead / James Yoyce The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka Girl / Jamaica Kincaid The widow's son / Mary Lavin The rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason The necklace / Guy de Maupassant Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville Patriotism / Yukio Mishima Boys / Rick Moody The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee Family furnishings / Alice Munro Where are you going, where have you been? The things they carried / Tim O'Brien Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen A conversation with my father / Grace Paley My life with the wave / Octavio Paz The cask of amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter The blood bay / Annie Proulx The Steinbeck / John Steinbeck Two kids / Amy Tan The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thunber The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer A & P / John Updike Everyday use / Alice Walker A worn path / Eudora Welty The use of force / William Carlos Williams The rich brother / Tobias Wolff The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright Part II. Commentaries An image of Africa : Conrad's "Hearth of darkness" / Chinua Achebe Form, not plot, in the short story / Sherwood Anderson Reading blind / Margaret Atwood Author's note / Russell Banks On the meaning and form of "The end of the duel" / Jorge Luis Borges The stories of Katherine Mansfield / Willa Cather Why I write short stories / John Cheever How I stumbled upon Maupassant / Kate Chopin The sinking of the commodore / Stephen Crane The influence of folklore on "Battle royal" / Ralph Ellison The meaning of "A rose for Emily" / William Faulkner Why we like Chekhov / Richard Ford A feminist reading of Gilman's " The yellow wallpaper" / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar Undergoing the cure for nervous prostration / Charlotte Perkins Gilman Why I wrote "The yellow paper" / Charlotte Perkins Gilman A feminist perspective on Katherine Anne Porter and "The jilting of Granny Weatherall" / Carolyn G. Heilbrun Letter to Henry Brevoort, December 11, 1824 The morning of June 28, 1948, and "The lottery" / Shirley Jackson Looking back on girlhood / Sarah Orne Jewett Lynching in Tennessee / James Weldon Johnson On "Girl" / Jamaica Kincaid The lust of hate in Poe's "The cask of amontillado" / D. H. Lawrence On "The garden-party" / Katherine Mansfield On Tim O'Brien's "The things they carried" / Bobbie Ann Mason The writer's goal / Guy de Maupassant Blackness in Hawthorne's "Young goodman brown" / Herman Melville How I write short stories / Alice Munro Peter Klaus the goatherd / J. C. C. Nachtigal Smooth talk : short story into film / Joyce Carol Oates A reasonable use of the unreasonable / Flannery O'Connor Writing short stories / Flannery O'Connor Style and form in Joyce's "The dead" / Frank O'Connor A conversation with Ann Charters / Grace Paley The importance of the single effect in a prose tale / Edgar Allan Poe Chekhov's intent in "The darling" ["Angel"] / Leo Tolstoy The greatness of Conrad's "Hearth of darkness" / Lionel Trilling Kafka and "the metamorphosis" / John Updike Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead? / Eudora Welty On "the rich brother" / Tobias Wolf Reading fiction / Richard Wright Part III. Casebooks On writing / Raymond Carver Creative writing / Raymond Carver The Ashtray / Raymond Carver As Raymond Carver muses, his stature grows / Jim Naughton On "The bath and "A small, Good thing" / Kathleen Westfall Shute A reading of "What we talk about when we talk about love" / Arthur M. Saltzman Looking for Raymond Carver / A. O. Scott How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston What white publishers won't print / Zora Neale Hurston A folkloric analysis of Hurston's "Spunk" / Robert Bone The shape of Hurston's fiction / Rosalie Murphy Baum Zora Neale Hurston : a cautionary tale and a partisan view / Alice Walker
0312397313
Short stories
808.831
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : the story and its writer Part I. Stories The lone ranger and Tonton fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie Hands / Sherwood Anderson Happy endings / Margaret Atwood Sonny's blues / James Baldwin The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara Black man and white woman in dark green rowboat / Russell Banks An occurrence at owl creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce The end of the duel / Jorge Luis Borges The bath / Raymond Carver A small, good thing / Raymond Carver What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver Paul's case / Willa Cather The swimmer / John Cheever Angel [the darling] / Anton Chekhov The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov The story of an hour / Kate Chopin The house of Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad The open boat / Stephen Crane Night women / Edwidge Danticat Battle royal / Ralph Ellison The red convertible / Louise Erdrich A rose for Emily / William Faulkner That evening sun / William Faulkner Tiny, smiling daddy / Mary Gaitskill A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman The ultimate safari / Nadine Gordimer Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemmingway The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston Rip Van Wrinkle / Washington Irving The lottery / Shirley Jackson A white heron / Sarah Orne Jewett Araby / James Yoyce The dead / James Yoyce The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka Girl / Jamaica Kincaid The widow's son / Mary Lavin The rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason The necklace / Guy de Maupassant Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville Patriotism / Yukio Mishima Boys / Rick Moody The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee Family furnishings / Alice Munro Where are you going, where have you been? The things they carried / Tim O'Brien Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen A conversation with my father / Grace Paley My life with the wave / Octavio Paz The cask of amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter The blood bay / Annie Proulx The Steinbeck / John Steinbeck Two kids / Amy Tan The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thunber The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer A & P / John Updike Everyday use / Alice Walker A worn path / Eudora Welty The use of force / William Carlos Williams The rich brother / Tobias Wolff The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright Part II. Commentaries An image of Africa : Conrad's "Hearth of darkness" / Chinua Achebe Form, not plot, in the short story / Sherwood Anderson Reading blind / Margaret Atwood Author's note / Russell Banks On the meaning and form of "The end of the duel" / Jorge Luis Borges The stories of Katherine Mansfield / Willa Cather Why I write short stories / John Cheever How I stumbled upon Maupassant / Kate Chopin The sinking of the commodore / Stephen Crane The influence of folklore on "Battle royal" / Ralph Ellison The meaning of "A rose for Emily" / William Faulkner Why we like Chekhov / Richard Ford A feminist reading of Gilman's " The yellow wallpaper" / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar Undergoing the cure for nervous prostration / Charlotte Perkins Gilman Why I wrote "The yellow paper" / Charlotte Perkins Gilman A feminist perspective on Katherine Anne Porter and "The jilting of Granny Weatherall" / Carolyn G. Heilbrun Letter to Henry Brevoort, December 11, 1824 The morning of June 28, 1948, and "The lottery" / Shirley Jackson Looking back on girlhood / Sarah Orne Jewett Lynching in Tennessee / James Weldon Johnson On "Girl" / Jamaica Kincaid The lust of hate in Poe's "The cask of amontillado" / D. H. Lawrence On "The garden-party" / Katherine Mansfield On Tim O'Brien's "The things they carried" / Bobbie Ann Mason The writer's goal / Guy de Maupassant Blackness in Hawthorne's "Young goodman brown" / Herman Melville How I write short stories / Alice Munro Peter Klaus the goatherd / J. C. C. Nachtigal Smooth talk : short story into film / Joyce Carol Oates A reasonable use of the unreasonable / Flannery O'Connor Writing short stories / Flannery O'Connor Style and form in Joyce's "The dead" / Frank O'Connor A conversation with Ann Charters / Grace Paley The importance of the single effect in a prose tale / Edgar Allan Poe Chekhov's intent in "The darling" ["Angel"] / Leo Tolstoy The greatness of Conrad's "Hearth of darkness" / Lionel Trilling Kafka and "the metamorphosis" / John Updike Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead? / Eudora Welty On "the rich brother" / Tobias Wolf Reading fiction / Richard Wright Part III. Casebooks On writing / Raymond Carver Creative writing / Raymond Carver The Ashtray / Raymond Carver As Raymond Carver muses, his stature grows / Jim Naughton On "The bath and "A small, Good thing" / Kathleen Westfall Shute A reading of "What we talk about when we talk about love" / Arthur M. Saltzman Looking for Raymond Carver / A. O. Scott How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston What white publishers won't print / Zora Neale Hurston A folkloric analysis of Hurston's "Spunk" / Robert Bone The shape of Hurston's fiction / Rosalie Murphy Baum Zora Neale Hurston : a cautionary tale and a partisan view / Alice Walker
0312397313
Short stories
808.831