Description |
xiii, 926 pages : ports. ; 24 cm. |
Note |
"52 great authors, their best short fiction, and their insights on writing"--Cover. |
Contents |
Part I. Introduction. The art of the short story -- Part II. Stories [authors A-J]. Dead men's path ; Author's perspective: Modern Africa as the crossroads of culture / Chinua Achebe -- Hands ; Author's perspective: Words not plot give form to a short story / Sherwood Anderson -- Happy endings ; Author's perspective: On the Canadian identity / Margaret Atwood -- Sonny's blues ; Author's perspective: Race and the African-American writer / James Baldwin -- The garden of forking paths ; Author's perspective: Literature as experience / Jorge Luis Borges -- The guest ; Author's perspective: Revolution and repression in Algeria / Albert Camus -- Cathedral ; A small, good thing ; Author's perspective: Commonplace but precise language / Raymond Carver -- Paul's case ; Author's perspective: Art as the process of simplification / Willa Cather -- The swimmer ; Author's perspective: Why I write short stories / John Cheever -- The lady with the pet dog ; Misery ; Author's perspective: Natural description and "The center of gravity" / Anton Chekhov -- The storm ; The story of an hour ; Author's perspective: My writing method / Kate Chopin -- Barbie-Q ; Author's perspective: Bilingual style / Sandra Cisneros -- The secret sharer ; Author's perspective: The condition of art / Joseph Conrad -- The open boat ; Author's perspective: The sinking of the Commodore / Stephen Crane -- A party down at the square ; Author's perspective: Race and fiction / Ralph Ellison -- Barn burning ; A rose for Emily ; Author's perspective: The human heart in conflict with itself / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited ; Author's perspective: On his own literary aims / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A simple heart ; Author's perspective: The labor of style / Gustave Flaubert -- A very old man with enormous wings ; Author's perspective: My beginnings as a writer / Gabriel García Marquez -- The yellow wallpaper ; Author's perspective: Why I wrote "The yellow wallpaper" / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The overcoat ; Author's perspective: On realism / Nikolai Gogol -- A company of laughing faces ; Author's perspective: How the short story differs from the novel / Nadine Gordimer -- Young Goodman Brown ; The birthmark ; Author's perspective: On the public failure of his early stories / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A clean, well-lighted place ; Author's perspective: One true sentence / Ernest Hemingway -- Sweat ; Author's perspective: Eatonville when you look at it / Zora Neale Hurston -- The lottery ; Author's perspective: The public reception of "The lottery" / Shirley Jackson -- The real thing ; Author's perspective: The mirror of a consciousness / Henry James -- Saboteur ; Author's perspective: Deciding to write in English / Ha Jin -- Araby ; The dead ; Author's perspective: Epiphanies / James Joyce. |
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Part II[ Cont.]. Stories [authors K-W]. Before the law ; The metamorphosis ; Author's perspective: Discussing The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- Odour of Chrysanthemums ; The rocking-horse winner ; Author's perspective: The novel is the bright book of life / D.H. Lawrence -- The ones who walk away from Omelas ; Author's perspective: On "The ones who walk away from Omelas" / Ursula K. Le Guin -- A woman on a roof ; Author's perspective: My beginnings as a writer / Doris Lessing -- To build a fire ; Author's perspective: Defending the factuality of "To build a fire" / Jack London -- Miss Brill ; The garden-party ; Author's perspective: On "The garden-party" / Katherine Mansfield -- Shiloh ; Author's perspective: Minimalist fiction / Bobbie Ann Mason -- The necklace ; Author's perspective: The realist method / Guy de Maupassant -- Bartleby, the scrivener : a story of Wall-Street ; Author's perspective: American literature / Herman Melville -- Patriotism ; Author's perspective: Physical courage and death / Yukio Mishima -- How I met my husband ; Author's perspective: How I write short stories / Alice Munro -- Where are you going, where have you been? ; Author's perspective: Productivity and the critics / Joyce Carol Oates -- A good man is hard to find ; Revelation ; Author's perspective: The element of suspense in "A good man is hard to find" / Flannery O'Connor -- The fall of the House of Usher ; The Tell-tale heart ; Author's perspective: The tale and its effect / Edgar Allan Poe -- Flowering Judas ; Author's perspective: Writing "Flowering Judas" / Katherine Anne Porter -- The man to send rain clouds ; Author's perspective: The basis of "The man to send rain clouds" / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Gimpel the Fool ; Author's perspective: The character of Gimpel / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The death of Ivan Ilych ; Author's perspective: The moral responsibility of art / Leo Tolstoy -- Separating ; Author's perspective: Why write? / John Updike -- Everyday use ; Author's perspective: The Black woman writer in America / Alice Walker -- Why I live at the P.O. ; Author's perspective: The plot of the short story / Eudora Welty -- Roman fever ; Author's perspective: The subject of short stories / Edith Wharton -- A haunted house ; Author's perspective: Women and fiction / Virginia Woolf. |
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Part III. Writing. The elements of short fiction. Plot ; Characterization ; Point of view ; Setting ; Theme ; Style -- 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? / Makr Bauerlein -- Part IV. Glossary of literary terms. |
Summary |
Presents a collection of fifty-two short stories, covering a wide range of international authors and offering insight into the art of short story, including works by Chinua Achebe, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Yukio Mishima, Eudora Welty, among others. |
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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 |
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9780321337221 |
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