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Title:

The story and its writer : an introduction to short fiction / [edited by] Ann Charters.

Edition:

6th ed.

Publisher:

Bedford/St. Martin's,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xxxiii, 1801 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Short stories.
Short story.
Literature, Modern.

Other Authors:

Charters, Ann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

An occurance at oval creek bridge / pt. 1. Stories -- Civil peace / Ambrose Bierce The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie -- The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen -- And of clay are we created / Isable Allende -- River of names / Dorothy Allison -- The immortals / Martin Amis -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood -- My first goose / Isaac Babel -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Black man and white woman in dark green rowboat / Russell Banks -- Lost in the funhouse / Johb Barth -- Me and Miss Mandible / Donald Barthelme -- Find and replace / Ann Beattie -- Who is it can tell me who I am? / Gina Berriault -- An occurance at oval creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce
Raymond Carver / Creative Writing 101 Sherman Alexie / The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven -- Woody Allen / The Kugelmass Episode -- Isabelle Allende / And of Clay Are We Created -- Dorothy Allison / River of Names -- Martin Amis / The Immortals -- Sherwood Anderson / Death in the Woods -- Sherwood Anderson / Hands -- Margaret Atwood / Happy Endings -- Margaret Atwood / Rape Fantasies -- Isaac Babel / My First Goose -- James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues -- Toni Cade Bambara / The Lesson -- Russell Banks / Black Man and Donald Barthelme / Me and Miss Mandible -- Ann Beattie / Find and Replace -- Gina Berriault / Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am? -- Ambrose Bierce / An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -- Jorge Luis Borges / The End of the Duel -- Tadeusz Borowski / This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen -- T. Corraghesan Boyle / Friendly Skies -- Albert Camus / The Guest -- Angela Carter / The Company of Wolves -- Raymond Carver / The Bath -- Raymond Carver / A Small, Good Thing -- Raymond Carver / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love -- Willa Cather / Paul's Case -- John Cheever / The Swimmer -- Anton Chekhov / Angel [The Darling] -- Anton Chekhov / A Blunder -- Anton Chekhov / The Lady with the Little Dog -- Charles Chesnutt / The Wife of His Youth -- Kate Chopin / Dèsirèe's Baby -- Kate Chopin / The Story of an Hour -- Sandra Cisneros / The House on Mango Street -- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) / The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County -- Joseph Conrad / Heart of Darkness -- Julio Cortázar / A Continuity of Parks -- Stephen Crane / The Open Boat -- Edwidge Danticat / Night Women -- Junot Diaz / The Sun, The Moon, The Stars -- Isak Dinesen / Sorrow Acre -- Ralph Ellison / Battle Royal -- Louise Erdrich / The Red Convertible -- William Faulkner A Rose for Emily -- William Faulkner / That Evening Sun -- F. Scott Fitzgerald / Babylon Revisited -- Gustave Flaubert/ A Simple Heart -- Mary Wilkins Freeman / The Revolt of Mother -- Mary Gaitskill / Tiny Smiling Daddy -- Gabriel García Márquez / A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman / The Yellow Wallpaper -- Nikolai Gogol / The Overcoat -- Nadine Gordimer / Ultimate Safari -- Nathaniel Hawthorne / The Birthmark -- Nathaniel Hawthorne / Young Goodman Brown -- Bessie Head / Woman from America -- Ernest Hemingway / Hills Like White Elephants -- Zora Neale Hurston / The Gilded Six-Bits -- Zora Neale Hurston / Spunk -- Zora Neale Hurston / Sweat -- Yusuf Idris / The Chair Carrier -- Washington Irving / Rip Van Winkle -- Shirley Jackson / The Lottery -- Henry James / The Real Thing -- Gish Jen / Whose Irish? -- Sarah Orne Jewett / A White Heron -- Ha Jin / The Bridegroom -- Charles Johnson / Menagerie, A Child's Fable -- James Joyce / Araby -- James Joyce / The Dead -- Franz Kafka / A Hunger Artist -- Franz Kafka / The Metamorphosis -- Jamaica Kincaid / Girl -- Ivan Klíma / The White House -- Jhumpa Lahiri / The Interpreter of Maladies -- Mary Lavin / The Widow's Son -- D. H. Lawrence/ Odour of Chrysanthemums -- D. H. Lawrence / The Rocking-Horse Winner -- Ursula K. Le Guin / The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas -- Doris Lessing / Sunrise on the Veld -- Clarice Lispector / The Smallest Woman in the World -- Jack London / To Build a Fire -- Katherine Mansfield / Bliss -- Katherine Mansfield / The Garden-Party -- Bobbie Ann Mason / Shiloh -- Guy de Maupassant / The Necklace -- Guy de Maupassant / Clochette -- Herman Melville / Bartleby, the Scrivener -- Susan Minot / Lust -- Yukio Mishima / Patriotism -- Rick Moody / Boys -- Lorrie Moore / How to Become a Writer -- Bharati Mukherjee / The Management of grief -- Alice Munro / Family Furnishings -- Haruki Murakami / The Seventh Man -- Joyce Carol Oates / Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? -- Tim O'Brien / The Things They Carried -- Flannery O'Connor / Everything That Rises Must Converge -- Flannery O'Connor / Good Country People -- Flannery O'Connor / A Good Man Is Hard to Find -- Frank O'Connor / Guests of the Nation -- Tillie Olsen / I Stand Here Ironing -- Cynthia Ozick / The Shawl -- Grace Paley / A Conversation with My Father -- Octavio Paz / My Life with the Wave -- Edgar Allan Poe / The Cask of Amontillado -- Edgar Allan Poe / The Fall of the House of Usher -- Edgar Allan Poe / The Tell-Tale Heart -- Katherine Anne Porter / The Jilting of Granny Weatherall -- William Sidney Porter (O. Henry) / The Last Leaf -- Annie Proulx / The Blood Bay -- Philip Roth / The Conversion of the Jews -- Leslie Marmon Silko / Yellow Woman -- Susan Sontag / The Way We Live Now -- Gertrude Stein / Miss Furr and Miss Skeene -- John Steinbeck / The Chrysanthemums -- Amy Tan / Two Kinds -- James Thurber / The Secret Life of Walter Mitty -- Leo Tolstoy / The Death of Ivan Ilych -- Jean Toomer / Blood Burning Moon -- John Updike / A & P -- Helena María Viramontes / The Moths -- Kurt Vonnegut / Jr., Harrison Bergeron -- Alice Walker / Everyday Use -- Eudora Welty / Why I Live at the P.O. -- Eudora Welty / A Worn Path -- Edith Wharton / Roman Fever -- John Edgar Wideman / Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies -- William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force -- Tobias Wolff / The Rich Brother -- Virginia Woolf / Kew Gardens -- Richard Wright / The Man Who Was Almost a Man -- Hisaye Yamamoto / Wilshire Bus -- Chinua Achebe / An Image of Africa: Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" -- Paula Gunn Allen / Whirlwind Man Steals Yellow Woman -- Sherwood Anderson / Form, Not Plot, in the Short Story -- Margaret Atwood / Reading Blind -- James Baldwin / Autobiographical Notes -- Russell Banks / Author's Note -- Jorge Luis Borges / On the Meaning and Form of "The End of the Duel" -- Willa Cather / The Stories of Katherine Mansfield -- John Cheever / Why I Write Short Stories -- Kate Chopin / How I Stumbled upon Maupassant -- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) / Private History of "The Jumping Frog" Story -- Robert Coles / Tillie Olsen: The Iron and the Riddle -- Stephen Crane / The Sinking of the Commodore -- Ralph Ellison / The Influence of Folklore on "Battle Royal" -- Richard Ellmann / A Biographical Perspective on Joyce's "The Dead" -- William Faulkner / The Meaning of A Rose for Emily -- Carlos Fuentes, Mexico / The United States, and the Multicultural Future -- Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar / A Feminist Reading of Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" -- Janice H. Harris / Levels of Meaning in Lawrence's The Rocking-Horse Winner -- Carolyn G. Heilbrun / A Feminist Perspective on Katherine Anne Porter and "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" -- Washington Irving / Letter to Henry Brevoort, December 11, 1824 -- Shirley Jackson / The Morning of June 28, 1948, and "The Lottery" -- Henry James / The Genesis of "The Real Thing" -- Gustav Janouch / Kafka's View of "The Metamorphosis" -- Sarah Orne Jewett / Looking Back on Girlhood -- James W. Johnson / Lynching in Tennessee -- Jamaica Kincaid / On "Girl" -- D. H. Lawrence / Draft Passage from "Odour of Chrysanthemums" -- Leslie Lee / Scene from the Screenplay of Almos' a Man -- Ursula K. Le Guin / The Scapegoat in Omelas -- Jack London / Letter to the Editor on "To Build a Fire" -- Katherine Mansfield / On "The Garden Party" -- Katherine Mansfield / Review of Woolf's "Kew Gardens" -- Bobbie Ann Mason / On Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" -- Guy de Maupassant / The Writer's Goal -- Herman Melville / Blackness in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" -- J. Hillis Miller / Who Is He? Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" -- Alice Munro / How I Write Short Stories -- Vladimir Nabokov / Gogol's Genius in "The Overcoat" -- J. C. C. Nachtigal, Peter Klaus the Goatherd -- Joyce Carol Oates, Smooth Talk: Short Story Into Film -- Tim O'Brien, Alpha Company -- Frank O'Connor, The Nearest Thing to Lyric Poetry Is the Short Story -- Frank O'Connor / Style and Form in Joyce's "The Dead" -- Grace Paley / A Conversation with Ann Charters -- Jay Parini / Lawrence and Steinbeck's "Chrysanthemums" -- Francine Prose / The Bones of Muzhiks: Isaac Babel Gets Lost in Translation -- Peter Rudy / Tolstoy's Revisions in "The Death of Ivan Illych" -- Salman Rushdie / On Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber -- Edward Said / The Past and the Present: Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography -- Leslie Marmon Silko / Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective -- Jane Smiley / Gregor: My Life as a Bug -- Amy Tan, In the Canon / For All the Wrong Reasons -- Lionel Trilling / The Greatness of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" -- John Updike / Kafka and "The Metamorphosis" -- Eudora Welty / Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead? -- Edith Wharton / Every Subject Must Contain within Itself Its Own Dimensions -- Tobias Wolff / On "The Rich Brother" -- Richard Wright / Reading Fiction -- Mary Zimmerman / U.S. Latino Literature: History and Development -- Raymond Carver / On Writing -- Raymond Carver / Creative Writing 101
Joan Dayan, Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves. The Question of Poe's Narrators in "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado" -- Jim Naughton / As Raymond Carver Muses, His Stature Grows -- Kathleen Westfall Shute / On "The Bath" and "A Small, Good Thing" -- Arthur M. Saltzman / A Reading of "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" -- A.O. Scott / Looking for Raymond Carver -- Anton Chekhov / Technique in Writing the Short Story -- Richard Ford / Why We Like Chekhov -- Richard Ford / Editor's Note on "The Blunder" -- Vladimir Nabokov / A Reading of Chekhov's "The Lady with the Little Dog" -- Leo Tolstoy / Chekhov's Intent in "The Darling" ["Angel"-- Eudora Welty / Plot and Character in Chekhov's "The Darling" ["Angel"] -- Zora Neale Hurston / How It Feels to Be Colored Me -- Zora Neale Hurston / What White Publishers Won't Print -- Robert Bone / A Folkloric Analysis of Hurston's "Spunk" and "The Gilded Six-Bits" -- Rosalie Murphy Baum / The Shape of Hurston's Fiction -- Alice Walker / Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View -- Flannery O'Connor / From Letters 1954-1955 -- Flannery O'Connor / Writing Short Stories -- Flannery O'Connor / A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable -- V. S. Pritchett / Flannery O'Connor: Satan Comes to Georgia -- Robert H. Brinkmeyer / Jr., Flannery O'Connor and Her Readers -- Dorothy Tuck McFarland / On "Good Country People" -- Wayne C. Booth / A Rhetorical Reading of O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge" -- Sally Fitzgerald / Southern Sources of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" -- Edgar Allan Poe / The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale -- D. H. Lawrence / On "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Cask of Amontillado" -- Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren / A New Critical Reading of "The Fall of the House of Usher" -- James W. Gargano / The Question of Poe's Narrators in "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado" -- J. Gerald Kennedy, On "The Fall of the House of Usher" David S. Reynolds, Poe's Art of Transformation in "The Cask of Amontillado -- Joan Dayan, Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves.

ISBN:

9780312397296
0312397291

LCCN:

2002102535

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)