The Art of the Short Story

by Gioia, Dana; Gwynn, R. S.

• ISBN13: 9780321363633
• ISBN10: 0321363639
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: PEARSO

Summary

This affordably-priced collection presents masterpieces of short fiction from 52 of the greatest story writers of all time. From Sherwood Anderson to Virginia Woolf, this anthology encompasses a rich global and historical mix of the very best works of short fiction and presents them in a way students will find accessible, engaging, and relevant. the book's unique integration of biographical and critical background gives students a more intimate understanding of the works and their authors.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
About the Authors	xiii
Part I Introduction	1	(6)
The Art of the Short Story	3	(4)
Part II Stories	7	(840)
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian	9	(5)
Dead Men's Path	10	(2)
Achebe: Modern Africa as the Crossroads of Culture	12	(2)
Sherwood Anderson, American	14	(7)
Hands	15	(4)
Anderson: Words Not Plot Give Form to a Short Story	19	(2)
Margaret Atwood, Canadian	21	(312)
Happy Endings	22	(2)
Atwood: On the Canadian Identity	24	(309)
Nadine Gordimer, South African	333	(14)
A Company of Laughing Faces	334	(11)
Gordimer: How the Short Story Differes from the Novel	345	(2)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, American	347	(23)
Young Goodman Brown	348	(9)
The Birthmark	357	(12)
Hawthorne: On the Public Failure of His Early Stories	369	(1)
Ernest Hemingway, American	370	(7)
A Clean Well-Lighted Place	372	(3)
Hemingway: One True Sentence	375	(2)
Zora Neale Hurston, American	377	(12)
Sweat	378	(9)
Hurston: Eatonville When You Look at It	387	(2)
Shirley Jackson, American	389	(10)
The Lottery	390	(6)
Jackson: The Public Reception of ``The Lottery''	396	(3)
Henry James, American, Naturalized British	399	(20)
The Real Thing	400	(18)
James: The Mirror of a Consciousness	418	(1)
Ha Jin, born in China, Resident American	419	(10)
Saboteur	420	(7)
Jin: Deciding to Write in English	427	(2)
James Joyce, Irish	429	(36)
Araby	430	(4)
The Dead	434	(30)
Joyce: Epiphanies	464	(1)
Franz Kafka, Austro-Hungarian	465	(37)
Before the Law	466	(1)
The Metamorphosis	467	(33)
Kafka: Discussing The Metamorphosis	500	(2)
D. H. Lawrence, English	502	(28)
Odour of Chrysanthemums	503	(14)
The Rocking-Horse Winner	517	(11)
Lawrence: The Novel Is the Bright Book of Life	528	(2)
Ursula K. Le Guin, American	530	(7)
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	531	(4)
Le Guin: On ``The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas''	535	(2)
Doris Lessing, Rhodesian, Naturalized British	537	(10)
A Woman on a Roof	538	(7)
Lessing: My Beginnings as a Writer	545	(2)
Jack London, American	547	(14)
To Build a Fire	548	(11)
London: Defending the Factuality of ``To Build a Fire''	559	(2)
Katherine Mansfield, New Zealander	561	(16)
Miss Brill	562	(3)
The Garden-Party	565	(10)
Mansfield: On ``The Garden-Party''	575	(2)
Bobbie Ann Mason, American	577	(13)
Shiloh	578	(10)
Mason: Minimalist Fiction	588	(2)
Guy De Maupassant, French	590	(9)
The Necklace	591	(6)
Maupassant: The Realist Method	597	(2)
Herman Melville, American	599	(29)
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street	600	(26)
Melville: American Literature	626	(2)
Yukio Mishima, Japanese	628	(20)
Patriotism	629	(17)
Mishima: Physical Courage and Death	646	(2)
Alice Munro, Canadian	648	(15)
How I Met My Husband	649	(12)
Munro: How I Write Short Stories	661	(2)
Joyce Carol Oates, American	663	(14)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?	664	(12)
Oates: Productivity and the Critics	676	(1)
Flannery O'Connor, American	677	(30)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	678	(11)
Revelation	689	(15)
O'Connor: The Element of Suspense in ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find''	704	(3)
Edgar Allan Poe, American	707	(19)
The Fall of the House of Usher	708	(13)
The Tell-Tale Heart	721	(4)
Poe: The Tale and Its Effect	725	(1)
Katherine Anne Porter, American	726	(12)
Flowering Judas	727	(9)
Porter: Writing ``Flowering Judas''	736	(2)
Leslie Marmon Silko, American	738	(6)
The Man to Send Rain Clouds	739	(3)
Silko: The Basis of ``The Man to Send Rain Clouds''	742	(2)
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish (born in Poland), Naturalized American	744	(13)
Gimpel the Fool	745	(10)
Singer: The Character of Gimpel	755	(2)
Leo Tolstoy, Russian	757	(42)
The Death of Ivan Ilych	758	(39)
Tolstoy: The Moral Responsibilities of Art	797	(2)
John Updike, American	799	(10)
Separating	800	(8)
Updike: Why Write?	808	(1)
Alice Walker, American	809	(10)
Everyday Use	810	(6)
Walker: The Black Woman Writer in America	816	(3)
Eudora Welty, American	819	(12)
Why I Live at the P.O.	820	(9)
Welty: The Plot of the Short Story	829	(2)
Edith Wharton, American	831	(12)
Roman Fever	832	(9)
Wharton: The Subject of Short Stories	841	(2)
Virginia Woolf, English	843	(4)
A Haunted House	844	(1)
Woolf: Women and Fiction	845	(2)
Part III Writing	847	(58)
The Elements of Short Fiction	849	(14)
Plot	849	(5)
Characterization	854	(3)
Point of View	857	(2)
Setting	859	(1)
Theme	860	(1)
Style	861	(2)
Writing About Fiction	863	(15)
Critical Approaches to Literature	878	(27)
Formalist Criticism	879	(2)
Light and Darkness in ``Sonny's Blues''	880	(1)
Michael Clark
Biographical Criticism	881	(3)
Chekhov's Attitude to Romantic Love	882	(2)
Virginia Llewellyn Smith
Historical Criticism	884	(3)
The Argentine Context of Borges's Fantastic Fiction	885	(2)
John King
Psychological Criticism	887	(3)
The Father-Figure in ``The Tell-Tale Heart''	888	(2)
Daniel Hoffman
Mythological Criticism	890	(2)
Myth in Faulkner's ``Barn Burning''	891	(1)
Edmond Volpe
Sociological Criticism	892	(3)
Money and Labor in ``The Rocking-Horse Winner''	893	(2)
Daniel P. Watkins
Gender Criticism	895	(2)
Gender and Pathology in ``The Yellow Wallpaper''	896	(1)
Juliann Fleenor
Reader-Response Criticism	897	(2)
An Eskimo ``A Rose for Emily''	898	(1)
Stanley Fish
Deconstructionist Criticism	899	(2)
The Death of the Author	900	(1)
Roland Barthes
Cultural Studies	901	(4)
What Is Cultural Studies?	902	(3)
Mark Bauerlein
Part IV Glossary of Literary Terms	905	(16)
Acknowledgments	921	(1)
Chronological Listing of Authors (inside covers)