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9780867092912

Introduction to the Short Story

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  • ISBN13:

    9780867092912

  • ISBN10:

    0867092912

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-04-06
  • Publisher: Heinemann Publishing

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Summary

A classic since its original publication twenty-five years ago, Introduction to the Short Story is now revised and expanded, with the addition of six stories new to this fourth edition. The text opens with a new section devoted to examining how readers of short stories--or any kind of literature--can, and do, approach such reading.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction ix
PART ONE Three Ways In 1(44)
The Liar
4(20)
Tobias Wolff
Everyday Use
24(10)
Alice Walker
Dance of the Happy Shades
34(11)
Alice Munro
PART TWO A Baker's Dozen 45(174)
Sixteen
47(8)
Jessamyn West
A Sense of Shelter
55(12)
John Updike
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
67(6)
James Thurber
The Cask of Amontillado
73(7)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Management of Grief
80(15)
Bharati Mukherjee
The Rocking-Horse Winner
95(15)
D.H. Lawrence
The Use of Force
110(4)
William Carlos Williams
A Poetics for Bullies
114(17)
Stanley Elkin
Flight
131(17)
John Steinbeck
Battle Royal
148(15)
Ralph Ellison
The Boat
163(17)
Alistair MacLeod
Sonny's Blues
180(30)
James Baldwin
Sun and Shadow
210(9)
Ray Bradbury
PART THREE An Analysis of Form 219(56)
The Catbird Seat
221(14)
James Thurber
Plot
229(6)
First Confession
235(23)
Frank O'Connor
Character
242(5)
Point of View
247(11)
The Lottery
258(17)
Shirley Jackson
Tone
266(7)
Setting
273(2)
Theme
275

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