Denote selections that are new to this edition | |
Most chapters conclude with "Writing Assignment" and "Further Suggestions for Writing." | |
Fiction | |
Reading a Story | |
Fable, Parable, and Tales | |
The Appointment in Samarra | |
The Fox and the Grapes | |
The Camel and His Friends | |
Independence | |
Godfather Death | |
Plot? The Short Story? | |
Updike A & P Writer's Perspective? | |
Updike on Writing, Why Write? | |
Writing Critically | |
What's The Plot? | |
Point of View | |
A Rose for Emily | |
Interpreter of Maladies | |
Sonny's Blues | |
Why I Live at the P.O | |
Writer's Perspective | |
James Baldwin on Writing, Race and the African-American Writer | |
Writing Critically | |
How Point of View Shapes a Story | |
Character | |
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | |
Everyday Use | |
Cathedral | |
Writer's Perspective | |
Raymond Carver on Writing, Commonplace but Precise Language | |
Writing Critically | |
How Character Creates Action | |
Setting | |
The Storm | |
To Build a Fire | |
Greasy Lake | |
A Pair of Tickets | |
Writer's Perspective | |
Amy Tan on Writing, Setting the Voice | |
Writing Critically | |
How Time and Place Set a Story | |
Tone and Style | |
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place | |
Barn Burning Irony? | |
The Necklace | |
Saboteur | |
Writer's Perspective? | |
Ernest Hemingway on Writing, The Direct Style | |
Writing Critically? | |
Be Style Conscious | |
Theme | |
The Open Boat | |
Day of the Butterfly | |
Luke 15: 11-32, The Parable of the Prodigal Son | |
Writer's Perspective? | |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. on Writing, The Themes of Science Fiction | |
Writing Critically | |
Stating the Theme | |
Symbol | |
The Chrysanthemums | |
The Lottery | |
No One's a Mystery | |
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | |
Writer's Perspective | |
Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing, On "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." | |
Writing Critically | |
Recognizing Symbols | |
Writing Assignment | |
Student Essay, An Analysis of the Symbolism In Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums." | |
Evaluating a Story | |
Writing Critically | |
Know What You're Judging | |
Reading Long Stories and Novels | |
The Death of Ivan Ilych | |
The Metamorphosis | |
Writer's Perspective | |
Franz Kafka on Writing, Discussing The Metamorphosis | |
Writing Critically | |
Leaving Things Out | |
Writing Assignment: Student Essay, Kafka's Greatness | |
Two Critical Casebooks | |
The Tell-Tale Heart | |
The Fall of the House of Usher | |
The Masque of the Red Death | |
Edgar Allan Poe on Edgar Allan Poe | |
The Tale and Its Effect | |
The Philosophy of Composition | |
On Imagination | |
Critics on | |
The Father-Figure in "The Tell-Tale Heart." | |
A Psychoanalytic Reading of "The Masque of the Red. Death." | |
On Poe's Genius | |
Poe's Quest for Supernal Beauty | |
Good Country People | |
A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
Revelation | |
On Flannery O'Connor | |
Excerpt from "On Her Own Work": The Element of Suspense in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." | |
On Her Catholic Faith | |
Excerpt from "The Grotesque in Southern Fiction": The Serious Writer and the Tired Reader | |
Yearbook Cartoons | |
Critics on | |
And Her Readers | |
A Good Source Is Not So Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit | |
Deconstructing "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." | |
Comic Perversion in "Good Country People." | |
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