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9780321083265

Longman Anthology of Short Fiction, Compact Edition, The: Stories and Authors in Context

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  • ISBN13:

    9780321083265

  • ISBN10:

    0321083261

  • Edition: Pamphlet
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-01-01
  • Publisher: Longman
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Summary

The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction, Compact Edition, provides a comprehensive survey of the short storyencompassing a rich global and historical mixin a way students find accessible, engaging, and relevant. The selections present a diverse mix of classic, contemporary, and fresh short stories. A unique feature, Fact into Fiction presents factual accounts of events that inspired selected authors to write particular works.

Table of Contents

About the Authors.

I. INTRODUCTION.

The Art of the Short Story.

II. ORIGINS OF THE SHORT STORY.

Myth.
Traditional, Roman.
Pygmalion and Galatea (from Ovid's Metamorphoses as retold by Edith Hamilton).
Traditional, African-American.
How the Snake Got Poison (collected by Zora Neale Hurston).

Fable.
Aesop, Greek.
The North Wind and the Sun.
Bidpai, Indian.
The Camel and His Friends (from the Panchatantra).

Parable.
Chuang Tzu, Chinese.
Independence.
Luke, Syrian.
The Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32, King James Version).

FolkTale.
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, German.
The Three Feathers (from German Folk Tales).
Anonymous, Arabic.
The Donkey (from The Thousand and one Nights).

Legend.
Brother Ugolino, Italian.
St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio.
Martin Buber, Israeli, born in Austria.
The Careless Rabbi.

Novella or Nouvelle.
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian.
The Pot of Basil (from The Decameron).
Margarite De Navarre, French.
The One-Eyed Servant and his Wife (from The Heptameron).

III. STORIES.

Chinua Achebe, Nigerian.
Civil Peace.
Author's Perspective, Achebe: Modern Africa as the Crossroads of Culture.

Sherwood Anderson, American.
Hands.
Author's Perspective: Anderson: Words Not Plot Give Form to a Short Story.

Anjana Appachana, Indian.
The Prophecy.

Margaret Atwood (b. 1939), Canadian.
Happy Endings.
Author's Perspective: Atwood: On the Canadian Identity.

James Baldwin, American.
Sonny's Blues.
Author's Perspective: Baldwin on Race and the African-American Writer.

Ann Beattie, American.
Janus.

Ambrose Bierce, American.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine.
The Garden of Forking Paths.
The Gospel According to Mark.
Author's Perspective: Borges: Literature As Experience.

T. Coraghessan Boyle, American.
Greasy Lake.

Raymond Carver, American.
Cathedral.
A Small, Good Thing.
Author's Perspective: Carver: Commonplace but Precise Language.

Willa Cather, American.
Paul's Case.
Author's Perspective: Cather: Art as the Process of Simplification.

Raymond Chandler, American.
Red Wind.
Author's Perspective: Chandler: On Crime Fiction.

John Cheever, American.
The Five-Forty-Eight.
Author's Perspective: Cheever: Why I Write Short Stories.

Anton Chekhov, Russian.
The Lady with the Pet Dog.
Misery.
Author's Perspective: Chekhov: Natural Description and “The Center of Gravity.”

Kate Chopin, American.
The Story of an Hour.

Sandra Cisneros, American.
Barbie-Q.

Joseph Conrad, Polish, Naturalized British.
The Secret Sharer.
Author's Perspective: Conrad: The Condition of Art.

Stephen Crane, American.
The Open Boat.

Ralph Ellison, American.
A Party Down at the Square.
Author's Perspective: Ellison: Race and Fiction.

Louise Erdrich, American.
The Red Convertible.

William Faulkner, American.
Barn Burning.
A Rose for Emily.
Author's Perspective: Faulkner: The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American.
Babylon Revisited.
Author's Perspective: Fitzgerald: On His Own Literary Aims.

Mavis Gallant, Canadian.
1933.

Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American.
The Yellow Wallpaper.

Nikolai Gogol, Russian.
The Overcoat.

Nadine Gordimer, South African.
A Company of Laughing Faces.
Author's Perspective: Gordimer: How the Short Story Differs from the Novel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American.
Young Goodman Brown.
Author's Perspective: Hawthorne: On the Public Failure of His Early Stories.

Ernest Hemingway, American.
Big Two-Hearted River, Part I and Part II.
Author's Perspective: Hemingway: One True Sentence.

Zora Neale Hurston, American.
Sweat.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese, Naturalized British.
A Family Supper.

Shirley Jackson, American.
The Lottery.

Sarah Orne Jewett, American.
A White Heron.

James Joyce, Irish.
Araby.
The Dead.
Author's Perspective: Joyce: Epiphanies.

Franz Kafka, Austro-Hungarian.
Before the Law.
The Metamorphosis.
Author's Perspective: Kafka: Discussing The Metamorphosis.

Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan, Naturalized American.
Girl.

D. H. Lawrence, English.
Odour of Chrysanthemums.
The Rocking-Horse Winner.
Author's Perspective: Lawrence: The Novel Is the Bright Book of Life.

Ursula K. Le Guin, American.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.
Author's Perspective: Le Guin: On “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.”

Doris Lessing, Rhodesian, Naturalized British.
A Woman on a Roof.

Katherine Mansfield, New Zealander.
Miss Brill.

Bobbie Ann Mason, American.
Shiloh.

Guy De Maupassant, French.
The Necklace.
Author's Perspective: Maupassant: The Realist Method.

Herman Melville, American.
Benito Cereno.

Yukio Mishima, Japanese.
Patriotism.

Lorrie Moore, American.
How to Become a Writer.

Alice Munro, Canadian.
How I Met My Husband.
Author's Perspective: Munro: How I Write Short Stories.

Joyce Carol Oates, American.
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Author's Perspective: Oates: Productivity and the Critics.

Tim O'Brien, American.
The Things They Carried.

Flannery O'Connor, American.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
Revelation.
Author's Perspective: O'Connor: The Element of Suspense in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.”

Tillie Olsen, American.
I Stand Here Ironing.
Author's Perspective: Olsen: Women's Silence.

Grace Paley, American.
A Conversation with My Father.

Octavio Paz, Mexican.
My Life with the Wave.

Jayne Anne Phillips, American.
Blind Girls.

Edgar Allan Poe, American.
The Purloined Letter.
The Tell-Tale Heart.
Author's Perspective: Poe: The Tale and Its Effect.

Katherine Anne Porter, American.
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.

Leslie Marmon Silko, American.
The Man to Send Rain Clouds.

John Steinbeck, American.
The Chrysanthemums.

Amy Tan, American.
A Pair of Tickets.
Author's Perspective: Tan: Setting the Voice.

Leo Tolstoy, Russian.
The Death of Ivan Ilych.

John Updike, American.
Separating.
Author's Perspective: Updike: Why Write?

Alice Walker, American.
Everyday Use.
Author's Perspective: Walker: The Black Woman Writer in America.

Eudora Welty, American.
Why I Live at the P.O.
Author's Perspective: Welty: The Plot of the Short Story.

Richard Wright, American, Naturalized French.
The Man Who Was Almost a Man.

IV. CRITICISM AND SOURCES.

Fact into Fiction: Historical and Biographical Sources.
On Raymond Carver's “Cathedral.”

Tess Gallagher, The Origins of “Cathedral.”

Tom Jenks, The Origins of “Cathedral.”
On Joseph Conrad's “The Secret Sharer.”
The Trial of Sidney Smith.
The Sentencing of Sidney Smith.
On Stephen Crane's “The Open Boat.”

Stephen Crane, The Sinking of the Commodore.
On Ralph Ellison's “A Party Down at the Square.”

James Weldon Johnson, Lynching in Tennessee.
On Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'”
On Zora Neale Hurston's “Sweat.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Eatonville When You Look at It.
On Herman Melville's “Benito Cereno” :

Amasa Delano, Particulars of the Capture of the Spanish Ship Tryal.
On Joyce Carol Oates' “Where are you going, Where have you been?”

Don Moser, The Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action.
On Tim O'Brien's “The Things They Carried.”

Tim O'Brien, Alpha Company.
On Flannery O'Connor's “A Good Man is Hard to find.”

J. O. Tate, A Good Source Is Not So Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit.
On Leslie Marmom Silko's “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” :

Leslie Marmon Silko, It's Based upon Something Vaguely Similar.
On Amy Tan's “A Pair of Tickets.”

Curt Schleier, Amy Tan's Unknown Chinese Family.

Critical Approaches to Fiction.
Formalist Criticism.

Cleanth Brooks, The Formalist Critic.

Michael Clark, Light and Darkness in “Sonny's Blues.”
Biographical Criticism.

Virginia Llewellyn Smith, Chekhov's Attitude to Romantic Love.

Jeffrey Meyers, Biographical Background to “Babylon Revisited.”
Historical Criticism.

Seamus Deane, Joyce's Vision of Dublin.

John King, The Argentinean Context of Borges's Fantastic Fiction.
Psychological Criticism.

Sigmund Freud, The Destiny of Oedipus.

Daniel Hoffman, The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
Mythological Criticism.

Northrop Frye, Mythic Archetypes.

Edmond Volpe, Myth in Faulkner's “Barn Burning.”
Sociological Criticism.

Georg Lukacs, Content Determines Form.

Daniel P. Watkins, Money and Labor in “The Rocking-Horse Winner.”
Gender Criticism.

Elaine Showalter, Toward a Feminist Criticism.

Juliann Fleenor, Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
Reader-Response Criticism.

Stanley Fish, An Eskimo “A Rose for Emily.”

Robert Brinkmeyer Jr, Flannery O'Connor and Her Readers.
Deconstructionist Criticism.

Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author.

Barbara Johnson, Rigorous Unreliability.
Cultural Studies.

Vincent B. Leitch, Poststructuralist Cultural Critique.

Mark Bauerlein, What is Cultural Studies?

V. APPENDICES.

A History of the Short Story.

The Elements of Short Fiction.

Writing About Fiction.

Acknowledgments.

Listing of Stories by Authors.

Glossary of Literary Terms.

Chronological Listing of Stories by Authors.

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