Short Stories in the Classroom

by Hamilton, Carole L.; Kratzke, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780814103999
• ISBN10: 0814103995
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Natl Council of Teachers

Table of Contents

Foreword: What Is a Short Story, and How Do We Teach It?	xi
I. Making It Personal	1	(30)
Shared Weight: Tim O'Brien's ``The Things They Carried''	5	(5)
Susanne Rubenstein
Being People Together: Toni Cade Bambara's ``Raymond's Run''	10	(8)
Janet Ellen Kaufman
Destruct to Instruct: ``Teaching'' Graham Greene's ``The Destructors''	18	(4)
Sara R. Joranko
Zora Neale Hurston's ``How It Feels to Be Colored Me'': A Writing and Self-Discovery Process	22	(9)
Judy L. Isaksen
II. Seeing What Is Really There	31	(34)
Forcing Readers to Read Carefully: William Carlos Williams's ``The Use of Force''	33	(9)
Charles E. May
``Nothing Much Happens in This Story'': Teaching Sarah Orne Jewett's ``A White Heron''	42	(6)
Janet Gebhart Auten
How Did I Break My Students of One of Their Biggest Bad Habits as Readers? It Was Easy: Using Alice Walker's ``How Did I Get Away...''	48	(6)
Kelly Chandler
Reading between the Lines of Gina Berriault's ``The Stone Boy''	54	(5)
Carole L. Hamilton
Led to Condemn: Discovering the Narrative Strategy of Herman Melville's ``Bartleby the Scrivener''	59	(6)
James Tackach
III. Perceiving the Story's Underlying Structure	65	(30)
One Great Way to Read Short Stories: Studying Character Deflection in Morley Callaghan's ``All the Years of Her Life''	67	(5)
Grant Tracey
Stories about Stories: Teaching Narrative Using William Saroyan's ``My Grandmother Lucy Tells a Story without a Beginning, a Middle, or an End''	72	(6)
Brenda Dyer
The Story Looks at Itself: Narration in Virginia Woolf's ``An Unwritten Novel''	78	(7)
Tamara Grogan
Structuralism and Edith Wharton's ``Roman Fever''	85	(10)
Linda L. Gill
IV. Encountering Other Perspectives	95	(32)
Creating Independent Analyzers of the Short Story with Rawlings's ``A Mother in Mannville''	97	(11)
Russell Shipp
Plato's ``Myth of the Cave'' and the Pursuit of Knowledge	108	(5)
Dennis Young
Through Cinderella: Four Tools and the Critique of High Culture	113	(5)
Lawrence Pruyne
Getting behind Gilman's ``The Yellow Wallpaper''	118	(9)
Dianne Fallon
V. Discerning the Story's Cultural Perspective	127	(36)
Expanding the Margins in American Literature Using Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City	131	(8)
Barbara Kaplan Bass
Shuffling the Race Cards: Toni Morrison's ``Recitatif''	139	(6)
E. Shelley Reid
Readers, Cultures, and ``Revolutionary'' Literature: Teaching Toni Cade Bambara's ``The Lesson''	145	(8)
Jennifer Seibel Trainor
Learning to Listen to Stories: Sherman Alexie's ``Witnesses, Secret and Not''	153	(10)
Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez
VI. Refining Taste	163	(28)
``Sometimes, Bad Is Bad'': Teaching Theodore Dreiser's ``Typhoon'' and the American Literary Canon	167	(5)
Peter Kratzke
Teaching Flawed Fiction: ``The Most Dangerous Game''	172	(7)
Tom Hansen
Reading Louise Erdrich's ``American Horse''	179	(6)
Pat Onion
Opening the Door to Understanding Joyce Carol Oates's ``Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?''	185	(6)
Richard E. Mezo
Afterword: Writing by the Flash of the Firefly	191	(4)
A Bibliographic Postscript	195	(2)
Index	197	(6)
Editors	203	(2)
Contributors	205