Perrine's Story and Structure
By: Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson.
Contributors: Arp, Thomas R.; Johnson, Greg, 1953-
Edition: Tenth Edition (2)
Publisher: Thomson Heinle
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 755
ISBN-13: 9780155074965
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Short stories.; Short story.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. The Elements of Fiction --; title: Chapter 1. Reading the Story --; title: The Most Dangerous Game / Richard Connell --; title: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway --; title: Chapter 2. Plot and Structure --; title: The Destructors / Graham Greene --; title: How I Met My Husband / Alice Munro --; title: Interpreter of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri --; title: Chapter 3. Characterization --; title: Everyday Use / Alice Walker --; title: Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield --; title: Hunters in the Snow / Tobias Wolff --; title: Chapter 4. Theme --; title: The Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara --; title: Eveline / James Joyce --; title: A Worn Path / Eudora Welty --; title: Once upon a Time / Nadine Gordimer --; title: Chapter 5. Point of View --; title: Paul's Case / Willa Cather --; title: The Lottery / Shirley Jackson --; title: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter --; title: A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner --; title: Chapter 6. Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy --; title: The Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence --; title: Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --; title: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Translated by Gregory Rabassa --; title: Chapter 7. Humor and Irony --; title: The Drunkard / Frank O'Connor --; title: You're Ugly, Too / Lorrie Moore --; title: The Guest / Albert Camus / Translated by Justin O'Brien --; title: Chapter 8. Evaluating Fiction --; title: General Exercises for Analysis and Evaluation --; title: A Municipal Report / O. Henry --; title: A Jury of Her Peers / Susan Glaspell --; title: Roman Fever / Edith Wharton --; title: A New Leaf / F. Scott Fitzgerald --; title: Part 2. Three Fiction Casebooks Anton Chekhov, Flannery O'Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates --; title: Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov / Translated by Constance Garnett --; title: The Lady with the Dog / Translated by Constance Garnett --; title: The Darling / Translated by Constance Garnett --; title: Critical Perspectives on Chekhov --; title: Anton Chekhov, From His Letters --; title: Eudora Welty, From "Reality in Chekhov's Stories" --; title: Richard Ford, From "Why We Like Chekhov" --; title: Thomas Winner, On "The Darling" --; title: A Good Man Is Hard to Find / Flannery O'Connor --; title: A Late Encounter with the Enemy --; title: Greenleaf --; title: Critical Perspectives on O'Connor --; title: Flannery O'Connor, "A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable" --; title: Flannery O'Connor, "Letter to a Professor of English" --; title: Madison Jones, "A Good Man's Predicament" --; title: Richard Giannone, On "A Late Encounter with the Enemy" --; title: Gilbert H. Muller, On "Greenleaf" --; title: Heat / Joyce Carol Oates --; title: The Lady with the Pet Dog --; title: Life after High School --; title: Critical Perspectives on Oates --; title: Joyce Carol Oates, From "Stories That Define Me: The Making of a Writer" --; title: Joyce Carol Oates, On "Heat" --; title: Greg Johnson, On "Heat" --; title: Matthew C. Brennan, "Plotting against Chekhov: Joyce Carol Oates and 'The Lady with the Dog'" --; title: Part 3. Writing About Fiction --; title: I. Why Write about Literature? --; title: II. For Whom Do You Write? --; title: III. Choosing a Topic --; title: 1. Papers That Focus on a Single Story --; title: 2. Papers of Comparison and Contrast --; title: 3. Papers on a Number of Works by a Single Author --; title: 4. Papers on a Number of Works with Some Feature Other Than Authorship in Common --; title: IV. Proving Your Point --; title: V. Writing the Paper --; title: VI. Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q10) --; title: VII. Documentation --; title: 1. Textual Documentation (TD1-TD4) --; title: 2. Parenthetical Documentation (PD1-PD6) --; title: VIII. Stance and Style (S1-S6) --; title: IX. Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems --; title: 1. Grammar (G1-G2) --; title: 2. Punctuation (P1-P5) --; title: 3. Usage (U1-U2) --; title: X. Writing Samples --; title: 1. Fiction Explication: "Darkness" in the Conclusion of "The Child by Tiger" --; title: 2. Fiction Analysis: The Function of the Frame Story in "Once upon a Time" --; title: Part 4. Stories for Further Reading --; title: Civil Peace / Chinua Achebe --; title: Errand / Raymond Carver --; title: The Swimmer / John Cheever --; title: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane --; title: Love in L.A. / Dagoberto Gilb --; title: The Gilded Six-Bits / Zora Neale Hurston --; title: Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville --; title: The Shawl / Cynthia Ozick --; title: The Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: He / Katherine Anne Porter --; title: The Child by Tiger / Thomas Wolfe.