The Story and Its Writer
Subtitle: An Introduction to Short Fiction
Edition: Eighth edition
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 1820
ISBN-13: 9780312596231
Copyright date: 2011
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Story and Its Writer --; title: Stories: Civil Peace / Chinua Achebe --; title: Silent Snow, Secret Snow / Conrad Aiken --; title: In a Bamboo Grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa --; title: Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven / Sherman Alexie --; title: Act of Vengeance / Isabel Allende --; title: Hands / Sherwood Anderson --; title: Happy Endings / Margaret Atwood --; title: Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin --; title: Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara --; title: Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat / Russell Banks --; title: San Francisco / Lynda Barry --; title: Indian Uprising / Donald Barthelme --; title: Snow / Ann Beattie --; title: From Fun Home: Old Father, Old Artificer / Alison Bechdel --; title: Rememberer / Aimee Bender --; title: Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce --; title: Circular Ruins / Jorge Luis Borges --; title: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski --; title: Greasy Lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle --; title: August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains / Ray Bradbury --; title: Guest / Albert Camus --; title: Werewolf / Angela Carter --; title: Cathedral; A Small, Good Thing ; What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Raymond Carver --; title: Paul's Case / Willa Carter --; title: Water Names / Lan Samantha Chang --; title: Swimmer / John Cheever --; title: Darling ; Lady with the Little Dog / Anton Chekhov --; title: Désiré́e's Baby; Story of an Hour / Kate Chopin --; title: Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros --; title: Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) --; title: Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad --; title: Continuity of Parks / Julio Cortazar --; title: Open Boat / Stephen Crane --; title: Night Women / Edwidge Danticat --; title: Television / Lydia Davis --; title: How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie / Junot Diaz --; title: Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison --; title: Red Convertible / Louise Erdrich --; title: Rose for Emily ; That Evening Sun / William Faulkner --; title: Babylon Revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald --; title: Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez --; title: Look on the Bright Side / Dagoberto Gilb --; title: Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --; title: Overcoat / Nikolai Gogol --; title: Homage / Nadine Gordimer --; title: Bride / Christine Granados --; title: Rappaccini's Daughter ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --; title: Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway --; title: Church Cancels Cow ; In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried / Amy Hempel --; title: Things You Should Know / A.M. Homes --; title: Gilded Six-Bits ; Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston --; title: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving --; title: Lottery / Shirley Jackson --; title: Real Thing / Henry James --; title: Who's Irish? / Gish Jen --; title: White Heron / Sarah Orne Jewett --; title: Saboteur / Ha Jin --; title: Dirty Wedding / Denis Johnson --; title: Bad Neighbors / Edward P. Jones --; title: Pugilist at Rest / Thom Jones --; title: Araby; Dead / James Joyce --; title: Hunger Artist; Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka --; title: Not Human Beings / Etgar Keret --; title: Girl / Jamaica Kincaid --; title: Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa / W.P. Kinsella --; title: Interpreter of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri --; title: Odour of Chrysanthemums ; Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence --; title: Drover's Wife / Henry Lawson --; title: Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin --; title: Woman on a Roof / Doris Lessing --; title: Build a Fire / Jack London --; title: Fly ; Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield --; title: Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason --; title: Necklace / Guy de Maupassant --; title: Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville --; title: Invasion from Outer Space / Steven Millhauser --; title: Videos of the Dead / Rick Moody --; title: How to Become a Writer / Lorrie Moore --; title: Nawabdin Electrician / Daniyal Mueenuddin --; title: Management of Grief / Bharati Mukherjee --; title: Dance of the Happy Shades / Alice Munro --; title: Toys of Peace / Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) --; title: Ice Man / Haruki Murakami --; title: Lady with the Pet Dog ; Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? / Joyce Carol Oates --; title: Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien --; title: Everything That Rises Must Converge; Good Country People; Good Man Is Hard to Find / Flannery O'Connor --; title: Guests of the Nation / Frank O'Connor --; title: I Stand Here Ironing / Tillie Olsen --; title: Shawl / Cynthia Ozick --; title: Brownies / ZZ Packer --; title: Escort / Chuck Palahniuk --; title: Conversation with My Father ; Mother / Grace Paley --; title: My Life with the Wave / Octavio Paz --; title: Stars / Jayne Anne Phillips --; title: Cask of Amontillado; Fall of the House of Usher ; Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter --; title: Gift of the Magi / William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) --; title: Job History / Annie Proulx --; title: Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth --; title: From Palestine: Refugeeland / Joe Sacco --; title: From Persepolis : The Veil / Marjane Satrapi --; title: Brad Carrigan, American / George Saunders --; title: Love So Fleeting, Love So Fine / Carol Shields --; title: Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko --; title: Homework / Helen Simpson --; title: Girl with Bangs / Zadie Smith --; title: Way We Live Now / Susan Sontag --; title: Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History / Art Spiegelman --; title: Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck --; title: Two Kinds / Amy Tan --; title: Death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy --; title: Blood-Burning Moon / Jean Toomer --; title: A & P / John Updike --; title: Dreams / Jane Urquhart --; title: Moths / Helena Maria Viramontes --; title: Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. --; title: Everyday Use / Alice Walker --; title: Good People / David Foster Wallace --; title: Seeing Eye / Brad Watson --; title: Why I Live at the P.O. ; Worn Path / Eudora Welty --; title: Roman Fever / Edith Wharton --; title: Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies ; Stories / John Edgar Wideman --; title: Use of Force / William Carlos Williams --; title: Powder ; Say Yes / Tobias Wolff --; title: Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf --; title: Man Who Was Almost a Man / Richard Wright --; title: Brown House / Hisaye Yamamoto. Commentaries: Image of Africa: Conrad's ''Heart of darkness'' / Chinua Achebe --; title: Superman and Me / Sherman Alexie --; title: Whirlwind Man Steals Yellow Woman / Paula Gunn Allen --; title: Form, Not Plot, in the Short Story / Sherwood Anderson --; title: Reading Blind / Margaret Atwood --; title: Writing "Poes" / Russell Banks --; title: Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges --; title: Plotting Against Chekhov: Joyce Carol Oates and "Lady with the Dog" / Matthew C. Brennan --; title: Translating Kafka / Ann Charters --; title: Why I Write Short Stories / John Cheever --; title: Technique in Writing the Short Story / Anton Chekhov --; title: How I Stumbled Upon Maupassant / Kate Chopin --; title: Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) --; title: Sinking of the Commodore / Stephen Crane --; title: Hunger Artist / R. Crumb; David Zane Mairowitz --; title: On the Short, Short Story / Lydia Davis --; title: Influence of Folklore on ''Battle Royal'' / Ralph Ellison --; title: Biographical Perspective on Joyce's "Dead" / Richard Ellmann --; title: Meaning of ''Rose for Emily'' / William Faulkner --; title: Why We Like Chekhov / Richard Ford --; title: Mexico, the United States, and the Multicultural Future / Carlos Fuentes --; title: On Grace Paley and Donald Barthelme / Vivian Gornick --; title: Levels of Meaning in Lawrence's "Rocking-Horse Winner" / Janice H. Harris --; title: How It Feels to Be Colored Me ; What White Publishers Won't Print / Zora Neale Hurston --; title: Morning of June 28,1948 and ''Lottery'' / Shirley Jackson --; title: Genesis of "Real Thing" / Henry James --; title: Kafka's View of "Metamorphosis" / Gustav Janouch --; title: Looking Back on Girlhood / Sarah Orne Jewett --; title: On ''Girl'' / Jamaica Kincaid --; title: Finding Your Voice / Anne Lamott --; title: Scapegoat in Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin --; title: Letter to the Editor on "To Build a Fire" / Jack London --; title: Review of Woolf's "Kew Gardens" / Katherine Mansfield --; title: On Tim O'Brien's ''Things They Carried'' / Bobbie Ann Mason --; title: Writer's Goal / Guy de Maupassant --; title: Blackness in Hawthorne's ''Young Goodman Brown'' / Herman Melville --; title: Deconstructive Reading on Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" / J. Hillis Miller --; title: How I write Short Stories / Alice Munro --; title: On Ryunosuke Akutagawa / Haruki Murakami --; title: Gogol's Genius in "Overcoat" ; Reading of Chekhov's "Lady with the Little Dog" / Vladimir Nabokov --; title: Peter Klaus the Goatherd / J.C.C. Nachtigal --; title: Alpha Company / Tim O'Brien --; title: Nearest Thing to Lyric Poetry Is the Short Story ; Style and Form in Joyce's "Dead" / Frank O'Connor --; title: Conversation with Ann Charters / Grace Paley --; title: Lawrence's and Steinbeck's "Chrysanthemums" / Jay Parini --; title: Guided Tours of Time and Death / Jayne Anne Phillips --; title: Inspiration? Head Down the Back Road, and Stop for the Yard Sales / Annie Proulx --; title: Past and the Present: Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography / Edward W. Said --; title: Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective / Leslie Marmon Silko --; title: Writing as Reading / Susan Sontag --; title: In the Canon, for All the Wrong Reasons / Amy Tan --; title: Chekhov's Intent in ''Darling'' / Leo Tolstoy --; title: Greatness of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" / Lionel Trilling --; title: Zora Neale Hurston: Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View / Alice Walker --; title: Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed / David Foster Wallace --; title: Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead? / Eudora Welty --; title: Reading Fiction / Richard Wright. Casebooks: Casebook One: James Baldwin's "Sonny blues:" Autobiographical notes / James Baldwin --; title: Words and Music: Narrative Ambiguity in "Sonny's Blues" / Keith E. Byerman --; title: "Sonny Blues" Saved My Life / Kenneth A. McClane --; title: Casebook Two: Raymond Carver: On Writing; Creative Writing 101; Bath / Raymond Carver --; title: Origin of ''Cathedral'' / Tom Jenks --; title: Reading of ''What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'' / Arthur M. Saltzman --; title: Looking for Raymond Carver / A.O. Scott --; title: Casebook Three: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Yellow wallpaper:" Why I Wrote "Yellow wallpaper ; Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --; title: Feminist Reading of Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper" / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar --; title: On "Yellow Wallpaper" / Elaine Showalter --; title: Casebook Four: Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies:" My Two Lives / Jhumpa Lahiri --; title: Jhumpa Lahiri / Sean Flynn --; title: Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" / Simon Lewis --; title: Casebook Five: Flannery O'Connor: From Letters, 1954-55 ; Writing Short Stories; Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable / Flannery O'Connor --; title: Parables of Flannery O'Connor / Joyce Carol Oates --; title: Rhetorical Reading of O'Connor's ''Everything That Rises Must Converge'' / Wayne C. Booth --; title: On ''Good Country People'' / Dorothy Tuck McFarland --; title: Casebook Six: Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?:" Stories That Define Me: Making of a Writer ; Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film / Joyce Carol Oates --; title: Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action / Don Moser --; title: Casebook Seven: Edgar Allan Poe: Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: On "Fall of the House of Usher" and "Cask of Amontillado" / D.H. Lawrence --; title: New Critical Reading of "Fall of the House of Usher" / Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren --; title: Under the Covers with Fortunato and Montresor / Jan Burke --; title: Fall of the House of Usher / Will Eisner --; title: Casebook Eight: Graphic Storytelling: What the Little Old Ladies Feel / Alison Bechdel --; title: From "Alternative Comics: Toward the Habit of Questioning" / Charles Hatfield --; title: Are Comics Serious Literature / Michael Kupperman --; title: From Understanding Comics: Invisible Art / Scott McCloud --; title: Reading "The Veil" by Marjane Satrapi / Sydney Plum --; title: Some Reflections on Palestine / Joe Sacco --; title: Homage to Joe Sacco / Edward W. Said. Appendices: Reading Short Stories (Includes Grace Paley, ''Samuel'') --; title: Elements of Fiction --; title: Brief History of the Short Story --; title: Writing about Short Stories --; title: Literary Theory and Critical Perspectives --; title: Glossary of Literary Terms --; title: Chronological Listing of Authors' Stories --; title: Chronological Listing of Authors and Stories --; title: Index of Authors and Titles.