Perrine's story and structure
By: Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson
Edition: 13th ed.
Publisher: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780495898009
Subjects: Short story; Short stories
Other titles: Perrine's story & structure :
Work titles: Story and structure
Description: "More than fifty years ago, Laurence Perrine pioneered an engaging approach to teaching literature ... Since then, millions of students have used Perrine's introductions to plot, character, theme, and other elements of fiction, gaining an understanding of fiction and developing essential skills in critical reading, analysis, and writing"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Previous ed.: 2009.

"Student edition"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Elements of fiction. Reading the story. Most dangerous game /Richard Connell; title: Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff; title: Plot and structure. Destructors / Graham Greene; title: How I met my husband / Alice Munro; title: Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri; title: Characterization. Everyday use / A. Walker; title: Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield; title: Sonny's blues / James Baldwin; title: Theme. Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: Misery / Anton Chekhov; title: A worn path / Eudora Welty; title: Once upon a time / Nadine Gordimer; title: Point of view. Paul's case / Willa Cather; title: The lottery / Shirley Jackson; title: The jilting of Granny Weatherall; title: Katherine Anne Porter; title: Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway. Symbol, allegory, and fantasy. Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence; title: Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez. Humor and irony. The drunkard / Frank O'Connor; title: Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood; title: The guest / Albert Camus. Evaluating fiction. The matchmaker / Elizabeth Berg; title: THe magic barrel / Bernard Malamud. Three featured writers: James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates: The sisters; Araby; The boarding house / James Joyce; title: Critical perspectives on Joyce; title: A good man is hard to find; Good country people; Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor; title: Critical perspectives on O'Connor; title: Where are you going, where have you been? Life after high school; June birthing / Joyce Carol Oates; title: Critical perspectives on Oates; title: Writing about fiction. Why write about literature?; title: For whom do you write?; title: Two basic approaches; title: Choosing a topic; title: Proving your point; title: Writing the paper; title: Writing in-class essays or essay tests; title: Introducing quotations; title: Documentation; title: Stance and style; title: Grammar, punctuation, and usage, common problems; title: Writing samples; title: Stories for further reading. The swimmer / John Cheever; title: The story of an hour / Kate Chopin; title: A rose for Emily / William Faulkner; title: A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell; title: Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston; title: The real thing / Henry James; title: The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin; title: Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville; title: The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allen Poe; title: A little burst / Elizabeth Strout; title: A & P / John Updike; title: Glossary of terms.