Studies in the short story
By: [edited by] Adrian H. Jaffe and Virgil Scott.
Contributors: Scott, Virgil, 1914- joint ed.
Publisher: Sloane Associates
Published: 1949
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 479
Copyright date: 1949
Subjects: Short story; Short stories
Table of contents: title: I. The first three levels of reading : reading for plot, character, emotional effect. The most dangerous game / Richard Connell ; The lovely leave / Dorothy Parker ; Ida M'Toy / Eudora Welty ; The lament / Anton Chekhov; title: II. The fourth level of reading : reading for theme. The price of the head / John Russell ; The dry rock / Irwin Shaw; title: III. The true and the false : an exercise in comparison and criticism. A double-dyed deceiver / O. Henry ; The necklace / Guy De Maupassant; title: IV. Theme and the individual artist. The leader of the people / John Steinbeck ; The garden party / Katherine Mansfield ; The killers / Ernest Hemingway; title: V. The approach to theme. A. Theme and plot. The murder on Jefferson Street / Dorothy Canfield; title: B. Theme and character. The girl / Meridel Le Sueur ; Old Red / Caroline Gordon ; The new dress / Virginia Woolf ; Rain / Somerset Maugham; title: C. Symbolism. Mr. Arcularis / Conrad Aiken ; The chink and the child / Thomas Burke; title: D. Fantasy. Adam and Eve and pinch me / A.E. Coppard; title: VI. Stories for final analysis. The gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin ; The long sheet / William Sansom ; In the penal colony / Franz Kafka; title: About the authors