Perrine's Story and Structure
By: Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson.
Contributors: Arp, Thomas R.; Johnson, Greg, 1953-
Edition: 12th ed.
Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 665
ISBN-13: 9781413033090
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Short stories.; Short story.
Other titles: Perrine's story & structure
Work titles: Story and structure.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Part One: THE ELEMENTS OF FICTION; title: 1; title: Reading the Story; title: Reviewing Chapter One; title: Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game; title: Tobias Wolff, Hunters in the Snow; title: Understanding and Evaluating Fiction; title: Suggestions for Writing; title: 2; title: Plot and Structure; title: Reviewing Chapter Two; title: Graham Greene, The Destructors; title: Alice Munro, How I Met My Husband; title: Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies; title: Suggestions for Writing; title: 3; title: Characterization; title: Reviewing Chapter Three; title: Alice Walker, Everyday Use; title: Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill; title: Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man; title: Suggestions for Writing; title: 4; title: Theme; title: Reviewing Chapter Four; title: Tim Gautreaux, Welding with Children; title: Anton Chekhov, The Darling; title: Translated by Constance Garnett; title: Eudora Welty, A Worn Path; title: Nadine Gordimer, Once upon a Time; title: Suggestions for Writing; title: 5; title: Point of View; title: Reviewing Chapter Five; title: Willa Cather, Pauls Case; title: Shirley Jackson, The Lottery; title: Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall; title: Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants; title: Suggestions for Writing; title: 6; title: Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy; title: Reviewing Chapter Six; title: D; title: H; title: Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown; title: Ursula Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas; title: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.Translated by Gregory Rabassa; title: Suggestions for Writing; title: 7; title: Humor and Irony; title: Reviewing Chapter Seven; title: Frank OConnor, The Drunkard; title: Margaret Atwood, Rape Fantasies; title: Albert Camus, The Guest; title: Translated by Justin OBrien; title: Suggestions for Writing; title: 8; title: Evaluating Fiction; title: Reviewing Chapter Eight; title: Exercise; title: Edith Wharton, Roman Fever; title: F; title: Scott Fitzgerald, A New Leaf; title: Suggestions for Writing; title: Part Two: THREE FEATURED WRITERS: JAMES JOYCE, FLANNERY OCONNOR, AND JOYCE CAROL OATES; title: Introduction; title: James Joyce; title: Araby; title: Eveline; title: The Boarding House; title: Critical Perspectives on Joyce; title: Craig Hansen Werner, From Dubliners: A Pluralistic World; title: J; title: S; title: Atherton, From ?Araby.? Clive Hart, From ?Eveline.? Fritz Senn, From ??The Boarding House Seen as a Tale of Misdirection.? Flannery OConnor; title: A Good Man Is Hard to Find; title: Everything That Rises Must Converge; title: Greenleaf; title: Critical Perspectives on OConnor; title: Flannery OConnor, ?A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable.? Flannery OConnor, ?Letter to a Professor of English.? Madison Jones, ?A Good Mans Predicament.? Dorothy Walters, On ?Everything That Rises Must Converge.? Gilbert H; title: Muller, On ?Greenleaf.? Joyce Carol Oates; title: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Life After High School; title: June Birthing; title: Critical Perspectives on Oates; title: Joyce Carol Oates, From ?Stories That Define Me: The Making of a Writer.? Joyce Carol Oates, From ?Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film.? Elaine Showalter, On ?Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?? Greg Johnson, On ?Life After High School? and ?June Birthing.? Suggestions for Writing; title: Part Three: WRITING ABOUT FICTION; title: I; title: Why Write about Literature? II; title: For Whom Do You Write? III; title: Two Basic Approaches; title: IV; title: Choosing a Topic; title: V; title: Proving Your Point; title: VI; title: Writing the Paper; title: VII; title: Writing In-Class Essays or Essays Tests; title: VIII; title: Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q10); title: IX; title: Documentation; title: X; title: Stance and Style (S1-S6); title: XI; title: Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems; title: XII; title: Writing Samples; title: Part Four: STORIES FOR FURTHER READING; title: Chinua Achebe, Civil Peace; title: John Cheever, The Swimmer; title: Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour; title: William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily; title: Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers; title: Zora Neale Hurston, The Gilded Six-Bits; title: Henry James, The Real Thing; title: Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener; title: Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado; title: John Updike, A & P; title: Glossary of Terms; title: Copyrights and Acknowledgments; title: Index of Authors and Titles.