The Shape of Fiction
By: [compiled by] Alan Casty.
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: D. C. Heath and Company
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Lexington, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9780669910667
Copyright date: 1975
Subjects: Short stories.; College readers.
Table of contents: title: Part One; title: The Shape of Fiction and the Cage of Form:; title: An Introduction; title: Par} Two; title: Stories—Eleven Pairs; title: My Kinsman, Major Molineux NATHANIEL HAWI'HORNE; title: A Tree of Night TRUMAN CAPOTE; title: Study Aids; title: The Chrysanthemums J OHN STEINBECK; title: T he Country Husband; title: The Face Within the Face; title: Suicides; title: JOHN CHEEVER; title: Study Aids; title: MARK SCHORER; title: CESARE PAVESE; title: Study Aids; title: Four Summers JOYCE CAROL OATES; title: In Search of a Missing IUD ANNE HIGGINS; title: Study Aids; title: Son in the Afternoon JOHN A. WILLIAMS; title: Gold Coast JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON; title: Study Aids; title: Cutting Edge JAMES PURDY; title: The Rapids WALTER VAN TILBURG CLARK; title: Study Aids; title: A Worn Path EUDORA WELTY; title: The Mourners BERNARD MALAMUD; title: Study Aids; title: The Eye J. F. POWERS; title: This Way for the Gas TADEUSZ BOROWSKI; title: Study Aids; title: The Wall JEAN-PAUL SARTRE; title: The Guest ALBERT CAMUS; title: Study Aids; title: A Hunger Artist FRANZ KAFKA; title: The Bound Man ILSE AICHINGER; title: Study Aids; title: Bartleby, The Scrivener HERMAN MELVILLE; title: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ALLAN SILLITOE; title: Study Aids; title: Par} Three; title: Stories—For Further Comparison; title: The Oval Portrait EDGAR ALLAN POE; title: The Lament ANTON CHEK HOV; title: The U Pturned Face STEPHEN CRANE; title: In Another Country ERNEST HEMINGWAY; title: A Little Cloud' JAMES JOYCE; title: Wine DORIS LESSING; title: Tickets, Please D. H. LAWRENCE; title: A Dill Pickle KATHERINE MANSFIELD; title: Harrison Bergeron KURT VONNEGUT, JR.; title: Ransome at Sublimity DONALD MONROE; title: Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO; title: Part Four; title: Writing about Fiction; title: Part Five; title: Assignments in Criticism; title: —Five Models; title: Journeys Into the Dark: Kinsman, Major Molineux"; title: and "A Tree of Night"; title: The Buried Life: ' 'A Little Cloud"; title: and "The Country Husband"; title: The Limitations of Awareness: "Suicides"; title: Choice and Absurdity: "The Wall" and "The Guest"; title: Against the Walls: "Bartleby, the Scrivener"