The Norton Introduction to Fiction
By: [compiled by] Jerome Beaty.
Contributors: Beaty, Jerome, 1924-
Edition: Fourth Edition
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 681
ISBN-13: 9780393959369
Subjects: Fiction -- Collections.
Notes: Errata slip laid in.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Foreword to the Fourth Edition
pagenum: xi; title: Reading Fiction
pagenum: 3; title: The Zebra Storyteller
pagenum: 3
authors: Spencer Holst; title: No One's a Mystery
pagenum: 6
authors: Elizabeth Tallent; title: The Jewelry
pagenum: 9
authors: Guy de Maupassant; title: Understanding the Text
pagenum: 15; label: 1
title: Plot
pagenum: 15; title: The Cask of Amontillado
pagenum: 23
authors: Edgar Allan Poe; title: Sonny's Blues
pagenum: 28
authors: James Baldwin; title: The Whirlpool Rapids
pagenum: 51
authors: Margaret Atwood; label: 2
title: Point of View
pagenum: 57; title: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
pagenum: 63
authors: Ambrose Bierce; title: A Rose for Emily
pagenum: 69
authors: William Faulkner; title: The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die
pagenum: 76
authors: Mordecai Richler; label: 3
title: Characterization
pagenum: 88; title: The Real Thing
pagenum: 98
authors: Henry James; title: Our Friend Judith
pagenum: 116
authors: Doris Lessing; label: 4
title: Setting
pagenum: 131; title: The Country Husband
pagenum: 149
authors: John Cheever; title: A Pair of Tickets
pagenum: 152
authors: Amy Tan; title: The Lady with the Dog
pagenum: 166
authors: Anton Chekhov; label: 5
title: Symbols
pagenum: 180; title: Young Goodman Brown
pagenum: 184
authors: Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The Termitary
pagenum: 193
authors: Nadine Gordimer; title: Janus
pagenum: 198
authors: Ann Beattie; label: 6
title: Theme
pagenum: 203; title: How Much Land Does a Man Need?
pagenum: 208
authors: Leo Tolstoy; title: Her First Ball
pagenum: 219
authors: Katherine Mansfield; title: Beyond the Pale
pagenum: 223
authors: William Trevor; label: 7
title: The Whole Text
pagenum: 245; title: The Secret Sharer
pagenum: 245
authors: Joseph Conrad; title: Love Medicine
pagenum: 277
authors: Louise Erdrich; title: Exploring Contexts
pagenum: 295; label: 8
title: The Author's Work
pagenum: 295
authors: D. H. Lawrence; title: Odour of Chrysanthemums
pagenum: 303; title: The Rocking-Horse Winner
pagenum: 317; title: Passages from Essays and Letters
pagenum: 329; label: 9
title: A Kind: Initiation
pagenum: 379
authors: James Joyce; title: Araby
pagenum: 382; title: Boys and Girls
pagenum: 386
authors: Alice Munro; title: The Old People
pagenum: 396
authors: William Faulkner; label: 10
title: A Mode: Fantasy
pagenum: 411
authors: Gabriel García Márquez; title: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
pagenum: 415; title: The Eye Altering
pagenum: 419
authors: Ursula K. Le Guin; title: The Garden of Forking Paths
pagenum: 429
authors: Jorge Luis Borges; title: Evaluating Fiction
pagenum: 438; title: The Most Dangerous Game
pagenum: 438
authors: Richard Connell; title: Barn Burning
pagenum: 459
authors: William Faulkner; title: Grief
pagenum: 477
authors: Bharati Mukherjee; title: Reading More Fiction
pagenum: 492; title: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
pagenum: 492
authors: Leo Tolstoy; title: Beyond the Bayou
pagenum: 532
authors: Kate Chopin; title: The Yellow Wallpaper
pagenum: 537
authors: Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: A Hunger Artist
pagenum: 549
authors: Franz Kafka; title: The Fig Tree
pagenum: 555
authors: Katherine Anne Porter; title: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
pagenum: 562
authors: Ernest Hemingway; title: A Conversation with My Father
pagenum: 566
authors: Grace Paley; title: The Kugelmass Episode
pagenum: 570
authors: Woody Allen; title: The Redtown Chronicles
pagenum: 578
authors: Luisa Valenzuela; title: Shiloh
pagenum: 578
authors: Bobbie Ann Mason; title: Great Falls
pagenum: 589
authors: Richard Ford; title: Girl
pagenum: 606
authors: Jamaica Kincaid; title: Writing About Fiction
pagenum: 611; title: Introduction
pagenum: 611; title: Representing the Literary Text
pagenum: 612; title: Copying
pagenum: 612; title: Paraphrase
pagenum: 613; title: Summary
pagenum: 613; title: Replying to the Text
pagenum: 615; title: Imitation and Parody
pagenum: 615; title: Re-creation and Reply
pagenum: 616; title: Explaining the Text
pagenum: 618; title: Description
pagenum: 618; title: Analysis
pagenum: 618; title: Interpretation
pagenum: 621; title: Principles and Procedures
pagenum: 621; title: Reading and Theme Making
pagenum: 623; title: Opinions, Right and Wrong
pagenum: 624; title: Reader and Text
pagenum: 627; title: Critical Approaches
pagenum: 631; title: Objectivism
pagenum: 631; title: Formalism
pagenum: 631; title: New Criticism
pagenum: 631; title: Structuralism
pagenum: 632; title: Post-Structuralism
pagenum: 633; title: Deconstruction
pagenum: 634; title: Subjectivism
pagenum: 635; title: Psychological Criticism
pagenum: 635; title: Freudian Criticism
pagenum: 635; title: Lacanian Criticism
pagenum: 635; title: Jungian Criticism
pagenum: 636; title: Phenomenological Criticism
pagenum: 636; title: Reader-response Criticism
pagenum: 636; title: Historical Criticism
pagenum: 637; title: Dialogism
pagenum: 637; title: Sociological Criticism
pagenum: 638; title: Marxist Criticism
pagenum: 639; title: Feminist Criticism
pagenum: 640; title: New Historicism
pagenum: 641; title: Pluralism
pagenum: 642; title: Further Reading on Critical Approaches
pagenum: 642; title: Deciding What to Write About
pagenum: 644; title: Having Something to Say
pagenum: 644; title: Choosing a Topic
pagenum: 645; title: Considering Your Audience
pagenum: 648; title: From Topic to Rough Draft
pagenum: 650; title: Gathering Evidence
pagenum: 650; title: Organizing Your Notes
pagenum: 652; title: Developing an Argument
pagenum: 654; title: Writing the First Draft
pagenum: 655; title: From Rough Draft to Completed Paper
pagenum: 657; title: Revising
pagenum: 657; title: Reviewing Your Work and Revising Again
pagenum: 658; title: A Summary of the Process
pagenum: 662; title: A Sample Paper
pagenum: 664; title: The Struggle to Surface in the Water of 'Sonny's Blues'
pagenum: 664; title: Biographical Sketches
pagenum: 669; title: Index of Authors
pagenum: 681; title: Index of Titles
pagenum: 683; title: Index of Literary Terms
pagenum: 684