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Short Story
DANA GIOIA
R. S. GWYNN
Lamar University
SUB Gottingen
217 782 094
2005 A 3176
PEARSON
Longman
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CONTENTS
Preface xi
About the Authors
Parti
xiii
Introduction
Part 11 Stories
12
American 14
Hands 15
Author's Perspective
Anderson: Words Not Plot Give Form to a Short Story
SHERWOOD ANDERSON,
24
19
iv
CONTENTS
American 26
Sonny's Blues 27
Author's Perspective
Baldwin: Race and the African-American Writer
JAMES BALDWIN,
Argentine 53
The Garden of Forking Paths 55
Author's Perspective
Borges: Literature as Experience
49
62
64
The Guest 65
Author's Perspective
Camus: Revolution and Repression in Algeria
74
American 76
Cathedral 77
A Small, Good Thing 88
Author's Perspective
Carver: Commonplace but Precise Language
104
RAYMOND CARVER,
American 106
Paul's Case 107
Author's Perspective
Cather: Art as the Process of Simplification
WILLACATHER,
121
122
131
Russian 133
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The Lady with the Pet Dog 135
Misery 147
Author's Perspective
Chekhov: Natural Description and "The Center of Gravity"
ANTON CHEKHOV,
American 152
The Storm 153
The Story of an Hour 157
Author's Perspective
Chopin: My Writing Method
KATE CHOPIN,
160
Barbie-Q 160
Author's Perspective
Cisneros: Bilingual Style
162
159
151
CONTENTS
164
193
American 195
The Open Boat 196
Author's Perspective
Crane: The Sinking of the Commodore 213
STEPHEN CRANE,
American 217
A Party Down at the Square 218
Author's Perspective
Ellison: Race and Fiction 222
RALPH ELLISON,
American 224
Barn Burning 225
A Rose for Emily 238
Author's Perspective
Faulkner: The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself
WILLIAM FAULKNER,
262
French 264
A Simple Heart 265
Author's Perspective
Flaubert: The Labor of Style 286
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT,
Colombian 287
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings 289
Author's Perspective
Garcia Marquez: My Beginnings as a Writer
American 296
The Yellow Wallpaper 297
Author's Perspective
Gilman: Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper"
293
Russian 310
The Overcoat 311
Author's Perspective
Gogol: On Realism 331
NIKOLAI GOGOL,
309
245
vi
CONTENTS
345
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE,
369
American 370
A Clean Well-Lighted Place 372
Author's Perspective
Hemingway: One True Sentence 375
ERNEST HEMINGWAY,
387
American 389
The Lottery 390
Author's Perspective
Jackson: The Public Reception of "The Lottery"
SHIRLEY JACKSON,
399
418
JAMES JOYCE,
Austm-Hungarian 465
Before the Law 466
The Metamorphosis 467
Author's Perspective
Kafka: Discussing The Metamorphosis 500
FRANZ KAFKA,
396
'i
CONTENTS
528
535
537
545
American 547
To Build a Fire 548
Author's Perspective
London: Defending the Factuality of "To Build a Fire"
JACK LONDON,
KATHERINE
American 511
Shiloh 578
Author's Perspective
Mason: Minimalist Fiction 588
French 590
The Necklace 591
Author's Perspective
Maupassant: The Realist Method
GUY DE MAUPASSANT,
597
American 599
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
Author's Perspective
Melville: American Literature 626
HERMAN MELVILLE,
646
600
559
viii
CONTENTS
661
American 663
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Author's Perspective
Oates: Productivity and the Critics 676
664
FLANNERY O'CONNOR,
American 611
A Good Man Is Hard to Find 678
Revelation 689
Author's Perspective
O'Connor: The Element of Suspense in "A Good Man
Is Hard to Find" 704
American 101
The Fall of the House of Usher 708
The Tell-Tale Heart 721
Author's Perspective
Poe: The Tale and Its Effect 725
American 126
Flowering Judas 727
Author's Perspective
Porter: Writing "Flowering Judas" 736
American 738
The Man to Send Rain Clouds 739
Author's Perspective
Silko: The Basis of "The Man to Send Rain Clouds"
742
LEO TOLSTOY,
American 799
Separating 800
Author's Perspective
Updike: Why Write? 808
JOHN UPDIKE,
797
CONTENTS
American 809
Everyday Use 810
Author's Perspective
Walker: The Black Woman Writer in America
ix
ALICE WALKER,
829
816
841
VIRGINIA WOOLF,
845
Part HI Writing
847
849
CHARACTERIZATION
POINT OF VIEW
SETTING
THEME
STYLE
849
854
857
859
860
861
863
879
8 81
884
885
CONTENTS
PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITICISM
887
890
891
892
895
897
899
898
900
901
902
921
905