The art of the Short Story

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"52 great authors, their best short fiction, and their insights on writing"--Cover.
Part I. Introduction: The art of the short story.
Part II. Stories. -- Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe -- Author's perspective: Modern Africa as the crossroads of culture / Chinua Achebe -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- Author's perspective: Words not plot give form to a short story / Sherwood Anderson -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- Author's perspective: On the Canadian identity / Margaret Atwood -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Author's perspective: Race and the African-American writer -- The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges -- Author's perspective: Literature as experience / Jorge Luis Borges -- The guest / Albert Camus -- Author's perspective: Revolution and repression in Algeria / Albert Camus -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- A small, good thing / Raymond Carver -- Author's perspective: Commonplace but precise language -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Author's perspective: Art as the process of simplification / Willa Cather -- The swimmer / John Cheever -- Author's perspective: Why I write short stories / John Cheever -- The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov -- Misery / Anton Chekhov -- Author's perspective: Natural description and 'The center of gravity' -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- Author's perspective: My writing method -- Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros -- Author's perspective: Bilingual style / Sandra Cisneros -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- Author's perspective: The condition of art / Joseph Conrad -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Author's perspective: The sinking of the Commodore / Stephen Crane -- A party down at the square / Ralph Ellison -- Author's perspective: Race and fiction -- Barn burning / William Faulkner -- A rose for emily / William Faulkner -- Author's perspective: The human heart in conflict with itself / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Author's perspective: On his own literary aims / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert -- Author's perspective: The labor of style / Gustave Flaubert -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Author's perspective: My beginnings as a writer / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Author's perspective: Why I wrote "The yellow wallpaper" / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol -- Author's perspective: On realism / Nikolai Gogol -- A company of laughing faces / Nadine Gordimer -- Author's perspective: How the short story differs from the novel / Nadine Gordimer -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Author's perspective: On the public failure of his early stories / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A clean well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- Author's perspective: On true sentence / Ernest Hemingway -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- Author's perspective: Eatonville when you look at it / Zora Neale Hurston -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Author's perspective: The public reception of 'The Lottery' / Shirley Jackson -- The real thing / Henry James -- Author's perspective: The mirror of consciousness / Henry James -- Saboteur / Ha Jin -- Author's perspective: Deciding to write in English / Ha Jin -- Araby / James Joyce -- The dead / James Joyce -- Author's perspective: Epiphanies / James Joyce -- Before the law / Franz Kafka -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- Author's perspective: Discussing The Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- Odour of Chrysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Author's perspective: The novel is the bright book of life / D.H. Lawrence -- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Author's perspective: On "The ones who walk away from Omelas" / Ursula K. Le Guin -- A woman on a roof / Doris Lessing -- Author's perspective: My beginnings as a writer / Doris Lessing -- To build a fire / Jack London -- Author's perspective: Defending the factuality of 'To build a fire' / Jack London -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- The garden-party / Katherine Mansfield -- Author's perspective: On 'The garden-party' / Katherine Mansfield -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Author's perspective: Minimalist fiction / Bobbie Ann Mason -- The necklace / Guy De Maupassant -- Author's perspective: The realist method / Guy De Maupassant -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: A story of Wall Street / Herman Melville -- Author's perspective: American literature / Herman Melville -- Patriotism / Yukio Mishima -- Author's perspective: Physical courage and death / Yukio Mishima -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Author's perspective: Productivity and the critics / Joyce Carol Oates -- How I met my husband / Alice Munro -- Author's perspective: How I write short stories / Alice Munro -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Revelation / Flannery O'Connor -- Author's perspective / Flannery O'Connor -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Author's perspective: The tale and it's effect / Edgar Allan Poe -- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter -- Author's perspective: Wrighting "Flowering Judas" / Katherine Anne Porter -- The man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Author's perspective: The basis of "The man to send rain clouds" / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Author's perspective: The character of Gimpel / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The Death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- Author's perspective: The moral responsibilities of art / Leo Tolstoy -- Separating / John Updike -- Author's perspective: Why write? -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Author's Perspective: The black woman writer in America / Alice Walker -- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty -- Author's perspective: The plot of the short story / Eudora Welty -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- Author's perspective: The subject of short stories / Edith Wharton -- A haunted house / Virgia Woolfe -- Author's perspective: Women and fiction / Virginia Woolfe.
Part III: Writing. Elements of short fiction. -- Formalist criticism: Light and darkness in "Sonny's Blues" / Michael Clark -- Biographical criticism: Chekhov's Attitude to romantic love / Virginia Llewellyn Smith -- Historical criticism: The Argentine context of Borges's fantastic fiction / John King -- Psychological criticism: The father-figure in "The Tell-Tale Heart" / Daniel Hoffman -- Mythological criticism: Myth in Faulkner's "Barn Burning" / Edmond Volpe -- Sociological criticism: Money and labor in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" / Daniel P. Watkins -- Gender criticism: Gender and pathology in "The Yellow Wallpaper" / Juliann Fleenor -- Reader-response criticism: An Eskimo "A rose for Emily" / Stanley Fish -- Deconstructionist criticism: The death of the author / Roland Barthes -- Cultural studies: What is cultural studies? / Mark Bauerlein.

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