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The American Short Story and Its Writer: An Anthology

by: Charters

The American Short Story and Its Writer: An Anthology

by: Charters

ISBN 13:
9780312191764
ISBN 10:
0312191766
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 08/13/1999
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

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Summary

This groundbreaking anthology is the first to offer a truly inclusive survey of the American short story along with a unique array of major critical statements and commentaries by the writers themselves.

Preface

INTRODUCTION SOME PRECURSORS OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY

(1478)

The Smith-Pocahontas Legend

(3)

John Smith

The Origin of the Creek Confederacy

(4)

Chekilli

The Theft of Fire

(1)

Shasta

From Concerning the League

(1)

John Arthur Gibson

The Arrival of the Dutch

(4)

John Heckewelder

All God's Chillen Had Wings

(2)

Caesar Grant

Sunrise in My Pocket

(1)

Davy Crockett Almanacs

Peter Klaus the Goatherd

(7)

J. C. C. Nachtigal

Stories

Early Nineteenth Century: 1819-1860

(221)

Washington Irving

(14)

Rip Van Winkle

Peter Rugg, the Missing Man

(24)

William Austin

The Indian Hater

(9)

James Hall

Cacoethes Scribendi

(12)

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

The Dance

(9)

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

The Minister's Black Veil

104

(13)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Fall of the House of Usher

117

(14)

Edgar Allan Poe

The Big Bear of Arkansas

131

(12)

Thomas Bangs Thorpe

Slavery's Pleasant Homes

143

(6)

Lydia Maria Child

The Land-Fever

149

(9)

Caroline Kirkland

The Arm-Chair of Tustenuggee

158

(20)

William Gilmore Simms

The Two Altars; or, Two Pictures in One

178

(11)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Angel over the Right Shoulder

189

(8)

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Bartleby, the Scrivener

197

(30)

Herman Melville

The Two Offers

227

(9)

Frances E. W. Harper

Circumstance

236

(10)

Harriet Prescott Spofford

Late Nineteenth Century: 1861-1899

246

(235)

Life in the Iron-Mills, or The Korl Woman

256

(29)

Rebecca Harding Davis

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

285

(6)

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

The Luck of Roaring Camp

291

(9)

Bret Harte

Belles Demoiselles Plantation

300

(14)

George Washington Cable

Rodman the Keeper

314

(22)

Constance Fenimore Woolson

One of the Missing

336

(11)

Ambrose Bierce

The Return of a Private

347

(14)

Hamlin Garland

The Revolt of ``Mother''

361

(13)

Mary Wilkins Freeman

How Celia Changed Her Mind

374

(17)

Rose Terry Cooke

The Yellow Wallpaper

391

(14)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Queen's Twin

405

(15)

Sarah Orne Jewett

The Little Room

420

(11)

Madeleine Yale Wynne

Athenaise

431

(26)

Kate Chopin

The Wife of His Youth

457

(10)

Charles W. Chesnutt

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

467

(9)

Stephen Crane

Tony's Wife

476

(5)

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Early Twentieth Century: 1900-1940

481

(308)

The Trial Path

493

(4)

Zitkala-Sa

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin

The Duplicity of Hargraves

497

(12)

O. Henry

William Sydney Porter

A Wagner Matinee

509

(6)

Willa Cather

The Other Two

515

(17)

Edith Wharton

All Gold Canyon

532

(16)

Jack London

The Walking Woman

548

(7)

Mary Austin

The Jolly Corner

555

(27)

Henry James

``Its Wavering Image''

582

(6)

Sui Sin Far

Edith Maud Eaton

Hands

588

(6)

Sherwood Anderson

The Lost Phœbe

594

(13)

Theodore Dreiser

A Jury of Her Peers

607

(18)

Susan Glaspell

My own People

625

(11)

Anzia Yezierska

Winter Dreams

636

(19)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Golden Honeymoon

655

(14)

Ring Lardner

Miss Furr and Miss Skeene

669

(5)

Gertrude Stein

Blood-Burning Moon

674

(8)

Jean Toomer

Soldier's Home

682

(6)

Ernest Hemingway

688

(10)

Katherine Anne Porter

You Were Perfectly Fine

698

(4)

Dorothy Parker

Spotted Horses

702

(16)

William Faulkner

A Summer Tragedy

718

(9)

Arna Bontemps

The Gilded Six-Bits

727

(11)

Zora Neale Hurston

Red-Headed Baby

738

(5)

Langston Hughes

Seventy Thousand Assyrians

743

(9)

William Saroyan

The Use of Force

752

(4)

William Carlos Williams

The Snake

756

(9)

John Steinbeck

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

765

(8)

Delmore Schwartz

He Is Thousands

773

(6)

Jack Conroy

The Man Who Was Almost a Man

779

(10)

Richard Wright

Mid-Twentieth Century: 1941-1965

789

(241)

His Own Country

799

(21)

Pearl S. Buck

The Portable Phonograph

820

(7)

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt

827

(29)

Mary McCarthy

A Tree. A Rock. A cloud

856

(8)

Carson McCullers

The Catbird Seat

864

(8)

James Thurber

Flying Home

872

(17)

Ralph Ellison

We're the only colored people here

889

(3)

Gwendolyn Brooks

Winter Night

892

(10)

Kay Boyle

The Enormous Radio

902

(9)

John Cheever

The Petrified Woman

911

(12)

Caroline Gordon

The Lottery

923

(8)

Shirley Jackson

I Stand Here Ironing

931

(7)

Tillie Olsen

Sonny's Blues

938

(26)

James Baldwin

The Conversion of the Jews

964

(14)

Philip Roth

Promise of Rain

978

(20)

Peter Taylor

Everything That Rises Must Converge

998

(13)

Flannery O'Connor

The Sharks

1011

(8)

John O'Hara

Harrison Bergeron

1019

(6)

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Where Is the Voice Coming From?

1025

(5)

Eudora Welty

Late Twentieth Century: 1966-Present

1030

(449)

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

1040

(22)

William Gass

Title

1062

(6)

John Barth

The Police Band

1068

(4)

Donald Barthelme

How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again

1072

(13)

Joyce Carol Oates

1/3, 1/3, 1/3

1085

(5)

Richard Brautigan

A Conversation with My Father

1090

(5)

Grace Paley

Are These Actual Miles?

1095

(8)

Raymond Carver

Everyday Use

1103

(8)

Alice Walker

Yellow Woman

1111

(9)

Leslie Marmon Silko

Separating

1120

(10)

John Updike

Big Bertha Stories

1130

(13)

Bobbie Ann Mason

In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried

1143

(7)

Amy Hempel

The Tenant

1150

(12)

Bharati Mukherjee

The Things They Carried

1162

(16)

Tim O'Brien

Miss Clairol

1178

(5)

Helena Maria Viramontes

Second Question Related Commentary: Ann Beattie, Where Characters Come From, 1316

1183

(13)

Ann Beattie

Texts

1196

(3)

Ursula K. Le Guin

newborn thrown in trash and dies

1199

(6)

John Edgar Wideman

The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore

1205

(7)

Sherman Alexie

Tiny, Smiling Daddy

1212

(11)

Mary Gaitskill

Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens

1223

(9)

Lorrie Moore

Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?

1232

(14)

Gina Berriault

New York Day Woman

1246

(5)

Edwidge Danticat

Saul and Patsy Are in Labor

1251

(14)

Charles Baxter

Water Names

1265

(4)

Lan Samantha Chang

The Bunchgrass Edge of the World

1269

(21)

Annie Proulx

Commentaries

Whirlwind Man Steals Yellow Woman

1290

(1)

Paula Gunn Allen

Form, Not Plot, in the Short Story

1291

(2)

Sherwood Anderson

Regionalism in American Fiction

1293

(5)

Mary Austin

Autobiographical Notes

1298

(4)

James Baldwin

It's a Short Story

1302

(11)

John Barth

Hemingway's Short Stories

1313

(3)

H. E. Bates

Where Characters Come From

1316

(4)

Ann Beattie

On Jean Toomer and Cane

1320

(6)

Arna Bontemps

Creative Writing 101

1326

(4)

Raymond Carver

Miss Jewett

1330

(3)

Willa Cather

On Certain Brisk, Bright Days

1333

(2)

Kate Chopin

Tillie Olsen: The Iron and the Riddle

1335

(5)

Robert Coles

Crazy for Stories

1340

(4)

Richard Ford

Local Color in Art

1344

(4)

Hamlin Garland

From Preface to In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

1348

(4)

William Gass

A Feminist Reading of Gilman's ``The Yellow Wallpaper''

1352

(2)

Sandra M. Gilbert

Susan Gubar

Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration

1354

(2)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Rise of the ``Short Story''

1356

(6)

Bret Harte

Preface to Twice-Told Tales

1362

(3)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories

1365

(3)

William Dean Howells

What White Publishers Won't Print

1368

(5)

Zora Neale Hurston

Letter to Henry Brevoort, December 11, 1824

1373

(2)

Washington Irving

The Morning of June 28, 1948, and ``The Lottery''

1375

(3)

Shirley Jackson

From Hawthorne

1378

(4)

Henry James

Looking Back on Girlhood

1382

(3)

Sarah Orne Jewett

How to Write Short Stories

1385

(3)

Ring Lardner

From Short Story Theory at a Crossroads

1388

(6)

Susan Lohafer

Edgar Allan Poe and ``The Fall of the House of Usher''

1394

(3)

James Russell Lowell

On Tim O'Brien's ``The Things They Carried''

1397

(1)

Bobbie Ann Mason

From The Philosophy of the Short-Story

1398

(3)

Brander Matthews

Edgar Allan Poe---Critical Context

1401

(6)

Charles E. May

From ``Hawthorne and His Mosses''

1407

(4)

Herman Melville

A Deconstructive Reading of Melville's ``Bartleby, the Scrivener''

1411

(5)

J. Hillis Miller

Stories of American Life

1416

(1)

Mary Russell Mitford

Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction

1417

(7)

Flannery O'Connor

From The Lonely Voice

1424

(6)

Frank O'Connor

A Conversation with Ann Charters

1430

(5)

Grace Paley

The Short Story, through a Couple of the Ages

1435

(3)

Dorothy Parker

Review of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales

1438

(5)

Edgar Allan Poe

On James Thurber and The New Yorker

1443

(4)

Earl Rovit

Writing Stories

1447

(2)

William Saroyan

On F. Scott Fitzgerald's Stories

1449

(3)

Charles Scribner III

Henry James's ``The Jolly Corner''

1452

(3)

Floyd Stovall

The Short Story

1455

(4)

Ruth Suckow

How to Tell a Story

1459

(5)

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Twisted Apples: On Winesburg, Ohio

1464

(5)

John Updike

Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View

1469

(2)

Alice Walker

The Sense of Place in Faulkner's ``Spotted Horses''

1471

(2)

Eudora Welty

Every Subject Must Contain within Itself Its Own Dimensions

1473

(2)

Edith Wharton

Notes on ``A Beginning on the Short Story''

1475

(4)

William Carlos Williams

Selected Annotated Bibliography: The American Short Story and Its Cultural Background

1479

(8)

Appendix: Chronological List of Stories with Their Original Date and Place of Publication

1487

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The American Short Story and Its Writer: An Anthology

The American Short Story and Its Writer: An Anthology

9780312191764

0312191766

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