Perrine's Story and Structure
ISBN: 9780495898009 | 0495898007
Edition: 13thFormat: Spiral Bound
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/11/2011
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The fiction section from Laurence Perrine?s all-time bestselling introduction to literature, this concise, authoritative text provides a complete overview of the essential elements of fiction, along with a diverse selection of stories to illustrate them. This reliable, well-written classic has introduced thousands of students to the serious study of fiction, yet it remains vital and compelling for today?s readers, presenting the most important and engaging stories available in a single collection. The section on three featured writers, James Joyce, Flannery O?Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates, includes three stories by each author, as well as essays by noted critics on their works.
| Preface | p. ix |
| Professional Acknowledgments | p. xii |
| Foreword to Students | p. xiii |
| The Elements of Fiction | p. 1 |
| Reading the Story | p. 3 |
| Reviewing Chapter One | p. 9 |
| The Most Dangerous Game | p. 9 |
| Hunters in the Snow | p. 28 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 42 |
| Understanding and Evaluating Fiction | p. 43 |
| ... MORE | p. 46 |
| Reviewing Chapter Two | p. 54 |
| The Destructors | p. 54 |
| How I Met My Husband | p. 68 |
| Interpreter of Maladies | p. 83 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 102 |
| Characterization | p. 103 |
| Reviewing Chapter Three | p. 107 |
| Everyday Use | p. 108 |
| Miss Brill | p. 116 |
| Sonny's Blues | p. 121 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 149 |
| Theme | p. 150 |
| Reviewing Chapter Four | p. 157 |
| Babylon Revisited | p. 157 |
| Misery | p. 176 |
| A Worn Path | p. 181 |
| Once upon a Time | p. 189 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 194 |
| Point of View | p. 195 |
| Reviewing Chapter Five | p. 201 |
| Paul's Case | p. 202 |
| The Lottery | p. 220 |
| The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | p. 228 |
| Hills Like White Elephants | p. 236 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 241 |
| Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy | p. 242 |
| Reviewing Chapter Six | p. 253 |
| The Rocking-Horse Winner | p. 253 |
| Young Goodman Brown | p. 267 |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | p. 279 |
| A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | p. 293 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 299 |
| Humor and Irony | p. 301 |
| Reviewing Chapter Seven | p. 305 |
| The Drunkard | p. 306 |
| Rape Fantasies | p. 315 |
| The Guest | p. 323 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 335 |
| Evaluating Fiction | p. 336 |
| Reviewing Chapter Eight | p. 339 |
| The Matchmaker | p. 340 |
| The Magic Barrel | p. 351 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 366 |
| Three Featured Writers | p. 367 |
| Introduction | p. 369 |
| The Sisters | p. 371 |
| Araby | p. 378 |
| The Boarding House | p. 384 |
| Critical Perspectives on Joyce | p. 390 |
| From Dubliners: A Pluralistic World | |
| On ôThe Sistersö | |
| On ôArabyö | |
| From ôThe Boarding House Seen as a Tale of Misdirectionö | |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | p. 402 |
| Good Country People | p. 416 |
| Everything That Rises Must Converge | p. 434 |
| Critical Perspectives on O'Connor | p. 448 |
| ôA Reasonable Use of the Unreasonableö | |
| ôLetter to a Professor of Englishö | |
| From ôA Good Man's Predicamentö | |
| On ôGood Country Peopleö | |
| On ôEverything That Rises Must Convergeö | |
| Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | p. 462 |
| Life after High School | p. 477 |
| June Birthing | p. 491 |
| Critical Perspectives on Oates | p. 497 |
| From ôStories That Define Me: The Making of a Writerö | |
| ôWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' and Smooth Talk: S Story into Filmö | |
| On ôWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?ö | |
| On ôLife After High Schoolö and ôJune Birthingö Suggestions for Writing | |
| Writing about Fiction | p. 511 |
| Why Write about Literature? | p. 513 |
| For Whom Do You Write? | p. 513 |
| Two Basic Approaches | p. 515 |
| Explication | p. 515 |
| Analysis | p. 516 |
| Choosing a Topic | p. 516 |
| Papers That Focus on a Single Story | p. 517 |
| Papers of Comparison and Contrast | p. 517 |
| Papers on a Number of Works by a Single Author | p. 518 |
| Papers on a Number of Works with Some Feature Other Than Authorship in Common | p. 519 |
| Proving Your Point | p. 519 |
| Writing the Paper | p. 521 |
| Writing In-Class Essays or Essay Tests | p. 523 |
| Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q10) | p. 525 |
| Documentation | p. 531 |
| Textual Documentation (TD1-TD4) | p. 531 |
| Parenthetical Documentation (PD1-PD6) | p. 533 |
| Documentation by List of Works Cited | p. 535 |
| Documentation of Electronic Sources | p. 537 |
| Stance and Style (S1-S6) | p. 539 |
| Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems | p. 542 |
| Grammar (G1-G2) | p. 542 |
| Punctuation (P1-P5) | p. 542 |
| Usage (U1-U2) | p. 544 |
| Writing Samples | p. 547 |
| Fiction Explication: The Indeterminate Ending in ôWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?ö | p. 547 |
| Fiction Analysis: The Function of the Frame Stoty in ôOnce upon a Timeö | p. 549 |
| Stories for Further Reading | p. 553 |
| The Swimmer | p. 554 |
| The Story of an Hour | p. 564 |
| A Rose for Emily | p. 566 |
| A Jury of Her Peers | p. 574 |
| Spunk | p. 593 |
| The Real Thing | p. 598 |
| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | p. 620 |
| Bartleby the Scrivener | p. 626 |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | p. 658 |
| A Little Burst | p. 662 |
| A & P | p. 673 |
| Glossary of Terms | p. 679 |
| Copyrights and Acknowledgments | p. 683 |
| Index of Authors and Titles | p. 687 |
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