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Short Fiction : Classic and Contemporary

by: Bohner, Charles H.; Grant, Lyman

Short Fiction : Classic and Contemporary

by: Bohner, Charles H.; Grant, Lyman

ISBN 13:
9780130406835
ISBN 10:
013040683X
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2002
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Summary

For undergraduate courses on The Short Story; Introduction to Fiction; and/or Introduction to Literature that use genre-specific books. This book is an exceptionally wide-ranging alphabetically arranged collection of stories spanning all genres of short fiction. It includes myth, fairy tale, humor, western, detective, Magic Realism, gothic, fantasy, and folktale. The selections total 137 stories by 113 writers.

I. INTRODUCTION TO SHORT FICTION.

The Truth of Fiction. The Experience of Fiction. The Elements of Fiction.

II. READING FICTION.

Who Are We as Readers? What Kind of Story Are We Reading? Asking Questions about the Story. Keeping a Reading Journal. Annotating a Story with Personal Impressions. Annotating a Story for the Elements of Fiction.

III. SHORT FICTION.

IV. CONTEXT: WRITERS ON WRITING.

Context, Dorothy Allison.
From a Leslie Marmon Silko Interview, Kim Barnes.
Summary Observations on the Short Story, Harold Bloom.
Borges on Writing: A Conversation with Norman Thomas di Giovanni and Frank MacShane, Jorge Luis Borges.
From His Letters, Anton Chekhov.
On Certain Brisk, Bright Days, Kate Chopin.
Guadalupe the Sex Goddess, Sandra Cisneros.
Stephen Crane's Own Story, Stephen Crane.
What America Would Be Like without Blacks, Ralph Ellison.
The Crack-Up, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Let Me Tell a Story Now…, Bessie Head.
Biography of a Story, Shirley Jackson.
From Hypertext Fiction, Michael Joyce.
From Somewhere Behind, Milan Kundera.
From “Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?,” Ursula LeGuin.
To a Young Reader, Primo Levi.
A Letter to Richard Murray, Katherine Mansfield.
Chekhov's “The Lady with the Little Dog,” Vladimir Nabokov.
Kafka's “The Metamorphosis,” Vladimir Nabokov.
The Making of a Writer, Joyce Carol Oates.
“My Mother Would Rather Skate Than Scrub Floors” : An Interview with Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates.
On Her Own Work, Flannery O'Connor.
The Legacy of Gogol's “Overcoat,” Frank O'Connor.
The Brief Prose Tale, Edgar Allan Poe.
The Writing of “Flowering Judas,” Katherine Anne Porter.
Remembering, Discovery, and Volition in the Literary Imagination, Tomás Rivera.
“Commonwealth Literature” Does Not Exist, Salman Rushdie.
From “For Whom Does One Write,” Jean Paul Sartre.
Through the Stories We Hear Who We Are, Leslie Marmon Silko.
From Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag.
An Interview with Eudora Welty, Alice Walker.
The Old Artist: Notes on Mr. Sweet, Alice Walker.
Act Natural, David Foster Wallace.
“Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead?,” Eudora Welty.
From a Work of My Own, Jeanette Winterson.
From Craftsmanship, Virginia Woolf.

V. APPROACHING FICTION CRITICALLY.

The Formalist, New Critical Approach. The Biographical Approach. The Historical and New Historicist Approaches. The Psychological Approach. The Mythological Approach. The Sociological/Marxist Approach. The Feminist Approach and Gender Studies. The Ecocritical Approach. The Reader-Response Approach. The Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Approaches.

VI. WRITING ABOUT FICTION.

Think about Your Purpose. Think about Your Reader. Think about Your Critical Approach. Develop a Thesis. Return to the Story. Review Biographical, Historical, and Critical Sources. Decide on Organization. Write a Draft. Revise and Edit. Prepare the Final Draft. Sample Student Essays.
Glossary.
Biographical Notes.
Chronological List of Writers and Titles.
Acknowledgments.
Index of Authors and Titles.

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