Fiction 9/e, is a collection of short stories65 in allwhich offers a wide ranging view of classic and contemporary writers. An introduction to a balance of contemporary and classic stories. Casebooks offer in-depth look at an author or clusters of works, for example Edgar Allen Poe.Authors Joe Kennedy and Dana Gioia provide inviting and illuminating introductions to the authors included and to the elements of fiction. Coverage of writing about literature is also included. For interested in learning more about fiction.
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1. READING A STORY
Fable, Parable, and Tales
W. Somerset Maugham, The Appointment in Samarra
* Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun
Bidpai, The Camel and His Friends
Chuang Tzu, Independence
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Godfather Death
Plot
The Short Story
John Updike, A & P
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
John Updike, Why Write?
Writing About Plot
Paying Attention to Plot
Checklist: Analyzing Plot
Writing Assignment on Plot
More Topics for Writing
2. POINT OF VIEW
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
* Anne Tyler, Teenage Wasteland
James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
* Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
James Baldwin, Race and the African American Writer
Writing About Point of View
How Point of View Shapes a Story
Checklist: Understanding Point of View
Writing Assignment on Point of View
More Topics for Writing
3. CHARACTER
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill
* Tobias Wolff, The Rich Brother
Raymond Carver, Cathedral
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Raymond Carver, Commonplace but Precise Language
Writing About Character
How Character Creates Action
Checklist: Writing About Character
Writing Assignment on Character
More Topics for Writing
4. SETTING
Kate Chopin, The Storm
Jack London, To Build a Fire
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake
Amy Tan, A Pair of Tickets
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Amy Tan, Setting the Voice
Writing About Setting
The Importance of Setting
Checklist: Analyzing Setting
Writing Assignment on Setting
More Topics For Writing
5. TONE AND STYLE
Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
William Faulkner, Barn Burning
Irony
* O. Henry, Gift of the Magi
Ha Jin, Saboteur
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Ernest Hemingway, The Direct Style
Writing About Tone and Style
Be Style Conscious
Checklist: Thinking about Style and Tone
Writing Assignment on Tone and Style
More Topics for Writing
6. THEME
Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
* Alice Munro, How I Met My Husband
Luke 15: 11-32, The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison Bergeron
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Themes of Science Fiction
Writing About Theme
Stating the Theme
Checklist: Determining a Story’s Theme
Writing Assignment on Theme
More Topics for Writing
7. SYMBOL
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Elizabeth Tallent, No One’s a Mystery
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
* Shirley Jackson, Reactions to "The Lottery"
Writing About Symbols
Recognizing Symbols
Checklist: Thinking about Symbols
Writing Assignment on Symbols
Student Essay, An Analysis of the Symbolism in Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums"
More Topics For Writing
8. EVALUATING A STORY
* Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
* Yiyun Li, “What I Could Not Write about Was Why I Was Writing”
Writing An Evaluation
Judging a Story’s Value
Checklist: Evaluating Fiction
Writing Assignment on Evauating Fiction
More Topics for Writing
9. READING LONG STORIES AND NOVELS
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Franz Kafka, Discussing The Metamorphosis
Writing About Long Stories and Novels
Know What to Leave Out
Checklist: Wrting About a Long Story or Novel
Writing Assignment on Long Works of Fiction
Student Essay, Kafka's Greatness
More Topics for Writing
10. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor, Revelation
* Flannery O'Connor, Parker’s Back
Flannery O'Connor on Writing
Flannery O'Connor, An Excerpt from “On Her Own Work”: The Element of Suspense in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
Flannery O'Connor, On Her Catholic Faith
Flannery O'Connor, An Excerpt from “The Grotesque in Southern Fiction”: The Serious Writer and the Tired Reader
Flannery O'Connor, Yearbook Cartoons
Critics on Flannery O'Connor
Robert Brinkmeyer Jr., Flannery O’Connor and Her Readers
J. O. Tate, A Good Source Is Not so Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit
Mary Jane Schenck, Deconstructing "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
* Kathleen Feeley, The Mystery of Divine Direction: “Parker’s Back”
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writing About an Author
How One Story Illuminates Another
Checklist: Reading an Author in Depth
Writing Assignment on an Author
More Topics For Writing
11. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: 3 Stories in Depth
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe on Writing
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tale and Its Effect
Edgar Allan Poe, On Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Composition
Critics on “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Daniel Hoffman, The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart”
* Scott Peeples, “The Tell-Tale Heart” as a Love Story
* John Chua, The Figure of the Double in Poe
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Writing
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Whatever Is
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Nervous Breakdown of Women
Critics on “Yellow Wallpaper”
Juliann Fleenor, Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper”
* Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Imprisonment and Escape: The Psychology of Confinement
* Elizabeth Ammons, Biographical Echoes in “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
Alice Walker on Writing
* Black Women Writers in America, Interview by John O’Brien
* Alice Walker: “I Know What the Earth Says, ” Interview by William R. Ferris
Critics on “Everyday Use”
Barbara T. Christian, “Everyday Use” and the Black Power Movement
* Houston A. Baker and Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Stylish vs. Sacred in “Everyday Use”
* Elaine Showalter, Quilt as Metaphor in “Everyday Use”
12. STORIES FOR FURTHER READING
Chinua Achebe, Dead Men's Path
Anjana Appachana, The Prophecy
Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings
Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Jorge Luis Borges, The Gospel According to Mark
Willa Cather, Paul's Case
John Cheever, The Five-Forty-Eight
Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet Dog
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street.
Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal
Gabriel García Márquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
* Dagoberto Gilb, Look on the Bright Side
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat
Kazuo Ishiguro, A Family Supper
James Joyce, Araby
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner
Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing
* Octavio Paz, My Life with the Wave
Leslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send Rain Clouds
* Helena María Viramontes, The Moths
* WRITING (ALL NEWLY REVISED)
13. WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE
START BY READING ACTIVELY
Robert Frost, NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
PLANNING YOUR ESSAY
PREWRITING: DISCOVERING IDEAS
Brainstorming
Clustering
Listing
Freewriting
Journaling
Outlining
DEVELOPING A LITERARY ARGUMENT
Purpose
Audience
Topic
Thesis
Argument
Claims
Persuasion
Evidence
Warrants
Credibility
Organization
Checklist: Developing an Argument
WRITING A ROUGH DRAFT
Sample Student Essay, Rough Draft
REVISING
Checklist: Revision Steps
SOME GENERAL ADVICE ON REWRITING
Sample Student Essay, Final Draft
USING CRITICAL SOURCES AND MAINTAINING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
THE FORM OF YOUR FINISHED PAPER
SPELL-CHECK AND GRAMMAR-CHECK PROGRAMS
Anonymous (after a poem by Jerrold H. Zar), A LITTLE POEM REGARDING COMPUTER SPELL CHECKERS
14. WRITING ABOUT A STORY
START WITH ACTIVE READING
THINKING ABOUT THE TEXT
PREPARING TO WRITE: DISCOVERING IDEAS
WRITING A FIRST DRAFT
CHECKLIST: WRITING A ROUGH DRAFT
REVISING
CHECKLIST: REVISION
WHAT’S YOUR PURPOSE? SOME COMMON APPROACHES TO WRITING ABOUT FICTION
Explication
Sample Student Essay (Explication)
Analysis
Sample Student Essay (Analysis)
The Card Report
Sample Student Card Report
Comparison and Contrast
Sample Student Essay (Comparison and Contrast)
TOPICS FOR WRITING
15. WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER
GETTING STARTED
CHOOSING A TOPIC
FINDING RESEARCH SOURCES
Finding Print Resources
Using Online Databases
Using Visual Images
CHECKLIST: USING VISUAL IMAGES
Finding Reliable Web Sources
CHECKLIST: FINDING SOURCES
EVALUATING SOURCES
Print Resources
Choose Web Sources Carefully
CHECKLIST: EVALUATING SOURCES
ORGANIZING YOUR RESEARCH
REFINING YOUR THESIS
ORGANIZING YOUR PAPER
WRITING AND REVISING
GUARDING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Papers for Sale Are Papers that “F”ail
A Warning Against Internet Plagiarism
ACKNOWLEDGING SOURCES
Quoting a Source
Citing Ideas
DOCUMENTING SOURCES USING MLA STYLE
List of Sources
Parenthetical References
Works Cited List
Citing Print Sources in MLA Style
Citing Internet Sources in MLA Style
Sample Works Cited List
Endnotes and Footnotes
SAMPLE STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER -
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
REFERENCE GUIDE FOR CITATIONS
16. CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LITERATURE
Formalist Criticism
Cleanth Brooks, The Formalist Critic
Michael Clark, Light and Darkness in "Sonny's Blues"
Biographical Criticism
Virginia Llewellyn Smith, Chekhov's Attitude to Romantic
Emily Toth, The Source for Alcée Laballière in “The Storm”
Historical Criticism
Hugh Kenner, Imagism
Kathryn Lee Seidel, The Economics of “Sweat”
Psychological Criticism
Sigmund Freud, The Nature of Dreams
Gretchen Schulz and R. J. R. Rockwood, Fairy Tale Motifs in “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
Mythological Criticism
C. J. Jung, The Collective Unconscious and Archetypes
Edmond Volpe, Myth in Faulkner's "Barn Burning"
Sociological Criticism
Georg Lukacs, Content Determines Form
Daniel P. Watkins, Money and Labor in "The Rocking-Horse Winner"
Gender Criticism
Elaine Showalter, Toward a Feminist Poetics
Nina Pelikan Straus, Transformations in The Metamorphosis
Reader-Response Criticism
Stanley Fish, An Eskimo “A Rose for Emily”
Michael J. Colacurcio, The End of Young Goodman Brown
Deconstructionist Criticism
Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author
Barbara Johnson, Rigorous Unreliability
Cultural Studies
Vincent B. Leitch, Poststructuralist Cultural Critique
Mark Bauerlein, What Is Cultural Studies?
GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES
INDEX OF LITERARY TERMS