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Tables of Contents for Fiction
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Alphabetical List by Author
xiii
Preface
xvii
Introduction
1
1
The Telling of the Tale
1
2
The Short Story Genre
3
3
Reading and Analyzing Short Fiction
6
1
Plot
7
4
Characterization
11
2
Point of View
13
2
Theme
15
1
Setting
16
2
Style and Symbol
18
3
Writing About Short Fiction
21
8
Fiction
29
402
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Young Goodman Brown
31
13
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)
The Fall of the House of Usher
44
19
Guy De Maupassant (1850--1893)
Mother Savage
63
7
Kate Chopin (1851--1904)
The Story of an Hour
70
3
Anton Chekhov (1860--1904)
An Upheaval
73
8
Edith Wharton (1862--1937)
Roman Fever
81
13
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Paul's Case
94
19
James Joyce (1882--1941)
Eveline
113
5
D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)
The Rocking-Horse Winner
118
15
Katherine Anne Porter (1890--1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
133
9
Zora Neale Hurston (1891--1960)
Sweat
142
12
William Faulkner (1897--1962)
A Rose for Emily
154
10
Ernest Hemingway (1899--1961)
Hills Like White Elephants
164
5
Jorge Luis Borges (1899--1986)
The Gospel According to Mark
169
6
John Steinbeck (1902--1968)
The Chrysanthemums
175
11
Richard Wright (1908--1960)
The Man Who Was Almost a Man
186
12
Eudora Welty (B. 1909)
Livvie
198
14
John Cheever (1912--1982)
Reunion
212
3
Albert Camus (1913--1960)
The Guest
215
13
Ralph Ellison (1914--1995)
A Party Down at the Square
228
7
Shirley Jackson (1919--1965)
The Lottery
235
9
Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964)
A Good Man is Hard to Find
244
16
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (B. 1928)
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
260
7
Chinua Achebe (B. 1930)
Dead Men's Path
267
4
Alice Munro (B. 1931)
Vandals
271
26
John Updike (B. 1932)
A & P
297
7
Raymond Carver (1938--1988)
A Samll, Good Thing
304
23
Joyce Carol Oates (B. 1938)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
327
17
Margaret Atwood (B. 1939)
Happy Endings
344
4
Bobbie Ann Mason (B. 1940)
Shiloh
348
14
Alice Walker (B. 1944)
Everyday Use
362
9
Tim Gautreaux (B. 1947)
Died and Gone to Vegas
371
17
Dagoberto Gilb (B. 1950)
Look on the Bright Side
388
11
Amy Tan (B. 1952)
Two Kinds
399
11
Sandra Cisneros (B. 1954)
Barbie-Q
410
2
Louise Erdrich (B. 1954)
The Red Convertible
412
10
Lorrie Moore (B. 1954)
How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)
422
9
Acknowledgments
431
4
Index of Critical Terms
435