Discoveries : fifty stories of the quest
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Discoveries : fifty stories of the quest
Oxford University Press, 1992
2nd ed
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Reflecting today's growing emphasis on multiculturalism, the second edition of this remarkably successful anthology offers twelve additional contributions from the new generation of writers currently revitalizing the short story form, including Amy Tan, Bharati Mukherjee, R.K. Narayan, Stephen Milhauser, Ellen Gilchrist, and Patrick McGrath. Organized around the successive stages of humanity's most durable myth, the hero's quest narrative pattern delineated by
renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell, this edition offers a summary and explication of Campbell's analysis of the quest motif, a new biographical introduction to Campbell's life and work, and a section of
concise biographical entries on each of the fifty authors. As in the earlier edition, the quality and quantity of the selections give instructors the freedom to present the stories in whatever order and structure they choose. For those who wish to take advantage of the anthology's thematic organization, the editors provide questions for discussion and possible writing assignments that do not sacrifice the comprehensive diversity of the selections or their identity as
distinctive works of literature open to various interpretations. A highly accessible introduction to the technical aspects of the close analysis of fiction, this text also offers a number of special features:
two supplementary tables of contents, one organized by alternate themes, and one by the traditional elements of fiction; an introductory essay defining those technical elements and including a sample analysis of one the stories in the anthology; and a glossary of critical terms.
Table of Contents
Contents by Alternate Themes
Contents by Technical Elements
Introduction: The Quest
The Elements of Fiction
Chapter One: The Call
Robert Penn Warren: Blackberry Winter
Willa Cather: Paul's Case
Kay Boyle: Astronomer's Wife
Julio Cort((a'))zar: The Island at Noon
Jean Stafford: The Liberation
Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour
Sherwood Anderson: Adventure
Chapter Two: The Other
Edgar Allan Poe: William Wilson
Patrick McGrath: The Lost Explorer
Amy Tan: Double Face
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Getzel the Monkey
James Alan McPherson: The Story of a Dead Man
Leslie Silko: Yellow Woman
Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find
Alberto Moravia: He and I
Chapter Three: The Journey
Nathaniel Hawthorne: My Kinsman, Major Molineux
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Babylon Revisited
Eudora Welty: A Worn Path
Stephen Crane: The Open Boat
Bernard Malamud: Idiots First
Richard Wright: Big Boy Leaves Home
Steven Millhauser: Behind the Blue Curtain
Doris Lessing: Through the Tunnel
John Barth: Night-Sea Journey
Chapter Four: Helpers and Guides
Hermann Hesse: The Poet
Toni Cade Bambara: The Lesson
Raymond Carver: Cathedral
Isaac Babel: Awakening
Ernest J. Gaines: The Sky is Gray
R.K. Narayan: Under the Banyan Tree
Philip Roth: The Conversion of the Jews
Gabriel Garc((i'))a M((a'))rquez: Blacam((a'))n the Good, Vendor of Miracles
Chapter Five: The Treasure
James Joyce: Araby
Ursula K. Le Guin: Semley's Necklace
Ann Beattie: Janus
Carson McCullers: A Tree ((EMB)) A Rock ((EMB)) A Cloud
Isak Dinesen: The Blue Jar
Hortense Calisher: The Middle Drawer
Ralph Ellison: Flying Home
Max Apple: The Oranging of America
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Revolt of "Mother"
Chapter Six: Transformation
D.H. Lawrence: The Horse-Dealer's Daughter
John Updike: Twin Beds in Rome
Bharati Mukherjee: The Management of Grief
Tillie Olsen: O Yes
Gustave Flaubert: The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller
Ellen Gilchrist: Traveler
Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle
Vladimir Nabokov: Christmas
Marguerite Yourcenar: How Wang-Fo Was Saved
Glossary of Critical Terms
Biographies of the Authors
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