Major American short stories
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Major American short stories
Oxford University Press, 1994
3rd ed
Available at 34 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This third edition of a highly successful anthology traces the American short story from Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne to contemporary writers such as Cooper, Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, and Raymond Carver. Identifying strands of developmemt such as 'Regionalism and Realism', and the establishment of the short story as 'A National Art Form', the editor also includes a better representation of women writers and writers of colour in this new edition.
Table of Contents
- The Search for Form: Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville and James Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle
- The Adventure of the German Student Nathaniel Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown
- Wakefield
- Rappaccini's Daughter Ligeia
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Purloined Letter Herman Melville: Bartleby the Serivener Henry James: The Real Thing
- The Jolly Corner Regionalism and Realism Mark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
- How To Tell a Story Bret Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat William Dean Howells: Editha Sarah Orne Jewett: The Courting of Sister Wisby Kate Chopin: Desiree's Baby Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper Neighbor Rosicky: Willa Cather A National Art Form Stephen Crane: The Open Boat
- Stephen Crane's Own Story Sherwood Anderson: I Want To Know Why F. Scott Fitzgerald: Babylon Revisited Ernest Hemingway: Big Two-Hearted River Zora Neale Hurston: The Gilded Six-Bits William Faulkner: Red Leaves
- That Evening Sun Katherine Anne Porter: Flowering Judas Eudora Welty: Petrified Man Robert Penn Warren: Blackberry Winter Richard Wright: The Man Who Was Almost a Man Saul Bellow: Looking for Mr. Green Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man Is Hard To Find Bernard Malamud: The Magic Barrel Peter Taylor: Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time James Baldwin: Sonny's Blues Philip Roth: Defender of the Faith John Updike: The Doctor's Wife John Cheever: The World of Apples The Short Story Today John Barth: Lost in the Funhouse Donald Barthelme: The Indian Uprising Robert Coover: The Magic Poker Grace Paley: The Long-Distance Runner Joyce Carol Oates: Daisy Robert Stone: Helping Raymond Carver: Errand Alice Walker: Everyday Use Leslie Marmon Silko: Storyteller Louise Erdrich: Snares Biographical and Bibliographical Notes The American Short Story: A General Bibliography
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