| Description |
x, 435 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Point of View: Alienation -- Cain / Hebrew Myth -- Prometheus / Greek Myth -- Black girl / Ousmane Sembene -- A sorrowful woman / Gail Goodwin -- The sea change / Ernest Hemmingway -- Black is my favorite color / Bernard Malamud -- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty -- Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville -- -- Plot: The Supernatural -- The devil's pretty daughter / American Tale -- The vanishing hitchhiker / American Belief Tale -- The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- The open window / Saki -- Summer water and Shirley / Durango Mandoza -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edar Allan Poe -- The circular ruins / Jorge Borges -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- -- Character: Initiation -- The robber bridegroom / German Tale -- The sword in the stone / British Legend -- Cecilia Rosas / Amado Muro -- Trial at arms / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- A sense of shelter / John Updike -- My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- The old people / William Faulkner -- -- Setting: The Individual and Environment -- The coming of the Ora River / African (Yoruba) Myth -- The end of the world: The buffalo go / American Indian (Kiowa) Myth -- Overmen / Lloyd Zimpel -- To the open water / Jesse Hill Ford -- The metal sky / Ervin Krause -- Take the "A" train / Donald DeLillo -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad -- -- Irony: Appearance and Reality -- How true burnt Leopard all over / African (Zande) Tale -- Coon in the box / American (slave) Tale -- My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Connor -- Her sweet Jerome / Alice Walker -- Big black good man / Richard Wright -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- The swimmer / John Cheever -- Araby / James Joyce -- -- Symbol: The Inevitability of Death -- The impartiality of death / Chicano Legend -- Ishtar's descent into the world below / Babylonian Myth -- Father and I / Par Lagerkvist -- The patented gate and the mean hamburger / Robert Penn Warren -- The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence -- The grave / Katharine Anne Porter -- The gentleman frorm San Francisco / Ivan Bunin -- Greenleaf / Flannery O'Connor -- -- Stories for Further Reading -- Lost in the funhouse / John Barth -- The brother / Robert Coover -- A poetics for bullies / Stanley Elkin -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- The sojourner / Carson McCullers -- Patriotism / Yukio Mishima -- Butcher bird / Wallace Stegner |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Short stories.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Kirkland, James, 1942-
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Dowell, Paul W., 1937-
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| ISBN |
0133143104 |
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