The Art of the Short Story

Contents
Preface
About the Authors
Part I Introduction
	The Art of the Short Story
Part II Stories
	Chinua Achebe, Nigerian
		Dead Men's Path
		Author's Perspective Achebe: Modern Africa as the Crossroads of Culture
	Sherwood Anderson, American
		Hands
		Author's Perspective Anderson: Words Not Plot Give Form to a Short Story
	Margaret Atwood, Canadian
		Happy Endings
		Author's Perspective Atwood: On the Canadian Identity
	James Baldwin, American
		Sonny's Blues
		Author's Perspective Baldwin: Race and the African-American Writer
	Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine
		The Garden of Forking Paths
		Author's Perspective Borges: Literature as Experience
	Albert Camus, French, born in Algeria
		The Guest
		Author's Perspective Camus: Revolution and Repression in Algeria
	Raymond Carver, American
		Cathedral
		A Small, Good Thing
		Author's Perspective Carver: Commonplace but Precise Language
	Willa Cather, American
		Paul's Case
		Author's Perspective Cather: Art as the Process of Simplification
	John Cheever, American
		The Swimmer
		Author's Perspective Cheever: Why I Write Short Stories
	Anton Chekhov, Russian
		The Lady with the Pet Dog
		Misery
		Author's Perspective Chekhov: Natural Description and "The Center of Gravity
	Kate Chopin, American
		The Storm
		The Story of an Hour
		Author's Perspective Chopin: My Writing Method
	Sandra Cisneros
		Barbie-Q
		Author's Perspective Cisneros: Bilingual Style
	Joseph Conrad, Polish, Naturalized British
		The Secret Sharer
		Author's Perspective Conrad: The Condition of Art
	Stephen Crane, American
		The Open Boat
		Author's Perspective Crane: The Sinking of the Commodore
	Ralph Ellison, American
		A Party Down at the Square
		Author's Perspective Ellison: Race and Fiction
	William Faulkner, American
		Barn Burning
		A Rose for Emily
		Author's Perspective Faulkner: The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself
	F. Scott Fitzgerald, American
		Babylon Revisited
		Author's Perspective Fitzgerald: On His Own Literary Aims
	Gustave Flaubert, French
		A Simple Heart
		Author's Perspective Flaubert: The Labor of Style
	Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian
		A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
		Author's Perspective Garcia Marquez: My Beginnings as a Writer
	Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American
		The Yellow Wallpaper
		Author's Perspective Gilman: Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper
	Nikolai Gogol, Russian
		The Overcoat
		Author's Perspective Gogol: On Realism
	Nadine Gordimer, South African
		A Company of Laughing Faces
		Author's Perspective Gordimer: How the Short Story Differs from the Novel
	Nathaniel Hawthorne, American
		Young Goodman Brown
		The Birthmark
		Author's Perspective Hawthorne: On the Public Failure of His Early Stories
	Ernest Hemingway, American
		A Clean Well-Lighted Place
		Author's Perspective Hemingway: One True Sentence
	Zora Neale Hurston, American
		Sweat
		Author's Perspective Hurston: Eatonville When You Look at It
	Shirley Jackson, American
		The Lottery
		Author's Perspective Jackson: The Public Reception of "The Lottery
	Henry James, American, Naturalized British
		The Real Thing
		Author's Perspective James: The Mirror of a Consciousness
	Ha Jin, born in China, Resident American
		Saboteur
		Author's Perspective Jin: Deciding to Write in English
	James Joyce, Irish
		Araby
		The Dead
		Author's Perspective Joyce: Epiphanies
	Franz Kafka, Austro-Hungarian
		Before the Law
		The Metamorphosis
		Author's Perspective Kafka: Discussing The Metamorphosis
	D. H. Lawrence, English
		Odour of Chrysanthemums
		The Rocking-Horse Winner
		Author's Perspective Lawrence: The Novel Is the Bright Book of Life
	Ursula K. Le Guin, American
		The Ones Who Walk Away from Ornelas
		Author's Perspective Le Guin: On "The Ones Who Walk Away from Ornelas
	Doris Lessing, Rhodesian, Naturalized British
		A Woman on a Roof
		Author's Perspective Lessing: My Beginnings as a Writer
	Jack London, American
		To Build a Fire
		Author's Perspective London: Defending the Factuality of "To Build a Fire
	Katherine Mansfield, New Zealander
		Miss Brill
		The Garden-Party
		Author's Perspective Mansfield: On "The Garden-Party
	Bobbie Ann Mason, American
		Shiloh
		Author's Perspective Mason: Minimalist Fiction
	Guy de Maupassant, French
		The Necklace
		Author's Perspective Maupassant: The Realist Method
	Herman Melville, American
		Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
		Author's Perspective Melville: American Literature
	Yukio Mishima, Japanese
		Patriotism
		Author's Perspective Mishima: Physical Courage and Death
	Alice Munro, Canadian
		How I Met My Husband
		Author's Perspective Munro: How I Write Short Stories
	Joyce Carol Oates, American
		Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
		Author's Perspective Oates: Productivity and the Critics
	Flannery O'Connor, American
		A Good Man Is Hard to Find
		Revelation
		Author's Perspective O'Connor: The Element of Suspense in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find
	Edgar Allan Poe, American
		The Fall of the House of Usher
		The Tell-Tale Heart
		Author's Perspective Poe: The Tale and Its Effect
	Katherine Anne Porter, American
		Flowering Judas
		Author's Perspective Porter: Writing "Flowering Judas
	Leslie Marmon Silko, American
		The Man to Send Rain Clouds
		Author's Perspective Silko: The Basis of "The Man to Send Rain Clouds
	Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish (born in Poland), Naturalized American
		Gimpel the Fool
		Author's Perspective Singer: The Character of Gimpel
	Leo Tolstoy, Russian
		The Death of Ivan Ilych
		Author's Perspective Tolstoy: The Moral Responsibilities of Art
	John Updike, American
		Separating
		Author's Perspective Updike: Why Write?
	Alice Walker, American
		Everyday Use
		Author's Perspective Walker: The Black Woman Writer in America
	Eudora Welty, American
		Why I Live at the P.O
		Author's Perspective Welty: The Plot of the Short Story
	Edith Wharton, American
		Roman Fever
		Author's Perspective Wharton: The Subject of Short Stories
	Virginia Woolf, English
		A Haunted House
		Author's Perspective Woolf: Women and Fiction
Part III Writing
	The Elements of Short Fiction
		Plot
		Characterization
		Point of View
		Setting
		Theme
		Style
	Writing About Fiction
	Critical Approaches to Literature
		Formalist Criticism
			Michael Clark, Light and Darkness in "Sonny's Blues
		Biographical Criticism
			Virginia Llewellyn Smith, Chekhovs Attitude to Romantic Love
		Historical Criticism
			John King, The Argentine Context of Borges's Fantastic Fiction
		Psychological Criticism
			Daniel Hoffman, The Father-Figure in "The Tell-Tale Heart
		Mythological Criticism
			Edmond Volpe, Myth in Faulkner's "Barn Burning
		Sociological Criticism
			Daniel P. Watkins, Money and Labor in "The Rocking-Horse Winner
		Gender Criticism
			Juliann Fleenor, Gender and Pathology in "The Yellow Wallpaper
		Reader-Response Criticism
			Stanley Fish, An Eskimo "A Rose for Emily
		Deconstructionist Criticism
			Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author
		Cultural Studies
			Mark Bauerlein, What Is Cultural Studies?
Part IV Glossary of Literary Terms
Acknowledgments