Full 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.
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
