Literature : an introduction to fiction, poetry, and drama

Kennedy, X. J. (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0316488801
ISBN: 9780316488808
Physical Description: print
xlii, 1447 pages ; 23 cm
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, ©1987.

Contents / Notes

General Note:

Includes indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Fiction -- Reading a Story -- Fable and Tale -- W. Somerset Maughan/ The Appointment in Samarra -- Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm/ Godfather Death --Plot -- The Short Story -- John Updike/ A & P -- Point of View -- William Faulkner/ A Rose for Emily -- Frank O'Connor/ First Confession -- Edgar Allan Poe/ The Tell-Tale Heart -- Doris Lessing/ A Woman on a Roof --Setting -- James Joyce/ Araby -- Kate Chopin/ The Storm -- T. Coraghessan Boyle/ Greasy Lake -- Character -- James Thurber/ The Catbird Seat -- Katherine Anne Porter/ The Jilting of Granny Weatherall -- Willa Cather/ Paul's Case -- Isaac Bashevis Singer/ Gimpel the Fool -- Tone and Style -- Ernest Hemingway/ A Clean, Well-Lighted Place -- William Faulkner/ Barn Burning -- Alice Walker/ Everyday Use -- Irony -- Shirley Jackson/ The Lottery -- Flann O'Brien/ Two in One -- Theme -- Flannery O'Connor/ Revelation -- E.B. White/ The Door -- Stephen Crane/ The Open Boat -- Symbol -- John Steinbeck/ The Chrysanthemums -- Alice Munro/ Wild Swans --Evaluating a Story -- Reading a Novel -- Stories for Further Reading -- Leo Tolstoi/ The Death of Ivan Ilych -- Nathaniel Hawthorne/ The Birthmark -- Virginia Woolf/ A Haunted House -- Katherine Mansfield/ The Garden-Party -- Franz Kakfa/ A Hunger Artist -- D.H. Lawrence/ The Rocking-Horse Winner -- Edith Wharton/ Roman Fever -- Eudora Welty/ A Worn Path -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark/ The Portable Phonograph -- Isak Dinesen/ A Sailor Boy's Tale -- Nagai Tatsuo/ Brief Encounter -- Gabriel García Márquez/ The Night of the Curlews -- Tillie Olsen/ I Stand Here Ironing -- Philip Roth/ The Conversion of the Jews -- Joyce Carol Oates/ Where Are You Goin, Where Have You Been? -- Toni Cade Bambara/ My Man Bovanne -- Ursula K. Leguin/ The Wife's Story.