Perrine's Story and Structure: Tenth Edition

by Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson

Part 1. The Elements of Fiction --
Chapter 1. Reading the Story --
The Most Dangerous Game / Richard Connell --
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway --
Chapter 2. Plot and Structure --
The Destructors / Graham Greene --
How I Met My Husband / Alice Munro --
Interpreter of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri --
Chapter 3. Characterization --
Everyday Use / Alice Walker --
Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield --
Hunters in the Snow / Tobias Wolff --
Chapter 4. Theme --
The Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara --
Eveline / James Joyce --
A Worn Path / Eudora Welty --
Once upon a Time / Nadine Gordimer --
Chapter 5. Point of View --
Paul's Case / Willa Cather --
The Lottery / Shirley Jackson --
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter --
A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner --
Chapter 6. Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy --
The Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence --
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Translated by Gregory Rabassa --
Chapter 7. Humor and Irony --
The Drunkard / Frank O'Connor --
You're Ugly, Too / Lorrie Moore --
The Guest / Albert Camus / Translated by Justin O'Brien --
Chapter 8. Evaluating Fiction --
General Exercises for Analysis and Evaluation --
A Municipal Report / O. Henry --
A Jury of Her Peers / Susan Glaspell --
Roman Fever / Edith Wharton --
A New Leaf / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
Part 2. Three Fiction Casebooks Anton Chekhov, Flannery O'Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates --
Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov / Translated by Constance Garnett --
The Lady with the Dog / Translated by Constance Garnett --
The Darling / Translated by Constance Garnett --
Critical Perspectives on Chekhov --
Anton Chekhov, From His Letters --
Eudora Welty, From "Reality in Chekhov's Stories" --
Richard Ford, From "Why We Like Chekhov" --
Thomas Winner, On "The Darling" --
A Good Man Is Hard to Find / Flannery O'Connor --
A Late Encounter with the Enemy --
Greenleaf --
Critical Perspectives on O'Connor --
Flannery O'Connor, "A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable" --
Flannery O'Connor, "Letter to a Professor of English" --
Madison Jones, "A Good Man's Predicament" --
Richard Giannone, On "A Late Encounter with the Enemy" --
Gilbert H. Muller, On "Greenleaf" --
Heat / Joyce Carol Oates --
The Lady with the Pet Dog --
Life after High School --
Critical Perspectives on Oates --
Joyce Carol Oates, From "Stories That Define Me: The Making of a Writer" --
Joyce Carol Oates, On "Heat" --
Greg Johnson, On "Heat" --
Matthew C. Brennan, "Plotting against Chekhov: Joyce Carol Oates and 'The Lady with the Dog'" --
Part 3. Writing About Fiction --
I. Why Write about Literature? --
II. For Whom Do You Write? --
III. Choosing a Topic --
1. Papers That Focus on a Single Story --
2. Papers of Comparison and Contrast --
3. Papers on a Number of Works by a Single Author --
4. Papers on a Number of Works with Some Feature Other Than Authorship in Common --
IV. Proving Your Point --
V. Writing the Paper --
VI. Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q10) --
VII. Documentation --
1. Textual Documentation (TD1-TD4) --
2. Parenthetical Documentation (PD1-PD6) --
VIII. Stance and Style (S1-S6) --
IX. Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems --
1. Grammar (G1-G2) --
2. Punctuation (P1-P5) --
3. Usage (U1-U2) --
X. Writing Samples --
1. Fiction Explication: "Darkness" in the Conclusion of "The Child by Tiger" --
2. Fiction Analysis: The Function of the Frame Story in "Once upon a Time" --
Part 4. Stories for Further Reading --
Civil Peace / Chinua Achebe --
Errand / Raymond Carver --
The Swimmer / John Cheever --
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane --
Love in L.A. / Dagoberto Gilb --
The Gilded Six-Bits / Zora Neale Hurston --
Bartleby the Scrivener / Herman Melville --
The Shawl / Cynthia Ozick --
The Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe --
He / Katherine Anne Porter --
The Child by Tiger / Thomas Wolfe.

Genres: Fiction

755 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Adrienne Michetti · Rating 5 out of 5]

While this might appear to be a dry and boring "old" book, it is filled with absolute *gems.* Stories are from classic writers, some of whom are known as short story writers, having perfected their craft, and others from authors whose primary genre is the novel, and even more from writers who are one-offs.

Highly recommended for lovers of the short story form, or for those who may not have time /energy to read a novel, but still want all the value of a piece of literature.

[Eva Weiss · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book to take to a deserted island.