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Richard Connell, Most Dangerous Game
Tobias Wolff, Hunters in the Snow
Understanding and Evaluating Fiction
Graham Greene, The Destructors
Alice Munro, How I Met My Husband
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill
Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Tim Gautreaux, Welding with Children
Anton Chekhov, The Darling Translated by Constance Garnett
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
Nadine Gordimer, Once upon a Time
Willa Cather, Pauls Case
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
D H Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Ursula Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Frank OConnor, The Drunkard
Margaret Atwood, Rape Fantasies
Albert Camus, The Guest Translated by Justin OBrien
Edith Wharton, Roman Fever
F Scott Fitzgerald, A New Leaf

James Joyce
Araby
Eveline
The Boarding House

Flannery OConnor
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Greenleaf

Joyce Carol Oates
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Life After High School
June Birthing

Chinua Achebe, Civil Peace
John Cheever, The Swimmer
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers
Zora Neale Hurston, The Gilded Six-Bits
Henry James, The Real Thing
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
John Updike, A & P

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English
Pages
665

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Perrine's Story and Structure
2009, Wadsworth Cengage Learning
paperback in English - Twelfth edition; Instructor's edition
Cover of: Perrine's Story and Structure
Perrine's Story and Structure
2009, Wadsworth Cengage Learning
paperback in English - 12th ed.

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Table of Contents

Preface
Part One: THE ELEMENTS OF FICTION
1
Reading the Story
Reviewing Chapter One
Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
Tobias Wolff, Hunters in the Snow
Understanding and Evaluating Fiction
Suggestions for Writing
2
Plot and Structure
Reviewing Chapter Two
Graham Greene, The Destructors
Alice Munro, How I Met My Husband
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
Suggestions for Writing
3
Characterization
Reviewing Chapter Three
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill
Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Suggestions for Writing
4
Theme
Reviewing Chapter Four
Tim Gautreaux, Welding with Children
Anton Chekhov, The Darling
Translated by Constance Garnett
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
Nadine Gordimer, Once upon a Time
Suggestions for Writing
5
Point of View
Reviewing Chapter Five
Willa Cather, Pauls Case
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
Suggestions for Writing
6
Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy
Reviewing Chapter Six
D
H
Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Ursula Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Suggestions for Writing
7
Humor and Irony
Reviewing Chapter Seven
Frank OConnor, The Drunkard
Margaret Atwood, Rape Fantasies
Albert Camus, The Guest
Translated by Justin OBrien
Suggestions for Writing
8
Evaluating Fiction
Reviewing Chapter Eight
Exercise
Edith Wharton, Roman Fever
F
Scott Fitzgerald, A New Leaf
Suggestions for Writing
Part Two: THREE FEATURED WRITERS: JAMES JOYCE, FLANNERY OCONNOR, AND JOYCE CAROL OATES
Introduction
James Joyce
Araby
Eveline
The Boarding House
Critical Perspectives on Joyce
Craig Hansen Werner, From Dubliners: A Pluralistic World
J
S
Atherton, From ?Araby.? Clive Hart, From ?Eveline.? Fritz Senn, From ??The Boarding House Seen as a Tale of Misdirection.? Flannery OConnor
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Greenleaf
Critical Perspectives on OConnor
Flannery OConnor, ?A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable.? Flannery OConnor, ?Letter to a Professor of English.? Madison Jones, ?A Good Mans Predicament.? Dorothy Walters, On ?Everything That Rises Must Converge.? Gilbert H
Muller, On ?Greenleaf.? Joyce Carol Oates
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Life After High School
June Birthing
Critical Perspectives on Oates
Joyce Carol Oates, From ?Stories That Define Me: The Making of a Writer.? Joyce Carol Oates, From ?Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film.? Elaine Showalter, On ?Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?? Greg Johnson, On ?Life After High School? and ?June Birthing.? Suggestions for Writing
Part Three: WRITING ABOUT FICTION
I
Why Write about Literature? II
For Whom Do You Write? III
Two Basic Approaches
IV
Choosing a Topic
V
Proving Your Point
VI
Writing the Paper
VII
Writing In-Class Essays or Essays Tests
VIII
Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q10)
IX
Documentation
X
Stance and Style (S1-S6)
XI
Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems
XII
Writing Samples
Part Four: STORIES FOR FURTHER READING
Chinua Achebe, Civil Peace
John Cheever, The Swimmer
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers
Zora Neale Hurston, The Gilded Six-Bits
Henry James, The Real Thing
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
John Updike, A & P
Glossary of Terms
Copyrights and Acknowledgments
Index of Authors and Titles.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Other Titles
Perrine's story & structure
Copyright Date
2009

Classifications

Library of Congress
PN6014 .P42 2009

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
xvii, 665 p. ;
Number of pages
665

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL19905583M
Internet Archive
perrinesstorystr0012perr
ISBN 10
1413033091
ISBN 13
9781413033090
LCCN
2007938682
OCLC/WorldCat
232655188, 1245639465
Library Thing
9579335
Goodreads
59406645

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