Perrine's Story and Structure
by Arp,Thomas R.Edition: 12th
Format: Spiral Bound
Pub. Date: 2008-02-13
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary
The fiction section from Laurence Perrine?s all-time bestselling introduction to literature, this concise, authoritative text provides a complete overview of the essential elements of fiction, along with a diverse selection of stories to illustrate them. This reliable, well-written classic has introduced thousands of students to the serious study of fiction, yet it remains vital and compelling for today?s readers, presenting the most important and engaging stories available in a single collection. The section on three featured writers, James Joyce, Flannery O?Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates, includes three stories by each author, as well as essays by noted critics on their works.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Professional Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Foreword to Students | p. xv |
| The Elements of Fiction | p. 1 |
| Reading the Story | p. 3 |
| Reviewing Chapter One | p. 9 |
| The Most Dangerous Game | p. 9 |
| Hunters in the Snow | p. 28 |
| Understanding and Evaluating Fiction | p. 42 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 44 |
| Plot and Structure | p. 45 |
| Reviewing Chapter Two | p. 53 |
| The Destructors | p. 53 |
| How I Met My Husband | p. 67 |
| Interpreter of Maladies | p. 83 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 101 |
| Characterization | p. 103 |
| Reviewing Chapter Three | p. 108 |
| Everyday Use | p. 108 |
| Miss Brill | p. 116 |
| The Man Who Was Almost a Man | p. 121 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 132 |
| Theme | p. 133 |
| Reviewing Chapter Four | p. 140 |
| Welding with Children | p. 140 |
| The Darling | p. 154 |
| A Worn Path | p. 165 |
| Once upon a Time | p. 173 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 178 |
| Point of View | p. 179 |
| Reviewing Chapter Five | p. 185 |
| Paul's Case | p. 186 |
| The Lottery | p. 203 |
| The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | p. 211 |
| Hills Like White Elephants | p. 220 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 225 |
| Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy | p. 226 |
| Reviewing Chapter Six | p. 237 |
| The Rocking-Horse Winner | p. 237 |
| Young Goodman Brown | p. 251 |
| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | p. 263 |
| A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | p. 269 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 275 |
| Humor and Irony | p. 276 |
| Reviewing Chapter Seven | p. 280 |
| The Drunkard | p. 281 |
| Rape Fantasies | p. 290 |
| The Guest | p. 298 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 310 |
| Evaluating Fiction | p. 311 |
| Reviewing Chapter Eight | p. 314 |
| Roman Fever | p. 315 |
| A New Leaf | p. 327 |
| Suggestions for Writing | p. 340 |
| Three Featured Writers: James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates | p. 343 |
| Introduction | p. 345 |
| Araby | p. 346 |
| Eveline | p. 352 |
| The Boarding House | p. 356 |
| Critical Perspectives on Joyce | p. 363 |
| From Dubliners: A Pluralistic World | p. 363 |
| From "Araby" | p. 364 |
| From "Eveline" | p. 368 |
| From "'The Boarding House' Seen as a Tale of Misdirection" | p. 372 |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | p. 376 |
| Everything That Rises Must Converge | p. 390 |
| Greenleaf | p. 404 |
| Critical Perspectives on O'Connor | p. 425 |
| "A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable" | p. 425 |
| "Letter to a Professor of English" | p. 427 |
| From "A Good Man's Predicament" | p. 428 |
| On "Everything That Rises Must Converge" | p. 432 |
| On "Greenleaf" | p. 435 |
| Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | p. 438 |
| Life after High School | p. 453 |
| June Birthing | p. 467 |
| From "Stories That Define Me: The Making of a Writer" | p. 474 |
| "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film | p. 475 |
| On "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" | p. 478 |
| On "Life After High School" and "June Birthing" | p. 481 |
| Writing about Fiction | p. 487 |
| Why Write about Literature? | p. 489 |
| For Whom Do You Write? | p. 489 |
| Two Basic Approaches | p. 491 |
| Explication | p. 491 |
| Analysis | p. 492 |
| Choosing a Topic | p. 492 |
| Papers That Focus on a Single Story | p. 493 |
| Papers of Comparison and Contrast | p. 493 |
| Papers on a Number of Works by a Single Author | p. 494 |
| Papers on a Number of Works with Some Feature Other than Authorship in Common | p. 495 |
| Proving Your Point | p. 495 |
| Writing the Paper | p. 497 |
| Writing In-Class Essays or Essay Tests | p. 499 |
| Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q10) | p. 501 |
| Documentation | p. 507 |
| Textual Documentation (TD1-TD4) | p. 507 |
| Parenthetical Documentation (PD1-PD6) | p. 509 |
| Documentation by List of Works Cited | p. 511 |
| Documentation of Electronic Sources | p. 513 |
| Stance and Style (S1-S6) | p. 515 |
| Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems | p. 518 |
| Grammar (G1-G2) | p. 518 |
| Punctuation (P1-P5) | p. 518 |
| Usage (U1-U2) | p. 520 |
| Writing Samples | p. 523 |
| Fiction Explication: The Indeterminate Ending in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" | p. 523 |
| Fiction Analysis: The Function of the Frame Story in "Once upon a Time" | p. 525 |
| Stories for Further Reading | p. 529 |
| Civil Peace | p. 531 |
| The Swimmer | p. 536 |
| The Story of an Hour | p. 546 |
| A Rose for Emily | p. 548 |
| A Jury of Her Peers | p. 556 |
| The Gilded Six-Bits | p. 575 |
| The Real Thing | p. 585 |
| Bartleby the Scrivener | p. 608 |
| The Cask of Amontillado | p. 639 |
| A & P | p. 646 |
| Glossary of Terms | p. 653 |
| Copyrights and Acknowledgments | p. 659 |
| Index of Authors and Titles | p. 663 |
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