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The zebra storyteller / Spencer Holst
No one's a mystery / Elizabeth Tallent
The jewelry / Guy de Maupassant
Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
The whirlpool rapids / Margaret Atwood
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
The summer my grandmother was supposed to die / Mordecai Richler
My man Bovanne / Toni Cade Bambara
The real thing / Henry James
Our friend Judith / Doris Lessing
The country husband / John Cheever
A pair of tickets / Amy Tan
The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The termitary / Nadine Gordimer
Janus / Ann Beattie
How much land does a man need? / Leo Tolstoy
Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield
Beyond the Pale / William Trevor
The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad
Love medicine / Louise Erdrich
Odour of Chrysanthemums
The rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence
The lame shall enter first
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
Araby / James Joyce
Boys and girls / Alice Munro
The old people / William Faulkner
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The eye altering / Ursula K. Le Guin
The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges
Most Dangerous Game / Richard Connell
Barn burning / William Faulkner
The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee
The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy
Beyond the bayou / Kate Chopin
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A hunger artist / Franz Kafka
The fig tree / Katherine Anne Porter
A clean well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
A conversation with my father / Grace Paley
The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen
The Redtown chronicles / Luisa Valenzuela
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
Great Falls / Richard Ford
Girl / Jamaica

Publish Date
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
681

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Cover of: The Norton Introduction to Fiction
The Norton Introduction to Fiction
1991, W.W. Norton
Paperback in English - Fourth Edition

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Table of Contents

Foreword to the Fourth Edition
Page xi
Reading Fiction
Page 3
The Zebra Storyteller
Page 3
No One's a Mystery
Page 6
The Jewelry
Page 9
Understanding the Text
Page 15
1. Plot
Page 15
The Cask of Amontillado
Page 23
Sonny's Blues
Page 28
The Whirlpool Rapids
Page 51
2. Point of View
Page 57
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Page 63
A Rose for Emily
Page 69
The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die
Page 76
3. Characterization
Page 88
The Real Thing
Page 98
Our Friend Judith
Page 116
4. Setting
Page 131
The Country Husband
Page 149
A Pair of Tickets
Page 152
The Lady with the Dog
Page 166
5. Symbols
Page 180
Young Goodman Brown
Page 184
The Termitary
Page 193
Janus
Page 198
6. Theme
Page 203
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Page 208
Her First Ball
Page 219
Beyond the Pale
Page 223
7. The Whole Text
Page 245
The Secret Sharer
Page 245
Love Medicine
Page 277
Exploring Contexts
Page 295
8. The Author's Work
Page 295
Odour of Chrysanthemums
Page 303
The Rocking-Horse Winner
Page 317
Passages from Essays and Letters
Page 329
9. A Kind: Initiation
Page 379
Araby
Page 382
Boys and Girls
Page 386
The Old People
Page 396
10. A Mode: Fantasy
Page 411
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Page 415
The Eye Altering
Page 419
The Garden of Forking Paths
Page 429
Evaluating Fiction
Page 438
The Most Dangerous Game
Page 438
Barn Burning
Page 459
Grief
Page 477
Reading More Fiction
Page 492
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Page 492
Beyond the Bayou
Page 532
The Yellow Wallpaper
Page 537
A Hunger Artist
Page 549
The Fig Tree
Page 555
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Page 562
A Conversation with My Father
Page 566
The Kugelmass Episode
Page 570
The Redtown Chronicles
Page 578
Shiloh
Page 578
Great Falls
Page 589
Girl
Page 606
Writing About Fiction
Page 611
Introduction
Page 611
Representing the Literary Text
Page 612
Copying
Page 612
Paraphrase
Page 613
Summary
Page 613
Replying to the Text
Page 615
Imitation and Parody
Page 615
Re-creation and Reply
Page 616
Explaining the Text
Page 618
Description
Page 618
Analysis
Page 618
Interpretation
Page 621
Principles and Procedures
Page 621
Reading and Theme Making
Page 623
Opinions, Right and Wrong
Page 624
Reader and Text
Page 627
Critical Approaches
Page 631
Objectivism
Page 631
Formalism
Page 631
New Criticism
Page 631
Structuralism
Page 632
Post-Structuralism
Page 633
Deconstruction
Page 634
Subjectivism
Page 635
Psychological Criticism
Page 635
Freudian Criticism
Page 635
Lacanian Criticism
Page 635
Jungian Criticism
Page 636
Phenomenological Criticism
Page 636
Reader-response Criticism
Page 636
Historical Criticism
Page 637
Dialogism
Page 637
Sociological Criticism
Page 638
Marxist Criticism
Page 639
Feminist Criticism
Page 640
New Historicism
Page 641
Pluralism
Page 642
Further Reading on Critical Approaches
Page 642
Deciding What to Write About
Page 644
Having Something to Say
Page 644
Choosing a Topic
Page 645
Considering Your Audience
Page 648
From Topic to Rough Draft
Page 650
Gathering Evidence
Page 650
Organizing Your Notes
Page 652
Developing an Argument
Page 654
Writing the First Draft
Page 655
From Rough Draft to Completed Paper
Page 657
Revising
Page 657
Reviewing Your Work and Revising Again
Page 658
A Summary of the Process
Page 662
A Sample Paper
Page 664
The Struggle to Surface in the Water of 'Sonny's Blues'
Page 664
Biographical Sketches
Page 669
Index of Authors
Page 681
Index of Titles
Page 683
Index of Literary Terms
Page 684

Edition Notes

Errata slip laid in.
Includes indexes.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.3
Library of Congress
PN6120.2 .N6 1991, PN6120.2.N6 1991

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xiii, 681 p. ;
Number of pages
681

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1863780M
ISBN 10
0393959368
ISBN 13
9780393959369
LCCN
90021621
OCLC/WorldCat
831326759
LibraryThing
149534
Goodreads
59363560

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL20501950W

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