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Foreword: What Is a Short Story, and How Do We Teach It? | xi | |
I. | Making It Personal | 1 |
1. | Shared Weight: Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" | 5 |
2. | Being People Together: Toni Cade Bambara's "Raymond's Run" | 10 |
3. | Destruct to Instruct: "Teaching" Graham Greene's "The Destructors" | 18 |
4. | Zora Neale Hurston's "How It Feels to Be Colored Me": A Writing and Self-Discovery Process | 22 |
II. | Seeing What Is Really There | 31 |
5. | Forcing Readers to Read Carefully: William Carlos Williams's "The Use of Force" | 33 |
6. | "Nothing Much Happens in This Story": Teaching Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" | 42 |
7. | How Did I Break My Students of One of Their Biggest Bad Habits as Readers? It Was Easy: Using Alice Walker's "How Did I Get Away ..." | 48 |
8. | Reading between the Lines of Gina Berriault's "The Stone Boy" | 54 |
9. | Led to Condemn: Discovering the Narrative Strategy of Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" | 59 |
III. | Perceiving the Story's Underlying Structure | 65 |
10. | One Great Way to Read Short Stories: Studying Character Deflection in Morley Callaghan's "All the Years of Her Life" | 67 |
11. | Stories about Stories: Teaching Narrative Using William Saroyan's "My Grandmother Lucy Tells a Story without a Beginning, a Middle, or an End" | 72 |
12. | The Story Looks at Itself: Narration in Virginia Woolf's "An Unwritten Novel" | 78 |
13. | Structuralism and Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever" | 85 |
IV. | Encountering Other Perspectives | 95 |
14. | Creating Independent Analyzers of the Short Story with Rawlings's "A Mother in Mannville" | 97 |
15. | Plato's "Myth of the Cave" and the Pursuit of Knowledge | 108 |
16. | Through Cinderella: Four Tools and the Critique of High Culture | 113 |
17. | Getting behind Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" | 118 |
V. | Discerning the Story's Cultural Perspective | 127 |
18. | Expanding the Margins in American Literature Using Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City | 131 |
19. | Shuffling the Race Cards: Toni Morrison's "Recitatif" | 139 |
20. | Readers, Cultures, and "Revolutionary" Literature: Teaching Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson" | 145 |
21. | Learning to Listen to Stories: Sherman Alexie's "Witnesses, Secret and Not" | 153 |
VI. | Refining Taste | 163 |
22. | "Sometimes, Bad Is Bad": Teaching Theodore Dreiser's "Typhoon" and the American Literary Canon | 167 |
23. | Teaching Flawed Fiction: "The Most Dangerous Game" | 172 |
24. | Reading Louise Erdrich's "American Horse" | 179 |
25. | Opening the Door to Understanding Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" | 185 |
Afterword: Writing by the Flash of the Firefly | 191 | |
A Bibliographic Postscript | 195 | |
Index | 197 | |
Editors | 203 | |
Contributors | 205 |
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