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Preface | |
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Professional Acknowledgments | |
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Foreword to Students | |
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The Elements of Fiction | |
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Reading the Story | |
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Reviewing Chapter One | |
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The Most Dangerous Game | |
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Hunters in the Snow | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Understanding and Evaluating Fiction | |
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Plot and Structure | |
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Reviewing Chapter Two | |
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The Destructors | |
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How I Met My Husband | |
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Interpreter of Maladies | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Characterization | |
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Reviewing Chapter Three | |
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Everyday Use | |
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Miss Brill | |
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Sonny's Blues | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Theme | |
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Reviewing Chapter Four | |
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Babylon Revisited | |
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Misery | |
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A Worn Path | |
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Once upon a Time | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Point of View | |
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Reviewing Chapter Five | |
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Paul's Case | |
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The Lottery | |
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | |
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Hills Like White Elephants | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy | |
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Reviewing Chapter Six | |
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The Rocking-Horse Winner | |
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Young Goodman Brown | |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | |
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Humor and Irony | |
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Reviewing Chapter Seven | |
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The Drunkard | |
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Rape Fantasies | |
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The Guest | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Evaluating Fiction | |
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Reviewing Chapter Eight | |
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The Matchmaker | |
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The Magic Barrel | |
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Suggestions for Writing | |
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Three Featured Writers | |
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Introduction | |
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The Sisters | |
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Araby | |
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The Boarding House | |
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Critical Perspectives on Joyce | |
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From Dubliners: A Pluralistic World | |
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On �The Sisters� | |
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On �Araby� | |
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From �The Boarding House Seen as a Tale of Misdirection� | |
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
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Good Country People | |
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Everything That Rises Must Converge | |
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Critical Perspectives on O'Connor | |
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�A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable� | |
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�Letter to a Professor of English� | |
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From �A Good Man's Predicament� | |
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On �Good Country People� | |
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On �Everything That Rises Must Converge� | |
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | |
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Life after High School | |
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June Birthing | |
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Critical Perspectives on Oates | |
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From �Stories That Define Me: The Making of a Writer� | |
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�Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' and Smooth Talk: S Story into Film� | |
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On �Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?� | |
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On �Life After High School� and �June Birthing� Suggestions for Writing | |
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Writing about Fiction | |
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Why Write about Literature? | |
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For Whom Do You Write? | |
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Two Basic Approaches | |
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Explication | |
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Analysis | |
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Choosing a Topic | |
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Papers That Focus on a Single Story | |
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Papers of Comparison and Contrast | |
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Papers on a Number of Works by a Single Author | |
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Papers on a Number of Works with Some Feature Other Than Authorship in Common | |
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Proving Your Point | |
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Writing the Paper | |
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Writing In-Class Essays or Essay Tests | |
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Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q10) | |
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Documentation | |
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Textual Documentation (TD1-TD4) | |
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Parenthetical Documentation (PD1-PD6) | |
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Documentation by List of Works Cited | |
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Documentation of Electronic Sources | |
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Stance and Style (S1-S6) | |
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Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems | |
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Grammar (G1-G2) | |
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Punctuation (P1-P5) | |
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Usage (U1-U2) | |
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Writing Samples | |
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Fiction Explication: The Indeterminate Ending in �Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?� | |
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Fiction Analysis: The Function of the Frame Stoty in �Once upon a Time� | |
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Stories for Further Reading | |
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The Swimmer | |
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The Story of an Hour | |
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A Rose for Emily | |
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A Jury of Her Peers | |
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Spunk | |
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The Real Thing | |
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | |
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Bartleby the Scrivener | |
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The Tell-Tale Heart | |
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A Little Burst | |
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A & P | |
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Glossary of Terms | |
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Copyrights and Acknowledgments | |
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Index of Authors and Titles | |