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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 | |