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On Writing Short Stories: (English)

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On Writing Short Stories, Second Edition, explores the art and craft of writing short fiction by bringing together nine original essays by professional writers and thirty-three examples of short fiction. The first section features original essays by well-known authors--including Francine Prose, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andre Dubus--that guide students through the process of writing. Focusing on the characteristics and craft of the short story and its writer, these essays take students from the workshopping process all the way through to the experience of working with agents and publishers. The second part of the text is an anthology of stories--many referred to in the essays--that give students dynamic examples of technique brought to life. In this second edition, author-editor Tom Bailey brings the text up-to-date with new and revised essays, alongside classic pieces by Robert Coles and Frank Conroy and a foreword by Tobias Wolff. New to This Edition * Includes new and revised essays: Two new essays on workshopping by award-winning fiction writers Robert Boswell ("After the Workshop: Transitional Drafts") and Antonya Nelson ("Whose Story Is It? The Anonymous Workshop") introduce the latest techniques in the process. C. Michael Curtis updates his essay on "Publishers and Publishing" in order to take into account the rise of electronic and online publishing. * Offers an expanded, diversified anthology of thirty-three stories, including works by short-short fiction and non-Western authors. New selections include works by such well-known authors at Jhumpa Lahiri and ZZ Packer. * The essay on craft is accompanied by writing exercises that push students to develop their craft as they work through the writing process.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Tobias Wolff ; Preface ; Contributors ; Part One: On Writing Short Stories ; Francine Prose, What Makes a Short Story ; Joyce Carol Oates, Reading as a Writer: The Artist as Craftsman ; Tom Bailey, Character, Plot, Setting and Time, Metaphor, and Voice ; The Voice of Desire: Character ; The Why? Behind the Power of Plot: Shaping the Short Story ; The Lesser Angels of Fiction: Setting and Time ; "The Connectedness of All Living Things": Metaphor ; The Writer's Signature: Voice ; Frank Conroy, The Writer's Workshop ; Antonya Nelson. Whose Story Is It? The Anonymous Workshop ; Robert Boswell After the Workshop: Transitional Drafts ; Andre Dubus, The Habit of Writing. ; Robert Cole, Why Write? Taking on the World ; C. Michael Curtis, Publishers and Publishing ; Part Two: Short Stories ; Guy de Maupassant, The String ; Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet Dog ; James Joyce, Eveline ; Yukio Mishima, Patriotism ; Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants ; Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing ; William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily ; John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums ; Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl ; Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge ; John Updike, A & P ; Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings ; Joyce Carol Oates, Heat ; Raymond Carver, Cathedral ; Mark Helprin, North Light ; Jayne Anne Phillips, Wedding Picture, Cheers, Stripper, and The Powder of the Angles, and I'm Yours ; Ron Hansen, Wickedness ; David Leavitt, Braids ; Jumpha Lahiri, A Temporary Matter ; Tom Franklin, Alaska ; Junot Diaz, Nilda ; Rick Bass, The Fireman ; Tom Bailey, Snow Dreams ; Susan Perabo, The Payoff ; Robert Boswell, The Darkness of Love ; ZZ Packer, Brownies ; Andre Dubus, A Father's Story ; Antonya Nelson, Dick ; Susan Mino, Lust ; Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780195395655
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Depth: 25
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 456
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 616 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0195395654
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 155 mm


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