Short Fiction: Classic and Contemporary - Softcover

Charles H. Bohner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013040683X ISBN 13: 9780130406835

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2001

Synopsis

This exceptionally wide-ranging collection of stories spans all genres of short fiction, including myth, fairy tale, humor, western, detective, Magic Realism, gothic, fantasy, and folktale. Designed to familiarize readers with major writers and differing approaches to the art of storytelling, this anthology also helps expand readers' appreciation of fiction with sections on reading and writing about fiction, biographical information on each author, a glossary of terms with examples, and a section on the established schools of literary criticism. Includes works by Isabel Allende, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Leslie Dick, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Mary Gaitskill, Susan Glaspell, Gish Jen, Mary Shelley, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Sontag, Jeanette Winterson, Sherman Alexie, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Ernest J. Gaines, Dagoberto Gilb, Hanif Kureishi, Tomás Rivera, Salman Rushdie, by Castillo, Winterson, David Leavitt, and Reynolds Price. For anyone interested in short fiction.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This exceptionally wide-ranging alphabetically arranged collection of stories includes writers of the 19th and 20th centuries and spans all genres of short fiction -- myth, fairy tale, humor, western, detective, science fiction, gothic, fantasy, and folktale. The selections include both acclaimed masterpieces, widely recognized as essential to any introduction to the genres, as well as more than 40 stories by highly regarded contemporary authors.

From the Back Cover:

This text is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of stories, arranged alphabetically, that spans all genres of short fiction. New to this edition is our COMPANION WEBSITE®, www.prenhall.com/bohner, with additional links and study questions for students.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 013040683X
• ISBN 13: 9780130406835
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 1430