The Cambridge Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe by
Much remains uncertain about the life of Edgar Allan Poe, the mysterious author of one of the best-known American poems, 'The Raven', the Gothic romance The Fall of the House of Usher, and the first detective fiction, The Murders in the Rue Morgue. This book provides a balanced overview of Poe's career and writings, resisting the tendency of many scholars to sensationalise the more enigmatic aspects of his life. Benjamin F. Fisher outlines Poe's experiments with a wide range of literary forms and genres, and shows how his fiction evolved from Gothic fantasy to plausible, sophisticated psychological fiction. Fisher makes fruitful connections within this diverse body of work, and offers analyses of the major works. The critical afterlife of Poe's work is charted, and the book includes a guide to further reading, making this a handy starting-point for students and readers new to Poe.
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman by
Scholars have argued for decades over which constitutes the best possible version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's frequently anthologized story "The Yellow Wall-Paper." Most editions have been based on the 1892 New England Magazine publication rather than the handwritten manuscript at Radcliffe College. Publication of the unedited manuscript in 1994 sparked controversy over which of the two was definitive. Since then, scholars have discovered half a dozen parent texts for later twentieth-century printings, including William Dean Howells's version from 1920 and the 1933 Golden Book version. While traditional critical editions gather evidence and make an argument for adopting one text as preferable to others,"The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition, edited by Shawn St. Jean, offers both manuscript and magazine versions, critically edited and printed in parallel for the first time. New significance appears in such facets as the magazine's accompanying illustrations, its lineation and paragraphing, Gilman's choice of pronouns, and her original handwritten ending. This critical edition of "The Yellow Wall-Paper" includes a full and nontraditional apparatus, making it easy for students and scholars to study the more than four hundred variants between the two texts. Four new essays, written especially for this volume, explore the implications of this multitext model.
Zora Neale Hurston by
Zora Neale Hurston is today recognized as a major contributor to the Harlem Renaissance literature of the 1920s and American modernist literature. Hurston's most important works, published in the 1930s, emerge from her interest in African American oral and vernacular culture, represented in her most studied publications Mules and Men (1935) and Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). Hurston's interest in preserving the culture of the black South remains among her most valuable contributions.
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Accompanying the common elements in short fiction and poetry are suggested titles.
INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE SHORT STORIES
"Araby" James Joyce p. 131 Short Stories for Students
"Half a Day” Naguib Mahfouz p. 90 Short Stories for Students
"The Lesson" Toni Cade Bambara p. 98 Short Stories for Students
CONFORMITY AND REBELLION SHORT STORIES
"The Lottery" Shirley Jackson p. 354 Short Stories for Students
" 'Repent Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" Harlan Ellison p. 361 Short Stories for Students
“The End of Firpo in the World” George Saunders p. 385 Gale Literature
CULTURE AND IDENTITY SHORT STORIES
"A Rose for Emily" William Faulkner p. 580 Short Stories for Students
“The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman p. 516 Short Stories for Students
“Everyday Use” Alice Walker p. 553 Short Stories for Students
LOVE AND HATE SHORT STORIES
"The Storm" Kate Chopin p. 765 Short Stories for Students
“Sweat” Zora Neale Hurston p. 770 Short Stories for Students
“Hills Like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway p. 825 Short Stories for Students
LIFE AND DEATH SHORT STORIES
"The Cask of Amontillado" Edgar Allan Poe p. 1019 Short Stories for Students
“The Man to Send Rain Clouds” Leslie Marmon Silko p. 1089 Short Stories for Students
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” Katherine Anne Porter p. 1107 Short Stories for Students
Ernest Hemingway by
Essays analyze Hemingway's style and technique, examine The Sun Also Rises and selected short stories, and are accompanied by a brief chronology of his life.
