Short Fiction: Classic and Contemporary

By Lyman Grant and Charles H. Bohner

Book Overview

This book is an exceptionally wide-ranging alphabetically arranged collection of stories spanning all genres of short fiction. It includes myth, fairy tale, humor, western, detective, Magic Realism, gothic, fantasy, folktale, and film. This edition presents a wide variety of selections by writers from diverse backgrounds that represent a true cross-section of the population and represent a broader, more current selection of contemporary fiction. Features a variety of relatively new writers and some older writers whose work is gaining new audiences: T. C. Boyle, Alice Carey, Oscar Cesares, Charles Chetnutt, E. M Forster, Nikolai Leskov, Mary McCarthy, Jonathan Nolan, Dorothy Parker, Banana Yoshimoto, and Anzia Yezierska. Includes new works to the context readings essays or excerpts from non-fiction section: by Walter Benjamin, Raymond Carver, E.M. Forester, and Joyce Carol Oates, all great critics and theorists of narrative. Stresses women writers, writers of color, and gay and lesbian writers:includes works by Isabel Allande, 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 Cort?zar, Carlos Fuentes, Ernest J. Gaines, Dagoberto Gilb, Hanif Kureishi, Tom?s Rivera, Salman Rushdie and more. For literature and film enthusiasts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131916750
• ISBN13: 9780131916753
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Longman
• Length: 1440 Pages
• Weight: 2.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.6" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Short Fiction: Classic & Contemporary

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Excellent and Unique Compilation of Stories

Bohner and Grant's collection has a wonderful assortment of stories, both classic and contemporary. There are some great traditional stories from the masters of the literary canon, like Poe and Faulkner, but also unique and hard-to-find stories often excluded from introductory anthologies, such as "Memento Mori," "Not a Good Girl," and "Patriotism." There's a nice section on literature into film, too.

Very good short fiction collection

I've been impressed with this short fiction collection since way back in my undergrad days when the fourth edition was used in one of my classes. Now that I'm teaching college myself, I actually use the sixth edition in my introduction to literature class. The selection of stories is quite good - the book includes a good selection of American, British, and multicultural authors, multiple genres, and some in-depth background on some of the stories and authors. The introductory material on fiction is excellent, and the brief overview in the back of the book on criticism styles is accessible for a wide audience. Overall, my students enjoyed the stories that appeared in this collection, and I would definitely use it again.