An Introduction to Fiction

Intended as a textbook for classes in fiction or creative writing, this edition of a popular resource contains 56 fictional pieces, both classic and contemporary, almost all of them short stories, with biocritical and other commentary and discission questions; short selections of critical commentary on fiction from ten important 19th and 20th-century writers; and a substantial supplement on academic writing about literature, which makes reference to the 1995 MLA guidelines, and presents short critical pieces from important critics that illustrate nine different approaches to fiction criticism that are popular in today's academe. Indexes of authors, titles, and terms are provided. Editors Kennedy and Gioia teach at Wesleyan Univ.

• Author
• X.J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia, Kate Chopin, Sandra Cisneros, Stephen Crane, William Faulkner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nadine Gordimer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, Jack London, Katherine Mansfield, Gabriel García Márquez, Ambrose Bierce, Bobbie Ann Mason, Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, John Cheever, Anton Chekhov, W. Somerset Maugham, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, Frank O'Connor, Tillie Olsen, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Philip Roth, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, James Thurber, Leo Tolstoy, John Updike, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, T. Coraghessan Boyle

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 635

• Publisher
• HarperCollins College Publishers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780673525086

• Genres
• fiction, collections, writing, reference

• Release date
• 1995