THEORY OF THE SHORT STORY:
- Charles E. May, The New Short Story Theories (Ohio UP 1994)
SHORT STORIES:
- James Joyce, Dubliners
- Salman Rushdie, “The Prophet’s Hair”*
- Hanif Kureishi, “My Son the Fanatic”*
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, “Rose Petals”*
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” (NAAL)
- Edgar Allan Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher” (NAAL)
- William Faulkner, “Barn Burning” (NAAL)
- Annie Proulx, “Brokeback Mountain”*
- Dave Eggers, “Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly”*
- Nadine Gordimer, “Some Are Born to Sweet Delight”*, “Once Upon a Time”*, “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off”*
- Khushwant Singh, “Karma”*
- Anita Desai, “Games at Twilight”*
- R.K. Narayan, “A Horse and Two Goats”*
- Katherine Mansfield, “The Garden Party”*
- Alice Munro, “Friend of My Youth”*
- Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (NAAL)
- Ernest Hemingway, “A Very Short Story”* and “Soldier’s Home”*
- Jon McGregor, “If It Keeps on Raining”*
- Peter Carey, “American Dreams”*
- Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (NAAL)
- William Trevor, “The Distant Past”*
- Graham Swift, “Seraglio”*
- Virginia Woolf, “The Mark on the Wall”
NAAL: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Seventh Edition,
James Joyce, Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics)
Texts marked * can be found in a compendium bought at Akademika