《英语短篇小说导读 结构与理解》

Part OneStructure1

Chapter 1Plot1

John Updike A ＆ P6

Graham Greene The Destructors17

Chapter 2Character37

James Joyce Araby43

Eudora Welty A Worn Path53

Chapter 3Setting and Atmosphere65

Flannery O'Connor Everything That Rises Must Converge69

Doris Lessing The Old Chief Mshlanga89

Chapter 4Point of View105

Frank O'Connor First Confession111

John Cheever The Swimmer123

Chapter 5Theme139

Kurt Vonnegut,Jr. Harrison Bergeron144

Richard Wilbur A Game of Catch155

Chapter 6Style,Tone and Mood162

Nadine Gordimer The Train from Rhodesia169

Tobias Wolff In the Garden of the North American Martyrs176

Chapter 7Irony,Humor,Satire and Paradox191

Shirley Jackson The Lottery197

Bernard Malamud The Magic Barrel208

Chapter 8Symbol,Allegory,Fantasy and Absurdity228

Ann Beattie Dwarf House235

Donald Barthelme Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby247

Part TwoInterpretation253

Chapter 9Moral-Philosophical Approach253

Isaac Bashevis Singer Gimpel the Fool257

Kay Boyle Astronomer's Wife276

Chapter 10Historical-Biographical Approach285

Ernest Hemingway Indian Camp290

F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited298

Chapter 11Formalistic Approach322

James Thurber The Secret Life of Walter Mitty327

Saki(H. H. Munro) The Open Window336

Chapter 12Psychological Approach341

William Faulkner A Rose for Emily346

E.B. White The Second Tree from the Comer359

Chapter 13Mythological-Archetypal Approach367

John Steinbeck The Snake374

Harlan Ellison Shatterday386

Chapter 14Sociological Approach403

Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour409

D. H. Lawrence The Rocking-Horse Winner414

Chapter 15Structural-Semiotic Approach431

Ernest Hemingway A Very Short Story437

Langston Hughes On the Road440

Chapter 16Reader-Response Approach448

Gary Gildner Sleepy Time Gal453

Grace Paley A Conversation with My Father457

Appendixes466

1．Glossary of Literary and Critical Terms466

2．Referential Answers to the Questions497

Bibliography580