THEORY OF THE SHORT STORY:
- Charles E. May, The New Short Story Theories (Ohio UP 1994)
SHORT STORIES:
- James Joyce, Dubliners (1914)
- Salman Rushdie, “The Prophet’s Hair”
- Muriel Spark, “The House of the Famous Poet”
- D.H. Lawrence, “Odour of Chrysanthemums”
- Hanif Kureishi, “My Son the Fanatic”
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, “Rose Petals”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
- Henry James, “The Real Thing”
- Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
- William Faulkner, “Barn Burning”
- Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
- Annie Proulx, “Brokeback Mountain”
- David Eggers, “Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly”
- Nadine Gordimer, “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 Daughters of the Late Colonel”
- Alice Munro, “Material”
- Raymond Carver, “Cathedral”
- Ernest Hemingway, “A Very Short Story” and “Soldier’s Home”