THEORY OF THE SHORT STORY:
- Charles E. May, The New Short Story Theories (Ohio UP 1994)
SHORT STORIES:
- James Joyce, Dubliners
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” (NAAL)
- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (NAAL)
- Rudyard Kipling, “Mary Postgate”
- Elizabeth Bowen, “The Demon Lover”
- Annie Proulx, “Brokeback Mountain”
- Nadine Gordimer, “Some Are Born to Sweet Delight”, “Once Upon a Time”
- Hanif Kureishi, “My Son the Fanatic”
- Anita Desai, “Scholar and Gypsy”
- Katherine Mansfield, “The Garden Party”
- Alice Munro, “Friend of My Youth”
- Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (NAAL),
- Ernest Hemingway, “A Very Short Story”, “Hills Like White Elephants” “Cat in the Rain”
- Jon McGregor, “If It Keeps On Raining”, “That Colour”
- Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (NAAL)
- Graham Swift, “Seraglio”
- Virginia Woolf, “The Mark on the Wall”
- Muriel Spark, “The House of the Famous Poet”
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, “Black-Eyed Women”
- Arthur Conan Doyle, “Silver Blaze”
- Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
- Eudora Welty, “Why I Live at the P.O.”
- Joy Williams, “Marabou”
- Jamaica Kincaid, “Blackness”
- Kristen Roupenian, “Cat Person”
- Mark Haddon, “The Pier Falls”
NAAL: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 8th Edition.
- James Joyce, Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics)