Great American short stories /

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Hunger and Modern Writing : Melville, Kafka, Hamsun, and Wright / by Daniel, Rees

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical Overview of Hunger and Modern Writing -- Part 1: Herman Melville and Franz Kafka: "'I would prefer not to'": Absence and Appetite in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" -- 2. Alienation and the Unknown Nourishment in Franz Kafka's Die Verwandlung and "Ein Hungerkünstler" -- Part 2: Knut Hamsun and Richard Wright: 3 Starvation and Self-Destructiveness in Knut Hamsun'sHunger (Sult) -- 4. …”
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American short fiction : readings and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving ; Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe ; My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville ; The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain ; The real thing / Henry James ; The blue hotel / Stephen Crane ; To build a fire / Jack London ; An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce ; Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson ; The killers / Ernest Hemingway ; A rose for Emily / William Faulkner ; Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter ; Ways and means / Langston Hughes ; A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor ; The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud ; A & P / John Updike -- Part two, Matching stories for comparison and independent analysis. …”

Orphans / by Tanzer, Ben

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