英语小说导读

Intorduction Reading a StoryChapter One Plot A & P by John Updike A Retrievde Reformation by O. Henry A Rose Four Emily by William FaulknerChapter Two Point of View The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe Araby by James JoyceChapter Three Character The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Intorduction Reading a StoryChapter One Plot A & P by John Updike A Retrievde Reformation by O. Henry A Rose Four Emily by William FaulknerChapter Two Point of View The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe Araby by James JoyceChapter Three Character The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Kathering Anne Porter Everyday Use by Alice WalkerChapter Four Setting The Storm by Kate Chopin The Three Strangers by Thomas HardyChapter Five Style A Clean, Well-Lighted Palce by Ernest Hemingway Barn Burning by Wiliam FaulknerChapter Six Theme Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D. H. LawrenceChapter Seven Symbol The Lottery by Shirley Jackson The Chrysanthemums by John SteinbeckChapter Eight Reading Long Stories and Novels The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, translated by Wila and Edwin MuirChapter Nine Writing about a StoryAppendix Ⅰ Why Do We Read Fiction? by Robert Penn WarrenAppendix Ⅱ Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” Historical Imaging and Critical ResponsesAppendix　Ⅲ Samples of MLA Style “Works Cited” in Research PapersBibliography

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