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)
William Faulkner, “Barn Burning” (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”
R.K. Narayan, “A Horse and Two Goats”
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”
John Cheever, “Reunion”, “The Swimmer”
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, “The Other Man”
D.H. Lawrence, “Odour of Chrysanthemums”
Lydia Davis, “Foucault and Pencil”, a selection of flash fiction
NAAL: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 8th Edition.
James Joyce, Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics)