Four Modes; a Rhetoric of Modern Fiction

Book excerpt: Pt. 1: Hiawatha's Fasting / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Samuel L. Clemens ; Frankie and Johnny / Anonymous ; Good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor ; Ice Palace / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Spotted Horses / William Faulkner ; Oral Heritage of Written Narrative / Scholes & Kellogg ; Pt. 2: Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving ; Hollow of the three hills / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; My Kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Real Thing / Henry James ; Secret Room / Alain Robbie-Grillet ; Fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe ; Blackberry Winner / Robert Penn Warren ; Pictorialism in Henry James's Theory of the novel / Viola Hopkins Winner Pt. 3: To Build a Fire / Jack London ; Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck ; Three day blow / Ernest Hemingway / Health Card / Frank Yerby ; Condor and the Guests / Evan S. Connell, Jr. ; Toward a Formalist Criticism of Fiction / William Handy Pt. 4: Silent Snow, Secret Snow / Conrad Aiken ; Araby / James Joyce ; Portrait in Georgia / Jean Toomer ; Blood-Burning Moon / Jean Toomer ; Happy Marriage / R.V. Cassill ; In the heart of the heart of the country / William H. Gass ; Nature and Forms of the lyrical novel/ Ralph Freedman Pt. 5 Adventure / Sherwood Anderson ; Night-sea Journey / John Barth ; Robert Kennedy saved from drowning / Donald Barthelme ; Bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane ; Hint of an Explanation / Graham Greene ; Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte ; Haircut / Ring Lardner / Odour of Chrysanthemums / D.H. Lawrence ; Jockey / Carson McCullerrs ; Marriage a la Mode / Katherine Mansfield ; Molesters / Joyce Carol Oates ; Don't call me by my right name / James Purdy ; Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; Navy Black / John A. Williams ; Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf.