ENG 243 - Introduction to the Short Story

Primary Source Titles


Author

Title

Notes

Access notes 

Joyce, James

“Counterparts”

From Dubliners

 Accessible through EBSCOhost ebooks. Authentication via SC4 Library required for off-campus access.

Kafka, Franz

“A Hunger Artist”

Graphic version available, Harry Crumb

 Accessible from the records.viu.ca website

Akutagawa, Ryunasuki

“In a Grove”

Film version, Kurosawa

 Accessible through ebrary ebooks. Authentication via SC4 Library required for off-campus access.

Barr, Fiona

“The Wall Reader”

Northern Ireland conflict

 Accessible through wwnorton.com

O’Connor, Flannery

“A Good Man is hard to Find” “Everything that Rises Must Converge”

 

Currently accessible only via ENG-243 library course reserves Contact instructor for access to reserves

Oates, Joyce Carol

“Where Are you Going, Where Have You Been”

 

Currently accessible only via ENG-243 library course reserves Contact instructor for access to reserves

 

Atwood, Margaret

“Rape Fantasies”

 

Currently accessible only via ENG-243 library course reserves Contact instructor for access to reserves

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

“The Yellow Wallpaper”

 

 Accessible through ebrary. Authentication via SC4 Library required for off-campus access. 

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

“Young Goodman Brown”

 

Accessible through ebrary.  Authentication via SC4 Library required for off-campus access.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

“Gimple the Fool”

 

 Currently accessible only via ENG-243 library course reserves Contact instructor for access to reserves

Poe, Edgar Allan

“The Telltale Heart”

 

 Accessible through ebrary ebooks. Authentication via SC4 Library required for off-campus access. 

Grafton, Sue

“Long Gone”

 

 Story available via suegrafton.com website

Carver, Ray

“Cathedral”

 

 Accessible via EBSCOhost ebooks. Authentication via SC4 Library required for off-campus access.

Ellison, Harlan

“I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream”

 

 Accessible through EBSCOhost ebooks. Authentication via SC4 Library required for off-campus access. 

Kaplan

“Doe Season”

 

 Accessible via Gale General OneFile. Authentication via SC4 Library required for off-campus access.

Alexie, Sherman

“What It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona”

 

 Access through EBSCOhost ebooks. Authentication via SC4 Library required for off-campus access.

Hemingway, Ernest

“Hills Like White Elephants”

“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” 

“The Killers”

 

"Hills Like White Elephants" accessible through Weber State University, 

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Killers" accessible only through ENG-243 library course reserves Contact instructor for access to reserves 

Wallace, David Foster

“Good People”

 

 Accessible through New Yorker

Wright, Richard

“Big Black Good Man”

 

Currently accessible only via ENG-243 library course reserves Contact instructor for access to reserves

King, Stephen

“The Things They Left Behind”

 

Currently accessible only via ENG-243 library course reserves Contact instructor for access to reserves 

Vonnegut, Kurt

“Harrison Bergeron”

“Who Am I This Time?”

 

 Accessible through EBSCOhost ebooks. Click title to access. Authentication via SC4 Library required for off-campus access.

Johnson, Adam

“Fortune Smiles”

 

Currently accessible only via ENG-243 library course reserves Contact instructor for access to reserves

Johnson, Denis

“Emergency”

 

 Available via Narrative Magazine website

Lahiri, Jhumpa

“A Temporary Matter”


 Linked to NY Times First Chapters website. No user/password required.


Secondary Sources


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