Jessie O. Sizemore
Booth, Wayne C.
The Rhetoric of Fiction
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
(Chapters I, VI, VII, VIII most helpful for this unit.)
Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren.
Understanding Fiction
. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. 1959.
(Provides a lot of information about plot, characters, and theme present in short stories by certain authors.)
Calderwood, James L.. et al.
Perspectives on Poetry
. New York. Oxford University Press, 1968.
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Perspectives on Fiction
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Colwell, C. Carter.
A Student’s Guide to Literature
. New York: Washington Square Press, 1968.
Davies, Robert Murray.
The Novel: Modern Essays in Criticism
. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. 1969.
(Excellent essays on the novel, especially Mark Schorer’s “Technique as Discovery.”)
Forster, E.M.
Aspects of the Novel
. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1927.
(Even though the book isn’t very recent, Forster’s views about the importance and function of the story and his examples of people in fiction as works of art make for interesting reading.)
Friedman, Alan.
The Turn of the Novel
. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
(Discusses the openness and endlessness of the novel, with an interesting chapter explaining stream of consciousness.)
Miller, J. Hillis.
Aspects of Narrative
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.
(Gives insight into what constitutes narrative.)
Scholes, Robert.
Approaches to the Novel
. Scranton: Chandler Press, 1961.
(Many ways are given for presenting the novel.)
Wheelock, John Hall.
What is Poetry
. New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 1963.
(An explanation of poetry and how to get delight from reading it.)