Perrine's Story and Structure

Laurence Perrine, Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson

Thomson/Wadsworth, 2006 - Education - 671 pages

The fiction section from Laurence Perrine's all-time best-selling introduction to literature, this concise guide has introduced thousands of students to the major elements of fiction, and continues to present the most important and engaging stories available in a single collection. The section on two featured writers, James Joyce and Flannery O'Connor, gives three stories by each author as well as essays by noted critics on their works.

About the author

Greg Johnson received an M.A. in English from Southern Methodist University and a Ph.D. in English from Emory University. Dr. Johnson is the author of books of fiction, poetry, criticism, and biography, including the recent story collections, LAST ENCOUNTER WITH THE ENEMY (Johns Hopkins, 2004) and WOMEN I'VE KNOWN: NEW AND SELECTED STORIES (Ontario Review, 2007), the novel STICKY KISSES (Alyson Books, 2001), and two books on Joyce Carol Oates: INVISIBLE WRITER: A BIOGRAPHY OF JOYCE CAROL OATES (Plume, 1999), and JOYCE CAROL OATES: CONVERSATIONS 1970-2006 (Ontario Review, 2006). He joined the author team of PERRINE'S LITERATURE in 2002.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Perrine's Story and Structure
• Authors: Laurence Perrine, Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson
• Editors: Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2006
• ISBN: 1413006574, 9781413006575
• Length: 671 pages
• Subjects: Education / Language Experience Approach; Fiction / Literary; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Literary Collections / General