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From:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton is the coordinator of the Undergraduate Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following essay, she examines the narrative structure and themes of the story “The Jilting of Granny...
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From:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton is an educator and the coordinator of the undergraduate writing center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following essay, she discusses the conventions of the narrative sketch as practiced by...
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From:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton is the coordinator of the Undergraduate Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following essay, she explores the autobiographical elements in “I Stand Here Ironing,” and discusses...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 9. )When Jing-mei's mother shouts at her daughter and demands her complete obedience toward the end of Tan's short story, "Two Kinds," she is defending her power over the only territory to which she can lay claim, the...
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From:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton is an educator and the coordinator of the undergraduate writing center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following essay, she discusses O'Connor's story as a strong example of the author's...
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From:Short Stories for StudentsIn the following essay, Piedmont-Marton compares and contrasts the two-halves of the “split screen” of “Swimming Lessons,” Toronto and Bombay, and the narrator's perception of events in his life with reality....
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From:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton holds a Ph.D. in English and teaches American literature and administers the Writing Center at the University of Texas. In this essay she discusses the symbolic and moral dimensions of “In the Garden of...
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From:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton is an instructor at University of Texas Extension and the coordinator of the Undergraduate Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following essay, she discusses the theme of...
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From:Short Stories for Students[In the essay below, Piedmont-Marton offers a general introduction to “Vengeful Creditor,” focusing upon issues related to class struggle.] “Vengeful Creditor” was first published in 1971 and two years later was...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 14. )"Exchanging Glances" is a story drawn from the narrator's childhood memories, and yet it's also a story about the partiality and fallibility of memory. Wolf's powerful story about her family's experience as refugees at...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 9. )Since Ellen Glasgow used her short stories as a way of practicing new techniques and developing themes, the best of the stories possess the density and richness of her fully-formed novels, and they measure up to the work...
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From:Short Stories for StudentsElisabeth Piedmont-Marton has a Ph.D. in American literature. In this essay she discusses the blending of the real and unreal, the tangible and the imaginative, in “The Things They Carried.” The title story of The...
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From:Short Stories for StudentsElisabeth Piedmont-Marton teaches American literature and writing classes at the University of Texas. She writes frequently about the modern short story. In this essay she suggests that readers can enjoy the funhouse...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 12. )Like William Faulkner does in his novels and stories set in the fictional world of Yoknapatawpha, Wideman creates a complex landscape in "The Beginning of Homewood" that allows him to enmesh his characters in webs of...
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From:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton is the coordinator of the undergraduate writing center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following essay, she analyzes the irony behind the title of Dahl's “Lamb to the Slaughter.”] “Lamb to...
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From:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton is a professor of English and the coordinator of the writing center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following essay, she discusses the quilting metaphor in “Everyday Use.”] Alice Walker's...
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From:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton is the coordinator of the Undergraduate Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following essay, she discusses various aspects of “The Rocking-Horse Winner.”] “The Rocking-Horse...
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From:Short Stories for StudentsIn the following essay, Piedmont-Marton Wideman calls “Fever” a meditation on history. Using the powerful and disturbing metaphor of plague or fever for racism and hatred, Wideman moves through history and brings...
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From:Poetry for Students (Vol. 10. )Readers who encounter only a handful of Dickinson's poems remark how frequently she writes about death and dying. Her interest in the moment of death is not surprising to critics who recognize, like Adrienne Rich noted,...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 10. )Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton teaches American literature and directs the writing center at Southwestern University in Texas. She writes frequently about the modern short story. In this essay, Piedmont-Marton discusses how...