Points of View: Revised Edition (Revised)

Brief Description: 41 stories arranged by the various points of view such as dramatic monologue or detached autobiography by authors such as Mansfield, Lewis, Dostoevski, James, Capote, Updike, Poe, Steinbeck, and many others. Table of Contents: "Preface"INTERIOR MONOLOGUE A Telephone Call "Dorothy Parker" I Stand Here Ironing "Tillie Olsen"DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE Straight Pool "John OHara" The Lady's Maid "Katherine Mansfield" ...& Answers "Joyce Carol Oates"LETTER NARRATION Inter-Office "Rosellen Brown" A Bundle of Letters "Henry James" A Wilderness Station "Alice Munro" Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General "Ambrose Bierce"DIARY NARRATION The Yellow Wallpaper "Charlotte Perkins Gilman" The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book "V. S. Naipaul" Amahl and the Night Visitors "Lorrie Moore"SUBJECTIVE NARRATION The Somebody "Danny Santiago" My Side of the Matter "Truman Capote" My Sister's Marriage "Cynthia Marshall Rich" Why, You Reckon? "Langston Hughes" A & P "John Updike" Distance "Grace Paley"DETACHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY Christmas Eve at Johnson's Drugs N Goods "Toni Cade Bambara" The Circuit "Francisco Jimenez" First Confession "Frank O'Connor" A Coupla Scalped Indians "Ralph Ellison" Birthday "David Wong Louie" The Passing "Durango Mendoza"MEMOIR, OR OBSERVER NARRATION The Voice from the Wall "Amy Tan" Country "Jayne Anne Phillips" Scales "Louise Erdrich" The Bridle "Raymond Carver" The Eggs of the World "Toshio Mori"ANONYMOUS NARRATION: SINGLE CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW The Five-Forty-Eight "John Cheever" The Stone Boy "Gina Berriault" Doby's Gone "Ann Petry" Act of Faith "Irwin Shaw" Come Out the Wilderness "James Baldwin"ANONYMOUS NARRATION: DUAL CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW Sinking House "T. Coraghessan Boyle" The Only Rose "Sarah Orne Jewett" Strong Horse Tea "Alice Walker" Uglypuss "Margaret Atwood"ANONYMOUS NARRATION: MULTIPLE CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW Fever Flower "Shirley Ann Grau" The Suicides of Private Greaves "James Moffett" Inez "Merle Hodge"ANONYMOUS NARRATION: NO CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW A New Window Display "Nicholosa Mohr" The Lottery "Shirley Jackson" Powerhouse "Eudora Welty""Afterword References Related Works by James Moffett Acknowledgments"Publisher Marketing: Since its original publication in 1966, this volume has attained classic status. Now its contents have been updated and its cultural framework enlarged by the orginal editors. Many of the 44 stories come from a new writing generation with a contemporary consciousness, and this brilliant blending of masters of the past and the brightest talents of the present achieves the goal of making a great collection even greater.

Contributor Bio:  Moffett, James James Moffett is the author of Teaching the Universe of Discourse, Coming on Center: Essays in English Education (Boynton/Cook), Storm in the Mountains: A Case Study of Censorship, Conflict, and Consciousness, and senior editor with Betty Jane Wagner of Student-centered Language Arts, K-12 (Boynton/Cook). He is the editor of Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories (with Kenneth McElheny), Points of Departure: An Anthology of Nonfiction, and co-editor of Active Voices: A Writer's Reader, I-IV (Boynton/Cook). The recipient of a Carnegie Corporation Grant and a Distinguished Author Award (1982) from the California Association of Teachers of English, Mr. Moffett has taught at Phillips Exeter Academy and served on the faculties of Harvard, UC/Berkeley, San Diego State, and Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English.