The Marriage Plot

A Novel

The marriage plot

The marriage plot [large print]

Thorndike Press large print basic

Thorndike Press large print basic series.

The marriage plot [sound recording]

Marriages and infidelities; short stories.

The sacred marriage -- Puzzle -- Love and death -- 29 inventions -- Problems of adjustment in survivors of natural/unnatural disasters -- By the river -- Extraordinary popular delusions -- Stalking -- Scenes of passion and despair -- Plot -- The children -- Happy onion -- Normal love -- Stray children -- Wednesday's child -- Loving, loving, loving a man -- Did you ever slip on red blood?--The metamorphosis -- Where I lived, and what I lived for -- The lady with the pet dog -- The spiral -- The turn of the screw -- The dead -- Nightmusic.

With Ossie and Ruby : in this life together

Before We Met -- Ruby Is Born at Seven -- Ossie Is Still a Mistake -- Under One Roof -- The Waycross Years -- From the Fire Escape -- Center High School and Valdosta, 1930-1934 -- Ruby's Harlem -- The Howard Years, 1935-1939 -- Steps Along the Way -- Ossie's Harlem -- Some Men in My Life -- World War Two, 1942-1945 -- Ruby Turning Corners -- Home Is the Soldier -- We Meet -- Jeb: The Play Is the Thing -- The American Negro Theatre: Anna Lucasta -- The Fight Never Ends -- Hookin' Up -- Movies and Complications -- Giant Steps -- Tall Targets -- Connections to the Left -- The World of Sholom Aleichem and Beyond -- The Plot Thickens -- New Work, New Territory -- Big Breakthroughs -- Struggle, Realities, and Art -- Marches, Movements, and Martyrs -- Sex Comes out of the Closet -- In Control, but Still in Crisis -- The Family Comes of Age -- A Teaspoonful of Power -- We, the Family, Become a Company -- Going Through the Fire -- My One Good Nerve -- Now That We Are Elders -- Love, Marriage, and Struggle -- A Bridge to Ourselves.

Narrative dynamics : essays on time, plot, closure, and frames

Theory and interpretation of narrative series

Theory and interpretation of narrative series.

Forms of time and the chronotope in the novel : notes toward a historical poetics / Order, duration, and frequency / Narrative time / Beyond story and discourse : narrative time in postmodern and nonmimetic fiction / Story and plot / Fairy-tale transformations / Concept of plot and the plot of Tom Jones / Argument of comedy / Emphasis added : plots and plausibilities in women's fiction / Narrative desire / Coming unstrung : women, men, narrative, and principles of pleasure / Story, plot, and motivation / Text generation / Historical text as literary artifact / Narrative progression / Spatialization : a strategy for reading narrative / Queering the marriage plot : how serial form works in Maupin's Tales of the City / Beginnings / Sense of a beginning / Problems of closure in the traditional novel / Endings and contradictions / Reading beginnings and endings / Loose ends : aesthetic closure and social crisis / Stories within stories : narrative levels and embedded narrative / Parergon / Stacks, frames, and boundaries

Jane Eyre

Critical insights

Jane Eyre.

Critical insights.

(Still) on Jane Eyre / Biography of Charlotte Brontë / Souvenirs of sadism: mahogany furniture, deforestation, and slavery in Jane Eyre / From myth to materiality: critical reception of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre from the 1840s to the 2010s / Shameful signification: narrative and feeling in Jane Eyre / Passion and economics in Jane Eyre and North and south / Women's place: home, sanctuary, and the big house in Jane Eyre / Sins of the mother: Adèle's genetic and national Burden in Jane Eyre / "That better part which cannot be taken from you": varieties of Christian experience in Jane Eyre / Right obedience and Milton's Abdiel in Jane Eyre / Abrupt, absurd, unconventional: Jane and Rochester against the Victorian conversational landscape / Jane laughs last: developing feminist humor in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre / Playing with dramatic adaptations: charades as an approach to John Brougham's 1849 Adaptation of Jane Eyre / 'A solemn and strange and perilous thing': rereading a reading of Jane Eyre / Re-reading Jane Eyre: not a romantic marriage plot but a tale of evolving feminist consciousness

Approaches to teaching Brontë's Jane Eyre

Approaches to teaching world literature ;

Jane Eyre.

Approaches to teaching world literature.

Part One: Materials / Introduction -- Editions -- Biography -- Background studies -- Critical studies -- Aids to teaching -- Bibliographies -- Part Two: Approaches. Introduction / Teaching the Times and the Life. Jane Eyre and A vindication of the rights of woman / The place of Jane Eyre in the Brontë family canon / Jane Eyre and biography / Jane Eyre and the governess in nineteenth-century Britain / Teaching the Literary and Philosophical Traditions. Jane Eyre, Bertha, and the female gothic / "Beauty and the beast": growing up with Jane Eyre / Jane Eyre and Christianity / Jane Eyre: Charlotte Brontë's new Bible / Teaching Specific Contexts. Jane Eyre and narrative voice / Fire and light in Jane Eyre / Contrast and liminality: structure and antistructure in Jane Eyre / Jane Eyre and pictorial representation / Jane Eyre and imperialism / Jane Eyre and the politics of style / Jane Eyre through the body: food, sex, discipline / Jane Eyre as a novel of vindication / Jane Eyre and family systems therapy / Rediscovering Jane Eyre through its adaptations / Taking a walk: or, setting forth from Gateshead / A Kristevan reading of the marriage plot in Jane Eyre

Collected stories and other writings

Works. Selections. 2008

Collected stories & other writings

The Library of America ;

Library of America ;

Go little book -- Flowering Judas and other stories. María Concepción ; Virgin Violeta ; The martyr ; Magic ; Rope ; He ; Theft ; That tree ; The jilting of Granny Weatherall ; Flowering Judas ; The cracked looking glass ; Hacienda -- Pale horse, pale rider. Old mortality ; Noon wine ; Pale horse, pale rider.

The leaning tower and other stories. The old order. The source -- The journey -- The witness -- The circus -- The last leaf -- The fig tree -- The grave.

The leaning tower and other stories. The downward path to wisdom -- A day's work -- Holiday -- The leaning tower.

I needed both--.

The days before -- Reflections on Willa Cather. A note on The troll garden -- Gertrude Stein : three views. Everybody is a real one ; Second wind ; The wooden umbrella -- It is hard to stand in the middle -- Eudora Welty and A curtain of green -- The wingèd skull -- On a criticism of Thomas Hardy -- E.M. Forster -- Virginia Woolf -- D.H. Lawrence. Quetzalcoatl ; A wreath for the gamekeeper -- The laughing heat of the sun -- The art of Katherine Mansfield -- The hundredth role -- Dylan Thomas. A death of days-- ; A fever chart-- ; In the morning of the poet-- -- A most lively genius -- Orpheus in Purgatory -- In memoriam. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) ; James Joyce (1882-1941) ; Sylvia Beach (1887-1962) ; Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964).

On writing. My first speech ; I must write from memory-- ; No plot, my dear, no story ; Writing cannot be taught -- The situation of the writer. The situation in American writing ; Transplanted writers ; The international exchange of writers -- The author on her work. No masters or teachers ; On Flowering Judas ; The only reality-- ; Noon wine : the sources -- Notes on the Texas I remember -- Portrait : old south -- A Christmas story -- Audubon's happy land -- The flower of flowers -- A note on Pierre-Joseph Redouté -- A house of my own -- The necessary enemy -- Marriage is belonging -- A defense of Circe -- St. Augustine and the bullfight -- Act of faith : 4 July 1942 -- The future is now -- The never-ending wrong. Afterword.

Why I write about Mexico -- Reports from Mexico City, 1920-1922. The new man and the new order ; The fiesta of Guadalupe ; The funeral of General Benjamin Hill ; Children of Xochitl ; The Mexican trinity ; Where presidents have no friends -- In a Mexican patio -- Leaving the petate -- The charmed life -- Corridos -- Sor Juana : a portrait of the poet -- Notes on the life and death of a hero -- A Mexican chronicle, 1920-1943. Blasco Ibanez on Mexico in revolution ; Paternalism and the Mexican problem ; La Conquistadora ; ¡Ay, que chamaco! ; Old gods and new messiahs -- Diego Rivera. These pictures must be seen ; Rivera's personal revolution -- Parvenu-- -- History on the wing -- Thirty long years of revolution.

About the author -- The land that is nowhere.

Opinions : a decade of arguments, criticism, and minding other people's business

Tragedy plays on an infinite loop -- Am I a bad person if je ne suis pas Charlie? -- Seduction of safety, on campus and beyond -- White crime -- Case against hope -- Cops don't belong at pride -- Why people are so awful online -- Why I've decided to take my podcast off Spotify -- It's time to rage -- Don't talk to me about civility on Tuesday morning, those children were alive -- Why I can't forgive Dylann Roof -- On the death of Sandra Bland and our vulnerable bodies -- Of lions and men: mourning Samuel DuBose and Cecil the Lion -- Where are Black children safe? -- Alton Sterling and when Black Lives stop mattering -- How to build a monument -- World expects Black men to make themselves smaller. My brother never did -- Making people uncomfortable can get you killed -- Who gets to be angry? -- Voting with my head and heart -- Hate that doesn't hide (on Trump's presidency) -- No one is coming to save us from Trump's racism -- You're disillusioned. That's fine. Vote anyway -- How we save ourselves -- I am shattered but ready to fight -- So fast, so damn furious -- Nickel and dimed (Mitchell Jackson's The residue years -- Why the beach is a bummer -- Discomfort zone (The unspeakable by Meghan Daum) -- Bridled vows (Jenny Offill's Dept. of speculation) -- Food TV's sadistic glee -- Marriage plot -- Warning signs (The sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates) -- Wise crack (Delicious foods by James Hannaham) -- Oscars and Hollywood's race problem -- Black Lives imagined (Jodi Picoult's Small great things) -- I don't want to watch slavery fan fiction -- Mockingbird reconsidered -- Can I enjoy art but denounce the artist? -- Roseanne is gone, but the culture that gave her a show isn't -- Insatiable is lazy, insulting from start to finish -- Legacy of Toni Morrison -- After Chadwick Boseman's iconic Black Panther, should King T'Challa be recast? -- How to collect art -- Why are most Father's day gifts so terrible? -- Nate Parker and the limits of empathy -- Dear men: It's you too -- Louis C.K. and the men who think justice takes as long as they want it to -- I thought men might do better than this -- Dave Chappelle's brittle ego -- Jada Pinkett Smith shouldn't have to take a joke. Neither should you -- Madonna's spring awakening -- Charlie, come in -- Nicki Minaj, always in control -- Melina Matsoukas's fearless vision -- Janelle Monáe's Afrofuture -- Sarah Paulson has no fear -- Talented Tessa Thompson -- Where Jordan Casteel sees herself going -- This is Pamela, finally -- Yes, your job is important. But it's not all important -- Ask Roxane: Is it too late to follow my dreams? -- Ask Roxane: I'm outraged but failing at activism. Why? -- Ask Roxane: Where the hell is the love of my life?

Opinions : [a decade of arguments, criticism, and minding other people's business]

Tragedy plays on an infinite loop -- Am I a bad person if je ne suis pas Charlie? -- Seduction of safety, on campus and beyond -- White crime -- Case against hope -- Cops don't belong at pride -- Why people are so awful online -- Why I've decided to take my podcast off Spotify -- It's time to rage -- Don't talk to me about civility on Tuesday morning, those children were alive -- Why I can't forgive Dylann Roof -- On the death of Sandra Bland and our vulnerable bodies -- Of lions and men: mourning Samuel DuBose and Cecil the Lion -- Where are Black children safe? -- Alton Sterling and when Black Lives stop mattering -- How to build a monument -- World expects Black men to make themselves smaller. My brother never did -- Making people uncomfortable can get you killed -- Who gets to be angry? -- Voting with my head and heart -- tHate that doesn't hide (on Trump's presidency) -- No one is coming to save us from Trump's racism -- You're disillusioned. That's fine. Vote anyway -- How we save ourselves -- I am shattered but ready to fight -- So fast, so damn furious -- Nickel and dimed (Mitchell Jackson's The residue years -- Why the beach is a bummer -- Discomfort zone (The unspeakable by Meghan Daum) -- Bridled vows (Jenny Offill's Dept. of speculation) -- Food TV's sadistic glee -- Marriage plot -- Warning signs (The sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates) -- Wise crack (Delicious foods by James Hannaham) -- Oscars and Hollywood's race problem -- Black Lives imagined (Jodi Picoult's Small great things) -- I don't want to watch slavery fan fiction -- Mockingbird reconsidered -- Can I enjoy art but denounce the artist? -- Roseanne is gone, but the culture that gave her a show isn't -- Insatiable is lazy, insulting from start to finish -- Legacy of Toni Morrison -- After Chadwick Boseman's iconic Black Panther, should King T'Challa be recast? -- How to collect art -- Why are most Father's day gifts so terrible? -- Nate Parker and the limits of empathy -- Dear men: It's you too -- Louis C.K. and the men who think justice takes as long as they want it to -- I thought men might do better than this -- Dave Chappelle's brittle ego -- Jada Pinkett Smith shouldn't have to take a joke. Neither should you -- Madonna's spring awakening -- Charlie, come in -- Nicki Minaj, always in control -- Melina Matsoukas's fearless vision -- Janelle Monáe's Afrofuture -- Sarah Paulson has no fear -- Talented Tessa Thompson -- Where Jordan Casteel sees herself going -- This is Pamela, finally -- Yes, your job is important. But it's not all important -- Ask Roxane: Is it too late to follow my dreams? -- Ask Roxane: I'm outraged but failing at activism. Why? -- Ask Roxane: Where the hell is the love of my life? --