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目次

1. Introduction; 2. The little: early writings; 3. Conflict ascondition: Maggie: A girl of the streets; 4. Doing without: George's mother;5. Eternal fact and mere locality: The red badge of courage: An episode ofthe American Civil War; 6. The mysteries of heroism and the aesthetics ofwar: Army tales and other war writings; 7. Community and crisis: 'TheMonster,' Tales of Whilomville, 'The Blue Hotel,' 'The Bride comes to yellowsky'; 8. The ethics of their condition and the unreal real: 'The Open Boat,''The five white mice'; 9. The farther shore: poems; Notes; Index.