Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory chapter of literary criticism, this book aims to give readers insight into the works by canonical British, Irish, and American authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery O'Conner, and more.
Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory chapter of literary criticism, this book aims to give readers insight into the works by canonical British, Irish, and American authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery O'Conner, and more.
Anna Wing-bo Tso is an associate professor who has over ten years of English teaching experience at various universities in Hong Kong, where she directs the Research Institute for Digital Culture and Humanities and heads the Master of Arts in Applied English Linguistics. She has published widely on literacies, children's literature, and language education in refereed books and peer-reviewed journals across Asia, Europe, the U.K., the U.S., Canada and Australia.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments (Anna Wing-bo Tso) Foreword (Andrew Parkin) Preface Part Short Stories: Genre and Literary Criticism 1. A Brief History of the Short Story as a Literary Genre 2. Practical Literary Criticism Part Close Reading for Short Stories 3. Religion and Redemption in O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 4. Consumerism, Alienation and Digital Dystopia in Bradbury's "The Veldt" 5. Masculinity and Sexuality in Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain" 6. Fantasy and Fan Fiction in Gaiman's "The Problem of Susan" Part Literary and Comparative Analyses of Short Stories 7. Psychoanalysis and the Gothic in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" 8. Irony and Paralysis in Joyce's "Grace" and Trevor's "Of the Cloth" 9. Civil Rights and Prejudice in Walker's "Everyday Use" and Smith's "The Embassy of Cambodia" 10. Femininity and Social Pressures in Lessing's "To Room Nineteen" and Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" Afterword Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments (Anna Wing-bo Tso) Foreword (Andrew Parkin) Preface Part Short Stories: Genre and Literary Criticism 1. A Brief History of the Short Story as a Literary Genre 2. Practical Literary Criticism Part Close Reading for Short Stories 3. Religion and Redemption in O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 4. Consumerism, Alienation and Digital Dystopia in Bradbury's "The Veldt" 5. Masculinity and Sexuality in Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain" 6. Fantasy and Fan Fiction in Gaiman's "The Problem of Susan" Part Literary and Comparative Analyses of Short Stories 7. Psychoanalysis and the Gothic in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" 8. Irony and Paralysis in Joyce's "Grace" and Trevor's "Of the Cloth" 9. Civil Rights and Prejudice in Walker's "Everyday Use" and Smith's "The Embassy of Cambodia" 10. Femininity and Social Pressures in Lessing's "To Room Nineteen" and Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" Afterword Index
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