Reading the Short Story: A Student's Guide to Selected British, Irish and American Works - Softcover

Tso, Anna Wing-bo; Lee, Scarlett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1476673985 ISBN 13: 9781476673981

Publisher: McFarland, 2019

Synopsis

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'Connor, and more. Applying close reading skills and critical literary approaches to twelve selected short stories in English, this work conducts comparative analyses to reveal the interrelationships between the texts, the authors, the readers, and the sociocultural contexts. Developed and tested in literature classes at university over several semesters, this book addresses key issues, topics and trends in the short story genre.

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About the Authors

Anna Wing-bo Tso is an associate professor of English at The Open University of 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 a range of indexed peer-reviewed journals across Asia, Europe, the U.K., the U.S., Canada and Australia.

Scarlett Lee has been teaching English in Hong Kong and in Italy for more than ten years. She has published research articles on translation and adaptation in refereed journals including Nordlit and Interlitteraria.

Edition details

• Publisher: McFarland
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1476673985
• ISBN 13: 9781476673981
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205