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

ISBN-13: 9781476673981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 205 str.

Anna Wing Tso; Scarlett Lee

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments (Anna Wing-bo Tso)
• Foreword (Andrew Parkin)
• Preface
• Part I
• Short Stories: Genre and Literary Criticism
• 1. A Brief History of the Short Story as a Literary Genre
• 2. Practical Literary Criticism
• Part II
• 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 III
• 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