Teaching the Short Story

✍ Scribed by Ailsa Cox (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Series: Teaching the New English
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The short story is moving from relative neglect to a central position in the curriculum; as a teaching tool, it offers students a route into many complex areas, including critical theory, gender studies, postcolonialism and genre. This book offers a practical guide to the short story in the classroom, covering all these fields and more.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Short Shorts: Exploring Relevance and Filling in Narratives....Pages 13-27
Questioning Short Stories: Joyce, Barnes and Simpson....Pages 28-42
Raymond Carver and the Power of Style....Pages 43-59
Women Writers....Pages 60-75
The Postcolonial Experience: The South East Asian Short Story in English....Pages 76-95
The Science Fiction Short Story....Pages 96-116
Story and Film....Pages 117-146
Why Teaching the Short Story Today is a Thankless Task....Pages 147-160
Postgraduate Research....Pages 161-173
Back Matter....Pages 174-204

✦ Subjects

Fiction; Twentieth-Century Literature; Higher Education; English; Teaching and Teacher Education; International and Comparative Education