{"product_id":"reading-the-short-story-9781476673981","title":"Reading the Short Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments (Anna Wing-bo Tso)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword (Andrew Parkin)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShort Stories: Genre and Literary Criticism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. A Brief History of the Short Story as a Literary Genre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Practical Literary Criticism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClose Reading for Short Stories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Religion and Redemption in ­O'Connor's \"A Good Man Is Hard to Find\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Consumerism, Alienation and Digital Dystopia in Bradbury's \"The Veldt\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Masculinity and Sexuality in Proulx's \"Brokeback Mountain\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Fantasy and Fan Fiction in Gaiman's \"The Problem of Susan\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterary and Comparative Analyses of Short Stories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. 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\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Irony and Paralysis in Joyce's \"Grace\" and Trevor's \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Of the Cloth\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 9. Civil Rights and Prejudice in Walker's \"Everyday Use\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand Smith's \"The Embassy of Cambodia\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Femininity and Social Pressures in Lessing's \"To Room \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNineteen\" and Gilman's \"The Yellow ­Wall-Paper\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040441663831,"sku":"9781476673981","price":30.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476673981.jpg?v=1750946759","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-the-short-story-9781476673981","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}