[PDF] A Readers Companion To The Short Story In English eBook

Author : Erin Fallon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135976295

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Although the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years. Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English includes alphabetically-arranged entries for 50 English-language short story writers from around the world. Most of these writers have been active since 1960, and they reflect a wide range of experiences and perspectives in their works. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes biography, a review of existing criticism, a lengthier analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The volume begins with a detailed introduction to the short story genre and concludes with an annotated bibliography of major works on short story theory.

Author : Anna Wing-bo Tso
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476673985

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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.

Author : Peter G. Beidler
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2011-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603810135

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Peter G. Beidler's Reader's Companion is an indispensable guide for teachers, students, and general readers who want fully to appreciate Salinger's perennial bestseller.

Author : Martha V. Parravano
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0763662178

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Two of the most trusted reviewers in the field join with top authors, illustrators, and critics in a definitive guide to choosing books for children—and nurturing their love of reading. A FAMILY OF READERS is the definitive resource for parents interested in enriching the reading lives of their children. It’s divided into four sections: 1. Reading to Them: Choosing and sharing board books and picture books with babies and very young children. 2. Reading with Them: Launching the new reader with easy readers and chapter books. 3. Reading on Their Own: Exploring what children read—and how they read—by genre and gender. 4. Leaving Them Alone: Respecting the reading privacy of the young adult. Roger Sutton knows how and why children read. He must, as the editor in chief of THE HORN BOOK, which since 1924 has been America’s best source for reviews of books for young readers. But for many parents, selecting books for their children can make them feel lost. Now, in this essential resource, Roger Sutton and Martha V. Parravano, executive editor at the magazine, offer thoughtful essays that consider how books are read to (and then by) young people. They invite such leading authors and artists as Maurice Sendak, Katherine Paterson, Margaret Mahy, and Jon Scieszka, as well as a selection of top critics, to add their voices about the genres they know best. The result is an indispensable readers’ companion to everything from wordless board books to the most complex and daring young adult novels.

Author : Peter G. Beidler
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826216717

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"A revised and expanded, comprehensive guide to the novels of Native American author Louise Erdrich from Love Medicine to The Painted Drum. Includes chronologies, genealogical charts, complete dictionary of characters, map and geographical details about settings, and a glossary of all the Ojibwe words and phrases used in the novels"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Larry Richards
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780781438797

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If you were to read through the Bible in a year with The Bible Reader's Companion at your side, you'd have a whole new and exciting grasp of the Word of God and you'd have truth to live by each day.--Kay Arthur,

Author : Casie Hermansson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781604732313

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A study of the ever-evolving fairy tale about the murderous aristocrat and his endangered wife

Author : Paul Smith
Publisher : G. K. Hall
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Short story
ISBN :

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Examines 55 of Hemingway's short stories, all but seven of which were published in five collections between 1923 and 1938. This volume is meant to guide readers through the writing and publication and criticism of the stories with brief commentaries and conclusions designed to throw light on past readings of the stories and encourage the writing of original criticism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Graham K. Riach
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1835533930

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The Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid’s end. By focusing on the short story this book complicates models of South African literature dominated by the novel and contributes to a much-needed generic and formalist turn in postcolonial studies. Literary texts are sites of productive struggle between formal and extra-formal concerns, and these brief, fragmentary, elliptical, formally innovative stories offer perspectives that reframe or revise important concerns of post-apartheid literature: the aesthetics of engaged writing, the politics of the past, class and race, the legacies of violence, and the struggle over the land. Through an analysis of key texts from the period by Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, this book assesses the place of the short story in post-apartheid writing and develops a fuller model of how artworks allow and disallow forms of social thought.

Author : Paul Delaney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474400663

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This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.