The postcolonial short story: contemporary essays
The postcolonial short story: contemporary essays
La 4e de couverture indique : "This new collection places the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies. In so doing, it also questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing upon short fiction from 1975 to the present day - the period during w…
"This new collection places the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies. In so doing, it also questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing upon short fiction from 1975 to the present day - the period during which critical theory came to d…
"This new collection places the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies. In so doing, it also questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing upon short fiction from 1975 to the present day - the period during which critical theory came to d…
This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing on short fiction between 1975 and today - the period in which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies - it argues f…
Life Is Short Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a course's worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasin…
Life Is Short--Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories: readers, writers, and teachers will get an anthology, a course's worth of writing exercises, a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digi…
H.G. Wells is justly famous as a writer of short stories, but for too long the originality of his contribution in this field has been unacknowledge. The present study argues that in his short stories Wells was not simply emulating the styles and themes of his predecessors but ma…
The Holocaust Short Story is the only book devoted entirely to representations of the Holocaust in the short story genre. The book highlights how the explosiveness of the moment captured in each short story is more immediate and more intense, and therefore recreates horrifying e…
Vol. 5: Barn burning / William Faulkner -- Big blonde / Dorothy Parker -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- Boys and girls / Alice Munro -- The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- Han's crime / Shig…
Each volume of Short Stories for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories studentrs and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses.
Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.
Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.