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Author:   Anna Wing-bo Tso ,  Scarlett Lee
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9781476673981

ISBN 10:   1476673985
Pages:   205
Publication Date:   11 November 2019
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments (Anna Wing-bo Tso) Foreword (Andrew Parkin) Preface Part Short Stories: Genre and Literary Criticism 1. A Brief History of the Short Story as a Literary Genre 2. Practical Literary Criticism Part 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 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

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Anna Wing-bo Tso is an associate professor who has over ten years of English teaching experience at various universities in Hong Kong, where she directs the Research Institute for Digital Culture and Humanities and heads the Master of Arts in Applied English Linguistics. She has published widely on literacies, children’s literature, and language education in refereed books and peer-reviewed journals across Asia, Europe, the U.K., the U.S., Canada and Australia. Scarlett Lee is an English teacher and Cambridge English examiner in Rome. She works as a freelance literary critic.

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