<p>Representing a complete course in short fiction, this anthology of 99 chronologically arranged short stories offers a unique balance of selections from different periods, forms, cultures, and voices, often reflecting the interplay between convention and innovation. Tracing the development of the short story from its roots in myth, fable, and fairy tale, the anthology includes a variety of popular genres as well, providing a solid foundation for examining the evolution of the short story. Enlightening sidebars present seven short essays on sub-genres and criticism and useful pedagogy includes headnotes and questions accompanying each selection.</p>

The Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction: Convention and Innovation

Literature & Fiction

Baldwin, Dean

Literary

Wadsworth Publishing

<p>This anthology offers a balanced approach to colonial and postcolonial literature through a rich tapestry of short stories by both British colonizers and affected indigenous people. Organized by region, the compelling stories reflect the evolution of colonialism from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Students explore the insights and emotions on both sides of the imperial fence, while learning about the hardships and triumphs of the colonial experience. A thorough pedagogical apparatus includes historical introductions, author headnotes, and reading questions that provide students with tools to approach each selection in an informed manner. Students come to appreciate how fiction both supported and questioned the basis and results of colonialism.</p>

An Anthology of Colonial and Postcolonial Short Fiction

Quinn, Patrick J.

Cengage Learning'

Designed for students and teachers of the short story at the college and high school levels, this bibliography covers American, Canadian, and British authors and stories most frequently anthologized for classroom study, plus a few authors the editors believe have been unjustly neglected. Opening chapters cover reference works, bibliographies, histories of the short story, and short story theory, including the most important new thinking on the genre. Chapters on individual authors (arranged alphabetically) include standard biographies, general critical studies, and discussions of individual stories, particularly those frequently anthologized and studied in the classroom. Throughout, the emphasis is on books and journal articles (from Studies in Short Fiction and Modern Fiction Studies especially) readily available to students and teachers in college or public libraries. Annotations are detailed, providing not only a synopsis of the content, but also the author's approach (Biographical, formalist, structuralist, psychological, etc.). Highly technical or very difficult studies are generally not included. The result is a comprehensive and easy to use guide to the scholarship and criticism on a wide range of important British and American short story writers, ranging in time from Robert Lewis Stevenson and Edgar Allan Poe to Raymond Carter and Alice Munro.

The Short Story in English

Reference

Morris, Gregory L.

Catalogs & Directories

Scarecrow Press

Reevaluates the accomplishments of the British writer within the context of major literary movements and cross-currents. It considers all areas of his work including his stories of country life; war stories and novels; his best work, Love for Lydia; and his highly acclaimed nonfiction on environmental issues.

H. E. Bates: A Literary Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Susquehanna University Press

Art and Commerce in the British Short Story, 1880–1950 (The History of the Book)

The short story was a commercial phenomenon which took off in the late nineteenth century and lasted through to the rise of television and film. Baldwin uses a wide variety of sources to show how economic factors helped to dictate how and what a wide variety of authors wrote.

History & Criticism

Routledge

British & Irish

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