Exploring Short Stories Teacher Resource Books  provide detailed information about features of the short story as a genre, an extensive commentary on each story with notes on the authors, the themes and features of the writing. For each story there are practical ideas for teachers, and copiable activities and exercises for students.

Contents Volume 2

Introduction

A. Some Narrative Techniques

• ‘Intertextuality’
• ‘Fictional Autobiography’
• ‘Circularity’
• ‘Unreliable Narrators’
• ‘Indeterminacy’

B. ‘Ideologies, Discourses  and the Positioning of the Reader’ by Ken Watson

C. ‘Satire’ by Jackie Mussared and Peter Adams

D. ‘Three Fables: Articulating the Themes’ by Peter Adams

E. ‘Author Study: Sinclair Ross’ by Peter Adams

Bibliography