
Exploring Short Stories provides 22 short stories for middle to senior secondary students (Volume 2) . The stories come from well known and highly regarded authors from around the world and represent a range of write styles and types of short story. The stories in each volume are grouped according to the feature of the short story genre they best represent.
Contents Volume 2
Introduction
I. Some Narrative Techniques
Intertextuality
- ‘Homecoming’ by Roger Woddis
- ‘The Empty Beach’ by James R. Allen
- ‘The Demon Lover’ by Elizabeth Bowen
- ‘James Harris (The Dæmon Lover)’ Anonymous
Fictional autobiography
- ‘Bad Characters’ by Jean Stafford
- ‘An Ounce of Cure’ by Alice Munro
Circularity
- ‘Homework’ by Farrukh Dhondy
Unreliable narrators
- ‘My Sister’s Marriage’ by Cynthia Marshall Rich
- ‘Why I Live at the P.O.’ by Eudora Welty
- ‘One’s a Heifer’ by Sinclair Ross
Indeterminacy
- ‘The Summer People’ by Shirley Jackson
II. Ideologies, Discourses and the Positioning of the Reader
- ‘Out of the Mouths of Babes’ by Kathryn Clarke
- ‘Kay Petman’s Coloured Pencils’ by Carmel Bird
III. Satire
- ‘Attila’ by Karel Capek
- ‘Spring in Poland’ by Slawomir Mrozek
- ‘Sex in Australia from the Man’s Point of View’ by Michael Wilding
IV. Three Fables: Articulating the Themes
- ‘The Man at the Wall’ by John Morressy
- ‘Seven Floors’ by Dino Buzzati
- ‘Before the Law’ by Franz Kafka
V. Author Study: Sinclair Ross
- ‘The Lamp at Noon’ by Sinclair Ross
- ‘The Painted Door by Sinclair Ross
- ‘The Flowers That Killed Him’ by Sinclair Ross
Year Level | Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12 |
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Date of Publication | 2008 |
ISBN | 9781921085628 |
Subject | English |
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