Thematic Guide To Popular Short Stories

Author : Patrick A. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313077274
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thematic Guide to Popular Short Stories written by Patrick A. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-10-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing easy access to information on nearly 450 short stories, this unique guide surveys a wide spectrum of world literature, canonical works, and contemporary fiction. Librarians and teachers will find multiple purposes for this expertly-compiled resource, which can be employed in much the same way as a standard bibliography. Educators will appreciate the concise annotations, arranged alphabetically by author, that form the core of this work. Insightful critical statements synthesize plot summaries and identify the thematic content of each short story. A theme guide utilizes the nearly 100 theme headings matching those at the start of each entry, allowing the user to quickly locate story titles on related themes and construct reading lists based on individual interests and needs. Another component designed to aid librarians offers one bibliography that lists the anthologies from which the stories are drawn (Works Cited) and one comprised of a number of recent anthologies that can be adapted for the classroom (Further Reading). In addition to the theme index, the general subject and author indexes make this a user-friendly and invaluable resource.

Author : Lynda G. Adamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313087814
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thematic Guide to Popular Nonfiction written by Lynda G. Adamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-01-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular nonfiction is widely read, and is increasingly prominent in the curriculum. This guide helps students, teachers, and librarians identify popular works of nonfiction related to particular themes. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 50 themes, such as Animals, Exploration, Genocide, Immigrants, Poverty, and Race Relations. Each entry begins with a definition and discussion of the theme, followed by critical summaries of three or four works of nonfiction. The entries conclude with lists of additional nonfiction for further reading, and the Guide closes with lists of additional themes and related works, along with a bibliography of works on popular nonfiction.

Author : Anna Wing-bo Tso
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476637245
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Short Story written by Anna Wing-bo Tso and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory chapter of literary criticism, this book aims to give readers insight into the works by canonical British, Irish, and American authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, and more. Applying close reading skills and critical literary approaches to twelve selected short stories in English, this work conducts comparative analyses to reveal the interrelationships between the texts, the authors, the readers, and the sociocultural contexts. Developed and tested in literature classes at university over several semesters, this book addresses key issues, topics and trends in the short story genre.

Author : Michael W. Schaefer
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Stephen Crane written by Michael W. Schaefer and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a distillation of the large body of historical and critical information available on Stephen Crane's short stories. -- From preface.

Author : Kimberly Campbell
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN 13 : 157110710X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Less is More written by Kimberly Campbell and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less Is More is full of powerful ideas for teaching with short, provocative text. This book broadens and extends our available teaching tools and materials, and can help engage all students. It is a valuable resource for language arts teachers. --Cris Tovani Language arts teachers want all of their students to love literature and embrace the novels they assign. The classroom reality is that many students are not ready or motivated to immerse themselves in an entire novel. In order to reach and engage all students, teachers need to look beyond novels alone and embrace a richer variety of literature. In Less Is More Kimberly Hill Campbell draws on research as well as her own classroom experiences to show how short texts engage a wide range of middle and high school students. She shares her discovery of the power of short texts to support her students' skills as readers, writers, and students of literature. Kimberly shows how short texts can be integrated into the curriculum, without sacrificing required novels. Chapters examine different genres of short text, such as short stories, essays, memoir, and graphic novels. Each chapter provides reading, writing, and response strategies as well as a broad selection of short text resources that have proven effective with a wide range of students.

Author : Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher : Peace Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 194296823X
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing With Skill, Level 2: Instructor Text written by Susan Wise Bauer and published by Peace Hill Press. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time-tested classical techniques--the imitation and analysis of great writers--combined with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and literature. The Student Workbook encourages independent composition, while the Instructor Text contains easy-to-use supporting information for the teacher, rubrics for grading, sample compositions, and dialogue to use while teaching. Together, the Student Workbook and Instructor Text provide a full year of middle-grade writing instruction, preparing students to enter high-level rhetoric. Reviews Level One skills in narration, biographical sketches, descriptions, and sequences Teaches new skills in writing comparisons, drawing contrasts, and tracing cause and effect Improves sentence style through prose exercises drawn from Erasmus, Aristotle, and other classical rhetoricians Covers three-level outlining, composition planning and structure Guides the student through critical essay writing in both fiction and poetry Provides practice in research and documentation skills

Author : James H. Pickering
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780131733916
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reader's Guide to the Short Story written by James H. Pickering and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2006-01-18 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to the Short Story comes free with the eleventh edition of Fiction 100. It is a handbook which provides detailed discussion on how to read short fiction, introduces students to the elements of fiction, and provides extensive guidance on how to write about fiction (based on the best practices in current composition theory), with sample student essays.

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786471271
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isabel Allende written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabel Allende--"la Famosa" to her fellow Chileans--is the world's most widely read Spanish language author. Her career coincides with the emergence of multiculturalism and global feminism, and her powerfully honest, revelatory works touch the pulse points of humankind. Her bravura study of the interwoven roles of women in family history opens the minds of outsiders to the sufferings of women and their children during years of social and political nightmare. This reference work provides an introduction to Allende's life as well as a guided overview of her body of work. Designed for the fan and scholar alike, this text features an alphabetized, fully-annotated listing of major terms in the Allende canon, including fictional characters, motifs, historical events and themes. A comprehensive index is included.

Author : Sharon Packer MD
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Superheroes and Superegos written by Sharon Packer MD and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection of essays written by a practicing psychiatrist shows that superheroes are more about superegos than about bodies and brawn, even though they contain subversive sexual subtexts that paved the path for major social shifts of the late 20th century. Superheroes have provided entertainment for generations, but there is much more to these fictional characters than what first meets the eye. Superheros and Superegos: Analyzing the Minds Behind the Masks begins its exploration in 1938 with the creation of Superman and continues to the present, with a nod to the forerunners of superhero stories in the Bible and Greek, Roman, Norse, and Hindu myth. The first book about superheroes written by a psychiatrist in over 50 years, it invokes biological psychiatry to discuss such concepts as "body dysmorphic disorder," as well as Jungian concepts of the shadow self that explain the appeal of the masked hero and the secret identity. Readers will discover that the earliest superheroes represent fantasies about stopping Hitler, while more sophisticated and socially-oriented publishers used superheroes to encourage American participation in World War II. The book also explores themes such as how the feminist movement and the dramatic shift in women's roles and rights were predicted by Wonder Woman and Sheena nearly 30 years before the dawn of the feminist era.

Author : Ruth Glancy
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thematic Guide to British Poetry written by Ruth Glancy and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thematic guide offers interpretations of 415 poems, representing the work of more than 110 poets spanning seven centuries of British poetry. It should be useful to librarians and teachers who need to identify and locate poems on a given theme, and to students and poetry fans.