Reading short stories
Subtitle: British, Irish and American Storytellers
By: Fumio Yoshioka
Series: Publication of the School of Letters Okayama University -- No.36; Publication of the School of Letters Okayama University -- No. 36
Publisher: School of Letters, Okayama University
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Okayama City, Japan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: English Short stories; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter I: Joycean slices of life from 'Dubliners'; title: Chapter II: Prime cuts of humanity from Hardy to Capote. 1. Thomas Hardy's concept and craft for 'Old Mrs Chundle'; title: 2. Dazed in the gaze of death, Katherine Mansfield's 'The Fly'; title: 3. Madness beyond madness, Evelyn Waugh's 'Mr Loveday's little outing'; title: 4. Communion with the Holy Mother, William Trevor's 'The Virgin's gift'; title: 5. A requiem for the deprived and deserted, William Faulkner's 'A rose for Emily'; title: 6. Through a brutal night into a dawn of adolescence, Ernest Hemingway's 'Indian camp'; title: 7. A nostalgic revisit to a dreamland, Truman Capote's 'A Christmas memory.'