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Short Fiction: Resources and ideas for use
Part 1
What Makes a Good Short Story?
What makes a good short story? - And what makes us appreciate its excellence?
Analysing a short story means recognising its special characteristics. Perhaps the best way of learning to analyse a short story is to simultaneously read it and explore analytical terms and their meaning. This is possible at the interactive Literature page at Annenberg/CBP, where the online text of the short story "A Jury of her Peers" by Susan Glaspell is supplied with interactive links to explanations of - and exercises in - e.g. Point of view, Character, Setting, Plot and Theme.
The Story and Its Writer
Ann Charters, The Story and Its Writer (Bedford St Martins, ISBN-13: 978-0-312-44271-2) er en bog, der rummer både klassiske og nyere noveller samt forfatterkommentarer og teoretiske artikler om genren.
20 Great American Short Stories
Browse 20 classic American short stories by distinguished writers, e.g. Poe, Hawthorne, Chopin, Melville, Twain and others.
Classic English Short Stories
Browse a selection of British short stories from over one hundred years of English short fiction. Includes works by Dickens, Wilde, A.Conan Doyle, R. L. Stevenson, Conrad and others.
Australian Short Stories
Browse 25 Australian short stories from 1845-1924 by distinguished writers, e.g. Barbara Baynton and Henry Lawson. The electronic texts are provided by SETIS ( The Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service), University of Sidney, Australia, and they can be downloaded in pdf-format. To download a text, clik on "retrieve text".
The Short Story Web
Welcome to the short story page, the campaign to celebrate the short story. We believe that the short story is one of the most exciting and important literary forms, that can and should reach the widest possible readership. We believe that the short story matters.
What can you find on this site? Simply everything you could ever want to know about the short story: reading them, writing them, events, competitions, workshops and projects.
You can search for short story collections currently published in the UK and read tips and articles from writers, agents and publishers on what makes a great short story and the great classic and contemporary stories they love.
