Short Fiction and Critical Contexts: A Compact Reader

Short Fiction and Critical Contexts: A Compact Reader is a challenging, versatile, and engaging resource for the study of short fiction. This collection features a diverse group of writers from differing ethnic, cultural, and national backgrounds and highlights female and Canadian authors. Each story is introduced by a brief biography of the author, information on his or her approach to writing fiction, and information about the story itself. The second half of the text collects a variety of documents written on the topic of the short story, many by the authors featured in the first half of the text. The combination of stories and their context makes this an invaluable reader for students studying the short story at any level.

Eric Henderson is a Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Victoria, and has taught previously at Simon Fraser University and Okanagan University College. He has published two other successful books with OUP Canada: The Active Reader (2008) and Writing by Choice (2006). Geoff Hancock is an author and editor long active in the field of Canadian literature who is responsible for numerous collections and anthologies.