Machine generated contents note: -- Notes on the Contributors -- A Chronology of Significant Works -- Introduction; A.Cox -- Why Teaching the Short Story Today is a Thankless Task; C.E.May -- Questioning Short Stories; M.Greaney -- Short Shorts: Exploring Relevance and Filling in Narratives; P.Trimarco -- Raymond Carver and the Power of Style; M.Scofield -- Women Writers; L.Peach -- The Postcolonial Experience: The Southeast Asian Short Story in English; D.Baldwin -- The Science Fiction Short Story; A.Sawyer -- Sacred Cows and Gift Horses; N.Royle -- Story and Film; P.Wright -- Postgraduate Research; A.Cox -- Appendix: Film Adaptations -- Further Reading -- Index

1. Short story -- Study and teaching