VCE English and EAL, English Language, and Literature guide - units 3 & 4

Copies of the text

• Munro, Alice. Dance of the Happy Shades Harmondsworth, Middlesex ;: Penguin Books, 1983.

In print critiques

• Bloom, Harold. Alice Munro  New York, NY: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2009.

   

Analysis

• Extraordinary bodies in Dance of the Happy Shades
• Language in Dance of the Happy Shades
• Reading Dance of the Happy Shades with later stories

Interviews

• In her own words (external site)

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Reviews & analysis

• Esaki, B. J. (2023). Ted Chiang’s Asian American Amusement at Alien Arrival Short Story Criticism (Vol. 325). Gale. (Reprinted from Religions, 2020, 11[2])
• Wahpeconiah, Tammy ‘The Wrong Side of Heaven, the Righteous Side of Hell’: Religion, Faith, and Belief in Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others Religion, Faith, and Belief in Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others." Short Story Criticism, edited by Rebecca Parks, vol. 325, Gale, 2023, pp. 4-10.
• Glazier, J. W., & Beck, T. J. (2018). Apocalypse, Language, Temporality: An alien encounter in Ted Chiang’s “Story of your life”. Subjectivity, 11(3), 267-284.
• Mieville, C. (2004, Apr 24). Science fiction & fantasy: Wonder boy: China Mieville revels in a high-concept collection: Stories of your life by Ted Chiang The Guardian

Interviews

• Conversation with Ted Chiang (2019, Apr 28). New York Times
• 'I've experienced snobbery for the majority of my career': Ted Chiang, one of the most exciting writers in science fiction, tells Eleanor Halls about his fight to escape 'the genre ghetto'.(2019, Jul 20). The Daily Telegraph

Copies of the text

•   Tan, Elizabeth Smart Ovens of Lonely People Sydney, NSW: Brio, 2020.

   

Reviews & analysis

• Bennett, Lisa (June–July 2020, no. 422) Review Australian Book Review
• Tan, Cher (June 29, 2020) Uncanny valleys Sydney Review of Books
• Identity is Cruel Australian Humanities Review
  • broad discussion includes this collection
• Saturday Paper review  27 June - 3 July 2020