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Glaap, A.-R. (ed.) 1993, Introducing New English Literatures, TAGS, Berlin: Cornelsen Verlag, (Teacher’s Book). This anthology contains the short story „Old Age Gold“ by Leslie Lum.
Müller, K.- P. (ed.) 1990, Contemporary Canadian Short Stories, Stuttgart: Reclam
Nischik, R. M. (ed.) 1989, Short Short Stories, Paderborn: Schöningh, (Teacher’s Book).
--- (ed.), 1994, Short Short Stories, Paderborn: Schöningh, (Teacher’s Book). Additional Short Stories
--- (ed.), 1996, American and Canadian Short Short Stories, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh (No. 43181-1). (Teacher’s Book)
--- (ed.), 1993, Short Short Stories Universal: Thirty Stories from the English-speaking World, Stuttgart: Reclam; Short stories from Canada, New Zealand, the USA, Africa, Great Britain, India, Australia and the Caribbean
--- (ed.), 1994, Margaret Atwood, Polarities: Selected Stories, Stuttgart: Reclam. (plus epilogue)
Rau, A. (ed.) 1991, Glimpses of Canada, TAGS, Frankfurt: Cornelsen Hirschgraben, (Teacher’s Book).
Rubio, Th. (ed.) 1993, Slices of Life, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Regents (available from Diesterweg). This anthology contains three Canadian Short Stories: Roch Carrier, „A Secret Lost in the Water“, Ivor Shapiro, „Two Faces of Eventide“ and Alice Munro, „Forgiveness in Families“.
Rice, Jim/Hayhoe, Mike (eds.) 1994, Writing from Canada, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (available from Klett No 3-12-531150)
Scheer-Schätzler, Brigitte (ed.) 1996, Immigrant stories - New Fiction by New Writers, TAGS, Berlin: Cornelsen (plus Lehrerheft). Diese Sammlung enthält zwei kanadische Kurzgeschichten: Austin Clarke, „The Discipline“und Bharati Mukherjee, „The Management of Grief“.
There are only stories listed in publications that are still available.
Atwood, Margaret "Happy Endings“, in: Baldus/Hermes/Meltzer (eds.), Invitation to Literature, Cornelsen: Berlin, 1990, S.55-58
--- "The Little Red Hen Tells All", in: Nischik, R. M. (ed.) 1996, American and Canadian Short Short Stories, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh (No. 43181-1). (Teacher’s Book)
--- "Hardball", in: Nischik, R. M. (ed.), 1996, American and Canadian Short Short Stories, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh (No. 43181-1). (Teacher’s Book)
Callaghan, Morley "A Sick Call", in: Interesting Things, CVK:Berlin, Textsammlung für die Sek.I. Interpretation in: "Inside 2", Analysis of modern British Literature, Hagopian/M.Dolch, Frankfurt: Hirschgraben 1975
--- "Lunch Counter", in: Great Short Shorts, Stuttgart:Klett 1986, Nr.57734. Teacher’s Book with Model Interpretations.
--- "The Snob", in: Literature Live, Stuttgart:Klett, Nr.5085, pp.56-60. Teacher’s Book with background information and teaching suggestions and activities.
Garner,Hugh "One, Two, Three Little Indians", in: Strangers in Their Own Land. The North-American Indian in the Modern Short Story. Stuttgart:Klett. Auch in Modern Canadian Short Stories, Schöningh.
Kroetsch, Robert "Earth Moving", in: Great Commonwealth Stories, Stuttgart:Klett, Nr. 57944. Teacher’s Book
Leacock, Stephen "The Conjurer`s Revenge", in Read and Respond, Ashton/Bott (eds.), CVK:Berlin
--- "Soaked in Seaweed", in: Horror.The Short Story Series, F.E.S. Sinn/A.Sauer (eds.), Frankfurt:Hirschgraben.
--- "My Bank Account", in: British and American Short Stories, G.C. Thornley (ed.), München:Langenscheidt/Longman.
Martel, Yann "Pig“, in: Made in North America, Contemporary short stories, D. Smolka (ed.), Frankfurt a. M.: Diesterweg, Nr. 4830
Munro, Alice "The Office", in: Men and Women, North American Short Stories, Stuttgart:Klett Nr.5775.Teacher’s Book.
Page, Patricia K. "The Green Bird", in: Big Book of Classic Stories, München:dtv, zweisprachig, Nr.9163
Ross, Oakland "So Far, She’s Fine“, in: Made in North America, Contemporary short stories, D. Smolka (ed.), Frankfurt a. M.: Diesterweg, Nr. 4830
Taylor, Drew H. "Strawberries“, in: Learning English Skyline, Edition C, (Böhne, H.-G. et al., eds.) Stuttgart: Klett Verlag, 1996, pp. 142-146.
Althof, R 1995, "Interkulturelle Ironie in der kanadischen Native Short Story 'Strawberries', in: Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht, Heft 18, Short Literary Forms, pp.14-18.
--- 1995, "Canadian Native Legends and Myths as Alternative Texts for Secondary Schools", in: Ahornblätter. Marburger Beiträge zur Kanada-Forschung 8, Marburg, pp.177-191
Düsterhaus, G. 1981, " Kanadische Kurzprosa für den Englischunterricht in den Sekundarstufen I und II", in: Paderborner Studien, Heft 3/4, pp.181-187.
--- 1992, „Anglo-Canadian stories of initiation in the classroom”, in: : N. H. Platz (ed.), Mediating Cultures Probleme des Kulturtransfers, Beispiele pragmatischer Kulturvermittlung, Essen: Die Blaue Eule. - Bd. 2.-pp. 87-99. - (Yearbook of the Association for the Study of New Literatures in English, 2)
--- 1986 “Sinclair Ross: Cornet at night”, in: FU. 20. pp. 40-48
--- 1986, “Teaching Canadian short stories”,in: Peter O. Stummer (ed.), The story must be told, Würzburg : Königshausen + Neumann, pp. 186-189. - Auch in: 11. Fremdsprachendidaktiker-Kongreß. - Tübingen : Narr, 1987. pp. 141-145. (Ludwigsburger Hochschulschriften ; 7)
Enter, Hans 1998, (mit Hartmut Lutz) “’Compatriots’: eine Short Story, vorgestellt für die Behandlung im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe II”, in: Fremdsprachenunterricht, 51, pp. 86-91
--- 1986, "Sinclair Ross:Cornet at Night", in: Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht, Heft 77, pp.40-48. This 'Story of Initiation' is in Düsterhaus, "Growing up”.
--- 1992, "Anglo-Canadian Stories of Initiation in the Classroom", in: N. H. Platz (eds.), Mediating Cultures Probleme des Kulturtransfers: Beispiele pragmatischer Kulturvermittlung, Essen: Die Blaue Eule, pp. 87-99.
Glaap, A.-R. 1995, "Kurzgeschichten aus verschiedenen englischsprachigen Kulturen für Grund- und Leistungskurse“, in: Die Neueren Sprachen, Bd.94, Kurzgeschichte, Heft 3/Juni 95, pp. 243-263. This article also contains a select bibliography.
--- 1995 “Kurzgeschichten aus verschiedenen englischsprachigen Kulturen für Grund- und Leistungskurse“, in: NS. 94, pp. 243-263
--- 1994 “Leslie Lum 'Old Age Gold'”, in: Introducing new English literatures. Lehrerheft, pp. 51-64
Lutz, Hartmut 1998, (mit Hans Enter) “’Compatriots’: eine Short Story, vorgestellt für die Behandlung im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe II”, in: Fremdsprachenunterricht, 51, pp. 86-91
Müller, K.-P. 1987, "Initiations into a Canadian Identity?: Contexts of 'Canadian Stories of Initiation'", in: H.-J. Diller/ St. Kohl/ J. Kornelius/ E. Otto/ G. Stratmann (eds.), Literature in English: New Territories, Anglistik und Englischunterricht, Bd.33, Heidelberg:Carl Winter Verlag, pp.67-86.
--- 1990, "Die Entwicklung der kanadischen Short Story zwischen Historie und Mythos: vom ideologischen Realismus zum magischen 'Super-Realismus'", in: K.P. Müller (ed.), Contemporary Canadian Short Stories, Stuttgart: Reclam, pp. 3-21.
Nischik, R. M. 1982, "Forschungsbericht. Zur Behandlung anglo-kanadischer Kurzgeschichten: Tendenzen, Materialien und Hilfsmittel", in: Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, Bd.XV, Heft 4, pp.380-398. This article considers material about the short story up to fall 1982.
--- 1987, "The Short Story in Canada: Metcalf and Others Making It New" , in: Die Neueren Sprachen, 86/Heft 3/4, pp.232-246. The main intention is to give an introduction to the contemporary short story – plus select bibliography.
--- (2)1984/85, "Norman Levine:By a Frozen River", in: English for Seniors 1984/85, II. Köln: WDR, pp.19-23.
--- 1993, "Die Macht der Winzigkeit", Nachwort zu: Reingard M. Nischik (ed.), Short Short Stories Universal: Thirty Stories from the English-speaking World, Stuttgart: Reclam, pp. 191-229.
--- 1994, "Untold Stories, Fresh Beginnings", Nachwort zu: Reingard M. Nischik (ed.), Margaret Atwood, Polarities: Selected Stories, Stuttgart: Reclam.
--- 1997 „Die Short Short Story im Englischunterricht“ in: NM. 50. pp. 24-28
Rau, A. 1/2002, „What if...? Thinking the Unthinkable?“, in: Fremdsprachenunterricht. Themenheft “Science Fiction im Fremdsprachenunterricht", eds. Hans Enter, Hartmut Lutz, Dirk Vanderbeke, Jahrg. 45/54, pp. 51-53.
--- 4/2003, „The Year of the Dragon. A Canadian Crime Story im Englischunterricht”, in: Fremdsprachenunterricht. Themenheft “Krimis im Fremdsprachenunterricht”, eds. Daniela Caspari, Hans Enter, Dirk Vanderbeke, Jahrg. 47/56, pp. 285-287.
Ross, I. 1987, "The influence of a place on one's writing": Margaret Laurence's Short Story "To Set Our House in Order" and her Essay "A Place to Stand On" in a Class 12 "Leistungskurs", in: H.-J. Diller/ St. Kohl/ J. Kornelius/ E. Otto/ G. Stratmann (eds.), Literature in English: New Territories, Anglistik und Englischunterricht, Bd.33, Heidelberg:Carl Winter Verlag, pp.131-141
--- Rezension von, "Klaus Peter Müller (ed.), Contemporary Canadian Short Stories, Stuttart:Reclam, 1990, in: Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, 12, Nr.1, Bd. 21, 1992, pp. 181-183

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