Widening Horizons

A woman coping alone with the harsh Australian outback, an American boy facing birth and death, a South African black woman planning a better future for her children - the seven stories in this collection take the reader across three continents and open up a broad spectrum of human experience. Varied and thought-provoking tasks, structured in four main phases (general understanding, full immersion, summing up and production), guide the reader on a journey through space and time. Following a chronological progression, the stories help the reader trace a literary path from the Romantic to the Modern sensibility. An informative introduction provides useful insights into the short-story genre as well as constructing the theoretical framework for a close analysis of each story. Going beyond the purely literary approach, Widening Horizons aims to encourage an active response to each text by offering the reader stimulating ideas for creative writing.