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Gadylshin, Timur Rifovich. "Features of R. Kipling’s Work in the Naturalist Prose of F. Norris." Litera, no. 10 (October 2022): 95–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2022.10.39055.
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The article focuses on estimating the influence of Rudyard Kipling’s figure on the works of his younger contemporary, the American Frank Norris. The author comes to the conclusion that the English writer fundamentally determined his literary follower’s development vector. Kipling who has become extremely popular among American readers raises Norris’s interest toward neo-romantic short story. The early stage of Norris’s work is noted by Kipling’s powerful influence and the article reveals common plot, compositional and stylistic elements in their works. The writers are united by artistic ideals: Kipling and Norris emphasize the exotic and the criminal and treat the concept of masculinity in a similar way in their short stories. The relevance and scientific novelty of the article are determined by the fact that the article studies Norris’s short stories which were previously unexplored in Russian literary criticism. The author makes an attempt to determine the significance of romanticism’s legacy for Norris’s work and to demonstrate its close relationship with naturalism, exploring various works by R. Kipling. The article uses the following methods: elements of the biographical method; estimation of Norris's theoretical ideas according to the principles of cultural studies; comparative analysis of the works of the two authors. The article can be used in teaching the history of foreign (in particular, American) literature in higher educational institutions.
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Bascom, Ben. "Groping Toward Perversion: From Queer Methods to Queer States in Recent Queer Criticism." American Literary History 32, no. 2 (2020): 396–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaa007.
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Abstract What’s so queer about the nineteenth century? According to three recent studies of American literature—Elizabeth Freeman’s Beside You in Time (2019), Natasha Hurley’s Circulating Queerness (2018), and Benjamin Kahan’s The Book of Minor Perverts (2019)—the answer may be fairly all encompassing. For these critics, queerness is both an orientation and an object of study, enlivening, engendering, and uncovering a plethora of inchoate possibilities for imagining nonnormativity in the long nineteenth century. As such, these studies help resituate the critical capacity for queer studies to engage with historical material while also attending to the ephemeral possibilities that queerness, as a heuristic, frames, from being a methodology, a narrative trope, or a marker of excess that gets overpassed through dominant and emergent ideologies. Bringing together novels, plays, performances, short stories, and life narratives—along with compelling debates in the fields of queer studies—these books are sure to motivate continued work on the intersections of queerness, affect, and the literary while also plotting ways to consider how queerness disrupts and confirms the biopolitics of sex as a category of analysis.
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Radmilo Derado, Sanja. "MERGING SOCIAL CRITICISM WITH IRISH CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE SHORT STORY COLLECTION THE UNTILLED FIELD BY GEORGE MOORE." Folia linguistica et litteraria X, no. 32 (2020): 43–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.32.2020.3.
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The paper analyses the short story collection The Untilled Field by the Irish writer George Moore (1852-1933) with the aim of establishing the subversive potential of these stories in the context of the criticism of the overpowering dogmas within the Irish society at the beginning of the 20th century. With this long neglected short story collection, George Moore reveals a darker, silenced side of Ireland, hidden from the public discourse of the socio-political mainstream of the period. His social criticism is primarily focused on some neuralgic aspects of the Irish society of the time, namely on the dominant influence of the Irish Catholic church on the collective ethos of the nation and, subsequently, on the spiritual and moral paralysis of the Irish people as well as on mass emigrations of the Irish to America. By pinpointing these, in his view, destructive social forces and the complex sociopolitical situation in Ireland during the formation of the modern Irish state, George Moore identifies a state of collective moral lethargy characterised by total absence of any possibility of individual affirmation through artistic agency. The importance of this short story collection, from the point of view of scientific research, lies in the foregrounding motivation behind it. In other words, in George Moore´s intention to dig deep into the relentless existence of the Irish people at one stage in the country´s history and to re-shape the well- established colonial representations which favoured falsely pastoral visions of Ireland. It was not until the second half of the 20th century that the stigma of ´un-patriotic´ and ´subversive´ was lifted from this short story collection giving it, though still limited, well-deserved attention and recognising its literary and artistic importance for Irish national culture and for its literature.
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Naumenko, Valentina G. "“History of Russia in the Short Stories for Children” by A. Ishimova: Estimations of Сontemporaries." Bibliotekovedenie [Russian Journal of Library Science], no. 5 (October 24, 2011): 53–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2011-0-5-53-58.
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Huguet, Montserrat. "The US American Self-criticism. Stories of Anger and Bewilderment." REDEN. Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos 1, no. 1 (November 30, 2019): 49–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/reden.2019.1.1373.
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Criticism to the system is a core place in the US American culture.The self-criticism gets its roots in the permanent restlessness of the American People, in their fears, in their dissatisfaction, and even in their insane self-destructive behabiour. Many episodes in the American history have worked out from attitudes of paranoia, disgust or anger towards communities or the public administration. The natural rhythm of society in the United States is far from acceptance and calm. On the contrary, the US history is defined by restlessnees and doubious sentiments. Thus, one might think that the American dream is fundamentally a state of permanent crisis in which people, unable to deal with their present vital conditions, transmute these conditions into havoc and creation. In the pages of this article, a breaf tour into the historical and cultural trend of discouragement is offered. It also pays attention to the American ability to self-analyze its own historical experiences. The fictionated stories, that come from the imagination but also from people’s voices and memories, convey a sense of dissatisfaction and of struggle to improve the American way of behaving. Those citizens, especially uncomfortable with themselves or with the administration, may not be aware that they are precisely those who constitute the best US image abroad. In the ostentation of a self- criticism, of a subversive thought, these Americans, opposed to the official positions,feature the virtue of the relentless self-purge.Therefore,looking at past and present times, this paper is composed by six related arguments that rely on both historical events and fictionated stories, with the titles of: “Under the paranoid style”; “The angry nation”, “Hate: Public Limited Company”, “Images of anger”, “Guilty, ashamed and redeemed”, and “The legacy of disenchantment”.
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Reid, Margaret. "Narrative Silence in America's Stories." Keeping Ourselves Alive 3, no. 2-3 (January 1, 1993): 269–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.3.2-3.11nar.
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Abstract In the historical event of the American Revolution, as well as in certain central texts of the American literary imagination, a tension between the power of a community to define itself through language and the resistance of experiential history to such enclosure is represented through a particular form of narrative silence. This narrative form may first suggest repression and the failures of memory. But the American imagination has used narrative silence as a way of representing events that lie outside of the known and planned, in order to preserve the residual life of experience and so to bear witness to the imagina-tion's dependence on the whole of history. In this essay, I argue that this narrative form reveals a central paradox of the American cultural imagination: This imagination successfully encodes its story of community exactly insofar as it creates a place—in language and in thought—for the safely silent acknowl-edgement of the power of experiential knowledge and untold secrets. (Culture studies; literary criticism)
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Dewi, Novita. "COUNTERING XENOPHOBIA AND RACISM THROUGH SHORT STORIES FOR HISTORY STUDENTS." International Journal of Humanity Studies (IJHS) 5, no. 1 (September 24, 2021): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/ijhs.v5i1.3697.
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Short stories provide suitable reading materials to enrich the study of American History. Using literary works can help foster transformative history teaching, especially when discussing the violent past to construct a better future. This study aims at examining two American short stories that deal with racism and prejudice. Used as primary data are “Désirée’s Baby” (1893) which tells about racial intolerance in a pre-Civil War plantation society; and “Shame” (1964), a story about intolerance experienced by a Black schoolboy. Critical reading method is applied by making contextualization with different American historical periods. The results show that (1) themes of xenophobia, racism, and intolerance are evident in these short stories; (2) authorial backgrounds help explain their dealing with the history of racism shown in their works; and (3) stories of inter-racial relations make good reading supplements for teaching American History. In conclusion, literature is history which is beautifully condensed that can help raise students’ awareness about the evil pasts and to grow a historical empathy in facing current realities in order to build a more just, civil, and compassionate society in the future.
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Zheng, Yi. "Writing about women in ghost stories: subversive representations of ideal femininity in “Nie Xiaoqian” and “Luella Miller”." Neohelicon 47, no. 2 (March 5, 2020): 751–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11059-020-00524-3.
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AbstractOn the one hand, because of the double historical prejudices from literary criticism against ghost stories and women’s writing, little attention has been paid to investigate the ideals of femininity in women’s ghost stories in nineteenth-century America. This article examines “Luella Miller,” a short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, who indirectly but sharply criticized the ideal of femininity in her time by creating an exaggerated example of the cult of feminine fragility. On the other hand, although extensive research has been done on Chinese ghost stories, especially on the ghost heroines in Pu Songling’s Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, there are few studies comparing the Chinese and the American ones. By comparing “Luella Miller” and Pu’s “Nie Xiaoqian,” this article does not primarily aim to list the similarities and differences between the Chinese and the American ideals of femininity, but to provide fresh insights into how both Freeman and Pu capitalized on the literary possibilities of the supernatural, because only in ghost stories they could write about women in ways impossible in “high literature.”
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Spasić Jakovljević, Tijana R. "KRITIKA POSTMODERNISTIČKE IRONIJE U DOKUMENTARNOJ PROZI DEJVIDA FOSTERA VOLASA." Nasledje Kragujevac XX, no. 56 (2023): 207–2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/naskg2356.207sj.
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His criticism and efforts to overcome the negative consequences of postmodern irony – mostly as a worldview that has had a profound impact on contemporary American society and literature – are central to understanding David Foster Wallace’s literary work. Unlike his highly influential fiction (novels and short stories), his nonfiction (essays and articles) still remains understudied, in spite of the volume and importance of his essays in the Ameri- can culture and beyond. The paper analyses Wallace’s criticism of postmodern irony in his nonfiction by considering three selected essays, with the aim of examining the possibility that Wallace’s nonfiction succeeds in even further articulating his artistic intentions, which have in recent analyses been qualified as post-ironic.
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Jelínková, Ema. "Trauma Narratives of Scottish Childhood in Janice Galloway’s Short Stories." American & British Studies Annual 15 (December 21, 2022): 64–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.46585/absa.2022.15.2430.
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Janice Galloway represents one of the most strikingly original voices in new Scottish fiction, which breaks with the tradition of conventional narratives looking back at the national history and looking up to larger-than-life male heroes. Instead, Galloway writes deftly crafted short stories of everyday life in contemporary settings, finding that the past informs the present and proceeding to explore how the stateless nation’s cultural heritage affects her characters. This paper analyses selected stories from Galloway’s collections Blood (1991) and Where You Find It (1996) from the perspective of trauma criticism, which seems a particularly fitting approach to the author’s often disturbing narratives of violence and abuse. The focus is on child characters and on the ways that historical trauma, as introduced by Sigmund Freud and further refined by Cathy Caruth, is passed down to them. Finally, the paper provides examples from the individual short stories which illustrate how the traumatic experience can be acknowledged, witnessed, and ultimately communicated.
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Frolova, Marina V. "Indonesian Horror Story by Intan Paramaditha." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies 12, no. 3 (2020): 368–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2020.304.
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Analysis and interpretation of the short stories by Indonesian female writer Intan Paramaditha (Intan Paramaditha, born in 1979) make it possible to understand that her writing occupies a special niche in the modern Indonesian literary paradigm. Paramaditha’s feminist texts are disguised as horror stories with settings in contemporary Indonesia. The article examines five short stories (“Spinner of Darkness” (Pemintal Kegelapan), “Vampire” (Vampir), “Polaroid’s Mystery” (Misteri Polaroid), “The Blind Woman without a Toe” (Perempuan Buta tanpa Ibu Jari), and “The Obsessive Twist” (Goyang Penasaran)). Using the intertextual method, it was possible to prove the gothic poetics of these literary works. The short stories contain the mosaic of folklore-mythological motives from the Malay Archipelago, Biblical and Quranic narratives, as well as European fairy tales and allusions to American horror fiction and horror films. Her prose is built upon some borrowed European literary forms for expression of authentic Indonesian content. The social themes are intertwined with feminist criticism that is presented as a Kitsch of the Indonesian mass culture. In “The Obsessive Twist” the main conflict is focused on the heated debates on sexuality, politics, violence, and religion. The feminist agenda of her prose is contrasted with the turn of contemporary Indonesia towards a Muslim patriarchal society. Paramaditha’s works represent a unique product of West-East-synthesis aimed not only at the Indonesian, but also the global audience.
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Firdaus, Ahmad Fanan. "The Portrayal of American Indian Identity in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven." Journal of Literature, Linguistics, & Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (July 24, 2023): 157–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.18860/lilics.v2i1.2781.
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This study delved into the cultural identity of American Indians residing in the Spokane reservation area, with a focus on Sherman Alexie's collection of stories, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven." The stories portrayed various aspects of the divide between American Indians and white people, as well as the distinctions between reservation-based Indians, urban Indians, modern Indians, and traditional Indians. The main objective of the research was to explore how the identity of American Indians is depicted in Alexie's book using Homi K Bhabha's cultural identity theories of hybridity and mimicry. This study employed the literary criticism method, particularly postcolonial studies, to analyze the representation of hybridity and mimicry. The primary data source for this investigation was the collection of short stories, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," by Sherman Alexie. The data was gathered from the text, identifying words or sentences that illustrate the representation of hybridity and mimicry in the stories. The data collection techniques include reading and note-taking strategies. This study revealed two main aspects of Indian cultural identity: Hybridity, characterized by a blend of Indian and white culture, evident in language, behavior, ways of thinking, and lifestyles. Then Mimicry, seen in Indian behavior, lifestyle, and ways of thinking that resemble those of white people. In conclusion, the research highlighted how Indian cultural identity in Sherman Alexie's work reflects both hybridity and mimicry, shedding light on the complexities of cultural assimilation and adaptation in American Indian communities.
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Pérez-Torres, Rafael. "Gatekeeping Stories of Dissent and Mobility." American Literary History 31, no. 2 (2019): 312–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz012.
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AbstractThree new studies consider the significance of storytelling in a Latinx and hemispheric American context around the turn of the millennium. Where neoliberal policies seem to position ethnoracial subjectivities in realms of social abjection or racial containment, these studies contribute to interdisciplinary conversations about racial affiliation, economic aspiration, and political dissent in literature. Each considers writers either engaging complex negotiations between racial and class affiliations, challenging social expectations for cultural products in an ethnic marketplace, or speaking against repressive governmental regimes. Each weighs a hope for transformative social change against the efficient, impersonal, even brutal management of modern ethnoracial otherness. Elda Román analyzes stories about upward mobility for racially or ethnically identified characters who strive to maintain a critical sense of racial affiliation while seeking greater social and class mobility. Since forms like magical realism often mark the ethnic identification of an author, Christopher González considers how unexpected or challenging narrations break down restrictive perceptions of what Latinx literature can be. Theresa Longo, deliberating over a radical Latin American literature of dissent distributed to US audiences by small publishing houses, sketches an intellectual history of radical thought in the Americas that has informed a dominant strain of US Latinx criticism.
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Anténe, Petr. "Jewishness and World History in Clive Sinclair’s Death & Texas." Iudaica Russica, no. 1(10) (December 18, 2023): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/ir.2023.10.06.
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At first glance, Death & Texas (2014), the title of the fourth short story collection by the British Jewish writer Clive Sinclair, appears somewhat misleading for several reasons. First, death may not seem a central theme in all the eight stories. Second, Texas is not the spatial setting in all stories, as some of them take place elsewhere in the USA or even in other countries. However, on closer inspection, both the theme of death and the American environment occur in most stories by means of their characters’ interests, as the protagonists are often Jewish writers or artists concerned with American and world history as well as the rendering of historical events in popular culture. This article thus aims to survey the theme of Jewishness and the reflection of world history in the collection.
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Mundeja, Ruchi. "‘Always half-and-half’: ‘Voyage in’ as halfness in Jean Rhys’s short fiction." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 53–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00073_1.
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From the initial years when criticism on the writer Jean Rhys largely circled around Wide Sargasso Sea to an interest in her other novels growing since then, Rhys’s short stories have evoked comparatively scant critical interest. Yet the thematic concerns in her short stories contribute as vitally to the writer’s continuing close scrutiny of coloniality as her novels do. In this article, it is the criss-cross traffic of imperialist voyages that is looked at through Rhys’s short stories. The thematics of contamination, bastardization and halfness that these stories probe complicate more utopian theorizations of cosmopolitanization. The voyage into the imperial capital is inseparable from the experience of creolized, stigmatized, ‘halfness’ in Rhys’s corpus and that makes for a contestatory understanding of the polyphony often ascribed to these increasingly porous cityscapes. This article looks at two stories from the writer, ‘Overture and Beginners Please’ and ‘On Not Shooting Sitting Birds’, both foregrounding the ex-centric position of the women protagonists who are specifically tied to a Caribbean background, to suggest how Rhys’s work haunts that writing of the trope of voyaging whereby the brutal abrasions of colonial history are retrospectively subsumed into the more pluralistic folds of hybridity. In these stories, the journey into the imperial metropolis sets up a probe into the limits and blindspots of cosmopolitan Europe in the early to mid-twentieth century. Rhys’s short fiction spectrally interrupts the modernist narrative of aesthetic border-crossings to tell another, more experiential, one, where boundary crossing is a haunted experience from the point of view of those voyaging in.
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de Groot, Renee. "What If the Pen Was Mightier Than the Sword? Civil War Alternate History as Social Criticism." aspeers: emerging voices in american studies 10 (2017): 55–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.54465/aspeers.10-06.
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Alternate histories about the American Civil War seem ideally set up to explore the possibilities and tensions of social criticism through art and literature. Counterfactual stories about the war easily invoke contemporary issues of inequality and exploitation, and they are part of a genre—alternate history—that has traditionally lent itself to social commentary. Yet while scholarship on alternate history has captured the presentist orientation of many alternate histories in the fantasy-nightmare dichotomy, these categories appear reductive as a reflection of the layered and intriguing forms social criticism takes in Civil War alternate history. This article examines two examples of this genre that position themselves as political statements. Frank Purdy Williams’s largely forgotten novel Hallie Marshall: A True Daughter of the South (1900) subverts major literary traditions of its time to mount a counterintuitive critique of capitalist exploitation. Kevin Willmott’s mockumentary C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) is both a scathing critique of American racism and a multilayered satire on the distortion of history in popular culture. Both works use the conventions of alternate history as conduits for critique and provocation, which makes the revelation of their ideological investments ingenious but perhaps dangerously circuitous.
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Newman, Judie. "African American History and the Short Story: James Mcbride's “The Under Graham Railroads Box Car Set”." Studies in the American Short Story 1, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 180–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/studamershorstor.1.2.180.
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ABSTRACT James McBride's first volume of short stories, Five Carat Soul (2017), depicts the relationship between history and the short story, setting white and black histories on a collision course. Its lead story, “The Under Graham Railroad Box Car Set,” explores how the value of an episode in history may be alternatively constructed, stifled, commodified, or recast in terms of African American experience and genres in order to underline the fact of slavery as a living force in American culture.
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Huan, He. "Empathy and Sympathy Learned from British and American Novels and Short Stories." Journal of Asian Research 7, no. 3 (July 13, 2023): p1. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jar.v7n3p1.
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Foreign literature courses, including both British and American literature, serve as compulsory and core courses for Chinese English Majors (CEMs). Literature courses make CEMs grasp aesthetic meanings as well as immerses themselves in a literary world, most importantly empower them to access different cultural experiences, and experience ups and downs of fictional characters. This article mainly delineates empathetic and sympathetic factors inherent in English novels and short stories included in literary textbooks used in foreign literature classes, such as A Guide to History and Anthology of American Literature, A Guide to History and Anthology of British Literature, Selected Readings in American Literature, and Selected Readings in British Literature. Some novice teaching staff usually find that the assiduous efforts they have to put into the teaching of foreign literature class is due to limited academic duration, numerous writers, countless literary works, difficult literary languages, complicated character maps, exotic life experiences, as well as a range variety of students’ demands and interests. This article aims to find out empathy- and sympathy-themed excerpts from the above-mentioned textbooks to help novice literature teachers to accustom themselves to the teaching of the courses, and even to realize a favorable teaching result. The effective pedagogy includes pre-teaching, during-teaching and after-teaching. The examples of literary texts contain both American and British writers. The exemplified text genre includes novels and short stories. The academics in literature courses can follow the suggestions and endeavors mentioned in this paper to better guide their teaching activities.
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Frymus, Agata. "Researching Black women and film history." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 20 (January 27, 2021): 228–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.18.
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My project (Horizon 2020, 2018–20) traces Black female moviegoing in Harlem during the silent film era. The main challenge in uncovering the women’s stories is that historical paradigm has always prioritised the voices of the white, middle-class elite. In the field of Black film history, criticism expressed by male journalists—such as Lester A. Walton of New York Age—has understandably received the most attention (Everett; Field, Uplift). Black, working-class women are notoriously missing from the archive. How do we navigate historical records, with their own limits and absences? This paper argues for a broader engagement with historic artefacts—memoirs, correspondence and recollections—as necessary to re-centre film historiography towards the marginalised. It points to the ways in which we can learn from the scholars and methods of African American history to “fill in the gaps” in the study of historical spectatorship.
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Rabkin, Eric S., James B. Mitchell, and Carl P. Simon. "Who Really Shaped American Science Fiction?" Prospects 30 (October 2005): 45–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300001976.
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Treating science fiction, critics have taught us to understand that the field shrugged itself out of the swamp of its pulp origins in two great evolutionary metamorphoses, each associated with a uniquely visionary magazine editor: Hugo Gernsback and John W. Campbell Jr. Paul Carter, to cite one critic among many, makes a case that Hugo Gernsback's magazines were the first to suggest thatscience fiction was not only legitimate extrapolation… [but] might even become a positive incentive to discovery, inspiring some engineer or inventor to develop in the laboratory an idea he had first read about in one of the stories. (5)Another, critic and author Isaac Asimov, argues that science fiction's fabledGolden Age began in 1938, when John Campbell became editor of Astounding Stories and remolded it, and the whole field, into something closer to his heart's desire. During the Golden Age, he and the magazine he edited so dominated science fiction that to read Astounding was to know the field entire. (Before the Golden Age, xii)Critics arrive at such understandings not only by surveying the field but also — perhaps more importantly — by studying, accepting, modifying, or even occasionally rejecting the work of other critics. This indirect and many-voiced conversation is usually seen as a self-correcting process, an informal yet public peer review. Such interested scrutiny has driven science fiction (SF) criticism to evolve from the letters to the editor and editorials and mimeographed essays of the past to the nuanced literary history of today, just as, this literary history states, those firm-minded editors helped SF literature evolve from the primordial fictions of Edgar Rice Burroughs into the sophisticated constructs of William S. Burroughs.
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Frank, Morgan Day. "Notes on the Novella." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 56, no. 1 (May 1, 2023): 105–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-10251280.
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Abstract Longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, the novella appears to occupy a clear formal niche. However, novellas have posed problems for even the most basic taxonomies of literary criticism and publishing. Though the novella is defined by its length, length alone has never been sufficient to determine whether a text counts as a novella. Though the novella is a global form, shared among many national literary cultures, its transnational history is muddled by terminological inconsistency. This article sets out to understand the novella as a slippery form, one that slides through the institutional machinery that administers literary production. It centers its investigation on the United States during a period in global cultural history when the literary field was slowly coming into existence. In this environment, a group of long short stories or short novels—Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter,” Herman Melville's “Benito Cereno,” and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave—revealed the incoherence of “literature” as it gradually assumed its modern form.
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Asl, Moussa Pourya, Nurul Farhana Low Abdullah, and Md Salleh Yaapar. "Sexual Politics of the Gaze and Objectification of the (Immigrant) Woman in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies." American Studies in Scandinavia 50, no. 2 (October 30, 2018): 89–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v50i2.5779.
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Gayatri Spivak’s repeated accusations against the hyphenated Americans of colluding in their own exploitation is noteworthy in the context of diasporic writers’ portrayal of immigrant women within the prevailing discourse of anti-Communism in the United States. The woman in South Asian American writings is often portrayed as still stuck in the traditional prescribed gender roles imposed by patriarchal society. This essay explores Jhumpa Lahiri’s literary engagement with the contemporary racialization and gendering of a collective subject described as the Indian diaspora in her Pulitzer Prize winning short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999). Specifically, it focuses on the two stories of “Sexy” and “The Treatment of Bibi Haldar” to analyse the manner dynamics of the gaze operate between the male and female characters. The numerous acts of looking that take place in these stories fall naturally into two major categories: the psychoanalytic look of voyeurism and the historicist gaze of surveillance. Through a rapprochement between the two seemingly different fields of the socius and the psychic, the study concludes that the material and ideological specificities of the stories that formulate a particular group of women as powerless, passive, alien and monstrous are rooted in the contradictory cultural and moral imperatives of the contemporary American society.
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Räisänen, Ari. "Flanking Maneuvers: The Counternarratives of the Military Unconscious in Phil Klay's “After Action Report” and “War Stories”." American Studies in Scandinavia 53, no. 1 (April 30, 2021): 121–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v53i1.6222.
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This article examines the ways in which Phil Klay’s short stories “After Action Report” and “War Stories” generate counternarratives that challenge and fragment populist representations of soldiering, war, and Americanness. In doing so, the analysis reveals new ways of approaching the contemporary American civilian-military disconnect. The article examines this disconnect in a framework based on Fredric Jameson’s theories that reveals the text’s underlying military unconscious: a type of political unconscious that rises from the lived-in social realities of veterans and active duty personnel. The military unconscious is complemented by what I term the hegemonic soldier: the ideological construct which informs the dominant cultural representations of soldiering and war, and which reinforces itself through representations in a fashion similar to the idea of nostalgic recreation.
By applying these concepts, the analysis can uncover the counternarratives that stem from the texts’ military unconscious. The first case study examines the ways in which Klay’s “After Action Report” ruptures the military institution’s hegemonic discourse of killing by providing alternative discourses that allow the soldier subject to resist the hegemonic soldier, and reassert ownership over their experiences. The second case study examines how “War Stories” reveals and critiques the latent presence of the hegemonic soldier in contemporary American society. The hegemonic soldier is shown to be an omnipresent force that appears even in narratives that seek to subvert it. Together, the case studies demonstrate veteran literature’s unique potential in understanding the development of contemporary American culture.
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Maver, Igor. "The old man and Slovenia: Hemingway studies in the slovenian cultural context." Acta Neophilologica 23 (December 15, 1990): 51–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.23.0.51-62.
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The name of Ernest Hemingway was first mentioned in Slovenian literary criticism by the writer and critic Tone Seliškar in 1933. Soon afterwards, Griša Koritnik, the foremost translator of English and American literatures in the period between the two wars, in his article »The Great War in the English Novel« described the protagonist of the novel A Farewell to Arms (1929) somewhat enigmatically as »the symbol of the old generation«. In a short survey of contemporary American literature, which Anton Debeljak in 1939 freely adapted from the article previously published by J. Wood Krutch in The Times, Hemingway was grouped together with the Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck and novelist Erskine Caldwell, which is to say with the giants of the then mainstream American fiction. However, it is curious that a Slovenian reader should already from this article have learned how Hemingway, the author of »powerful stories«, had recently become monotonous, which was before he even had a fair chance to get acquainted with any of his works translated into Slovenian.
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Maver, Igor. "The old man and Slovenia: Hemingway studies in the slovenian cultural context." Acta Neophilologica 23 (December 15, 1990): 51–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.23.1.51-62.
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The name of Ernest Hemingway was first mentioned in Slovenian literary criticism by the writer and critic Tone Seliškar in 1933. Soon afterwards, Griša Koritnik, the foremost translator of English and American literatures in the period between the two wars, in his article »The Great War in the English Novel« described the protagonist of the novel A Farewell to Arms (1929) somewhat enigmatically as »the symbol of the old generation«. In a short survey of contemporary American literature, which Anton Debeljak in 1939 freely adapted from the article previously published by J. Wood Krutch in The Times, Hemingway was grouped together with the Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck and novelist Erskine Caldwell, which is to say with the giants of the then mainstream American fiction. However, it is curious that a Slovenian reader should already from this article have learned how Hemingway, the author of »powerful stories«, had recently become monotonous, which was before he even had a fair chance to get acquainted with any of his works translated into Slovenian.
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Çingiz qızı Əliyeva, Ülviyyə, and Leyla Pərviz qızı Kazımzadə. "American Reality in Washington Irving's “The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip." SCIENTIFIC WORK 65, no. 04 (April 21, 2021): 95–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/65/95-100.
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This article analyzes Washington Irving's two most popular novels in American literature, "Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." The main issue is the issue of identity in this period of history. The author of these short stories answers everyone who asks about the American people's quest for freedom and what it means to be an American. These novels are a source of inspiration for Americans to build their own culture. Key words: novella, Revolutionary war, colonialism, spirit, personality
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Luboń, Arkadiusz. "Scalanie uniwersum. Krytyka translatorska pośród kontekstów recepcji przekładowej poezji H.P. Lovecrafta w Polsce." Krytyka przekładu i okolice, no. 42 (December 29, 2021): 92–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/16891864pc.21.019.14330.
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Consolidating the Universe. Translation Criticism among Contexts of Translational Reception of H.P. Lovecraft’s Poetry in Poland The article discusses the influence of translator’s criticism and other extra-textual factors on the translations of poetry by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Since the very first renditions of his Fungi from Yuggoth sonnets by Jerzy Płudowski and Leszek Lachowiecki included in two anthologies of horror poetry, Polish versions of Lovecraft’s verses have always been modified in the process of interlinguistic transfer according to either sole preferences of the publishing houses and evaluations proposed by critics of the English originals or the translators’ reception of the previous Polish variants. In most cases these modifications resulted from more or less stereotypical visions of the American writer held by the translators and were aimed at establishing links to his other works already published in Poland (short stories, essays, letters). Thus effects of the semantic shifts, detectable also in the latest variants by Krzysztof Azarewicz and Mateusz Kopacz, can be referred to as consolidating the universe of the writer’s biographical legend and literary works which is more coherent in the Polish target texts than in the originals.
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Tilney, Martin. "Covert modernist techniques in Australian fiction." Language, Context and Text 1, no. 2 (July 22, 2019): 313–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/langct.00013.til.
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Abstract Peter Carey’s short story American dreams (Carey 1994 [1974]) presents a recalibration of consciousness as a small Australian town gradually becomes Americanized. The text foregrounds epistemological concerns by demonstrating a clear tendency toward delayed understanding. For this reason, I argue that the story is an instance of modernist fiction: a label not previously applied to Carey’s stories. In contrast with popular modernist techniques such as free indirect discourse and stream of consciousness, the techniques presented in the text appear to be covert, which may at least partially explain why the story has managed to avoid being labelled modernist by literary critics until now. Using analytical tools grounded in systemic functional grammar and appraisal categories, I demonstrate how linguistic analysis can lay bare the covert modernist techniques at work in the story, indicating that such an approach can be a useful complement to non-linguistic literary criticism.
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Round, Julia. "‘little gothics’: Misty and the ‘Strange Stories’ of British Girls’ Comics." Gothic Studies 23, no. 2 (July 2021): 163–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0092.
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This article uses a critical framework that draws on the Gothic carnival, children’s Gothic, and Female Gothic to analyse the understudied spooky stories of British comics. It begins by surveying the emergence of short-form horror in American and British comics from the 1950s onwards, which evolved into a particular type of girls’ weekly tale: the ‘Strange Story.’ It then examines the way that the British mystery title Misty (IPC, 1978–80) developed this template in its single stories. This focuses on four key attributes: the directive role of a host character, an oral tone, content that includes two-dimensional characters and an ironic or unexpected plot reversal, and a narrative structure that drives exclusively towards this final point. The article argues that the repetition of this formula and the tales’ short format draw attention to their combination of subversion/conservatism and horror/humour: foregrounding a central paradox of Gothic.
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Schwartz, Daniel. "An Early Power-Sharing Regime: The Alternativa System in Spanish Colonial America." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 52, no. 3 (December 15, 2021): 383–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_01732.
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Abstract The alternativa system in Spanish American religious orders was an early example of deliberate electoral engineering to address the problem of social division. It was subject to criticism, however, for stealing voters’ freedom, ignoring the rights of candidates, and restricting access to competent officeholders. Moreover, it often gave disproportionate power to a minority faction. Hence, the alternativa remained, at best, an expedient, short-term solution to the problem of factionalism. Examining the canonists’ debate about the alternativa is instructive because it reveals the darker moral side of power-sharing regimes whenever and wherever they occur.
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Thelin, John R., and Amy S. Hirschy. "College Students and the Curriculum: The Fantastic Voyage of Higher Education, 1636 to the Present." NACADA Journal 29, no. 2 (September 1, 2009): 9–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.12930/0271-9517-29.2.9.
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By adding student perceptions of the curriculum, we enhance the current history of American higher education over 5 decades. We draw from memoirs, short stories, notebooks, and legends to animate the story of students and the curriculum. The episodes depict historical events and cases that have shaped colleges, curricula, and students. The study is grounded in modern concepts and theories from psychology, sociology, and economics.
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Loy, Thomas. "The Guide to Knowledge: The Journal Rahbar-i Dānish and Its Role in Creating a Soviet Tajik Literature (1927–1932)." Iranian Studies 55, no. 3 (July 2022): 653–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/irn.2022.3.
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AbstractDespite being in operation for a mere five years, the Soviet-era Tajik (Persian) journal Rahbar-i Dānish (1927–1932) was a key venue for exploring and debating the merits of Tajik literature in the context of new ideological and literary trends. Established litterateurs as well as literary newcomers published examples of their literature and literary criticism in this first Tajik monthly social, educational, and literary journal. The present article reviews the history of Rahbar-i Dānish and some of its authors to trace their influence on Tajik literature and literary criticism in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The article addresses the difficulties of creating a Soviet Tajik literature and scrutinizes the various genres featured in the literary section of the journal. Finally, it presents the trajectories of two literary newcomers, Jalāl al-Dīn Ikrām (who later became known as Jalol Ikromi) and Baḥr al-Dīn ʿAzīzī (who died in a Soviet prison in 1944), whose short stories were most prominent in Rahbar-i Dānish. This article is based on an almost complete set of the forty-five issues of the journal, published between August 1927 and March 1932.
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Allen, Chadwick. "Who’s Silenced? Who’s Not?" American Literary History 34, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 20–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajab097.
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Abstract This essay juxtaposes two stories of Indigenous-settler “first contact” in the twenty-first century. One describes an event of community-based research in coastal Maine in summer 2000; the other describes an event of community-based confrontation at the Serpent Mound earthworks site in Ohio on the winter solstice 2020. The stories overlap and intersect in surprising ways, and they prompt unresolved questions about the function of “American” literary criticism at the present time: What actually happens when Indigenous voices enter the structures of the settler academy? Who benefits, and whose interests are ultimately served? Within current conventions, is it possible to center Indigenous knowledges and research agendas, to address the pressing concerns of Indigenous communities? And what does it mean to pursue scholarship ostensibly focused on aspects of Indigenous cultures within social and political contexts that continue to allow or even to promote the settler erasure of Indigenous claims—not only to distant or recent histories but to ongoing presence? Is it enough for academic institutions to assume a neutral stance on such issues? Or are “Americanist” scholars obligated to pursue more rigorous forms of disrupting settler business as usual?
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Verdier, James M. "In Their Own Words: Joel Cracraft." BioScience 70, no. 4 (April 1, 2020): 289–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa028.
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Abstract In Their Own Words chronicles the stories of scientists who have made great contributions to their fields, particularly within the biological sciences. These short oral histories provide our readers a way to learn from and share their experiences. Each month, we will publish in the pages of BioScience and in our podcast, BioScience Talks (http://bioscienceaibs.libsyn.com), the results of these conversations. This oral history is with Joel Cracraft, curator in the Department of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History. He previously served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Note: Both the text and audio versions have been edited for clarity and length.
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Khan, Muhammad Sajid. "ARTISTIC AND CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE FICTION WORK OF ANGARAY." Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 58, no. 1 (June 30, 2019): 191–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/jssh.v58i1.138.
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Reading habits among young generation is going to declining and culture of reading books is modified to modern methods of communication like browsing social sites and internet, playing on cell phones and watching T.V. This era modernization has taken away the youth from reading habits. It is important that the young generation learns about the rich Urdu literature including Urdu fiction in which several writers have significantly contributed. The emergence of Urdu literature facilitated the expansion of Urdu language. Fiction writers try to indicate important weaknesses of the society, cultural traditions, and norms, so as to find out the solutions to these issues. There were so many fictional works in Urdu literature having done during the progressive and independent movement. “ANGARAY” is a collection of fictional short stories authored by four young writers who had a progressive approach and tried in their own way to bring forth several social issues through their work at the time British India. This paper attempts to present a brief history of this collection and the consequences emerging out of its publication at that time. The study is reviewed and analyzed the criticism on selected short stories of subsequent publication. The study found that the readers would find the ideas and views of the four writers in the present time may provide them some relief from the opposition they faced on publication of their work.
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Yongju, Yuan. "An Analysis of Winesburg, Ohio from the Perspective of Fromm’s Alienation Theory." IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies 18, no. 4 (December 16, 2022): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v18.n4.p7.
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<em>Winesburg, Ohio</em> is Sherwood Anderson’s representative collection of short stories, and it occupies an important position in the history of American literature. Since the publication of this collection, many foreign critics have analyzed and interpreted it from various perspectives. Guided by Fromm’s alienation theory, this paper discusses the alienation phenomenon in <em>Winesburg, Ohio</em> from three aspects: self-alienation, alienation of interpersonal relationships, and alienation of the relationship between people and society.
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Lansky, Ellen. "All Aboard." English Language Notes 60, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 139–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00138282-9560265.
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Abstract This essay situates Ernest Hemingway’s iconic “Hills Like White Elephants” as a short story about drinking. From this perspective, Hemingway’s story enables readers to experience a personal and deeply felt emotional engagement with the characters, the scene, and the situation. Moreover, his technique enlists readers as “drinking buddies” and provides an entrée into the culture of alcohol. Despite the macho image that Hemingway himself helped construct and deploy, his work invites women into the scene and, indeed, centralizes a key figure often overlooked in the history of modern American fiction criticism: the drinking woman.
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Smith, Jennifer J. "Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation: Short Stories Written for Magazines and Republished in Linked Story Collections." Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History 14 (July 1, 2022): 112–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/reception.14.1.0112.
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Xavier T, Roy. "Novels Speak Reality: Ivanhoe, An Example." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 6 (June 29, 2020): 43–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i6.10629.
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Stories have been the source of moral lessons and entertainment, as far as the humankind of all the time, is concerned. The use of story- telling existed from the time immemorial. Stories appeared in the form of ballads and epics, in the ancient time, but later it took the shape of short and long fictions. The long fictions or novels varied in its theme and size. They are divided into many genres according to its subject matter- Gothic, Picaresque, Historical etc. The Ballad is nothing but a short story in verse. Its subjects are simple and memorable like adventure, love, war and the life etc. An Epic is a long tale in verse with famous heroes for its main characters. Iliad and Odyssey are examples. These stories gave the reader enjoyment and certain life-related ‘tips’. Hayden White, an American historian says, “the aim of the writer of a novel must be the same as that of the writer of the history”. Historians and Novelists wish to provide a verbal image of ‘reality’. A novelist may produce reality indirectly but this is meant to correspond to some sphere of human experience. He desires to pass the merits and demerits of such experience onto the readers, to enhance a better vision of life. Novelists are free to use fictitious characters and situations for the readers’ entertainment. Stories took its present prose form later in the middle ages. Decameron, a collection of stories by Boccaccio, was published in 1350. It deals with stories told by a group of people affected by Black Plague. They used these stories to get mental relief from the pandemic. ‘Canterbury Tales’ of Geoffrey Chaucer also, is telling the life-related stories by some pilgrims to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury. All these show that men were, from the early ages itself, used to tell stories to recollect the past and go forward with lessons of reality for a better life. Actually these stories are ‘historical facts’ blended with the imagination of the writers.
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Aires, Marcele. "“All art is political”: John Keene’s Black historical resistance in Counternarratives." Em Tese 26, no. 2 (March 18, 2021): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.26.2.95-112.
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ABSTRACT: This article deals with the engaged writing of prose writer, poet, translator, and Professor John Keene. The Black North-American author clashes of political struggles, for he seeks to rewrite history as a literary witness, bringing assessments, evaluations, and social issues of the bygone ages – and their following outcome in the present. Keene’s historical approach and critical attitude uphold the line in his awarded short stories, Counternarratives, published by New Directions in 2015. Concerns about canon, rewriting history, Afro-descendent voice, and resistance will be approached, backed by writers and researchers such as Fanon (1963), Spriggs (1965), Baraka (1969), T’Shaka (2012), among others. KEY WORDS: John Keene; Counternarratives; resistance; rewriting history.
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Sohár, Anikó. "From the United States (via the Soviet Union) to Hungary." Pázmány Papers – Journal of Languages and Cultures 1, no. 1 (June 13, 2024): 195–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.69706/pp.2023.1.1.12.
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Isaac Asimov was the favourite American science-fiction author in the Kádár era due to extraliterary reasons, many of his works were therefore translated when science fiction, a previously prohibited popular genre was introduced to the Hungarian public. This paper analyses the first two Hungarian translations, that of a short story entitled ‘Victory Unintentional’ and that of a collection of short stories entitled I Robot. Both indirect and direct translations exhibit multiple traces of censorship and revision, significantly changing the structure, atmosphere and message of the original works. The paper also calls attention to the need to gather information about the literary translators of the Kádár era as long as some of them are still alive, make use of oral history.
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Dahman, Ghada. "The American Frontier Character and His Relationship to Nature as Depicted by Thomas Bangs Thorpe." International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 4, no. 1 (January 1, 2003): 49–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.33806/ijaes2000.4.1.4.
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While going unnoticed by many writers, the significance of the American frontiersman of the south did not escape the attention of Thomas Bangs Thorpe of Louisiana. This article tries to reinstate the importance that the frontiersman of the 19th century held in the eyes of this Old Southwest humorist. Thorpe humorously depicts this unique character to an almost a godly magnitude, yet at the same time, he retains his human traits, hence, remaining on a level readers could relate to. Even though the frontiersman's presence became sadly diminished as civilization advanced, Thorpe was able to revive him through his sketches. The speech, manners and lifestyle of the frontiersman, who evolves out of the American wilderness around him, all become Thorpe's means to successfully documenting one side of American history which might have gone unrecognized were it not for Thorpe's short stories..
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Verdier, James. "In Their Own Words: Judith Weis." BioScience 70, no. 6 (May 29, 2020): 461–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa052.
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Abstract In Their Own Words chronicles the stories of scientists who have made great contributions to their fields, particularly within the biological sciences. These short oral histories provide our readers a way to learn from and share their experiences. Each month, we will publish in the pages of BioScience and in our podcast, BioScience Talks (http://bioscienceaibs.libsyn.com), the results of these conversations. This oral history is with Dr. Judith Weis of Rutgers University. She previously served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Note: Both the text and audio versions have been edited for clarity and length.
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Verdier, James M. "In Their Own Words: Kent Holsinger." BioScience 70, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 31–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz136.
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Abstract In Their Own Words chronicles the stories of scientists who have made great contributions to their fields, particularly within the biological sciences. These short oral histories provide our readers a way to learn from and share their experiences. Each month, we will publish in the pages of BioScience and in our podcast, BioScience Talks (http://bioscienceaibs.libsyn.com), the results of these conversations. This second oral history is with Dr. Kent Holsinger, board of trustees distinguished professor of biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. He previously served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
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Tanaseichuk, A. B., and O. Yu Osmukhina. "Problem of Periodization and Some Aspects of the Late Work of F. Bret Hart." Nauchnyi dialog, no. 2 (March 3, 2021): 244–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2021-2-244-258.
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The article is devoted to the discussion of the problem of periodization and the study of the features of the late stage of the work of the outstanding American prose writer Francis Bret Hart (1836—1902). The relevance of the article is due to the need to build a coherent and consistent history of the development of American literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, an important part of which is the writer’s prose heritage. The authors comprehend Western (J. Stewart, G. Scharnhorst, A. Nissen and others) and domestic (A. V. Vaschenko, L. P. Grossman, P. E. Schegolev, A. I. Startsev, V. A. Libman, E. Yu. Rogonova, A. B. Tanaseichuk) studies on biography and various aspects of the prose writer. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that for the first time in American studies a gap in the reception of F. Bret Hart's work was filled (the absence of clear criteria for periodization); the tradition of a disdainful attitude to the European period of his work, established in American literary criticism, is refuted, in particular, it is proved that in the stories and novels of the 1880s and 1890s Bret Hart boldly goes beyond the usual themes and images: the “Californian theme”, traditional for his early prose, takes on a new dimension — in the aspect of understanding national and gender psychology (“Maruga”); amorous and melodramatic collisions are combined with an appeal to science fiction (“The Secret of the Hacienda”).
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Mejía Escobar, Jorge Antonio. "¿Es posible corroborar las intuiciones del experto con una prótesis digital? Sobre la autenticidad 'silviana' de los Cuentos Negros." Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, no. 19 (August 23, 2013): 91–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.16456.
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Resumen: En 1996 Enrique Santos Molano publicó, con el nombre de Cuentos negros, un libro con diez relatos breves atribuidos por él a José Asunción Silva. Desde el punto de vista de la crítica interna, su atribución se apoyó en dos criterios principales: la existencia de un léxico común y la presencia de un estilo pictórico, descrito por él como "plástico". Este trabajo se concentra en el análisis interno de los cuentos, comenzando por el estudio del léxico, para ver si ellos traslucen una unidad tal que puedan ser atribuidos a un mismo autor, si coinciden con el léxico de una obra reconocida de Silva, De sobremesa, y si se pueden separar de obras de la misma época cuyos autores compartían supuestos estilísticos similares, como María de Jorge Isaacs. A esta batería analítica se suma una comparación de los segmentos repetidos y otra de la frecuencia de las letras. El resultado es que se da una unidad alta en un cuento, mediana en otros tres y baja en el resto. Descriptores: Silva, José Asunción; Cuentos Negros, Santos Molano, Enrique; autenticidad. Abstract: In 1996 Enrique Santos Molano published the book Cuentos negros, a collection of ten short stories ascribed by him to José Asunción Silva. Based on an internal criticism, this attribution rests on two main criteria: the existence of a common vocabulary and the presence of a pictorial style, named by him as ‘plastic'. This paper focuses in the internal analysis of the stories, beginning by the study of vocabulary, in order to see if the stories show such a unity that could be ascribed to the same author, if there is lexical unity with a book signed by Silva, De sobremesa, and if these stories can be clearly separated from books of the same period, written by authors with similar stylistic assumptions, like María, by Jorge Isaacs. Along with this analytic battery, it is added a comparison of ‘repeated segments', or expressions, and of character frequencies. The result is that there is a high unity just in one of the stories, half-way unity in three stories and very low unity in the remainders. Key words: Silva, José Asunción; Cuentos Negros, Santos Molano, Enrique; authenticity.
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O'mara, Margaret. "Silicon Valleys." Boom 1, no. 2 (2011): 75–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/boom.2011.1.2.75.
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What makes Silicon Valley tick? If you build a research park, will they come? For over half a century, regions around the world have been trying to find the answers to these questions and to build high-tech success stories of their own. While most places have fallen short of their silicon dreams, the search for the next Silicon Valley has helped export a particularly Californian aesthetic and way of doing business across the globe. It also has shown the degree to which the Valley’s success was not only an American phenomenon, but also a Californian one – rooted in this state’s history, its politics, and its culture.
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Verdier, James M. "In Their Own Words: Susan Stafford." BioScience 70, no. 3 (March 1, 2020): 213–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa012.
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Abstract In Their Own Words chronicles the stories of scientists who have made great contributions to their fields, particularly within the biological sciences. These short oral histories provide our readers a way to learn from and share their experiences. Each month, we will publish in the pages of BioScience and in our podcast, BioScience Talks (http://bioscienceaibs.libsyn.com), the results of these conversations. This fourth oral history is with Dr. Susan Stafford, professor and dean emerita at the University of Minnesota. She previously served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Note: Both the text and audio versions have been edited for clarity and length.
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Verdier, James M. "In Their Own Words: Gregory Anderson." BioScience 70, no. 5 (May 1, 2020): 383–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa045.
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Abstract In Their Own Words chronicles the stories of scientists who have made great contributions to their fields, particularly within the biological sciences. These short oral histories provide our readers a way to learn from and share their experiences. Each month, we will publish in the pages of BioScience and in our podcast, BioScience Talks (http://bioscienceaibs.libsyn.com), the results of these conversations. This oral history is with Gregory Anderson, who is with the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He previously served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Note: Both the text and audio versions have been edited for clarity and length.
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Verdier, James M. "In Their Own Words: Douglas Futuyma." BioScience 70, no. 7 (July 1, 2020): 542–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa070.
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Abstract In Their Own Words chronicles the stories of scientists who have made great contributions to their fields, particularly within the biological sciences. These short oral histories provide our readers a way to learn from and share their experiences. Each month, we will publish in the pages of BioScience and on our podcast, BioScience Talks (http://bioscienceaibs.libsyn.com), the results of these conversations. This oral history is with Douglas Futuyma, professor emeritus of ecology and evolution at Stony Brook University, in Stony Brook, New York. He previously served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Note: Both the text and audio versions have been edited for clarity and length.