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Journal articles on the topic "Short stories, Australian History and criticism"

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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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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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Syofyan, Donny. "Australian Rural Identities in Barbara Baynton’s Bush Studies." Andalas International Journal of Socio-Humanities 3, no. 2 (January 20, 2022): 79–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.25077/aijosh.v3i2.20.

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Barbara Baynton, in her collection of short stories, Bush Studies, examines the various types of people that exist in the rural regions of Australia. She presents a study of different identities that were left out or wrongly represented in the traditional narratives of Australian national identity at the time. She dismantled the widespread and broadly accepted bush narrative of the Australian national identity that played a significant role in the marginalization of anyone who was not White and Male. Qualitative method is used to determine the accuracy of the hypothesis. It was observed that the women and people of other ethnicities belonging to the rural Australian region were marginalized through wrongful representation or no representation in the narrative of national identity and Barbara Baynton makes efforts in Bush Studies to do otherwise. She depicts the sufferings and psyche of the people in the rural region and presents a new layer of their identities. The theory used is Postcolonial Criticism.
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Syofyan, Donny. "Australian Rural Identities in Barbara Baynton’s Bush Studies." Andalas International Journal of Socio-Humanities 3, no. 2 (January 20, 2022): 79–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.25077/aijosh.v3i2.20.

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Barbara Baynton, in her collection of short stories, Bush Studies, examines the various types of people that exist in the rural regions of Australia. She presents a study of different identities that were left out or wrongly represented in the traditional narratives of Australian national identity at the time. She dismantled the widespread and broadly accepted bush narrative of the Australian national identity that played a significant role in the marginalization of anyone who was not White and Male. Qualitative method is used to determine the accuracy of the hypothesis. It was observed that the women and people of other ethnicities belonging to the rural Australian region were marginalized through wrongful representation or no representation in the narrative of national identity and Barbara Baynton makes efforts in Bush Studies to do otherwise. She depicts the sufferings and psyche of the people in the rural region and presents a new layer of their identities. The theory used is Postcolonial Criticism.
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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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Darby, Robert. "‘An instinct for freedom’: Political undercurrents in the short fiction of Marjorie Barnard." Literature & History 26, no. 1 (May 2017): 56–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306197317695408.

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It is generally held that the short stories of the Australian writer Marjorie Barnard (1897–1987) do not express political values or deal with social issues, but are confined to the exploration of personal concerns. The author herself referred to her short stories as subjective ‘indulgences’, and this evaluation has largely been accepted by commentators. In this paper I challenge this interpretation and argue that the political pressures of the later 1930s seeped or forced themselves into her short fiction and, further, that several of her most interesting stories were directly instigated by and concerned with contemporary political and social questions. I further suggest that as her own political commitment intensified under the pressures of fascism and war, her original devotion to practising art, untainted by propaganda, came under severe pressure.
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McKay, Belinda. "Narrating Colonial Queensland: Francis Adams, Frank Jardine and ‘The Red Snake’." Queensland Review 15, no. 1 (January 2008): 97–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600004591.

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In 1949, Clive Turnbull remarked that Australian Life (1892), a collection of short stories by Francis Adams, ‘is a book that deserves to be resurrected’. While two of the radical English writer's novels have been republished over the last three decades, Australian Life — which Turnbull regarded as ‘perhaps the most noteworthy’ of Adams' works of fiction — has not been resurrected either in print or online, and is accessible only in rare book libraries. Republication here in Queensland Review of the original version of Adams' short story ‘The Red Snake’, which appeared first in the Boomerang in 1888 and was later revised for Australian Life, may help to renew interest in Francis Adams' carefully crafted but disturbing narratives of life in the Australian colonies in the 1880s.
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Somerville, Craig, Kirra Somerville, and Frances Wyld. "Martu Storytellers: Aboriginal Narratives Within the Academy." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 39, S1 (2010): 96–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/s1326011100001186.

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AbstractThe Martu people originate from the Pilbara region in Western Australia. Despite policies of removal, incarceration in prison and the need to leave community fo health services, Martu maintain identity and connection to country. Their narratives have used to inform a wider Australian audience about the history and culture of Aboriginal people. But the stories have also received criticism and been the subject of a Westernised anthropological view. With the emergence of storytelling as method in the academy, a new space is being created for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people to find a more robust foothold within the Social Sciences to story our world. This paper is written by three Martu people who position storytelling as transmission and preservation of cultural knowledge and to privilege a voice to speak back to Western academics. Storytelling also brings an opportunity to engage with an Aboriginal worldview, to use narrative as an inquiry into ontology and one's connection to people and place. This brings benefits to all Australians seeking stories of country, connection and identity.
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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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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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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Short stories, Australian History and criticism"

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Caskey, Sarah A. "Open secrets, ambiguity and irresolution in the Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian short story." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ58399.pdf.

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陳淸貴 and Ching-kooi Chan. "Narrative techniques of Taiwan short stories." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/b30252866.

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劉燕萍 and Yin-ping Grace Lau. "Tragic elements in Tang short stories." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3120871X.

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符傳豐 and Suan-fong Foo. "A study of Lao She's (1899-1966) short stories." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31215233.

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Burgoyne, Mary M. "'At work on short stories' : the making, marketing, and reception of Joseph Conrad's early short fiction." Thesis, St Mary's University, Twickenham, 2016. http://research.stmarys.ac.uk/1167/.

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Nakasa, Dennis Sipho. "The dialectic between African and Black aesthetics in some South African short stories." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22394.

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Most current studies on 'African' and/or 'Black' literature in South Africa appear to ignore the contradictions underlying the valuative concepts 'African' and 'Black'. This (Jamesonian) unconsciousness has led, primarily, to a situation where writers and critics assume generally that the concepts 'African' and 'Black' are synonymous and interchangeable. This study argues that such an attitude either unconsciously represses an awareness of the distinctive aspects of the worldview connotations of these concepts or deliberately suppresses them. The theoretical and pragmatic approach which this study adopts to explore the distinctive aspects of the worldview connotations of these concepts takes the form, initially, of a critique of such assumptions and their connotations. It is argued that any misconceptions about the relations between the concepts 'African' and 'Black' can only be elucidated through a rigorous and distinct definition of each of these concepts and the respective world views embodied in them. Each of the variables of these definitions is also examined thoroughly through an application of, inter alia, Frederick Jameson's 'dialectical' theory of textual criticism, Pierre Macherey's 'theory of literary production' and also through the post-colonial notions of 'hybridity' and 'syncreticity' propounded by Bill Ashcroft et.al (eds). In this way the study examines the dialectical interplay between, for instance, such oppositional notions as 'African' and 'Western' (place-conscious), 'Black' and 'White' (race-conscious), and other forms of ideological 'dominance' and 'marginality' reflected in the 'African' and/or 'Black' writers' motivations for the acquisition, appropriation and uses of the language of the 'other' (i.e. English) and its literary discourse in South Africa, Africa and elsewhere in the world. A close textual reading of the stories in Mothobi Mutloatse's (ed) Forced Landing, Mbulelo Mzamane's (ed) Hungry Flames underlies an examination of the processes of anthologisation and their implications of aesthetic collectivism, reconstruction and world view monolithicism which repress the distinctive world outlooks of the stories in these anthologies. The notions of aesthetic monolithicism implicit in each of these anthologies are interrogated via the editors' truistic assumptions about the organic nature of the relations between the concepts 'African' and 'Black'. The notion of a monolithic 'African' and 'Black' aesthetic is further decentred through a close textual reading of the uses of the 'African' and 'Black' valuative concepts in the short story collections The Living and the Dead and In Corner B by Es'kia (formerly Ezekiel) Mphahlele. The humanistic pronouncements in Mphahlele' s critical and short story texts suggest various ways of resolving the racial demarcations in both the 'Black' and 'White' South African literary formations. According to Mphahlele, a predominant racial consciousness inherent in the racial capitalist mode of economic production has deprived South African literature and culture an opportunity of creating a national humanistic and 'Afrocentric' form of aesthetic consciousness. The logical consequence of such a deprivation has been that the racial impediments toward the formation of a single national literature will have to be dismantled before the vision of a humanistic and 'Afrocentric' aesthetic can be realised in South Africa. The dismantling of both the 'Black' and 'White' monolithic forms of consciousness may pave the way toward the attainment of a synthetic and place-centred humanistic aesthetic. Such a dismantling of racial monolithicism will, hopefully, stimulate a debate on the question of an equally humanistic economic mode of production.
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Bell, Lucy Amelia Jane. "Configurations of the fragment : the Latin American short story at its limits." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607767.

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Shishkin, Timur. "Marginalized Characters in Contemporary American Short Fiction." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/297.

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The focus of the present research work is the contemporary American short stories that bring up issues of compulsory norm and the conflict between marginalized characters and their environment. This research was based on those short stories that seemed to represent the idea of being "different" in the most complex and multilayered way, and its goal was to unfold new aspects of the conflict between "normal" and "abnormal"/"different". Variations of norm as well as diversity within the marginalized raise a number of questions about the reasons for their inability to coexist peacefully. The close reading and the analysis of the selected stories show that all the conflicts in them, in one way or another, repeat similar patterns and lead to the same root of the problem of misunderstanding, which is fear. To be more precise, all the cases of hate towards "different" characters can be explained by the hater's explicit or implicit fear of death in its various forms: inability to procreate one's own kind, cultural or personal self-identity loss, actual life threat in the form of a reminder of possible physical harm and death. Most often it would be the case where shame and fear of death overlap in a very complex way. In general, the cases of characters' otherness fall into three major groups. The nature of the alienation for each of these groups is described and analyzed in three separate chapters. Prejudice and stereotypes are playing a great role in formation of fears and insecurities which need to be dismantled in order to make peaceful coexistence possible. This work concludes with pointing out the crucial role of taking an approach of representation of various perspectives and diversification of voices in creative writing, academia and media in the context of multicultural society.
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MacKenzie, Craig. "The oral-style South African short story in English A.W. Drayson to H.C. Bosman." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002271.

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This study is concerned with a particular kind of short story in South African English literature - a kind of story variously called the fireside tale, tall tale, yarn, skaz narrative, frame narrative, or (the term used in this study), the 'oral-sty Ie story.' This kind of story is characterised by the use of an internal narrator (a fictional narrator or storyteller figure), the cadences of his or her speaking voice, and a 'reporting' frame narrator. Stories by A. W. Drayson, Frederick Boyle, J. Forsyth Ingram, W. C. Scully, Percy FitzPatrick, Ernest Glanville, Perceval Gibbon, Francis Carey Slater, Pauline Smith, Aegidius Jean Blignaut and Herman Charles Bosman form the principal body of primary sources examined in this study. The Bakhtinian notion of "simple" and "parodistic" skaz narratives is deployed to analyse the increasing complexity to be discerned in the works by these writers, which roughly span the 100 years from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the present century. A "simple" use of the skaz narrative is evident in the early or 'ur-South African' oral-style story, represented here by Drayson, Boyle and Ingram. With Scully and FitzPatrick the form is still used 'artlessly,' although the beginnings of a greater self-consciousness can be discerned. The' Abe Pike' tales by Glanville introduce a more complex use of the fictional narrator, a process taken a step further by Gibbon in his 'Vrouw Grobelaar' tales. With the latter, in particular, the complex or "parodistic" skaz narrative makes its advent in South African literature. The oral-style stories of Slater and Smith are largely a regression to the ear lier form, although there are aspects of their stories which anticipate Bosman. With Blignaut and Bosman, however, the South African oral-style story comes into its own. In their Hottentot Ruiter and Oom Schalk Lourens characters is invested all the complexity and 'double-voicedness' that was latent, and largely dormant, in the earlier oral-style narratives. Through Blignaut, and Bosman in particular, the South African oral-style story achieves its most economical, sophisticated and successful form of expression. The study concludes by looking briefly at the use of an oral style in short stories by black South African writers and argues that their stories are not, formally speaking, to be categorised alongside those by the other~ writers examined. The oral-style story, the study concludes, achieved its apogee in Bosman's Oom Schalk Lourens sequence and went into sharp decline after Bosman's death in 1951.
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Dai, Ping Emma, and 戴平. "The concept of love in the Ming short stories of Sanyan and Erpan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31222559.

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Books on the topic "Short stories, Australian History and criticism"

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Bruce, Bennett. Australian short fiction: A history. St. Lucia, Qld., Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2002.

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Matthews, Brian. Romantics and mavericks: The Australian short story. [North Queensland, Australia]: Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, 1987.

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Unsettling stories: Settler postcolonialism and the short story composite. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

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1953-, Brooks David, Kiernan Brian, Wilding Michael 1942-, and Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture., eds. Running wild: Essays, fictions, and memoirs presented to Michael Wilding. New Delhi: Manohar, 2004.

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Blair, J. B. Blown to blazes and other works of J.B. Blair. Roseville, NSW: D. Blair, 2007.

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Short story criticism. Farmington Hills, Mich: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.

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Short story criticism. Farmington Hills, Mich: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.

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Short story criticism. Farmington Hills, Mich: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.

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Short story criticism. Farmington Hills, Mich: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.

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Short story criticism. Farmington Hills, Mich: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.

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Victoroff, Tatiana V. "‛Spiritualization of Matter’: Ivan Bunin in French Literary Criticism and in Translations by Boris Schloezer." In I.A. Bunin and his time: Context of Life — History of Work, 693–741. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/ab-978-5-9208-0675-8-693-741.

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Boris de Schloezer, leading literary critic in Russian émigré and French journals (“Sovremennye Zapiski” (“Contemporary Notes”), “La Revue Musicale”, “La Nouvelle Revue Française”) wrote several reviews of the work of Ivan Bunin and in в 1929 translated a collection of his early short stories as well as those written in the emigration (“La Nuit”, éd. Émile-Paul Frères). A mediator between Bunin and the French intellectual world, instrumental for his acquaintance with André Gide, his being invited to the conferences of European writers in Pontigny (Les Décades de Pontigny), his contacts with the French publishing house Stock. Schloezer as translator aims at make real the “spiritualization of matter” — the main feature, in his opinion, of Bunin’s poetics — by means of French terms, rendering the original music, intonations and rhythm. Thanks to a perfect knowledge of both Russian and French and to direct contact with the author, the translation was created according to the laws of artistic oeuvre, based on the model of Bunin’s freely emerging words. The appendix contains a first translation into Russian of Schloezer’s review of Bunin for “La Nouvelle Revue Française”; letters to Ivan Bunin from Boris Schloezer, Benjamin Crémieux, Paul Desjardins, André Gide, Jacques Rivière, and Dumesnil de Gramont (Russian Archive in Leeds), as well as letters from Ivan Bunin to the French publisher Stock, Maurice Delamain.
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Brazil, Kevin, David Sergeant, and Tom Sperlinger. "Introduction." In Doris Lessing and the Forming of History. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474414432.003.0001.

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‘It’s a question of form’ (1993: 418). So declares frustrated writer Anna Wulf, in what remains Lessing’s most celebrated novel, The Golden Notebook. As this volume shows, the attempt to find forms which might record, model and engage historical change and all that it entails is one that persists throughout the six decades spanned by Lessing’s writing. The chapters that follow attend to the full weight of Anna’s statement: when Lessing’s writing turns towards history it is not simply a question of finding the literary form that might best represent it; rather it involves questioning the very relationship between form and history, as they are brought together afresh in each new work. These questions might be common to literary criticism, but the chronological breadth of Lessing’s career, and its sheer variety and productivity, makes them both particularly pressing and particularly enlightening in her work. As she moves from colonial Rhodesia to post-war Britain, and from war-torn Afghanistan to our posthuman future, her work employs the full panoply of techniques, modes, genres and effects that we refer to as forms: short stories, realism, serial fiction, documentary, drama, jokes, Sufi tales, reportage – and more....
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Mitchell, Lee Clark. "Introduction." In More Time, 1–37. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198839224.003.0006.

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This introduction begins with a comprehensive analysis of the short story’s range, encapsulating a brief history of its practice and criticism from Poe onwards. As prelude to chapter analyses of four contemporary writers who have transformed the field, it offers an assessment of two exceptional stories focused on memory, by Richard Ford and Jhumpa Lahiri, before turning to Raymond Carver’s minimalism and issues raised by his stylistic alterations. The conception of “late style,” introduced by Theodor Adorno and revived by Edward Said in 2006, is then brought into question, along with the short story’s treatment as a distinct genre. A conclusion provides an overview of the book’s structure and rationale, outlining the distinctive storytelling qualities of the quartet of writers, as well as definitions of their late styles.
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