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Dr.Reyaz Towheedi Kashmiri. "Ghazanfar's Short Story ‘‘Saand’’: A Critical Review." Dareecha-e-Tahqeeq 1, no. 1 (2022): 15–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.58760/dareechaetahqeeq.v1i1.2.

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Professor Ghazanfar is a well known fiction writer. Most of his stories, through their creative imagination as well as their visual style, provide excellent evidence of the masterpiece in the plot. In this category, his short story "Saand" has a special place. But the intellectual satire and the bullying of the politicians under the shadow of this system is a symbolic protest against the looting and the insidious approach of turning the black thief into white and the black into black. The texture, the style, the thematic presentation, the symbolic behavior, the characterization and the underst

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Correia, Alda. "Regionalist short fiction as humble fiction." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 10, no. 2 (2020): 161–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00025_1.

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The representation of the world cannot be separated from its spatial context. Making the effort to understand how space and landscape influence short stories and their structure, and are represented in them, can help us to make sense of the role of this formerly underestimated subgenre, its social and cultural connections and dissonances, its relation to storytelling and popular narratives, and its alleged low importance. How does the short story genre relate to regional and landscape literature? Can we see it as humble fiction and, in this case, how does the humbleness of this subgenre play a

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Sacido-Romero, Jorge. "Liminality in Janice Galloway’s Short Fiction." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 66, no. 4 (2018): 443–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2018-0037.

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Abstract One of the most salient developments in recent short story criticism focuses on the genre’s connection with liminality. Both short fiction’s suitability to convey the liminal and liminality as a defining feature of the short story are at stake. The short fiction of contemporary author Janice Galloway is a good example of this. After a brief introduction to the concept of liminality, I discuss one story from each of Galloway’s collections of short fiction: “Frostbite” is the story of how a young music student crosses an existential boundary and leaves behind disabling expectations and

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Hanfi, Muneer Ahmed. "براہوئی افسانہ مسافر؛ نا فنی او تنقیدی جاچ اس". Al-Burz 12, № 1 (2020): 14–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.54781/abz.v12i1.37.

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In the 19th century, Haibat Khan crafted "Musaafir" the premier fiction, a historical short story in the Brahui language and it was published in the year 1957, in the monthly literary magazine Nawaiy-e-Watan. The author employed content analysis, a branch of descriptive research to critically review fiction writing techniques, in comparison with the modern day fictions. The investigation revealed that the ‘Musaafir’ is a masterpiece of literary work in Brahui language, which focuses the portrayal of nature, characterizations, narration skills, theme and plot development, dialog formation, thou

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Boon, Hussein. "Writing popular music fiction." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 13, no. 1 (2023): 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00072_1.

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A recent short story I completed in a style area described as popular music fiction, using fiction to critically explore issues within popular music and communicate these to a wider audience, will be the main focus of this article. The ideas behind the short story and the incorporation of research and subject areas to create a fictional setting, especially intersections with otherness, diversity, resistance, technology, creative practice, business and the future, will be discussed. Key central themes were those relating to race, including lack of presence and attribution and concerns about AI,

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Tura Vecino, Aleix. "‘Cat Person’: Essayism, virality and the digital future of short fiction." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 12, no. 1 (2022): 69–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00050_1.

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The digital revolution has brought back to the fore questions about the health of the short story. Short fiction scholars have for some time now been considering the possibilities that post-book and online spaces might open for the short story form and its popularity among readers. Despite this, when Kristen Roupenian’s New Yorker short story ‘Cat Person’ went viral late in 2017, critics of the genre paid virtually no attention to it. This article sets out to correct this on the premise that studying the ‘Cat Person’ phenomenon can help us refine our understanding of the behaviour and potentia

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Mikkonen, Kai. "Minimal Departure and Fictional Narrative Situations." Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 13, no. 2 (2021): 71–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/stw.2021.a925851.

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Abstract: Readers understand fictional worlds at least to some extent by drawing on background knowledge of their own world. Some theories of fiction, however, hold that such realistic expectations, or processes of naturalization, are the default attitude in experiencing fictions. Thus, what Marie-Laure Ryan has called the principle of minimal departure (MD) states that readers understand fictional worlds and their components by drawing on background knowledge of their own world, unless otherwise indicated. This article is a critical examination of the relevance of the principle of MD and a co

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Fasselt, Rebecca, Corinne Sandwith, and Khulukazi Soldati-Kahimbaara. "The short story in South Africa post-2000: Critical reflections on a genre in transition." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 55, no. 1 (2018): 4–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989418778080.

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This editorial offers critical reflections on short story writing in South Africa post-2000. Against the background of critical scholarship on the short story form and thematic trends of short story anthologies since the late 1980s, we argue that short story criticism on apartheid as well as contemporary South African short story writing has consistently emphasized the genre’s disposition to capture the fragmented realities of socio-political transitions in the country. Critics have frequently observed a shift from the overtly politicized short story of the 1970s and 1980s to a return to a mor

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Rimal, Akram1, and Hassan Bin Zubair2* Dr. "DECONSTRUCTIUONIST ANALYSIS OF LEO TOLSTOY'S SHORT FICTION." MSI Journal of Arts, Law and Justice (MSIJALJ) Volume 2, Issue 5 (2025): 34–42. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15347533.

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This research explores the short story "God Sees the Truth but Waits" by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy with the utilization of five abstract analyses well it looks for significance and comprehension of the narrated story, it concludes the Historical Analysis, Communist Analysis, Deconstruction Analysis, Symbolic Analysis, and Gender Analysis. It likewise involves the subjective distinct strategy in deciding the five abstract analyses comparable to the artistic piece. This exploration utilizes the given story as the principal wellspring of data demonstrated by various dependable assets like articles

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Tucan, Gabriela. "What is a Short Story Besides Short? Questioning Minds in Search of Understanding Short Fiction." Romanian Journal of English Studies 11, no. 1 (2014): 144–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0018.

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Abstract The paper seeks to identify the cluster of essential features for a working definition of the short story, in an attempt to establish short fiction as a fully independent literary genre. I further explore the fundamental mode of thinking and of imagination generated by reading short fiction.

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Ashworth, A. J., and Aleix Tura Vecino. "Towards an ecology of the short story." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 14, no. 1 (2024): 3–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00091_2.

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This editorial begins by briefly mapping the rise of environmental science fiction in recent years and noticing that short fiction studies are yet to fully embrace ecocriticism as an angle from which to study the short story form. After remarking that the Special Section of this volume of Short Fiction in Theory & Practice intends to contribute to both of these projects, the editorial provides a brief summary of the articles, stories and interview included in the section. The editorial ends with brief descriptions of the articles and book reviews included in the General Section of the issu

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Sargsyan, Mariana S. "COGNITIVE-AFFECTIVE READING OF PUNCTUATION IN SHORT FICTION." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 1, no. 29 (2025): 118–33. https://doi.org/10.32342/3041-217x-2025-1-29-7.

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The aim of the paper is to define the cognitive and affective aspects of punctuation marks in short fiction and demonstrate how these marks influence the reader’s perception, activate background knowledge, and stimulate thinking. Image-schema theory forms the framework of the analysis, complemented by graphematic, descriptive, conceptual, and content methods of analysis. The paper presents an approach that provides a useful framework for studying punctuation from cognitive and affective perspectives and disclose its role in the meaning-making process. The paper elaborates on the concepts “auth

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Baloch, Abida, Liaquat Ali Sani та Muneer Ahmed Hanfi. "براہوئی افسانہ نا سر ہال او خواست آک". Al-Burz 8, № 1 (2016): 93–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.54781/abz.v8i1.148.

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This study describes the literary definition of short story in Brahui fiction. It further discuses the techniques, topics, tendencies and requirements, that on behalf of which Brahui short story May achieve them and get standardization in it. It more emphasis on a hypothesis which is common in regional literatures and they face difficult to differentiate between short story and a fiction or Novel, it has been proved how readers can easily know the distinction between above two literary terms. It has been discuss in detail that Brahui short story begins at 1982. But in Fifties the master piece

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Anwar, Muhammad Javaid, Basri Sattar, and Muhammad Naveed Anwar. "Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in “Button Button” by Richard Matheson." IJOHMN (International Journal online of Humanities) 4, no. 6 (2018): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijohmn.v4i6.76.

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A short stories author and novelists named Richard Matheson was born on 1926 in US state New Jersey. Story writer Richard Matheson is best known for his science fiction’s works. His first story was “Born Man and Woman.” He also earned a good name for his popular fiction “I am Legend” as well as due to short story “Button Button” He passed away on June 23, 2013 (Editors, 2014). Alike various famous novelists and story writers Matheson also leave a deep impression of his readers. He also turned minor incidents and situations into extraordinary situations.

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Reis, Amândio. "Short fiction as world literature." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 13, no. 2 (2023): 119–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00090_2.

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Amândio Reis introduces a Special Issue of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice devoted to the theme of ‘Short Fiction as World Literature’. After discussing the short story’s generic vocation as an object of world literary studies, he considers the absence of critical discussions that recognize and engage with the short story as such, and not simply as a handier and lighter instrument than the novel. Following the footsteps of still rare but important contributions to address this lack, he comments on the ways in which each article participates in the collective challenge to problematize noti

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Heni, Heni. "Cultural Phenomenon And Moral Value In Short Story The Gift Of The Magi By O Henry." Jurnal Onoma: Pendidikan, Bahasa, dan Sastra 8, no. 2 (2022): 760–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.30605/onoma.v8i2.1980.

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Literature is an imaginative works of an author. Literature is also part of culture. In a fiction or story there are some norms, values, attitude, and behavior that reflects the society in which the writer live in. There are normative function of literature in a society . So literature can also influence social change. Fiction can change economic, family, lifestyle, or attitude of a community. Society as the reader will identify themselves as the characters in the story. They will tend to feel what the characters feel and do what the characters do. One -or maybe two - values contained in the s

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Khronopulo, L. Yu. "The influence of Fredric W. Brown’s micro fiction on Hoshi Shin’ichi’s and Akagawa Jirō’s short-short stories." Japanese Studies in Russia, no. 2 (July 4, 2022): 95–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.55105/2500-2872-2022-2-95-107.

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The short-short story was first introduced by Japanese writer Tsuzuki Michio, who in the late 1950s – the early 1960s familiarized the Japanese reader with extra-short stories of American author Fredric W. Brown (1906–1972); his traditions were followed by Japanese writer Hoshi Shin’ichi (1926–1997), Akagawa Jirō (b. 1948), and other authors experimenting in the new genre of social and psychological science fiction, as well as in the genre of fantasy and detective stories. In American literature, three major specific features of a short-short story were formulated: 1) a fresh idea, 2) an unexp

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Vuohelainen, Minna. "Traveller's Tales: Rudyard Kipling's Gothic Short Fiction." Gothic Studies 23, no. 2 (2021): 181–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0093.

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Between 1884 and 1936, Rudyard Kipling wrote over 300 short stories, most of which were first published in colonial and cosmopolitan periodicals before being reissued in short-story collections. This corpus contains a number of critically neglected Gothic stories that fall into four groups: stories that belong to the ghost-story tradition; stories that represent the colonial encounter through gothic tropes of horror and the uncanny but do not necessarily include any supernatural elements; stories that develop an elegiac and elliptical Gothic Modernism; and stories that make use of the First Wo

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Dr. Allah Yar Saqib and Dr. Saira Irshad. "Mustafa Karim’s as a Fiction Writer: An Overview." DARYAFT 15, no. 01 (2023): 96–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.52015/daryaft.v15i01.293.

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Mustafa Karim is an epoch-making fiction writer of Urdu who, while maintaining the tradition of fiction, has also given new freshness to the eastern and western perspective of fiction. His fictions are excellent in terms of technical, artistic and thematic aspects, while the themes are East and West society, World War I and II, partition of India, migration problems, violence in religions, human tolerance, class division and psychology, problems of immigrants. , made the theme of sexual freedom and promiscuity. Most of his fiction depicts the life of immigrants and emigrants. Echoes of the pas

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Grillmayr, Julia. "Speculations, fabulations, incantations: Science fiction, contemporary futurology and how to change the world." European Journal of American Culture 41, no. 3 (2022): 267–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00079_1.

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After giving a short insight into the ambivalent relationship between science fiction (SF) and futurology, this article sheds light on the current trend of what can be called science-fictional scenario writing, focusing on the publications of the Center for Science and the Imagination at the Arizona State University. The stories published in projects, such as Hieroglyph, the Climate Fiction short story contest Everything Change or the Tomorrow Project, are indistinguishable from conventional SF short stories. However, the frameworks of these projects share a certain futurological ambition. Als

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PARK-KANG, SUNGJU. "Fictional IR and imagination: Advancing narrative approaches." Review of International Studies 41, no. 2 (2014): 361–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210514000291.

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AbstractIn the field of International Relations (IR), narrative approaches and an alternative way of writing seem to have gained growing attention in recent scholarship. Autoethnography and autobiography can be taken as primary examples. The article aims to advance this growing scholarship by proposing the concept of fictional IR. The idea is concerned with how to use the imagination in IR. I suggest that fiction writing can become a method for dealing with lack of information and contingency surrounding it. Fictional IR is more than reading and using fiction as a reference source or vehicle f

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Cox, Ailsa. "Editorial." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 13, no. 1 (2023): 3–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00069_2.

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Ailsa Cox introduces Volume 13.1 of Short Fiction in Theory & Practice with some reflections on the centenary of Katherine Mansfield’s death. She links Mansfield’s fiction to her wider interests in the arts and performance, suggesting that the short story genre is in perpetual dialogue with other art forms. Articles in the issue address the short story’s relationship with the visual arts, drama, music and film. They also show how the short story can subvert dominant narrative frameworks.

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Vitiello, Giovanni. "The Boundaries of Obscenity: Transgressive Sexual Narratives in Feng Menglong’s (1574-1646) Short-Story Fiction." NAN NÜ 26, no. 2 (2024): 218–50. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-02602055.

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Abstract This study proposes that the transgressive mode of pornographic fiction and the moralistic mode of cautionary fiction should not to be perceived in stark mutual opposition. To this aim, it explores the simultaneous presence and ambiguous intermingling of such modes in late Ming fiction, with a focus on Feng Menglong’s 1620s collections of short-stories San yan (Three words). The essay reviews a number of their stories featuring transgressive sexual narratives and ideological stances that are often detectable in contemporaneous pornographic fictional works as well. The essay’s final se

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Michaels, J. C. "One More." After Dinner Conversation 5, no. 12 (2024): 79–86. https://doi.org/10.5840/adc2024512126.

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“An accountant, a mathematician, and a philosopher walk into a candy store.” In this work of philosophical short story fiction, A young man named Saunders grapples with the moral dilemma of taking free samples at a store. He encounters various individuals who offer different perspectives on the situation, ranging from maximizing personal gain to adhering to moral principles. The story explores the nature of temptation, the limits of rules, and the importance of personal responsibility.

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Gstrein, Ines. "Towards a new formalist approach to short fiction: Janice Galloway’s Jellyfish as a case study." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 14, no. 1 (2024): 123–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00102_1.

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This article investigates the usefulness of new formalist terminology for the study of integrated short fiction volumes. It adopts a case-study design: I take Janice Galloway’s short story composite Jellyfish ([2015] 2019) as an example because the author experiments with new ways of writing, arranging and presenting short fiction in this volume. I explore how Caroline Levine’s broad understanding of two forms (networks and rhythms) and their affordances can be brought together with different positions in short story criticism. Particular consideration shall be given to Rolf Lundén’s conceptua

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Djikic, Maja, Keith Oatley, and Mihnea C. Moldoveanu. "Reading other minds." Scientific Study of Literature 3, no. 1 (2013): 28–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ssol.3.1.06dji.

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The potential of literature to increase empathy was investigated in an experiment. Participants (N = 100, 69 women) completed a package of questionnaires that measured lifelong exposure to fiction and nonfiction, personality traits, and affective and cognitive empathy. They read either an essay or a short story that were equivalent in length and complexity, were tested again for cognitive and affective empathy, and were finally given a non-self-report measure of empathy. Participants who read a short story who were also low in Openness experienced significant increases in self-reported cogniti

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Tipper, Becky. "All the Animals: Short Fiction about Multispecies Families." Animal Studies Journal 13, no. 1 (2024): 137–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.14453/asj/v13i1.7.

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The five-part short story ‘All the Animals’ imagines an array of animals who feature in the life of a fictional human family over many years. The story is inspired by qualitative research into human-animal relationships in families with children in Lisbon, Portugal. ‘All the Animals’ aims to offer a fictional ‘thick description’ of multispecies families in a particular time and place, but also to provide a reflection on the role of storytelling in human-animal entanglements.

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Beller, Anne-Marie. "Brief Encounters: Sensation Fiction and the Short Story." Victoriographies 12, no. 3 (2022): 269–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2022.0470.

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Building on recent work on sensation short fiction, which has convincingly argued for the form’s significance to our knowledge of mid-Victorian sensationalist culture more broadly, this article examines Wilkie Collins’s ‘A Marriage Tragedy’ (1857–58), and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s ‘Levison’s Victim’ (1870) and ‘The Mystery at Fernwood’ (1861). Through a focus on generic hybridity, marriage, and identity, the connections and divergences between the short and long forms of literary sensationalism are traced, from the passing of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act in 1857 to the first Married W

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Kiosses, S. "Matters of genre and creative writing: the case of microfiction (short-story, very short-story, flash-fiction, epigram-like fiction)." Kathedra, no. 9 (2021): 126–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.52607/26587157_2021_9_126.

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Aysha Wahab. "براہوئی انشائیہ ٹی راجی ویل نا درک". Al-Burz 11, № 1 (2019): 88–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.54781/abz.v11i1.51.

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Brahui fiction has its dimensions, beside Novel, Short Story and Drama, the fourth part of Brahui fiction is known as “Inshaeya”. The word inshaeya can be translated as Essay. It can be describing as the shortest form of Short Story. the Brahui essay is a part of fiction. The purpose of writing this title is to identify social issues of the community in inshaeya. the history of shortest short story in Brahui commenced from 1960. When “Shirookh” published by Mr. Kamil-ul- Qadri, the decade of 60ties opened corridor for Brahui Inshaeya, after Qadri the local writers had worked on inshaeya. it is

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Dr, Muhammad Naeem. "New World of Wonders: Rafique Hussain's Short Stories." Tahqeeq Nama 25, no. 1 (2022): 52–57. https://doi.org/10.17613/4441-3786.

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The parallel world of words is called fiction. The imagination of writer uses her/his everyday experience and language to create this world. Rafique Hussain, an Urdu Short story writer, had spent decades in Terai's Jungles of northern India. He uses his wildlife experience to construct his fictional world. This makes his short stories a world of wonders. Although his concerns are very much humanistic like many of his contemporary Urdu writers, but the maximalist uses of flora and fauna to understand the diverse nature of the world around make him unique. This article analyses his style of

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Altwaiji, Mubarak. "Saudi Novel and Short Story: History, Realities and Prospects." Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Language Sciences and Literature, no. 31 (June 10, 2023): 61–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.54940/ll42483373.

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This paper focuses on Saudi fiction, novel and short story, which has enriched Saudi literature and contribut-ed in forming the course of modern Saudi literature. The study of this genre tells us the role of novel and short story in enlightening the people and forming their collective memory. Modern state of Saudi Arabia, earlier Najd and Hijaz, has a rich culture spanning three eras: pre-Islam, post-Islam and modern Saudi Arabia. How-ever, written novel and short story remained non-existent till 1940s when Saudi scholars interacted with Arab universities in Egypt and Lebanon and felt the need

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Sidiq, Bushra Osman, and Ansam Riyadh Abdullah. "Self-Reflexivity and Inter-textuality: A Study of Jostein Gaarder 's Sophie's World as a Meta-fictional Work." JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES 7, no. 1 (2023): 105–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jls.7.1.9.

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Jostein Gaarder (1952- ) is a Norwegian thinker and author of a great number of novels, short stories, and children's books among them Sophie's World. This novel deals with a number of issues, and uses a lot of postmodern techniques like meta-fiction. This paper is to explain the use of meta-fiction in the concerned novel to the readers as a postmodern element. Sophie's World, besides being a great philosophical one, it contains several meta-fictional elements like: the story has another story within, commenting on the story while telling it; the narrator exposes himself as both: a character a

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Mendell, Jay S., and Donald R. Cooper. "The Research Process Revealed in Fully Plotted Short-Short Fiction." Public Voices 2, no. 2 (2017): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/pv.405.

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Fully plotted 'short-short' fiction can be keyed to the theme of individual textbook chapters. By "fully-plotted" we mean stories in which something is at stake and there are characters interesting enough for the reader to persist and discover the outcome of the story. An example is provided.

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Guarneri, Dr Cristina. "Thematic, Formal, and Ideological Aspects of Literary Fiction: The Rise of Detective Fiction." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 10, no. 1 (2025): 062–71. https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.101.7.

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From ancient Greece on, fictional narratives have entailed deciphering mystery. At almost the same period as the detective branch of the Metropolitan Police was evolving, the genre of detective fiction was also emerging, mainly in the short-story form. In these stories, a mystery or a crime occurs, and an amateur or professional detective is called in to solve it. The first modern detective story is often thought to be Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, which first introduced the golden age of detective stories, and the world to private detectives, that would later Conan Doyle’s

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Burtsev, A. A., and M. A. Burtseva. "Fiction by Danil Makeev." Issues of National Literature, no. 2 (July 1, 2024): 5–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.25587/2782-6635-2024-2-5-18.

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Danil Makeev was the first in Yakut literature to turn to the fate of war prisoners, the most tragic side of the World War II theme. The story “The Traitor” reveals the story of Yakut soldier Tarabukin, who went through a penal company and managed to maintain his honor and dignity. The even more acutely tragic fate of a man who suffered mortal trials and monstrous humiliations of captivity is revealed in the story “The Destiny of Fate.” Compared to the story “The Traitor,” the author deepened in it the psychological side of the state of the individual, who many times found himself on the brink

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Knowles, Paul Anthony, Madeleine Sinclair, and Ana García-Soriano. "‘Landscape and Temporality in Short Fiction, Part 2’: Unquiet landscapes." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 15, no. 1 (2025): 3–6. https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00126_2.

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Paul Anthony Knowles, Madeleine Sinclair and Ana García-Soriano introduce the second of the two Special Issues of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice dwelling on the themes of landscape and temporality in the short story and the short story cycle. The articles collected in this issue are attuned to the fragility of landscapes in a state of flux: caught between their haunted pasts and precarious futures. This current state of flux produces the impetus behind this issue’s exploration into how short story scholars and writers are critically investigating these unquiet landscapes.

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Zähringer, Raphael. "The Short Story, the New Weird, and the Literary Market." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 69, no. 2 (2020): 109–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2021-2034.

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Abstract The short story is commonly – and very productively – treated in the spirit of critical terms such as marginality and liminality. Quite surprisingly, though, New Weird Fiction, which postulates similar interests in, e.g., formal and aesthetic innovation as well as literary ambition, is primarily associated with the novel. The underlying lack of interest in the New Weird Short Story in both popular culture and academic work is scrutinised in this article. In a first step, it will survey the short story as a liminal form, both formally and aesthetically, and contextualize it by drawing

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Macheso, Wesley Paul. "Fiction as prosthesis: Reading the contemporary African queer short story." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 58, no. 2 (2021): 8–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i2.8633.

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In this article, I read contemporary African queer fiction as a tool employed by writers to represent and rehumanise queer identities in Sub-Saharan African societies. In these societies, heteropatriarchal authorities strive to disable queer agency by dehumanising queer subjects. I argue that African queer identities, desires, and experiences are controlled and restricted under the heterosexual gaze, which strives to ensure that human sexuality benefits patriarchy, promoting heterosexual desire as ‘natural’ and authentically African and pathologising homosexuality. African writers then employ

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Abbas, Naseem, and Sumaira Ijaz. "U-17 Similarities & Differences Between Short Story & other literary forms: Critical Analysis." Al-Aijaz Research Journal of Islamic Studies & Humanities 5, no. 3 (2021): 185–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.53575/u17.v5.03.185-194.

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Urdu Short Stories and other poetic and prose genres’ regarding similarities and differences have been discussed in Urdu Fiction Criticism. There are many writers who has given importance to poetry than short story. The declamations of Syed Waqar Azeem, Muhammad Hassan Askari, Qamar Raees, Shams ur Rehman Farooqi, Waris Alvi and Anees Nagi etc. are being discussed in this article. These discussions have major importance in Urdu fiction criticism. This article deals with these discussions objectively and shows the similarities and difference between short story and other literary forms.

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Guarneri, Dr Cristina. "THEMATIC, FORMAL, AND IDEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF LITERARY FICTION : THE RISE OF DETECTIVE FICTION." JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 12, no. 01 (2025): 06–21. https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2025.12102.

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From ancient Greece on, fictional narratives have entailed deciphering mystery. At almost the same period as the detective branch of the Metropolitan Police was evolving, the genre of detective fiction was also emerging, mainly in the short-story form. In these stories, a mystery or a crime occurs, and an amateur or professional detective is called in to solve it. The first modern detective story is often thought to be Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, which first introduced the golden age of detective stories, and the world to private detectives, that would later culminate into

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Dawes Durneen, Lucy, and Irenosen Okojie. "Acts of love and philosophy: In conversation with Irenosen Okojie." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 12, no. 1 (2022): 111–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00055_7.

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An interview with leading British fiction-writer Irenosen Okojie, transcribed and edited following a Zoom conversation with Lucy Dawes Durneen in December 2021 in Cambridge. It also includes questions from creative writing students. Okojie discusses her own practice as short story writer, including the choice of titles and short story endings, and issues of representation facing Black writers, especially in relation to female characters. She also discusses her non-fiction as a method of dealing with trauma and feelings of vulnerability.

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Wilson-Scott, Joanna. "The short story and the bigger picture: Epiphanic analepses and violence in American literature." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 9, no. 2 (2019): 79–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00002_1.

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Self-sufficient and epiphanic, the analeptic short story is presented in this article as a separate type of narrative that exists within the larger novel. Distinct from the analepsis in general, such short stories can be read as autonomous in that, despite their brevity, they are self-contained and cohesive fictions, able to stand alone and still function as a whole. As this article demonstrates, analeptic short stories are revelatory and can serve to destabilize the larger narratives in which they are found. Through an analysis of violence and childhood trauma in novels such as A. M. Homes’s

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Poštič, Svetozar. "The Concept of “Thrownness” in Algis Budrys's Short Story “Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night”." Respectus Philologicus 40, no. 45 (2021): 111–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2021.40.45.96.

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This paper analyses the concept of thrownness and the related notions of immediacy and actuality in a 1961 short science fiction story “Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night” by Algis Budrys. It first defines the concept of thrownness (Geworfenheit), created and coined by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger in his classic book Being and Time, and it explains how this notion can be employed in literary analysis in general and applied to this work in particular. The article then analyses how certain stylistic devices in the short story, namely similes, change of pace and the presentation of an inner

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Nuraeni, Iin, and Fahrus Zaman Fadhly. "CREATIVE PROCESS IN FICTION WRITING OF THREE INDONESIAN WRITERS." Indonesian EFL Journal 2, no. 2 (2017): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.25134/ieflj.v2i2.644.

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This research investigates the creative process in fiction writing employed by three writers of different writing genres: short story, novel, and poem. This study applied a qualitative method that involved one male and two female writers in Kuningan and Majalengka. The data collected from document analysis, observation, and interview were analyzed through descriptive qualitative method. The results of the analysis revealed that there were five creative processes of writing fiction used by the writers in writing fiction, namely preparation, incubation, insight, evaluation, and elaboration. Besi

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Jin Li. "The Value of the “Study of a Romantic Mind”: Henry James’s “The Story in It”." New Literaria 04, no. 02 (2023): 50–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.48189/nl.2023.v04i2.006.

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Henry James’s four references to his short story “The Story in It” (1902) in his notebook entries reveal his keen interest in the story of an honest woman. In Maud Blessingbourne’s intense disputes with Mrs. Dyott and Colonel Voyt on the nature of a “story,” the definition of “relation,” and the absence of decent women characters in European fiction, Blessingbourne’s righteousness, sincerity, and tolerance are highlighted. The paper contends that James advocates the importance of abiding by the aesthetic principle of freedom based on sincerity in fiction writing in response to Walter Besant’s

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Cohn, Ruby. "THE "F—" STORY." Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui 7, no. 1 (1998): 41–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757405-90000083.

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A short story entitled "F–" was published in the January 15, 1949 issue of the Anglophone, Paris-based review transition. The author is listed as Suzanne Dumesnil (later Mme. Samuel Beckett), but no translator is named. Beckett told his bibliographers Federman and Fletcher that he was "certain" of having translated it. The University of Texas Beckettiana catalogue describes it as: "A short story by Beckett's wife, written at the time Beckett was writing En attendant Godot. The translation is unsigned." (74). Several Beckett scholars suspect that Beckett wrote the story, since it resembles his

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Irfan, Kashif. "U-3 Stylistic Approach of Urdu Short stories(Historical Background and Possibilities)." Al-Aijaz Research Journal of Islamic Studies & Humanities 5, no. 3 (2021): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.53575/u3.v5.03.25-37.

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This article is about urdu fiction writing. The article covers the histological and philosophical back ground of different styles in urdu short. Story writing. It also covers different time periods of popular styles and narrates this writing styles of pioneers of some popular styles. It's also shows the literary work of some popular urdu fiction writers. The article is a brief history of short story and it also tells about future stylistic approaches in the field of urdu short stories. This article narrates significant work of prominent short stories writers and shows the different styles of s

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Molodinskaya, Vera A. "SPECIFICS OF TRANSLATING FICTION (WITH THE EXAMPLES FROM R.L. STIVENSON’S SHORT FICTION)." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. Series Psychology. Pedagogics. Education, no. 3 (2024): 49–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-6398-2024-3-49-65.

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The article examines translations of R.L. Stevenson’s story “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and the story “The Bottle Imp”. The dialectical connection between the general trends in the development of the genre and the individual characteristics of the author’s style in the short prose of R.L. Stevenson is traced. An attempt has been made to identify not only the most characteristic methods, techniques and transformations in the translations of the famous author’s short prose, but also new, little-studied ways of conveying the features of the style, typology and poetics of the abo

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Tekeliová, Dominika Hlavinová. "Historical Bratislava in literary fiction and film adaptation." Journal of Language and Cultural Education 8, no. 1 (2020): 149–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2020-0009.

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Abstract The aim of the paper is to characterize the city of Bratislava after the First World War as a literary space in the short story The Worst Crime in Wilson City (Najhorší zločin vo Wilsonove) and its film adaptation Wilson City (Wilsonov). For millions of Czechs and Slovaks, the US President W. Wilson was a legendary figure. The multi-ethnic city wanted to gratify him and suggested to name itself after him. This short episode of our history was found interesting for a Slovak writer Michal Hvorecký, who set a mysterious (horror) short story in Wilson City (Bratislava). The topos of the c

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