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Ford, Sean. "The Diffusion of Identity: A Study of Three Contemporary Thai Short Stories through the Lens of Western Narrative Conventions." MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities 24, no. 1 (June 14, 2021): 146–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-02401006.
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Abstract Literary works give expression to universal themes through settings, subjects, and techniques that are culturally tied. This article reviews generic conventions involving point of view, protagonist, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution that typify Western short stories in order to examine how varying patterns can illuminate cultural contrasts between Thailand and the West. Widely known stories by Katherine Mansfield and Amy Tan serve to exemplify the conventional Western pattern and its versatility and to provide a basis for discovering alternative patterns that characterize numerous contemporary Thai short stories. An analysis of stories by S.E.A. Write award winners Phaitoon Thanya, Anchan, and Ussiri Thammachot through the comparative lens of Western conventions reveals how divergent narrative techniques involving point of view and plot elucidate and corroborate divergent expressions regarding the nature of identity. Narrative patterns in these Thai short stories help produce diffusions of identity that reflect a collectivist ethos and an acceptance of uncertainty and impermanence, while adherence to the Western formula reinforces a core belief in the permanence and persistence of the individual ego over time.
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Schulze, Frank. "Taban lo Liyong's short stories: A western form of art?" World Literature Written in English 26, no. 2 (September 1986): 228–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449858608588979.
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Liu, Jian, Jingying Fei, and Mingkang Lv. "How “Foreign Influencer” Present Compelling Chinese Stories--Take “Chris”, a short video blogger in Tik Tok, as an example." Asia Social Science Academy 2, no. 3 (June 30, 2022): 52–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.51600/isr.2022.2.3.52.
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In recent years, a large number of excellent foreign short video bloggers have been active on major social media platforms, comparing the differences between Chinese and Western cultures, introducing Chinese traditional culture and customs to followers, and becoming a new force in telling Chinese stories. This paper takes the short video blogger “Chris” and his short videos as the research object, and analyze how “foreign influencer” tells Chinese stories in the new media environment, which brings new inspiration for telling Chinese stories and spreading Chinese voices well in the new media environment.
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Ijaz, Sumaira. "U-16 Short Stories of Meera Ji: Revelation & Critical Analysis." Al-Aijaz Research Journal of Islamic Studies & Humanities 5, no. 3 (September 20, 2021): 175–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.53575/u16.v5.03.175-184.
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Meera Ji is the prominent poet of twentieth century who reshaped the Jadeed Urdu Nazm throgh modern form,unique style and variety of new ideas.He had a great exposure of western literature and criticism so he added its flavour to Urdu poetry.Although , he is a great poet of this era .He wrote some short stories which were published in the renowned journals of that times i.e. Adab e Lateef and Adabi Duniya.These short stories are his good introduction as a fiction writer.These stories reveal the individual and social complicated behaviours as well as the complications of psycological aspect which are presented through metaphor,symbol and allegory.This article is not only the discovery of Meera Ji's short stories but presents its critical analysis too.
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Mohd Ismath, Nurul Hanilah, and Maimanah Samsuri. "آراء الطاهر أحمد مكي حول مفهوم القصة القصيرة وتطبيقها على مختارات من القصص العربية القصيرة." Al-Dad Journal 6, no. 1 (July 31, 2022): 127–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/aldad.vol6no1.7.
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This study talks about Al-Tahir Ahmed Makki's views on the concept of the Arabic short story from its characteristics and elements, as the modern Arab short story at its beginning was derived from the Western short story, through which the research seeks to see the congruence of the story's views of Al-Tahir Ahmed Makki in some of the short stories selected in his book. The research employs library research approach and the analytical approach in the study, where the study used the library research approach by looking at the main source, which is the short story book Studies and Selections by Taher Ahmed Makki, as well as other sub-sources including refereed journals, scientific articles, theses and other reference books. As for the analytical method, the study used the two stories in the book for analysis, using his views on this issue. Keywords: Taher Ahmad Makki, issues in Arabic short stories, examples of short stories
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Indriyanto, Kristiawan. "THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT’S TWO FRIENDS AND ARTURO ARIAS’ TOWARD PATZUN." Lire Journal (Journal of Linguistics and Literature) 3, no. 1 (March 31, 2019): 53–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.33019/lire.v3i1.42.
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This paper compares and contrasts two short stories, Guy De Maupassant’s Two Friends and Arturo Arias’ Toward Patzun. Both stories have the same thematic structure as the harshness and brutality during wartime situation is a similar concern to the aforementioned writers. Although both writers foreground the savagery of war, the different cultural background, nationality, literary tradition cause differences in the way both writer narrate their short stories. While De Maupassant depicts the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), Arias squares his narration in the Guatemalan civil war (1960-1996). The differences of canonical status between De Maupassant and Arias is also scrutinized in this paper. While De Maupassant is a household name in Western literary tradition, the popularity of Arias remains obscure. This paper argues that the differences in canonization is linked also with the status of Two Friends in the hypercanon, on the other hand Toward Patzun is located in the countercanon. It is hoped that this paper can contribute toward questioning the privileged status of Western literary works compared to the non-Western author.
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SURISETTY, RAJESWARI, and M. MARY MADHAVI. "Reflection Of Indian English And Philosophy In Writings Of R.K Narayan In English Literature." Think India 22, no. 2 (October 30, 2019): 494–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8756.
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Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, a well-known South Indian writer, creator of a fictional town ‘Malgudi” developed a sense of interest among middle- class people in India to read short stories in English. He is the spell caster of encompassing Indianism into English literature through his writings. This celebrated Indian novelist brought an aroma of Southern Indian Coffee into English and indianized it through his fictional stories which connect with real time situations of a common Indian. This distinguished writer captivated readers through his meticulous mastery over foreign language on Indian soil. His short stories are the best paradigm to understand Indian English that is entangled with beliefs, traditions, culture to an extent superstitions existed in the routes of Indian lives. Contrast between the lives of Western and Indians’ lives in various aspects are illustrated through his short stories and novels. The present paper tries to highlight Indianized contexts into English literature by this outstanding writer. It also attempts to show how characters in the short stories of Narayan are related to Karmic philosophy.
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D’hoker, Elke. "Humbling the human: Posthuman explorations in contemporary short fiction." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 10, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 135–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00023_1.
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In a context of manmade global warming, ecological destruction and species extinction, posthumanist scholars have advocated moving beyond the anthropocentrism that determines western thinking in favour of an embedded and embodied interspecies relationality. If these remain fairly abstract notions in the work of critics such as Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, contemporary short fiction provides many interesting examples of these alternative forms of being and becoming. The short story seems especially suited to exploring this decentring of the human subject, given its own status as a liminal, ‘minor’ or ‘humble’ genre and its long tradition of exploring human–animal relations in animal stories. This article demonstrates how contemporary short stories by Lauren Groff, Claire-Louise Bennett, Sarah Hall, Sara Baume and Louise Ehrdrich stage a profoundly biocentric perspective by moving beyond animal stories’ traditional modes of the fabular and the figural towards a realistic depiction of our creaturely existence in experiences that may be at once empowering and terrifying.
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Maryin, D. V. "The genre elements of western in «Altai» short stories by M. I. Veller." Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal, no. 61 (December 1, 2017): 135–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/18137083/61/12.
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Pashayeva, S. "Some Features of Mark Twain’s Humorous Stories." Bulletin of Science and Practice 7, no. 7 (July 15, 2021): 412–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.33619/2414-2948/68/58.
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The article deals with the early short stories of Mark Twain. It illustrates the key features of the humor of Mark Twain’s short stories, and the role of American lifestyle, especially in the Western region’s historical culture, folklore and traditions of newspapers humor in the formation of Mark Twain as a writer. There is an analysis about the mutual relations between humor and critique in the article too. To our conclusion humor was not the main goal in the literary activity of Mark Twain, the main principle and goal of the writer’s works were to discover the materials coming from hypocrisy, dissimulation, ugliness and realities of those times, and their comic potential. That is why to use widely the ways and methods of the comic elements helped the writer to show and describe the personages, characters, things and objects in a conflicting manner with their full details and bareness in various colors.
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Wild, Peter. "Western Trails: A Collection of Short Stories by Mary Austin ed. by Melody Graulich." Western American Literature 23, no. 2 (1988): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wal.1988.0008.
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Choi, Sunryoung. "Reading English Short Stories in Liberal Arts Classes: An Example." Korean Society of Culture and Convergence 44, no. 9 (September 30, 2022): 305–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.33645/cnc.2022.9.44.9.305.
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This thesis aims to find a desirable direction for liberal arts classes by taking one of my liberal arts classes, Western Classics in Modern Age as an example and analyzing the main topics and discussions held in the class. Students were supposed to read 8 English short stories during a semester in the general liberal arts course of 2 credits, and all of the students majored in natural science or engineering. Among the 8 stories, this thesis exclusively pays attention to D. H. Lawrence's short story, “The Rocking-Horse Winner”. Students’ preference for this story stems from their interest in the issues of 'luck' and 'money' which are the central themes of “The Rocking-Horse Winner.” However, this story includes an acute criticism of the negativity of capitalist civilization and culture that make the desire for more money insatiable. Moreover, the process where a mother without maternal love drives her child to death is impressively devastating. “The Rocking-Horse Winner” was a good example that met the goal of this class in that it urged students to think of critical problems of ourselves and our times as well.
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BIJELIC, Marijana. "THE CRISIS OF MASCULINITY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN GEORGI STAMATOV’S SHORT STORIES." Ezikov Svyat volume 18 issue 3, ezs.swu.v18i3 (2020): 101–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/ezs.swu.bg.v18i3.10.
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This work analyzes the crisis of masculinity in terms of modernization, the change in the relation between the sexes, as well as the crisis of national identity in Georgi Stamatov’s short stories from the perspective of contemporary theoretical works on nationalism and gender, especially masculinity. His male antiheroes sense that traditional values and norms are no longer valid in contemporary Bulgaria and feel nostalgic for the lost masculine and national identity. They all have the feeling that they cannot rely on old norms and values and are trying to find a way out of the crisis. The female characters and feminized topoi of Bulgaria and its capital Sofia usually evoke interpretations connected to the concept of infidelity, which causes an identity crisis in the modern man: while traditional but weak characters Abarov and Malkov are trying to remain faithful, although they have been betrayed by the “new Bulgaria”, “new Sofia” and unfaithful female characters, Viryanov as a modern male achieves an enormous social success by using women in order to climb up the social ladder and betrays Bulgaria with his leaving for Paris, which represents the center of the demonized western modernism.
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Miążek, Teresa. ""...kahāniyā͂ ākhir bantῑ kaise hai͂?!" ("…how, after all, do stories originate?!"). The Clash between Indian and Western Literary Traditions in Ajñeya’s Short Stories." Cracow Indological Studies 17, no. 17 (2015): 169–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/cis.17.2015.17.10.
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Hanstein, Michael. "Der Poet als unbeugsamer Dissident." Daphnis 46, no. 4 (October 17, 2018): 560–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18796583-04604001.
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In 1977 the East German author Hans Joachim Schädlich published Versuchte Nähe (English edition Approximation published in 1980), a small volume of short stories. While the Western German press praised Schädlich’s first work as a literary reflection of the society in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Schädlich was marginalized as a dissident in the GDR and had to move to West Germany. One of the short stories in Versuchte Nähe is about the last days of the German renaissance author Nicodemus Frischlin, who, arrested by German authorities, died in prison. The story was appreciated for its style using a “Luther-like language”. Schädlich’s story is mainly based on a biography of Frischlin written by David Friedrich Strauss, a famous and prolific 19th century German author and theologian. Schädlich’s modification of the original source includes a description of the conditions of imprisonment and the heroification of Frischlin as an uncompromising critic of a totalitarian regime.
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Ortega, Dolors. "Negotiating Identity and Belonging in the Western Indian Ocean: Fluid Enabling Spaces in M.G. Vassanji’s Uhuru Street." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, no. 82 (2021): 27–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2021.82.03.
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This article analyses the short story cycle Uhuru Street, which describes the life of the members of the minority Ismaili community, whom Vassanji fictionalises as Shamsis, in the context of crucial changes in the history of Tanzania. Diaspora, fragmentation and ethnic multiplicity in a really hierarchical tripartite society will be studied within the framework of cross-cultural networking in the Western Indian Ocean, where complex identity relations are established. Our discussion stems from a brief historical genealogy of the Indian community in Tanzania, it analyses the complex identity relations and affiliations among Tanzanian citizens of Indian descent, and moves on to the analysis of Vassanji’s short stories in order to explore those fluid and enabling spaces where identity and belonging are to be negotiated.
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Więckowska, Katarzyna. "Appositions: The Future in Solarpunk and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction." Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, no. 12 (November 24, 2022): 345–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.12.21.
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The essay discusses images of the future in solarpunk and post-apocalyptic fiction, focusing on their distinct approach to the narratives of progress, science, and individualism. The dystopian perspective of post-apocalyptic fiction is juxtaposed with the hopeful stance of solarpunk stories in order to outline the attempts to move beyond environmental pessimism and to imagine a liveable future. A reading of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes’s The Collapse of Western Civilization (2014), and Omar El Akkad’s American War (2017) provides an overview of early 21st-century dystopian motifs and visions, while the ideas and development of solarpunk fiction are discussed on the basis of three anthologies of short stories: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Ecospeculation (2017), Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (2018), and Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures (2021). The aim of the essay is to argue that apocalyptic and solarpunk fiction stand in a relationship of apposition to one another, representing dominant and emergent structures of feeling.
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Ali, A. Wahab. "Muhammad Yusof Ahmad: A Pioneer of Modern Malay Fiction." Malay Literature 25, no. 1 (June 1, 2012): 91–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.37052/ml.25(1)no6.
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This is a study on Muhammad Yusof Ahmad, a pioneer in modern Malay fiction. To explore his contributions, this study focuses on his creative process, specifically in his writing of formal realism fictions such as his short stories and novelette. This study is approached via the writer’s biography and linking it to his era, and the systems of traditional and western education which shaped his creative abilities. His main works entitled “Percintaan Lady Brazil”, “Zaman Sari” and Mencari Isteri were selected as samples for analysis. This study reveals that Muhammad Yusof’s creativity is based on his own experiences in life. The structure of his stories can be traced back to the traditional literature of his culture, and elements of realism made their way in to his plot structure due to his exposure to western literature. His works were targeted at new generations, significantly Malay teachers. His works were early attempts of formal realism in the world of modern Malay literature. Keywords : Muhammad Yusof Ahmad, Malay literature, Malay fiction, Majalah Guru
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Downs, Cathy, and LuAnne Ktiri-Idrissi. "Comparing South Texas and Qatari readers’ responses to short stories from three cultures." Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives 11, no. 2 (December 1, 2014): 68–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.18538/lthe.v11.n2.153.
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Emotional and interpretive responses to three short stories were noted in two study populations of similar age: Qatari students in a post-highschool foundation program preparing to attend branch campuses of western universities located in Qatar, and American students, many of Mexican-American heritage, from a small college in a rural setting in South Texas. It has long been thought that reading literature from a foreign culture confers educational value on the reader; in this investigation the nature of that ‘value’ was placed under study. Written responses to quiz questions or assignments were used as data; responses critical of or affirming of character, setting, plot, and literary tropes were particularly noted. Our data show that readings from an author whose culture was similar to the reader’s created interest and urged both intellectual and affective types of understanding, such as remembering, grieving, healing, forgiving, and feeling pride. Readings from ‘classic’ literature presented in historical context strongly enabled critical discussion among students in a multicultural setting, since the author’s absence from the scene ‘allows’ free conversation about his or her work without fear of insulting the author’s culture. Readings by contemporary writers from outside the reader’s culture, or ‘multicultural literature’, may cause some readers to shy away from the challenge of understanding another culture or to voice stereotypes instead of seeking ideas. Readings from outsider cultures, however, and the affective distancing of ‘othering’, enable the well-prepared educator and student to discuss how culture patterns our lives.
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Brus, Мariia. "THE EMBODIMENT OF LITERARY AND DIALECT FEATURES OF FEMINITATION IN THE NOVELS OF VASYL STEFANYK." PRECARPATHIAN BULLETIN OF THE SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY Word, no. 16(63) (August 26, 2022): 360–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.31471/2304-7402-2022-16(63)-360-367.
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The article analyzes the common names and surnames of women, which are reflected in the short stories of Vasyl Stefanyk. Attention is paid to the specifics of the writer's artistic work as a representative of the dialect of Pokuttia, the semantic, word-forming, stylistic features of the nouns embodied in his works with the meaning of femininity are revealed.
It is noted that the feminicon of his short stories is a close combination of all-literary, Western Ukrainian and Pokuttia lexical units, which is marked by the specifics of the author's artistic vision and immersion in the world of rural life. It is noted that the feminicon of his short stories is a close combination of all-literary, Western Ukrainian and Pokuttia lexical units, which is marked by the specifics of the author's artistic vision and immersion in the world of rural life. The processes of feminization and femininity in Vasyl Stefanyk's work are based on the vernacular, which made it possible to attract all the feminine richness of the then Ukrainian literary language for women's education and its realization along with masculinities. From the lexical-semantic point of view, it is the embodiment of commonly used and special nominations, the expansion of the semantic structure of femininities, and their use with specific meanings. In structural and word-forming terms, it is the realization of derived and non-derived words, the predominance of suffixal word-forming types over other derivatives, the expansion of the functionality of word-forming means. At the stylistic level, it is the accumulation of stylistically neutral and colored vocabulary, giving almost all nouns with the meaning of femininity a colloquial character and different connotative shades in the meaning.
Consideration and interpretation of female images was based on deep legislation and the involvement of writers in the realities of Pokuttia life, which led to the integrated use of appropriate names of women.
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Sumalani, Salah uddin, and Abida Baloch. "براہوئی افسانہ ٹی قبیلہ خواہی نا دروشم." Al-Burz 8, no. 1 (December 20, 2016): 73–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.54781/abz.v8i1.147.
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Tribalism is basically been focused in this research paper social and cultural fluctuations in the western and this problem have been researched and elaborated short stories raise those basic and real problems in the society which are creating disturbance for the people the basic principles of tribalism have been left behind that is our problems are increasing If treble system gets fail to provide justice and at the same time there are few social behavior that are keeping the tribes away from tribalism there are second weakness have been brought on the surface through short stories . Every short story points out our social and tribal weaknesses It also points out those problem which can't be judged by common people .it has also pointed out all the tribal issues and at the sometime it has got or it contains a lot of suggestions for the tribal chiefs to provide justice and not to give up by the problems. It keeps the society united and breeds brotherhood if injustice is done to any one in our society then he is supported by all the people along with all tribal chiefs. His problems are solved unanimously. It is the reason why tribalism is the basic need for everyone.
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Chen, Shijia. "Postwar Trauma and Recovery: A Case Study of A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." International Journal of Education and Humanities 3, no. 2 (June 24, 2022): 19–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/ijeh.v3i2.602.
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Ernest Hemingway experiences two World Wars. His unique life experience shapes his personality and his works. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, one of his famous short stories, has always been analyzed from the theme and his iceberg principle. However, few authors pay attention to his war experience and concentrate on the post-war western spiritual world lurking in the story Hemingway pictured. Therefore, this paper explored and analyzed the inner world that the short story reflects. The conclusion sheds light on the relatively better ways to recover from the spiritual trauma. On the other hand, it is hoped that readers can find a new way to interpret the short story, better understand the author's creative ideas and dig deeper into the connotation of the work through the understanding of the theme and the fate of the characters in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.
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Fadli, Zaki Ainul. "DEUS VERSUS OHIRUME DALAM CERPEN KAMIGAMI NO BISHOU: BENTURAN BUDAYA ANTARA BARAT DENGAN JEPANG." IZUMI 7, no. 2 (December 5, 2018): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/izumi.7.2.94-106.
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(Title: Deus Versus Ohirume in Kamigami No Bishou: Cultural Clash Between West and Japan) The Kamigami no Bishou short story is one of the most famous Japanese literary works, Akutagawa Ryuunosuke. Kamigami no Bishou was created by Akutagawa in 1922 which tells the meeting of Organtino, a Christian missionary in Japan with an old man who was the embodiment of one of Japan's ancient gods. The purpose of this article is to reveal how the clash of cultures between the West and Japan was reconstructed in Kamigami no Bishou short stories. To achieve this goal, the following steps are taken. First, an explanation of the terms contained in the Kamigami no Bishou Short Story. Second, explained the actions of two figures in the short story that are in opposition to the Greimas model's official scheme because this scheme can make it easier to understand the actions and motivations of the characters. Third, the analysis of one of the short story structural elements is a theme with the aim of understanding the essence and purpose of the entire short story. Fourth, further explanation about the reconstruction of Western versus Japanese cultural clash which is explained by the presentation of binary opposition. After going through all four stages, it was concluded that the reconstruction of cultural clash in Kamigami no Bishou short stories was presented by Akutagawa in a conversation between the Organtino character and the old male character. Through a dialogue centered on Deus versus Ohirume carried out by Organtino figures and old male figures, Akutagawa indirectly wanted to convey the message that Japanese tradition and culture would not be destroyed due to influences from foreign cultures that entered.
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Brown, Daniel. "GEORGE EGERTON'SKEYNOTES: NIETZSCHEAN FEMINISM ANDFIN-DE-SIÈCLEFETISHISM." Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no. 1 (December 6, 2010): 143–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150310000318.
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The title of George Egerton'sfirst collection of short stories,Keynotes(1893), announces a concern with the beginnings of sequences, the first principles from which larger patterns are orchestrated. The stories introduce premises from which new social and sexual relations may be engendered and individual existential choices made, a philosophical intent that harks back to the preoccupation in classical Greek thought with the nature of the Good Life and how to live it, which Friedrich Nietzsche renews for modern Western philosophy. Egerton's broad but nonetheless radical engagement with Nietzschean thought can be traced through the references she makes to the philosopher inKeynotes, which are widely credited with being the first in English literature. Indeed, such allusions are, as Iveta Jusová observes, “the most frequent literary reference[s] in Egerton's texts” (53). They were also recognised and mobilised against her by some of her earliest critics.
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Dewi, Novita. "Under Children's Eyes: Becoming Pious in Tayeb Salih and Pramoedya Ananta Toer Short Stories." Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies 55, no. 1 (June 26, 2017): 27–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/ajis.2017.551.27-46.
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This research seeks to discuss how child characters navigate their interactions with the adults in two short stories set in the predominantly Islamic society of Sudan and Indonesia. It examines Tayeb Salih’s “A Handful of Dates” (1964) and Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s “Circumcision” (1950) by locating both texts in World Literature which is largely Western or Eurocentric. Both short stories belong to the genre of initiation fiction often included in world literature anthologies. This paper argues that both authors help contribute to not only the rethinking of World Literature concept and circulation thereof, but also balanced view of heterogonous, multicultural Muslim society. Using post-Genette focalization theory as conceptual framework, this study finds out that the child narrators play distinct roles as (1) the perceptual focalizer to reveal injustice and frivolity of the adults’ world; (2) the ideological focalizer to make meaning of children’s faith through their relationship with the grown-ups. [Penelitian ini bertujuan membahas bagaimana tokoh anak berinteraksi dengan orang-orang dewasa dalam dua cerita pendek dari negara berpenduduk mayoritas Islam, Sudan dan Indonesia. Karya Tayeb Shalih, "A Handful of Dates"[Segenggam Kurma] (1964) dan karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer "Sunat" (1950) dikaji dengan menempatkan kedua teks dalam Sastra Dunia yang cenderung berkiblat ke dunia Barat dan Eropa. Kedua cerita pendek bergenre fiksi inisiasi ini sering diikutkan dalam antologi sastra dunia. Makalah ini menunjukkan bahwa kedua penulis memberikan kontribusi dalam penafsiran ulang konsep dan peredaran Sastra Dunia, serta pandangan yang lebih seimbang terhadap masyarakat Muslim yang heterogen dan multikultural. Menggunakan Teori Fokalisasi Pasca-Genette sebagai kerangka konseptual, studi ini menyimpulkan bahwa tokoh anak dalam kedua cerpen memainkan peran yang berbeda sebagai (1) focalizer (penyuara) perseptif yang mengungkapkan ketidakadilan dan kedegilan dunia orang dewasa; (2) penyuara ideologis yang memaknai keimanan anak lewat relasi dengan orang-orang dewasa.]
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Zhilicheva, G. A. "Intrigue of word in I. Bunin and V. Nabokov’s short stories (“Light Breathing” / “Torpid Smoke”)." Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal, no. 2 (2021): 123–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/18137083/75/9.
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The paper discusses the category of narrative intrigue in the stories of I. Bunin and V. Nabo-kov. Theoretical and historical aspects of the term “intrigue” and its place in Russian and Western practice are reviewed. Following the concepts by Paul Ricoer, Raphaël Baroni,and Valerij Tjupa, intrigue is defined as a receptive aspect of the plot combining referential and communicative levels of narration. The analysis of interactions between the “intrigue of action” and the “intrigue of the word” allows establishing several consistent patterns in the composition of two narrative fields – that of event and that of discourse. In Bunin’s “Light Breathing,” the repetition of the word “dykhanie” (breath) and its variants changes the story of Olya’s life into a story of “vdokhnovenie” (inspiration). The second layer of the story is formed by anagrams and arranged sequences of sound and structure, enhancing the reader’s artistic impression. In Nabokov’s “Torpid Smoke,” the narration becomes multi-layered due to its metapoetical qualities, including the correlation of the poetic intention and the metaphor of “legkosti/tyazhesti” (lightness/heaviness). The “crisis event” (constitutive for the genre of short story) is transformed into the event of text-making. In addition to Bunin’s concept of “legkogo dykhaniya” (light breathing), the story’s “intrigue of the word” also includes the reflection on Nabokov’s signature concepts (references to L’Inconnue de la Seine and The Defence). Moreover, the narrator unites the protagonist and the lyrical persona, interchanging the first- and third-person pronouns.
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Borisova, L. M. "Zaytsev, B. (2018). Reflections of the Eternal. Unknown short stories, essays, reminiscences and interviews. Ed. by A. Lyubomudrov. St. Petersburg: Rostok. (In Russ.)." Voprosy literatury, no. 2 (June 17, 2021): 288–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2021-2-288-293.
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The review is concerned with a collection of hitherto unknown prose by B. Zaytsev that uncovers new aspects of his oeuvre. The collection covers literary variants of famous essays, hitherto unpublished short stories from before the October Revolution, and travelogues showing the writer's attitude to the spiritual and creative culture of the West. The reviewer points out the problem of the interaction between Russian literature and its European counterparts (particularly French literature) and defines the criteria (the Christian ideal and ‘common human compassion') used by Zaytsev for its assessment. Mentioned are the authors especially favoured by Zaytsev (F. Mauriac, A. Maurois, and G. Duhamel). Also noted is the writer's polemic with Western authors. The collection offers a treasure trove for scholarly reflections on literature and religion, as well as on Russian emigre literature versus Soviet and Western literatures.
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السعيدي, منصور. "The Use of Literature in the Foreign Language Classroom." مجلة الآداب للدراسات اللغوية والأدبية 1, no. 7 (May 29, 2021): 7–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.53286/arts.v1i7.286.
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The present study focuses on the use of literary texts in teaching Arabic and English as foreign languages. It is part of an action research project that also includes the design of a literature-based syllabus for teaching foreign language skills at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. The project deals also with piloting the materials and investigating the attitudes of the learners towards them. In particular, this study investigates the use of short stories and poems in the foreign language classroom. It shows how Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant can be effectively used for teaching some syntactic constructions such as exclamation sentences. The study also explores the use of Shawqi’s al-thaʿlab wa al-dīk (i.e. The Fox and the Roaster) in teaching vocabulary and grammatical number in Arabic. Finally, the study uses Bahjat’s Ghurāb ʾibnaī ʾādam (i.e. The Crow of the Two Sons of Adam) to teach language skills and to introduce some multimodal activities such as adaptation and digital storytelling. The study has concluded that literature in general and short stories and poems in particular provide the learners with motivating resources that can assist them to develop their language skills and enhance their communicative and interpretive competence.
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Ladygina, Yuliya. "Beyond the Trenches: Ol'ha Kobylians'ka’s Literary Response to the First World War." East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 2, no. 2 (September 8, 2015): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.21226/t2s888.
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<p class="EW-abstract"><strong>Abstract:</strong> Ol'ha Kobylians'ka’s short stories about the First World War constitute a rare case of a Ukrainian woman writing on one of the greatest catastrophes in modern history, a subject neglected even in Ukraine. Drawing on recent scholarship on First World War literature, this research proves that Kobylians'ka’s war stories deserve a re-evaluation, not as long-ignored curiosities from the pen of Ukraine’s most sophisticated writer of the time, but as insightful psychological studies of Western Ukrainians and as valuable cultural documents that present an original perspective on the common European experience of 1914-1918. The article pays particular attention to Kobylians'ka’s creative assessment of the Austrian and Russian treatment of Western Ukrainians during different stages of the First World War, which exposes anew fatal political weaknesses in Europe’s old imperial order and facilitates a better understanding of why Ukrainians, like many other ethnic groups in Europe without a state of their own, began to pursue their national goals more aggressively as the war progressed. Alongside popular texts, such as “Na zustrich doli” (“To Meet Their Fate,” 1917), “Iuda” (“Judas,” 1917), and “Lyst zasudzhenoho voiaka do svoiei zhinky” (“A Letter from a Convicted Soldier to His Wife,” 1917), this article examines Kobylians'ka’s three little-known stories—“Lisova maty” (“The Forest Mother,” 1915), “Shchyra liubov” (“Sincere Love,” 1916), and “Vasylka” (“Vasylka,” 1922)—thus presenting the most complete analysis of Kobylians'ka’s war fiction in any language.</p><p class="EW-Keyword">Keywords: Modernist Literature, Literature of the First World War, Women Writings of the First World War, Ol'ha Kobylians'ka’s War Fiction</p>
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Jacob, Manju. "A Search for Redemption and Mystical Union: An Analysis of O’Connor’s “Greenleaf” and “The Lame Shall Enter First”." Think India 22, no. 2 (October 26, 2019): 348–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i2.8735.
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Flannery O’Connor is one of the modern spiritual writers and is identified with labels like Catholic writer, Hillbilly Thomist, Southern novelist, grotesque stylist etc. She deserves another equally convincing label–O’Connor the Mystic–her claim to be considered a mystic being based on the many instances of the description of mystic experience and the operation of grace in her motifs. Flannery O’Connor highlights her religious outlook of God in a nontraditional manner and allows others to obtain grace through her literature. Though faith underpins all of her work, she does not use it in a didactic manner as a medium to preach. Her short stories can be viewed as a search for redemption in Christ. These stories are quests which involve the hero’s recognition of his vocation and end in his eventual ordination. There is an initial rebellion against belief, a crisis in faith, and a resolution in a ‘moment of grace’ in her stories. For O’Connor, the very act of writing was itself a redemptive process. Though O’Connor’s works follow the features of Eastern as well as Western mysticism, the present study concentrates on the Christian mystical elements in O’Connor’s “Greenleaf” and “The Lame Shall Enter First” as O’Connor was a Catholic writer.
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Brougher, Valentina G. "Vsevolod Ivanov’s Satirical Novel Y and the Rooster Metaphor." Slavic Review 53, no. 1 (1994): 159–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2500330.
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It may come as a surprise that the author of the Soviet classic Bronepoezd14-69 (Armored Train 14-69) produced an experimental novel in 1929- 1931, entitled Y, whose satiric spirit, rich texture and philosophical depth suggest a close kinship with such writers as Mikhail Bulgakov and Andrei Platonov. In western criticism, Vsevolod Ivanov has been largely remembered as one of the Serapion Brothers, whose Partizanskie povesti (partisan tales) and short stories (“Dite” [“The Child“] being the best known example) about the civil war in Siberia and central Asia were written in a highly individualistic ornamental style and responded to the call for immediacy and relevance in literature.
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Sample, Joe. "Pigtails, Prostrations, and People on Teapots: Graphic Satire and the British Encounter with Things Chinese, 1792–1842." Victorians Institute Journal 49 (November 1, 2022): 86–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0086.
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Abstract This article explores satire and comicality in written and visual representations of China using a metaphor introduced by Jonathan Spence in The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds (1998). Spence labels Western attitudes toward China and the Chinese “sightings.” Spence identified sightings in travel journals, stage plays, short stories, and philosophical tracts, but he did not explore depictions of China in graphic satires and related news reports even though they are rich sources of popular attitudes and unique opportunities to gauge the presence of China in Western minds. The first part of this essay uses the concept of sightings to compare similar visual satires on China in the news by James Gillray (1792) and John Leech (1842). The engraving and penciling, respectively, present opposing visions of the British and the Chinese at very different moments in Anglo-Chinese relations. The second part situates the penciling within the emerging written and visual comic rhetoric of things Chinese. There is great value in down-market popular productions as sources for understanding the complexity of the presence of things Chinese in the British consciousness at the dawn of the Victorian era and throughout the nineteenth century.
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van Aardt, Peet. "Decolonising an Academic Literacy curriculum at the University of the Free State with creative writing: challenges and opportunities." Journal of Decolonising Disciplines 1, no. 2 (February 20, 2021): 87–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.35293/jdd.v1i2.34.
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As part of the first year Academic Literacy course at the UFS, students are required to study graded readers. The booklets are abridged versions of Western fiction, therefore these narratives reinforce the colonial presence in our curriculum. But South African students need to read local narratives in order to learn about each other – from each other. By taking part in the Initiative for Creative African Narratives (iCAN) students improve our curriculum by writing their own short stories so that they become contributors of material that will be graded and tested to form part of the UFS Academic Literacy curriculum. Thereby, students contribute to larger bodies of knowledge through their lived experiences. This paper reflects on the challenges and opportunities within the iCAN process.
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Liu, Xiaojuan. "Drinking the Elixir of Nostalgia: Reading Annie Proulx’s “What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick”." English Language and Literature Studies 6, no. 1 (February 26, 2016): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v6n1p125.
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<p>This essay attempts to interpret contemporary American Writer, Annie Proulx’s short story “What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick,” included in <em>Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories II</em>. Applying related historical, sociological, and cultural data and researches, the essay approaches the story by close reading. By exploring the protagonist, Gilbert’s quest for the past values and ethics of the Old West in the contemporary world, this essay presents Proulx’s ambiguous attitude towards those who abides to the old values, despite the sweeping changes. The author argues that Proulxhas shown her views of the oft-discussed issue—nostalgia or progress—in literature, and brought it to a new and profound existential level—a to-be or not-to-be business. At the same time, Proulx has deconstructed American “dime novels” and exposed the delusive nature of this Old West inheritance. Being criticized to be the “new voice”of American Western literature, Proulx has revived the Western fiction and enriched its connotation.</p>
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Rustamova, Dilnoza. "ASQAD MUXTOR WORKS LEV TOLSTOY CREATIVITY EFFECTS." Infolib 2, no. 22 (August 30, 2020): 87–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.47267/2181-8207/2020/2-013.
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The ideas expressed by Askad Mukhtar in scientific and journalistic articles, short stories and novels reflect the influence of the genius writer Tolstoy on the worldview of the Uzbek writer. In this regard, Leo Tolstoy's literary influence on the author's works, in particular, in the novel "Chinar", is of great historical and artistic significance. The article provides reviews about the heroes of his works, which helped create the image of the great writer from sources collected during the writing of the novel. In addition, information is provided on the activities and fate of two Uzbek representatives who managed to meet with Tolstoy - Ubaydulla Asadullahozhaev and Abduvokhid Koriev. Analysis of the conversation between Tolstoy and Koriev shows that Askad Mukhtor was a knowledgeable representative of Eastern and Western literature.
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Loriggio, Francesco. "Italian Canadian italophone fiction: The works of Nino Famà." Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies 55, no. 3 (November 2021): 805–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00145858211049099.
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Within the Italian Canadian literary corpus, fiction written in Italian has occupied a special spot. Because Italian Canadian authors have written primarily in English or, secondarily, in French, works by italophone writers have had an even more meagre circulation than that, already itself quite reduced, enjoyed by their anglophone or francophone counterparts. Yet, despite this limitation or perhaps also because of it, Italian Canadian italophone is nonetheless literature which does raise important issues. Focusing on the short stories and novels of Nino Famà, this article traces those issues in order to show not only how they summarize the main thematic and stylistic gist of Italian Canadian italophone fiction but also, most importantly, how they relate to some of the concerns which have always been associated with the Western modern novel.
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Oramus, Dominika. "The Uncanny Robots of Pilot Pirx: Stanisław Lem’s Tales." Interlitteraria 21, no. 1 (July 4, 2016): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2016.21.1.12.
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There was a time when Stanisław Lem was the best sold and read writer in Poland (though he was even bigger in the Soviet Union and East Germany). His popularity steadily grew from the time of his debut and reached its apogee in the late nineteen-sixties. For literary critics the death of Lem ten years ago, in 2006, is a closure of his rich and diverse oeuvre, and this has opened new perspectives on ‘lemology’, which at the Polish language departments of some universities is a minor branch of literary studies. Indeed, in different decades of the 20th century Polish academia discussed Lem from a range of vantage points. In his lifetime Lem provoked conflicts and antagonisms. The aim of this paper is to discuss the presentation of a motif Lem often comes back to, namely the motif of the robot, in four of his short stories from the Pilot Pirx cycle. I shall do so in such a way as to show how different critical traditions contribute to my full understanding of the text. The stories I have chosen are “Terminus”, “The Hunt”, “The Accident” and “The Inquest”. I will also allude to “The Mask”. First I need to briefly describe how ‘lemology’ evolved in Poland and how it was prompted by Western criticism. Thereafter I will present the stories I have chosen. Finally, I am going to portray the development of the robot motif in the Pirx cycle in reference to both Polish and foreign critics.
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Damm, Jens. "Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan. Edited and translated by Fran Martin. [Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003. 248 pp. $18.95. ISBN 0-8248-2661-2.]." China Quarterly 176 (December 2003): 1116–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741003400635.
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This collection of ten short stories from the 1990s, translated and annotated by Fran Martin, highlights the importance of the topic “queer” in a non-Western context. Not only is the excellent quality of the translation worthy of mention; the familiarity of the author with queer theory, Taiwanese social history and Chinese literature in general is also outstanding.In her detailed introduction, Fran Martin illustrates vividly the relevance of tongzhi-literature (tongzhi wenxue is the expression currently used to describe the same-sex discourse in the Taiwanese world) within the broader transformation of Taiwanese society in general and “in the public discourse on sexualities” in particular (p. 2). She attributes the development of tongzhi-literature and the more recent sub-genre of ku'er-literature (ku'er wenxue or “queer literature”) to the rise of postmodernism (houxiandai zhuyi) in post martial-law Taiwan (p. 4–5).
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Plymire, Darcy C. "Too Much, Too Fast, Too Soon: Chinese Women Runners, Accusations of Steroid Use, and the Politics of American Track and Field." Sociology of Sport Journal 16, no. 2 (June 1999): 155–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.16.2.155.
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In the summer and fall of 1993, women from the People’s Republic of China set an astounding number of world records in track and field. Never had so many women performed so brilliantly in such a short period of time. American track and field journalists, however, responded with shock and outrage. Though the women had never tested positive for steroid use, these journalists insisted that the Chinese women could only have succeeded by using steroids. A qualitative discourse analysis of stories written by these journalists revealed that the case against the Chinese was made by privileging the voices of Western European and American athletes, coaches, and sport scientists, and discrediting the Chinese athletes and coaches. The case buttressed the authority of Western track and field experts and athletes whose dominance might otherwise have been shaken by the superior performances of the Chinese. However, the analysis also pointed to a conflict of interest among different factions of the American track and field establishment as scientists, coaches, athletes, and officials all attempted to distance themselves from blame for the prevalence of steroid use by focusing attention on the misdeeds of others.
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Binti Ismail, Hanita Hanim, and Mohammad Nusr Al-Subaihi. "STATES OF MALAY POWERLESSNESS IN THE WORKS OF CHE HUSNA AZHARI." Journal of Nusantara Studies (JONUS) 5, no. 1 (January 30, 2020): 211–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol5iss1pp211-233.
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Background and Purpose: The development of scholarship on Malaysian Literature in English (MLiE) continuously receives attention, especially on one particular direction, which is the studies of the Malays. Inspired by the Malay proverb “Diluah mati mak, ditelan mati bapa” (Malay for ‘between the devil and the deep sea), this study looked into local literature in relation to powerlessness and its social complexity where we argue that the Malays are often caught in-between entanglements that prohibit individualism, as due to societal prejudice.
Methodology: This study employed thematic analysis where upon familiarizing with Azhari’s short stories, namely Mariah and of Bunga Telur and Bally shoes, the researchers identified themes that help understand the types and causes of powerlessness as illustrated in the short stories before associating the Malays’ state of powerlessness and their emotional suppression.
Findings: Findings revealed that both genders suffer from the Malay prejudice and their own lack of emotional strength, causing both to be powerless captives in different contexts, unlike the Western societies where similar situations might lead to alienation.
Contributions: The study contributed towards the understanding of social phenomenon, namely issues regarding powerlessness among the Malays. Such contribution is significant at developing potentials within building national talent, especially those regarding family and spiritual values.
Keywords: Che Husna Azhari, emotional suppression, Malays, Malaysian literature in English, powerlessness.
Cite as: Ismail, H. H., & Al-Subaihi, M. N. (2020). States of Malay powerlessness in the works of Che Husna Azhari. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 5(1), 211-233. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol5iss1pp211-233
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Gremler, Claudia. "Looking for Redemption in a Globalized North: Representations of the Arctic in Judith Hermann’s Short Stories Kaltblau (Cold-Blue) and Die Liebe zu Ari Oskarsson (Love for Ari Oskarsson)." Nordlit 12, no. 1 (February 1, 2008): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.1192.
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This paper explores the literary representation of Iceland and Norway in two short stories by contemporary German writer Judith Hermann. It analyses both the depiction of these countries as part of the globalised western world and the redemptive power they are tentatively ascribed by the author. Continuing a long German tradition of looking at Scandinavia from an almost colonial perspective, Hermann on the one hand presents these northern countries as a mere extension of central Europe, largely devoid of distinguishing national characteristics. At the same time she makes reference to the topos of the north as a vast and empty space and highlights both the specific arctic nature of the environment and the effect it has on her urban characters, who find themselves on a search for meaning and orientation in a postmodern fragmented world. Despite Hermann's overall sceptical attitude towards her characters' quest for happiness, these northern locations ultimately appear as potential places of self-realisation and enlightenment.
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Zarimis, Maria. "The Influence of Darwinian Ideas on Greek Literary Writers of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: The Case of Emmanuel Roidis." Historical Review/La Revue Historique 4 (November 20, 2008): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/hr.213.
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<p>Darwin's works provoked an enormous response in many disciplines including the literary world. This paper presents a portion of my doctoral thesis3, which responds to a blind spot in Greek literary scholarship on evolutionary ideas in comparison to other Western countries. Little work to date focuses on modern Greek writers's responses to Darwinian and other evolutionary ideas. This paper explores the impact of Darwin in selected writings of Emmanuel Roidis and how Roidis satirised Darwinism in his essays and short stories, contributing to the Darwinian discourse on "man's place in nature" and by placing humanity on the same continuum as other primates. The year 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the first publication of his <em>The Origin of Species</em>. It is timely, then, to consider Darwin's impact on modern Greek literature.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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Benvegnù, Damiano. "Deadly Mirrors: Animal Death in Tommaso Landolfi and Stefano D'Arrigo." Paragraph 42, no. 1 (March 2019): 76–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2019.0289.
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From Hegel to Heidegger and Agamben, modern Western philosophy has been haunted by how to think the connections between death, humanness and animality. This article explores how these connections have been represented by Italian writers Tommaso Landolfi (1908–79) and Stefano D'Arrigo (1919–92). Specifically, it investigates how the death of a nonhuman animal is portrayed in two works: ‘Mani’, a short story by Landolfi collected in his first book Il dialogo dei massimi sistemi (Dialogue on the Greater Harmonies) (1937), and D'Arrigo's massive novel Horcynus Orca (Horcynus Orca) (1975). Both ‘Mani’ and Horcynus Orca display how the fictional representation of the death of a nonhuman animal challenges any philosophical positions of human superiority and establishes instead animality as the unheimlich mirror of the human condition. In fact, in both stories, the animal — a mouse and a killer whale, respectively — do die and their deaths represent a mise en abyme that both arrests the human narrative and sparks a moment of acute ontological recognition.
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Denning, Kathryn. "Is life what we make of it?" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369, no. 1936 (February 13, 2011): 669–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0230.
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Although astrobiological or SETI detections are possible, actual invasions of sentient extra-terrestrials or plagues of escaped alien microbes are unlikely. Therefore, an anthropological perspective on the question suggests that in the event of a detection, the vast majority of humanity will be dealing not with extra-terrestrial life itself (whether intelligent or not, local or distant), but with human perceptions and representations of that alien life. These will, inevitably, derive from the powerful influences of culture and individual psychology, as well as from science. It may even be argued that in most detection scenarios, the scientific data (and debates about their interpretation) will be nigh-irrelevant to the unfolding of international public reaction. ‘Extra-terrestrial life’ will, in short, go wild. From this premise, some key questions emerge, including: what can scientists reasonably do to prepare, and what should their responsibilities be, particularly with respect to information dissemination and public discussions about policy? Then, moving beyond the level of immediate practicalities, we might also ask some more anthropological questions: what are the cultural substrates underneath the inquiries of Western science into extra-terrestrial life? In particular, what are the stories we have been told about discovery of rare life, and about contact with other beings, and do these stories really mean what we think they do? Might a closer look at those narratives help us gain perspective on the quest to find extra-terrestrial life, and on our quest to prepare for the consequences of detection?
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Pal, Debarati. "Feminist Analysis of Adaptations of the Ramayana." Integrated Journal for Research in Arts and Humanities 2, no. 5 (September 1, 2022): 13–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.55544/ijrah.2.5.3.
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Ramayana and Mahabharata have seen many adaptations down the centuries. Recent ones like Volga’s The Liberation of Sita or Amish Tripathi’s Sita: Warrior of Mithila take up the woman question and reinterpret the story from a feminist perspective. This paper attempts to discuss the above nuances with reference to feminist critics like Wollstonecraft and Butler while also referring to other reinterpretations of the epic. I will discuss the short stories of Volga through a feminist lens and focus on the questioning of the caste system in Tripathi. Not only will I use Western texts but also refer to Indian texts like the Manusmriti to give a theoretical grounding to some of the basic understandings obtained. I will base some of my opinions on the popular reception of Ramayana across the country as documented by Madhu Kishwar. Other texts by Kavita Kane or Nabaneeta Dev Sen will also be take up to get a better understanding of the woman writing about another woman. It will come up through these discussions that the love for Ramayana is not only based on an unequivocal worshiping of Ram, but an equal questioning of his acts and a sympathetic identification with Sita.
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Oró-Piqueras, Maricel. "The Pain and Irony of Death in Julian Barnes's Memoirs Nothing to Be Frightened Of and Levels of Life." European Journal of Life Writing 10 (April 22, 2021): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.36183.
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Julian Barnes is one of the best-known contemporary British authors, not only for his taste for formal experimentation well-documented in the novels and short stories he has published since the 1980s, but also for his obsession with death. Despite the fact that death – as a prime concern expressed through his characters’ discussions, particularly when they are in their old age – has been present in most of Barnes fictional works, the topic becomes centre-stage in the two memoirs that he has published, namely, Nothing to Be Frightened Of (2008) and Levels of Life (2013). In his memoirs, Barnes connects his personal experience with the works of philosophers and writers and with the experiences of those around him with the aim of trying to discern how he himself and, by extension, his own contemporaries and Western society have dealt with death. For Barnes, writing becomes a therapy to confront his own existential fears as well as traumatic experiences – such as the sudden death of his wife as described in Levels of Life – at the same time that he reflects on the place death occupies in contemporary times.
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Štefl, Martin. "“A Very Remarkable Piece of Iron”: Towards a Theory of Material Imagination in Virginia Woolf’s “Solid Objects”." Prague Journal of English Studies 3, no. 1 (September 1, 2014): 19–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2014-0015.
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Abstract This article examines the supposed lack of “humanity” in Woolf’s short stories and novels by identifying its source in the sphere of “solid objects” and in the way these “objects” destabilize the coherence of what the western philosophical tradition typically refers to as “subject” (in the Cartesian sense). Referring to Moore’s direct realism as well as James’s and Mach’s radical empiricism, the discussion focuses on specific states of heightened perceptive intensity in which the perceiving subject stumbles on the verge of collapse and “mixes” itself with what it perceives. By considering these limit cases, this paper tries to demonstrate the way in which Woolf’s fiction might in fact be understood as illustrative of the process of de-humanizing de-centralization and dispersion of the already fluid consciousness and its blending with the impersonal material objects, resulting in a complete loss of one idea of “the human” (an idea based on the intellectual autonomy and sovereignty of a unified subject) and pointing towards a post-human and post-modern condition in which human becomes defined by the ever-widening circle of its own outside
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Kaland, Constantijn, and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. "Repetition Reduction Revisited: The Prosody of Repeated Words in Papuan Malay." Language and Speech 63, no. 1 (January 8, 2019): 31–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023830918820044.
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It has frequently been shown that speakers prosodically reduce repeated words in discourse. This phenomenon has been claimed to facilitate speech recognition and to be language universal. In particular, the relationship between the information value of a word in a discourse context and its prosodic prominence have been shown to correlate. However, a literature review provided in this paper reveals that most evidence comes from English, where prosodic marking of information status often coincides with repetition reduction. The current study investigates to what extent repetition reduction occurs in Papuan Malay, spoken in the western part of the island of New Guinea (Indonesia). The work on Papuan Malay prosody available to date suggests fundamental differences compared to English and other Germanic languages. An acoustic analysis is carried out on repeated words in short stories produced by native Papuan Malay speakers. The results show that upon repetition, words were shortened and produced with higher F0. In a subsequent word identification task, it was found that first and second mentions were equally intelligible. Conclusions partially confirm previous work and challenge theories on how the prosody and information value of a word are related.
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Romejko, Adam. "The Poles in Vienna in the literary works of Radek Knapp." Review of Nationalities 12, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): 159–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pn-2022-0012.
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Abstract Migration is a phenomenon accompanying humanity from its beginnings. The issue of migration is dealt with not only by scholars, but also by writers and novelists. Among them is Radek Knapp (1964-) from Warsaw, who came to Vienna at the age of twelve, and where he lives to this day. In his novels and short stories, Knapp presents the reality of Vienna and its inhabitants from the perspective of ordinary people. Among them are people from Poland who settled in Austria looking for a better life there. They quickly experience that you have to work hard in the Western Paradise. Failures are not uncommon life experiences. Knapp, writing about Vienna and its inhabitants, those from many generations and the newest ones, does so with a specific sense of humour. One of his most popular works is the novel Mr. Kuka’s Recommendations (1999). It has been translated from the original German into the following languages: Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Italian, Polish and Russian. It became the basis for the script of a feature film with the same title (2007). It is worth emphasizing that no works by Knapp were published in English.
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Kononchuk, Oksana. "The artistic word and the “Language Issue” based on the M. A. Jamalzadeh writings." Vìsnik Marìupolʹsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu. Serìâ: Fìlologìâ 13, no. 23 (2020): 43–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-3055-2020-13-23-43-50.
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The paper is dedicated to the research of the specifics of the reflection of the “language issue” in the writings of M. A. Jamalzadeh – the founder of the modern short story in the Persian literature and to the influence and role of the artistic word in addressing this issue. In spite of the fact that there was one official national language in Iran and that it was the Persian language there was a great gap between the strata of the Iranian society and a huge misunderstanding between those strata because of the language differences of the Persian language spoken by them. The representatives of the Iranian clergy, the majority of poets, writers and scientists used plenty of Arabic words, phrases, quotes, whole sentences in their “Persian”. On the other hand, the Europeanized intellectuals used plenty of words borrowed from Western European languages, mainly from the French language. Both of these versions of the “Persian” were not understandable for common people, neither was the Persian literature, especially prose, created in Iran since XVI–XVII centuries till the very beginning of the XX century. Those were the issues to be addressed and the prominent intellectuals of Iran took the responsibility to deal with them. In 1921 young but much talented writer Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh published his first book – the collection of short stories “Yeki Bud Va Yeki Nabud” (“Once Upon a Time”) and wrote a detailed preface to it in which he expressed his thoughts and ideas on the issue of the Persian language and the Persian literature. He invited the Iranian writers to write their works using new European literary genres, to use clear and understandable Persian and to enrich language of their writings by using elements of live folk speech. This preface became a manifesto of the new generation of the Iranian writers and intellectuals and played a great role in the formation of new Persian prose and in the solution of the problem of the national language of Iran. The stories of the collection “Yeki Bud Va Yeki Nabud” were the artistic illustrations of the ideas of its author proclaimed in the preface. In the brightest way the ideas of Jamalzadeh were embodied in the short story “Farsi Shekar Ast” (“The Persian is Sugar”) which is recognized to be the first Persian short story written in accordance with the rules of this genre in the modern European literature. In this short story M. A. Jamalzadeh managed using artistic methods and means to show much of beauty, richness and diversity of the Persian language and at the same time to show the problem of misunderstanding between the strata of the Iranian society, to show the huge cognitive dissonance between clergy and intellectuals on one hand and those who they were responsible for on the other. The next generation of the Iranian writers followed M. A. Jamalzadeh and in the next years the situation with the Persian language and literature in Iran has much changed.