“How Can You Use Two Languages and Mean What You Say in Both?”1: On Translating Margaret Atwood’s Poetry into Spanish

Scenes:Texas Review Press an interview with Paul Ruffin Paul Ruffin Could you briefly describe Texas Review Press's history? It all began with a $500 fund that my dean set up when I arrived at SHSU, an amount that he suggested would allow me to begin a literary journal to replace Whetstone/The Stone Drum, which Joe Murphy had edited before I got there. Joe and the dean had a serious falling out—the journal collapsed, and Joe left. I was hired for that vacancy. In 1976, I brought out the first issue of The Sam Houston Literary Review, a biannual 64-page stapled journal focusing on regional poetry and fiction. We got on the map with our very first issue, though, since a story by Walt McDonal, "The Track," was selected for at Texas Institute of Letters fiction award that year. Within two years, we were publishing solid fiction and poetry from all across the country. Early on I had it in my mind to start up a literary press, but such an enterprise requires the commitment of a great deal of money, something that I didn't have. I managed to lay aside a little bit of money from sales over my first three years of operation and in 1979 brought out our first book, The Texas Anthology, a collection of Texas poetry and photography. It was not a resounding success, though we sold a few hundred copies over the next couple of years. When I went back to the Consortium in 1997, they agreed to take us on. At that point, Texas Review Press became a genuine university press. Suddenly, our books, represented by the Consortium, began sell, permitting me to publish even more books each year. We expanded our annual list to 6, then 8, then 10. Once we got really rolling, I introduced 2 annual international competitions: the George Garrett Fiction Prize for the best novel or collection of short stories and the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize for the best full-length collection of poetry. I then added the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize and the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. Click for larger view View full resolution Cover, George Garrett: A Critical Biography Today, we publish between 20 and 24 books a year, usually fiction, poetry, and essays, and I would argue that our authors are among the best you'll find anywhere. Click for larger view View full resolution Detail from cover, Genesis in Japan: The Bible Beyond Christianity How would you characterize the work you publish? Most of our books are novels, collections of short stories, books of familiar essay, and collections of poetry, though we also release literary studies, histories, and biographies. We run our four international competitions, but our most important role, I think, is to promote writers from our state and region. Hence, a good number of our books each year are by Texas authors and writers from other Southern states. For example, in my 2013 list, I have books by Texas writers Brian Carr, Sarah Cortez, Joe Haske, Beryl Lawn, Mike Lieberman, Juan Ochoa, and Clay Reynolds, and I have books by Southern writers Jack Bedell, Richard Boada, Jack Butler, Casey Clabough, Thomas Dabbs, David Havird, and Tim Parrish. One of the greatest contributions we make to Southern literature (and I certainly regard Texas as Southern) is the publication of our annual Southern Poetry Anthology, the most comprehensive representation of Southern poets that I know anything about. With the exception of one regional edition, Contemporary Appalachia, co-editor Will Wright and I have been going state by state. First we brought out SPA I: South Carolina, followed by Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia. The rest of the Southern states will follow. These are thick anthologies that showcase the very best poetry of the region, and they have been quite popular as university classroom textbooks. Another thing we are doing to promote literature in the region is to publish through our annual Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series a full-length collection of poetry by an author who has not managed to break out with that all-important first book. Last year, we brought out Walking Safari by Mississippian Noel Polk...

The book of Jokes on Corruption, a collection of short stories, is a book by Agus Noor, which was published in 2017. There are many other short stories that also have the same theme as the main short stories or short stories that have become icons and even become titles in short story collections. In research discussing the cover of a collection of joke short stories for corruptors, book covers are always iconic and also give the first impression on book readers. The icons created by the illustrator are also not arbitrary and have a meaning that makes a book perfect. Like the illustration of a doll that depicts corruptors who are caught, it turns out to be just a doll or the victim of a group of other corruptors. The method used in this research is to use a qualitative descriptive method with Charles Sanders Pierce's semiotic analysis approach, so signs in images can be classified with semiotics such as icons, indexes, and symbols, but in this study the focus is more on icons. The results of the research produce meanings that will be understood by many people who read them.

The purpose of this study is to find out what forms of social classes occur from the collection of short stories through behavior, attitudes of characters in the collection of short stories "Back to the Base of the Road" by Yusrizal K.W. And find out the factors causing social conflict in the collection of short stories "Back to the Base of the Road" by Yusrizal K.W. Using Karl Marx's theory of social conflict. This research uses a qualitative approach description method. The data from the study is data in the form of words, phrases, expressions, and sentences contained in the collection of short stories "Kembali ke Pangkal Jalan" by Yusrizal K.W. published in October 2004 by Kompas, Jakarta, which are 14 titles of short stories selected by Yusrizal KW written from the 2000s to 2004, and only 9 titles want to be analyzed because of social themes. The results of this study are the factors causing social conflict in the collection of short stories "Kembali Pangkal Jalan" by Yusrizal K.W. Social conflict in the collection of short stories "Kembali Pangkal Jalan Karya Yusrizal K.W" bourgeoisie or ruling class and proletariat or class that has no power. The ruling upper class is the people who own the means of production such as merchant societies, subdistrict mothers, rich people, leaders, while the lower class (proletariat) who have the power and do not have the means of production like thug gangs. lay people, poor families.

This research is motivated by the existence of moral values ​​contained in the collection of short stories of Men in the City of Gawai and the phenomenon of adolescent moral decline in Indonesia. The objectives of this study are (1) to describe the moral values ​​in a collection of short stories for men in the city of Gawai. (2) Produce teaching materials for learning literature in junior high schools that are developed from moral values ​​in the collection of short stories for Men in the City of Gawai. This research design uses descriptive qualitative research. The subject of this research is the moral value of a collection of short stories entitled Men in the City of Gawai by Kholis Kurnia wati et al. The data used are excerpts of sentences and paragraphs containing moral values ​​in a collection of short stories, while the source of data is obtained from a collection of short stories by Kholis Kurnia Wati et al entitled Men in the City of Gawai. Methods and techniques of data collection in this study is the method of reading with a note-taking technique. The method and analysis technique used is descriptive analysis method. The results of this research collection of short stories of Men in Gawai City contain the moral value of human relations with God, human relations with themselves, human relations with fellow humans. The moral value of a collection of short stories for Men in the City of Gawai can be formulated as teaching materials in the form of handouts of review texts for class VIII in junior high school at KD 3.11 and KD 4.11.

The purpose of this study was to describe (1) the characters, characterizations, and background, (2) a form of Islamic morals in the Lembah Kehidupan (Collection of Short Stories) by M. By Husseyn Umar. The research is a qualitative research. The research data is qualitative data in the form of dialogue phrases, sentences, paragraphs or units in Lembah Kehidupan (Collection of Short Stories) by M. Husseyn Umar. The primary data source is the Lembah Kehidupan (Collection of Short Stories) by M. Husseyn Umar issued by PT. Fikahati Aneska cooperation with BANI Arbitration Centre in 2013. The research instrument is the researchers themselves are equipped with a set of theories about the characters, characterizations, background, theoretical form of Islamic moral and pragmatic theory of literature. Data collection methods using a reading method, record, and library. Analysis data was conducted using the qualitative descriptive technique. The results of the study are as follows. (1) Figures, characterizations, and background in the Lembah Kehidupan (Collection of Short Stories) consists of, the main character is Hamid, he is a hard-working (short story "Antara Manusia dan Hukum"), Sudaraman is discipline (short story "Pelantikan"), Harun is a religious (short story “Perkawinan”), Kaharudin is a candor (short story "Menjual Bantuan"), Mr. Sharif is a hard-working (short story "Lembah Kehidupan”). The background used in the Lembah Kehidupan (Collection of Short Stories) that is setting of the place, time, and social background. (2) a form of Islamic morality contained in the Lembah Kehidupan (Collection of Short Stories) by M. Husseyn Umar includes a) a form of Islamic morality based on human relationship with yourself is hard work, courageous, patient, b) a form of Islamic morality based on human relationships through others that responsibility, honest, firm establishment, shame, trust, love and attention to her husband, between friends, respect, superiors and subordinates, parents advices to children, the love of parents to children, the love child of parents , the love between friends, the responsibility of parents advices to children, the responsibility between friends, c) moral form of Islam based on human relationship with God is grateful, pray to God, pray, and faith.

From Communicative Minimum to Intertextuality and Symbolism: Peter Svetina’s Children’s Literature Igor Saksida (bio) Peter Svetina’s children’s literature begins with easily understandable, sometimes explicit patterns of communication: his first two animal fairy tales, The Walrus Who Didn’t Want to Cut His Nails (O mrožku, ki si ni hotel striči nohtov; 1999) and The Little Walrus Gets Glasses (Mrožek dobi očala; 2003), deal with the issue of difference and acceptance, establishing a sort of inter-textual dialogue, with older texts focusing on similar problem-oriented topics. After his first forays into children’s literature, Svetina’s poetry and stories developed along two distinct paths: toward language play on the one hand, and toward realistic topics on the other. However, both developments reflect the author’s distinctive poetics of combining nonsense and realism, including problem-focused fiction. Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution Svetina’s collections of poetry are extremely varied and represent one of the high points of contemporary Slovenian poetry. Svetina’s first book of verse, By-World (Mimosvet; 2001), could be labeled as a collection of problem poetry, although growing up is not shown against a background of symbolic concepts, typical of children’s and young adult poetry at the time; instead, the poems show the reality as childlike and playful. Svetina’s return to the flashes from the uncomplicated (but not naive or idealized) children’s world is one of the foremost characteristics of his poetics of the “communicative minimum,” which transcends the tradition of the complex linguistic innovation of late modernist poetry. On the other hand, language play is the basis of the brilliant Poems from the Washing Machine (Pesmi iz pralnega stroja; 2006), wherein Svetina combines nonsense with taboo words and a lyrical attitude toward nature; many of the texts in the book are also visual poems, meaning that the collection provides the youngest readers with a glimpse of the possibilities of poetic expression without ever being pushy about it. Even in Svetina’s mixed-genre collection of poems and short stories, The Lumber Room (Ropotarna; 2012), nonsense can be [End Page 47] sensed as the common creative basis. As the award justification by the jury for the 2013 Večernica Award explained, “The Lumber Room is an organised chaos of tiny treasures, patiently waiting for the reader to pick them up and blow the dust off them. The writer’s skilful navigation between poetry and prose, between the conscious and the subconscious, is merely playful fluctuation, full of rhetorical figures that with a particular dynamics take the reader from the real to the irrational, from the mighty to the nonsensical…. A ramble through Svetina’s Lumber Room leads to a more creative read, full of elusive twists and turns” (Haramija 85). Svetina’s Homework (Domače naloge; 2014), another collection of poetry, moves away from the poetics of language play; although one can still detect wordplay typical of nonsense poetry (e.g., play with letters, unusual neologisms), the poems are predominantly based on the real world of the modern child, who is not just playful and appreciative of the wonders of nature, but also sometimes lonely: For Grandma to Come for us to school,for kitty to wait for uson our doorstep. For someone to be homewhen we come from school,for us not to be alone, I ask you, our Father,I ask you, mom. (“Homework on Prayer”) and aware of impermanence: On a white fielda crow pecksforgotten autumn’sbreadcrumbs. From afar, it lookslike a breadcrumbitself. Will it be peckedas well? (“Homework on Crows”) Click for larger view View full resolution A similar topic is at the center of Prayers from the Steps (Molitvice s stopnic; 2016), a book based on a rarely touched-upon theme of children’s poetry, a child’s reflections on God. The collection also deals with gratitude but also fear, aging, and intergenerational dialogue. As such, the collection could easily slip into moralization or idealization; however, Svetina avoids both pitfalls. His reflections are not pre-abstract and allow young readers a chance to...

The purpose of this study is to describe the values of Minangkabau culture in a collection of short stories 'Carito Etek Siar-Indak Tau Diatah Takunyah' Amir Adriyeti work. Study of the theory in this study, namely: (1) the nature of literature, (2) the nature and elements of the short story, (3) literary analysis approach, (4) the nature and cultural values. This research is qualitative research with descriptive method. The data in this study are the values of Minangkabau culture in a collection of short stories 'Carito Etek Siar- Indak tau Diatah Takunyah' Amir Adriyeti work. Data source is a collection of short stories 'Carito Etek Siar-Indak Tau Diatah Takunyah' Amir Adriyeti work. The sections relating to research data were analyzed by means of reading, understand, appreciate, identify, and noting how cultural values contained in a collection of short stories. Data was collected by means of read carefully the short story collection 'Carito Etek Siar-Indak Tau Diatah Takunyah' Amir Adriyeti work, in order to get an overall understanding of the content of the story, marking the structure section contains the description of the values of Minangkabau culture in it , identifying cultural values contained in a collection of short stories 'Carito Etek Siar- Indak Tau Diatah Takunyah' Amir Adriyeti work. Data analysis techniques, an inventory of data, translating data into Indonesian, classifies data based on the problems presented in this study, the data that have been classified and analyzed based on the theory that has been described, after the data were analyzed, do inference. After analysis, it was found Minangkabau cultural values contained in a collection of short stories 'Carito Etek Siar-Indak Tau Diatah Takunyah' Amir Adriyeti work. Minangkabau cultural values consists of values of 6 pieces of religious systems, the values of kinship in Minangkabau society 4 pieces, and the values of livelihood system 5 pieces.

Eudora Welty and the Short-Story Cycle:A Report on My Research at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Ikuko Takeda As the recipient of the 2015 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship, I stayed in Jackson and researched at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History from May 18 to 30, 2015. In this report, I would like to demonstrate how the primary resources at MDAH helped me to elaborate my plans for my project. My dissertation focuses on the short-story cycle as a genre in terms of the historical and cultural context of the American South. A short-story cycle, sometimes referred to as a story sequence or a composite novel, is a collection of short stories in which each story is independent, but simultaneously interrelated to one another. Southern writers have produced many masterpieces of the short-story cycle, including Cane by Jean Toomer, Georgia Boy by Erskine Caldwell, Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner, and, of course, The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty, and—if we find the book not merely a collection of stories but a work that should be read as a whole—Welty’s The Wide Net and Other Stories. The reasons each writer has used the form differ, yet we might say the form has been an apt medium with which to represent a complicated, hybrid, southern society. In my dissertation, I will examine the ways in which the short-story cycle has provided a unique generic framework for representing and investigating the complex interplay of contending forces that constitute what we think of as “the South.” The MDAH holdings that helped me to get a fuller sense of Welty’s notion of connected short stories include: Series 1: Uncollected Stories; Series 5: The Golden Apples and Related Works; and Series 29: Correspondence. Series 1: Uncollected Stories includes “The Children” and “Beautiful Ohio,” which become respectively “At The Landing” and “The Winds” in The Wide Net. Studying the ways in which Welty changed the subjects and techniques through these works allowed me to understand how she made the stories in the volume connect to one another. “The Flower and the Rock,” which is included in Series 5: The Golden Apples and Related Works and later published as “Music from Spain,” is very important for my project. Welty wrote “The Flower and the Rock” before she realized its [End Page 159] connection with the other stories that would become The Golden Apples. Comparing these two stories, I tried to articulate what Welty accomplished by adopting the form. Finally, Welty’s letters to her editors and friends collected in Series 29: Correspondence gave me an insight into Welty’s interpretation of the short story, novel, and short-story cycle. Series 1: Uncollected Stories—“The Children” and “Beautiful Ohio” Although The Wide Net and Other Stories is, as its title shows, a collection of short stories, a few scholars have considered the book to be a short-story cycle. Susan V. Donaldson notes, for instance, Welty “suggests in The Wide Net’s sequence of stories the possibility of a new aesthetic of short fiction, one for which questioning, openness, and transformation constitute both subject and technique” (99). As Welty and Russell discussed a “Natchez Trace collection,” they questioned where and how to collect or publish The Robber Bridegroom (Kreyling 62). Since there are many differences between the settings, plots, and characters in “The Children,” an unpublished typescript held by MDAH, and “At The Landing,” it is difficult to tell how Welty changed the former into the latter in order to collect the story in The Wide Net. As Mary Hughes Brookhart and Suzanne Marrs note, however, one of the biggest differences between the two stories is that in “‘At The Landing’ Welty’s use of setting provides an infinitely more complex vision” (89). In “The Children,” the garden, the setting for the story, seems to have no relation to the heroine Nora’s love for Thomas and his disinterest in her. On the other hand, in “At The Landing,” Welty chooses the setting of the story as The Landing, a landing in name only, now that the water...

This research focuses on the influence of feminism in the stories contained in the book collection of short stories by Ihan Sunrise. This study aims to describe the forms of discrimination against Acehnese women and gender equality in Ihan Sunrise’s works throught a collection of short stories by Rihon. The research method used is a qualititative descriptive method with a literature study approach. Based on data analysis, the results of this study show that the works in the collection of Rihon short stories contain elements of feminism. Discrimination of women in Aceh that occurred for years in social strata. The different treatment of women from men in community life has given birth of the Acehnese women’s feminist movement.

Poor Man’s Love Song Shann Ray (bio) Is there anything pureanymore? Not me,I know. But you well, yes, hell yes you arepure sweet vintage is what I hearsung in hardwood cathedrals from way back,the sound going on forever andso good to the ear, like medicine soothe my soul soft sweet pure swishpure honey money swish snap whap thwapsweet sweat rhythm deep fade swish three thunder on the mountain wherelightning strikes, so let it rainpure money swish coin cash love light that light that match so it rainsfire pure fire en fuego fuegofire on fire so every forest blazes pure true cotton cash moneycotton cash money honeyswish sweet cold cash money cotton honey, honey honey love, honey pure love pure honey love. [End Page 177] Shann Ray Shann Ray’s collection of short stories, American Masculine, received the American Book Award, the High Plains Book Award, and the Bakeless Prize. He is also the author of the debut novel American Copper; a work of political theory, Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity; and Balefire, a poetry collection. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Montana Quarterly, Narrative, Northwest Review, and Poetry. He spent part of his childhood on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeast Montana and has lived in Alaska, Canada, and Germany. A systems psychologist focusing on the psychology of men, he now lives with his wife and three daughters in Spokane, Washington, where he teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University. Copyright © 2015 University of Nebraska Press

Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women and The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose are two literaryworks that hardly fit into one single literary category. Critics of all quarters are at one and of the same mind as to the slippery and elusive nature of Alice’s art. However, despite being approached by some critics as a collection of short stories, Alice’s narrative seems to embody a sub-genre that is particular of the Canadian literary tradition, which is the short story cycle. Also known as the composite or episodic novel, the story collection or the linked stories, this genre could be briefly defined as a sequence of short stories that are linked through a unifying element, like a character, the setting or the story. Characterized, as it is, with its fragmentary nature and its openness, this genre compels its researcher to look into its origins and its implications at the level of content. Few studies have been carried on this genre to provide the necessary grounds for an elaborate research on it. Forrest L. Ingram’s work Representative Short Story Cycles of the Twentieth Century is the first academic work that provides a consistent definition for the short story cycle as a genre. On the other hand, Gerald Lynch’s The One and the Many: English-Canadian Short Story Cycles examines the sine qua non tension between the parts and the whole of the versatile form of the short story cycle in Canada. With reference to Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women and The Beggar Maid as two representatives of the short story cycle, I attempt to examine the inscription of this sub-genre, and map its evolutionover the last centuries in Canadian literature.Keywords: Short story cycle, genre studies, Canadian literature

This research aimed at describing and explaining about (1) the style of language used in the Short Story of Di Tubuh Tara, Dalam Rahim Pohon; (2) the value of character education contained in Di Tubuh Tara, Dalam Rahim Pohon; (3) the relevance of the Short Story in Di Tubuh Tara, Dalam Rahim Pohon as a literary learning material. The results of this study indicate that, (1) language style there are 35 data, namely simile; metaphor; personification; allegory; hyperbole; satire; irony; pleonase; periphrasis. (2) The value of character education there are 20 data, that is social care; honest; religious; responsible; curiosity; like to read; environmental care; love the homeland; appreciate achievement; hard work; independent; spirit of nationality; creative; love peace. (3) A collection of short stories In Tara's Body In The Womb Tree is one of a collection of short stories that can be made as teaching material at school. Because in addition to the collection of short stories that have a beautiful but easy to understand language style, the collection of short stories also have a different theme from one work to another, and in accordance with the subjects of Indonesian language, literary learning, especially the appreciation of short stories in high school.

Chicago novelist, poet, editor, translator, coiner of the term xicanisma,' Ana Castillo is the author of four collections of poetry, three novels, one collection of short stories, and one collection of essays. Her fourth novel, Peel My Love like an Onion, will be published this year by W.W. Norton, as will her next collection of poetry. Castillo's first novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters,2 received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for presentation at bookfairs in Frankfurt, Buenos Aires, and elsewhere. Her next novel, Sapogonia,3 was sprawling political work which showed great promise but suffered from lack of editing. But it was her So Far from God,4 novel that documented the spiritualism of the Chicano communities of northern New Mexico, that brought Castillo international critical acclaim. The Los Angeles Times raved that So Far from God was the U.S. equivalent of One Hundred Years of Solitude. The Washington Post called it a hymn to the endurance of women.5 Similar praise was forthcoming from Latin America and Europe, making Castillo one of the best-known American authors outside of the U.S.

The article provides an overview of Slovenian translations of Polish literature in the 2019’s and 2020’s and reviewers’ responses to these works. A total of 23 translations of books were published in 2019, including five literary works (three collections of poetry and two novels). Among the 13 published translations of the following year there were eight literary works (one drama, a collection of short stories, three novels and three collections of poetry). The publishing of e-books also increased significantly in 2020. The published translations give Slovenian readers access to familiar, mostly world-renowned authors such as O. Tokarczuk, Z. Herbert, W. Szymborska, C. Miłosz, I. Karpowicz, while works by I. Ostachowicz, B. Nowicka, A. Kulisiewicz, J. Małecki, R. Franczak, and K. Dąbrowska were translated into Slovenian for the first time. With the exception of J. Kochanowski’s drama, all of the literary works translated were from the second half of the 20th century or the 21st century.

Cultural Values And Locality In The Collection Of Daily Merapi Short Stories “Lintang Johar Cikal Bakal Mataram Islam” By Iis Suwartini. The presence of literary works is closely related to the culture that exists in society. Literary works exist as a means to invite people to live in tune with the existing culture. In line with this, this study aims to determine the values of Javanese culture and locality contained in the Kumoulan Kompas Daily Short Story "Lintang Johar Cikal Bakal Mataram Islam" by iis Suwartini. This research is descriptive qualitative research. The main data source which is the object of study in this research is the Kompas Daily Short Story Collection published in 2021 by Iis Suwartini. Retrieval of research data is done through heuristic reading techniques. The interactive data analysis technique from Miles & Huberman is a data analysis technique which includes techniques of: (1) collecting data, (2) reducing data, (3) presenting data, and (4) drawing conclusions. This research produces written data. The results of the study show that the cultural values contained in a collection of short stories are 1) the nature of human life, 2) the nature of human work, 3) the nature of human position in space and time, 4) the nature of the relationship between humans and nature, and 5) the nature of the relationship between humans. The locality that appears is the locality of Java, which has been successfully identified through the characters, plot, setting, style of language and story title. Overall, this research is expected to be a basis for bringing up relevant research related to cultural values and locality in literary works.