Collection Of Stories Research Articles

The Concept of Journey: A Semilogical Study of Joan London’s Novel Gilgamesh

Joan London (born in 1948) is an Australian author of novels, plays and short stories. She is the author of two collections of stories, Sister A-Ships (1986) and Letter to Constantine (1994). In 2001, she published her novel which is inspired by the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh which is a saga novel covering three generations of a family. Mrs. London, however, does not hold her to that epic, she offers it a new reading, she pours a new wine in an old bottle. The backbone in Mrs. London’s novel is the journey that Edith, the heroine takes in search for Aram, her illegitimate child’s father. Inspired by the journey of Gilgamesh, her journey is mainly allegorical. It is a journey that leads to maturity and wisdom. The novel is interesting from a semiological point of view because of the role the signs and symbols in conveying the themes of the novel, the plot and the characters

Bilal Fadl’ın Sittü’l-Hâcce Mısr Adlı Hikâye Koleksiyonu ve 2011 Mısır Devrimi

The revolution that took place on January 25, 2011 was unexpected for many political and scientific experts. Indeed, the possibility of a revolution in Egypt, which had not lived under any other regime other than authoritarianism for a long time, was seen as low. Egypt has experienced many crises throughout its history and, like other Arab nations, has not had the chance to legitimately express its dissatisfaction with the authoritarian style of governance. In authoritarian regimes where the minority rules the majority, attempts have been made to prevent the reactions of those opposing the regime who are dissatisfied with this style of governance by using counter-force. There is an intolerance by dictatorial regimes against those who do not think like them, that is, against the opposition. However, it is a fact that there have been brave individuals in every era who have stood up against oppression and tried to awaken people. Although many observers have stated that the conditions in Tunisia and Egypt during the Arab Spring were incomparable, the unexpected Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia has shown how rotten and oppressive dictatorial regimes are. The events of January 2011 prove this to be the case. This article examines Bilal Fadl’s collection of stories, Sittu’l-Hajja Misr. Sittu’l-Hajja Misr is an example of the role of Egyptian literature in the 2011 Revolution. Literature and poetry have played an important role in modern Egyptian history, especially in the struggle for independence against the British and the 1952 revolution. The contribution of literature to the mobilization of the masses is undeniable. This tradition, which was suppressed during the Mubarak dictatorship but did not disappear, was revived with the 2011 Revolution. While poetry, songs and slogans fanned the flames of the revolution, prose reflected what was happening. Literature could only play this role by using the Ammi language (Polish) to reach a wide segment of the population. Reaching the masses was possible only with a simple, understandable spoken language. Bilal Fadl published his collection of stories, Sittu’l-Hajja Misr, in 2012, a year after the revolution, which he thought was not yet over. Bilal Fadl follows Egyptian politics with a critical eye and continues to be part of the ongoing historical process. Key Words: Bilal Fadl, Sittu'l-Hajja Misr, 25 January 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Arab Spring, Egypt.

《小夫人金钱赠年少》中的“志诚”观及其与《金瓶梅》的互文性

The main purpose of Feng Menglong's creation of "Sanyan" (Three Collections of Short Stories) is to educate the general public. He adopted the principle of correspondence in the arrangement of the stories, that is, the titles of every two volumes form an antithetical couplet, and the contents complement and echo each other. Among them, Chapter 15 and Chapter 16 of Jing Shi Tong Yan (Stories to Warn the World) complement and echo each other, jointly expressing the theme of "sincerity and loyalty". In the aspect of realm, "sincerity and loyalty" is manifested as "stillness in the absence of movement and existence in movement", and in the aspect of content, it is manifested as "faithfulness and loyalty" and "filial piety and loyalty". These two aspects jointly construct the core ethical and moral values and code of conduct of the general public. In addition, "The Little Lady Gives Money to the Young Man" and Jin Ping Mei are in the same cultural environment and synchronic discourse space, and there are phenomena of mutual intersection and penetration in the texts, showing intertextuality.

Story Mapping Praxis to Principles: Learning from the Atlascine Project

This article introduces and discusses story mapping principles inspired by the development of the latest version of Atlascine, an open-source, online platform for tagging, mapping and animating interviews and story collections. Shaped by critical cartographic theories and oral history research practices and ethics, Atlascine combines the analytical, visual and navigational strengths of maps with the immersive, evocative and emotional dimensions of stories. Through the design of this platform and the mapping of over 150 stories, we identified six core principles related to the process and purpose of story mapping that could inform a range of projects: (1) the map never replaces the story and the mapmaker never replaces the storyteller; (2) the integrity and totality of each mapped story are preserved; (3) the mapping process is made transparent; (4) the map offers a spatial synthesis of the stories while conveying their geographic complexity; (5) the map acts as a portal for listening to stories as well as for (6) a creative interpretation of story collections that provides an essential pluralistic reading of places. By embracing these principles, we reimagine the relationships between maps and stories, positioning mapping as a way to take care of stories and to engage with them for what they are rather than what can be extracted from them.

Eric Walrond’s Anti-patriarchal Modernism

Abstract Eric Walrond’s short story collection Tropic Death (1926) has been described as representing an historical process of Caribbean proletarianization. This essay draws attention to the role of women and women’s work in Walrond’s stories, contending that struggles over the meaning of reproductive labor in the early twentieth-century Caribbean form a continuous narrative thread across the collection. Women’s struggles for reproductive autonomy, I argue, lie at the heart of Walrond’s celebrated formal experiments, clarifying the sociopolitical stakes of his break from realism. By symbolically encoding the struggle over reproduction in nonrealist forms, Walrond develops what I term an “anti-patriarchal modernism.”

Categorizing the Thematic Concerns of the Indian English Short Story

The short story is an immensely popular and influential literary genre that has captivated readers across cultures and generations. In the modern rush of life, it serves not only as a source of healthy entertainment but also as a powerful medium for capturing diverse human experiences within a limited span of time. The most widely accepted definition of a short story is that it is a narrative that can be completed in a single sitting, making it an accessible and engaging literary form. The proliferation of magazines and literary journals has significantly contributed to the growth and popularity of short stories, providing a platform for both emerging and established writers to showcase their craft. Despite its widespread appeal and literary significance, the short story has often been overlooked in terms of critical appreciation. Unlike the novel or poetry, it has not received the same level of scholarly analysis, particularly concerning its thematic and technical dimensions. While many short stories explore profound themes, their categorization remains largely neglected. Most anthologies present curated collections of short stories by various writers but rarely provide a clear rationale for their selection or thematic organization. This lack of systematic categorization limits a deeper understanding of the genre’s evolution and impact. In my paper, I aim to address this critical gap by examining some of the major thematic concerns that define the Indian English short story. By identifying recurring themes and patterns, I seek to provide a structured framework for understanding the diverse narratives that shape this literary form. This categorization not only highlights the richness of thematic explorations within Indian English short fiction but also underscores its role as a mirror reflecting societal, cultural, and existential realities.

Stories from the Botanical Underground

Plants are intelligent keepers and communicators of more-than-human knowledge. Their stories relate the agency of place and plants, showing us how to live where we are, what it means to contribute to the continuance of life, and how to collaborate with nonhuman others in resilient place-making. Botanical storytelling reaffirms people-plant relations, reimagines human relationships with the land, and intervenes in prevailing social and environmental narratives. Stories from the Botanical Underground, presented at the 2023 American Association of Geographers conference, relates the ecological-social lives of betony (Pedicularis), globemallow (Sphaeralcea), and vervain (Verbena) and the knowledge they hold for navigating socio-environmental challenges. This collection of stories intends to de-center human impositions of colonial power upon botanical landscapes and re-center the teachings of place and plants on a damaged planet. In this research, medicinal plants themselves are recognized as primary contributors of knowledge. [...]

Development Of E-Book For Learning Arabic Reading Skills Based On A Genre Based Approach For Senior High School Students

This research aims to describe the development of an e-book for learning Arabic reading skills based on a genre-based approach and the feasibility/validity of the developed e-book product. The research method used is research and development with the ADDIE model, which consists of five development steps, namely: 1) analysis, 2) design, 3) development, 4) implementation, and 5) evaluation. Data collection instruments include interviews and questionnaires (validation sheet). The data analysis techniques used are qualitative and quantitative. This e-book contains a collection of Islamic stories with different text genres containing text, images, audio, and hyperlinks to increase students' reading interest, facilitate their understanding of the texts presented, and support students' reading skills training. The product validation results from material experts obtained a score of 89% in the very good category. Meanwhile, validation from media experts obtained a score of 96% in the very good category. Based on the validation results, the e-book product for learning Arabic reading skills based on a genre-based approach is valid and can be implemented with students.

Pandemic Mythologies in Covid (Short) Fiction

The present article examines the escapist themes and narrative techniques in The Decameron Project (2020), a multi-authored short story collection inspired by the desire to relate the globalised experience of the covid pandemic. Previous research on the collection has commended its representation of temporal stasis (Mussgnug 2021; Howell 2022), but consideration of its escapist endeavours has been minimal, when not wilfully overlooked (Pittel 2023). This paper typifies the collection’s escapist ambitions in a twofold manner: on the one hand, some of the stories commit to an unbridled belief in humanity and its ability to come together in the face of hardship, a theme that is argued to constitute an escapist, pandemic metanarrative within the bounds of the collection; on the other, the article examines stories that escape the reality of the pandemic by introducing impersonal or alien focalisers, dehumanising the experience of living through the spread of the coronavirus by means of deploying narrative technique to consciously remove affect and suffering from diegesis. These two approaches to escape considered, the article maintains that the collection’s marriage of opposite compromises with what ‘covid reality’ entails reflects the surrealism, atemporality and disruption of normality that were located at the discursive centre of the covid pandemic. Thus, and despite their seeming incongruence, the confluence of these two escapist dispositions is maintained to succeed at both representing, and allowing readers a sense of escape from, the pandemic experience.

Reflection of the author's Religious Views in fantastic images and folk demonology in N. V. Gogol's Early Prose and Pu Songling's Short stories: typological aspect of description

This article is devoted to a typological analysis of the reflection of the author's religious views in fantastic images and folk demonology in the early prose of the Russian writer N. V. Gogol "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka" and the classic work of Chinese literature by the short story writer Pu Songling "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio". The article focuses on the moral and religious pursuits of both authors, as well as the artistic functions of their religious and ethical beliefs in the early fantasy cycle of Gogol's novels and the collection of short stories by Pu Songling. The analysis revealed common features and fundamental differences in their artistic worlds due to cultural and religious traditions. The research presents a historical and theoretical overview of the methodology of typological analysis of literary texts, revealing the dynamics of the development of the concept of "typological connection" in comparative literary studies. This approach is used to study the influence of Orthodox concepts on the early work of Nikolai Gogol and Buddhist and Taoist ideas on the work of Pu Songling. The article concludes that the reflection of the author's religious views in the depiction of fantastic images and folk demonology in the early prose of N. V. Gogol and Pu Songling's stories is possible within the framework of a typological approach. The religious views of the writers in question were shaped by their family and social environment. Unlike Gogol's linear Orthodox model of the dichotomy of good and evil, Pu Songling's otherworld, inspired by the Taoist concept of the "immortality of the soul" and the Buddhist "circular" way of thinking about karma and reincarnation, is ambivalent. In addition, religious concepts determine the differences in the depiction of infernal characters.: In Gogol, they appear as antagonists and tempters, while in Pu Songling they serve as helpers and comforters.

Kumpulan Cerpen Kampus: Dinamika Kehidupan Mahasiswa; Kilau Mentari di Langit Kampus

This Campus Short Story Collection is a persuasive approach in character education, where a college environment can drill various student problems regarding their personal and environmental issues, regarding academic and non-academic issues, through the approach of a literary work, so that it gives rise to a positive mental attitude, namely pouring out the difficulties faced through a work, namely writing campus short stories. Concretely, the purpose of writing a Campus Short Story anthology collaboratively is to find out how to write a Campus Short Story anthology collaboratively, what results are achieved, what concepts are found, and what obstacles are faced in writing a Campus Short Story Collection collaboratively. The results of this study are an anthology of short stories written with full feeling by the authors because they relate to the problems they are facing. The authors realize that they should not get caught up in a problem but can continue to work, for example through writing a short story that can reflect something from whatever is faced. Keywords: Anthology, Short Story, Campus

Logics of Waste in Liliana Colanzi’s You Glow in the Dark

Waste, as anthropologist Myra Hird has put it, is the signifier of the Anthropocene, but it is not a univocal one. It operates simultaneously at symbolic and material levels, and its valences can be positive or negative. Waste is a key concept for thinking through what is at stake in the relationships that human beings foster with the more-than-human world and for considering the material limits on human attempts to dominate the environment. In this sense, literary fiction, with its ability to invigorate the imagination through its creative work with perspective and temporality, is a rich site of reflection on what waste means. A significant example is the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi’s You Glow in the Dark (2024), a short story collection in which waste of many kinds is omnipresent, from residues left behind by all organisms as they live and die to nuclear waste that threatens the physical integrity of those who come into contact with it. In this essay, I think alongside Colanzi’s stories, arguing that their use of waste as a prism through which to consider the passage of time, notions of creation and destruction, and the decentering of human perspective offers valuable lessons on how to live with the waste we create.

Murle Youth and the Iconography of Modernity Inscribed on the Body in South Sudan

ABSTRACT This article offers a novel perspective into how Murle agro-pastoralist youth in South Sudan draw on permanent body marks (also known as scarifications or body inscriptions) to communicate their individual and collective stories and future aspirations; negotiate identities and generational relations; and reimagine social norms and political subjectivities. Based on long-term ethnographic research and through a visual analysis of body marks, the article explores the meanings behind young people’s body mark iconography, including assault rifles and army ranks, to mobile phones, syringes and United Nations acronyms. Body marks are a powerful embodied knowledge practice and unique lens to understand people as well as how social institutions like the age-sets are transforming. In particular, this article explores the insights that body mark iconography reveal about how Murle rural youth interpret and imagine “modernity”, as read through young people’s bodies, as a culturally situated phenomenon. It reveals how young people’s interpretations of modernity are tied to an urban and military culture that, in their eyes, is synonymous with power. While youth may be aware of the global connotations of their body marks, these are localised practices and claims for validation and pathways to social personhood within their own social world.

Tradisi Rongkat Kandung Kembar dalam Kumpulan Cerpen Kembang Selir Karya Muna Masyari: Kajian Semiotika

This research aims to describe the Rokat Birth Kembar tradition from the collection of short stories Kembang Selir by Muna Masyari along with the symbols and meanings contained in this tradition. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative because the aim of the research is to describe the Rokat Kandung Kembar tradition and the meaning contained therein. This research includes an anthropological study of literature. This research data collection technique uses note-reading techniques. Through semantic analysis, the results found were that jackfruit seeds symbolize fertility and hope, while white mori cloth shows purity and adherence to tradition. Flip-flops reflect simplicity while rice and cooked eggs symbolize togetherness in life

The Response to Asymmetrical Violence in Black Space

Oakland, California has been identified as a Black city since the early days of the Great Migration. Migrants from the South brought their labor, families, and most importantly, a vision for the future of Black communities. Alongside the influx of domestic Black folks moving into the city has been a steady stream of Black immigrants who help to push the boundaries for how Blackness is understood in Oakland. Increased anti-immigrant sentiments have added to this violence, putting undocumented immigrants at risk of suffering the abuses of landlords. In this article, I uplift the voices of Oakland community members that demonstrate the tragedies of dispossession as they tell their own geographic stories. These collective stories demonstrate the markers of dispossession on different levels as the sociospatial dynamics of Oakland are being (re)imagined. Oakland has now become one more example of the threat to Black spaces in the U.S. and gives us a roadmap for how these spaces will be reimagined under asymmetrical violence.

Coaching seen from the window: 24 hours of coaching rhythms

ABSTRACT This paper describes fragments of 24 hours of coaching, as experienced through a semi-professional football club (Routh Football Club). By focusing on mundane aspects of the coaching practice, the aim of this article was to use Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis to (re)conceptualise coaching practice as entangled with diverse rhythms of people, practice, socio-temporal structures, bodily movement, and corporeality. The collective stories illustrate how the coaching practice comprised a multiplicity of interrelated rhythms, working both harmoniously and out-of-sync, to control and marginalise individuals within the coaching practice. By introducing and describing the circulations of rhythms in coaching, we hope to demonstrate the nuanced relationship between quotidian coaching practices and the management of individuals, space, time, and mobility in coaching. A point that speaks to the wider coaching literature, which has painted coaching as an on-going, contested activity.

Newspaper Coverage of PVC Registration and Collection Agains 2023 Presidential Election in Nigeria

It appears that within the time frame of this study there was a low newspaper coverage on PVC registration and collection. Even for an important issue as PVC Registration and Collection in Nigeria. In some other cases, the placements of PVC registration and collection stories are placed at the least noticeable space in the select newspapers used. This problem necessitated the study hence; the researchers assessed Guardian and Daily Sun newspapers coverage of PVC registration and collection. The researchers hinged this study on Agenda setting theory. This study employed the descriptive content analysis research design. The population used for the study was 730 newspaper editions. A sample size of 168 was arrived at whereas the composite month sampling technique was employed for the study. The code sheet and guide were the instruments for data collection. Finding from the study showed that PVC registration and collection was given low frequency of coverage, it was as well placed more in inside pages of newspapers, as for the depth, they were given more of 1/4 page depth and were reported in a neutral direction. It was concluded that Guardian and Daily Sun give less space, depth and frequency when reporting permanent voter’s card registration and collection much depth, to help their voter card registration and collection.

Collections of Miraculous Stories on the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra

This paper examines the three primary Chinese translations of the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra— an extensive Mahāyāna text foundational to the Huayan School during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. This study provides a comprehensive introduction to each translation, tracing its dissemination across China, and further investigates the contributions and legacy of the five patriarchs of the Huayan School. As Buddhism became increasingly secular and accessible, there was a significant rise in literary creativity, notably in the form of miraculous story collections that aided in the propagation of Buddhist beliefs among the general populace. These narratives, often embellished with supernatural elements, were crafted to demonstrate the efficacy of Buddhist practice, with the aim of fostering faith and devotion. Known as ’stimulus-response’ stories (ganying 感應), these accounts illustrate the power of Buddhist practice through the depiction of miraculous events. This paper reviews nine key collections associated with the Huayan jing, including: Record of the Transmission of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Huayanjing Zhuanji 華嚴經傳記), Account of Stimuli and Responses Related to the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Dafangguang fo huayanjing ganying zhuan 大方廣佛華嚴經感應傳), Account of the Search for the Profundities of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Huayanjing tanxuan ji 華嚴經探玄記), Commentary on the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Dafangguang fo huayanjing shu 大方廣佛華嚴經疏), Sub-commentary on the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Dafangguang fo huayan sui shu yanyi chao 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義抄), Account of Chengguan’s Commentary on the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Huayan xuantan huixuan ji 華嚴懸談會玄記), Short Record of Accounts of Stimuli and Responses Related to the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Dafangguang fo huayanjing ganying lüeji 大方廣佛華嚴經感應略記), and Causes of Stimuli and Response Related to the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Huayanjing ganying yuanqi zhuan 華嚴經感應緣起傳), as well as the Chronological Account of the Efficacies of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Lichao huayanjing chiyan ji 歷朝華 嚴經持驗紀). Through this analysis, the paper aims to deepen understanding of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, its miraculous stories, and the collections that preserved these narratives, enriching appreciation for its impact on Chinese Buddhism.

The Confluence of Time in Allende’s The House of the Spirits, Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Borges’s The Aleph and Other Stories

This paper discusses how the concepts of time, history, and magical realism interlink in Allende's The House of the Spirits, Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Borges's collection of short stories, The Aleph and Other Stories. In each of these works, the author uses magical realism as a means to retell historical incidents and personal experiences, rewriting at least some historical options by nonlinearity, even to the level of philosophical questioning of those historical events. Allende interrelates political history with personal memory through fabulousness, criticising socio-political changes in Chile. Márquez shows time as repetitive; it is the way the Buendía family Trace repeats events related to the historical losses of Colombia. In contrast, the fragmentation of time and multiple realities is realized by Borges while he metaphysically contemplates identity and the nature of truth. This paper demonstrates how these authors converge in their use of magical realism to disrupt linear time and proffer alternative histories, while diverging in narrative technique and thematic focus. The research underlines the importance of the genre for reshaping cultural narratives and highlights the role of memory in constructing identity and confronting historical trauma.

False Consciousness in Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

This research seeks to explore the false consciousness of the lower class in society that is created by the upper class in the following stories, Nawabdin Electrician, Saleema, A Spoiled Man, Provide, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, about a Burning Girl taken from Daniyal Mueenuddin's collection of short stories In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. It investigates in detail how the proletariat's mind is controlled by the upper class by giving them false beliefs, and it also invites us to look in detail at how the lower strata are kept in disillusion in the paradigm of capitalism and how this false consciousness became the cause of the destruction of the lives of the many characters. These stories have been analyzed under the domain of Marxism. This paper will comprise the Marxist analysis of the text and it is an interpretative type of research involving the textual analysis of the proposed text. This study finds that different characters are the victims of false consciousness within the capitalist society, and this research is purely qualitative and exploratory.