Collection Of Short Stories Research Articles

Useful and Necessary Book about Outstanding Personalities from Afghan History and Culture

MGIMO University published the second edition of the book Afghan Novels and Stories by Ye. D. Ostrovenko. Yevgeniy Dmitrievich served as Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan in 1992 and was the first ambassador to present credentials signed by the President of Russia to the head of the Afghan state. His book makes a great contribution to strengthening bilateral ties between Russia and Afghanistan, expanding the horizons of knowledge about this country, its history and culture. Candidate of Historical Sciences, Ye. D. Ostrovenko worked for many years both in Afghanistan itself and in the central apparatus of the USSR and Russian Foreign Ministries in the Afghan direction and knows Afghanistan firsthand. He saw more than fifty years of the history of relations between the USSR and Russia with Afghanistan pass before his eyes, and often participated in them personally. The book is in a rare genre combining history, including archives and other historical materials, and fiction. It revolves around personalities, yet manages to show a bigger picture of the history and politics of the country and its peoples. The book tells about a number of outstanding personalities, but special attention is drawn to the poet and warrior Khushhal Khan Khattak (XVII), the first ruler of the independent Afghan state Ahmed Shah Durrani (XVIII), statesman and diplomat Muhammad Wali Khan (late 19th – early 20th centuries). Some of the novels present unique findings of the author. So, in the process of creating the story Canal E. D. Ostrovenko relied on the experience of his practical work as a translator and his novel can be considered original historical evidence. Through the collection of short stories readers get acquainted with the peculiarities of Afghan life, learn about the difficult, and sometimes dangerous, everyday life of Russian diplomats. The new edition includes two newly published novels Pashtun scholar, devoted to M. G. Aslanov, the author of the Pashtu-Russian dictionary, and Warrior fighting with two swords. Book by E. D. Ostrovenko is written in excellent Russian and is easy to read. The author makes extensive use of classical Afghan and Iranian poetry, which arouses additional interest among specialists, including students of the Afghan languages — Pashto and Dari. The book was met with a favorable reception by the Afghans themselves, receiving a wide response and high praise from the Afghan diaspora in Moscow. It will be a useful read not only to students studying Afghanistan, but also to anyone interested in the culture of this wonderful country with its complex and multifaceted history.

Вильям Хайнесен: из книги «Панорама с радугой» (1972)

This publication completes the series of the selected translations of the poetic works by the distinguished Danish-Faroese writer William Heinesen (1900–1991). It contains translations from his last book of poetry, "Panorama with Rainbow" (1972). The author himself interpreted this book as a kind of epilogue, though he has created other works after it: several collections of short stories and a novel. The universum of "Panoram with Rainbow“ is characterized by being very specified and cosmic at the same time. It contains philosophical poetry, references to significant persons in the Faroese culture, sketches from the author's journey the Soviet Union, satirical and lyrical poems about the modern culture and society. It has a number of features analogous to Heinesen's later prose works, not least mythologizing everyday routine and memories. He topic of memory can be interpreted widely, and the border between personal impressions and realities of the world culture is practically blurred. The formal aspect of the book is similar to Heinesen's previous book of poetry and the absolute majority of books in Danish and Faroese poetry of the 1970ies: all the poems, with very few exeptions, are written in free verse.

ОБРАЗ РЕБЁНКА В ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ УЖАСОВ (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ СБОРНИКА Д. БОБЫЛЕВОЙ «ЗАБЫТЫЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК»)

The article examines the image of a child in the collection of short stories by the modern Russian writer Daria Bobyleva «The Forgotten Man». Seven stories of the collection are taken for analysis, in which the image of a child plays a key role in semantic and compositional terms. The paper attempts to classify the analyzed stories from the point of view of the meaning of the child's image. This image is considered from the point of view of its folklore sources, in particular – in the context of the heat features of the bylichek and post-folklore «creepy stories». The image of the child is analyzed as an important compositional element that allows you to create the effect of «terrible», as part of the other world. The article also discusses some psychological prerequisites that allow including the image of a child in stories based on mystical horror. As a result, of the conducted research, it can be concluded that the image of a child plays an important role in creating artistic unity in this collection

СПЕЦИФИКА ИМПРЕССИОНИСТСКОГО РАССКАЗА ДЖИН РИС: ВЛИЯНИЕ Ф.М. ФОРДА

The article examines the impressionistic features of Jean Rhys’short stories through the example of “Hunger” included in the first collection of short stories by the writer. The features of short stories’ literary impressionism (fragmentation, sketchiness, tendency to plotlessness or displacement of events from external life to internal, details’ domination, use of stream of consciousness) are considered through a review of the aesthetic principles of the English writer and critic Ford Madox Ford, who had a direct influence on the Rhys’ development as a writer in the 1920s. In the process of research, the reason for the preference for a short story is revealed. Thus, being fragmentary, the story acts as a ‘scene’ and the main role is being played by impression, feeling, moment.

English-Arabic Translation of Humour: Challenges and Strategies

This research aims to investigate the challenges that native Arabic-speaking EFL learners face in rendering the equivalent meaning of humorous excerpts selected from Plum Pie (1966), a collection of short stories by English humourist P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975). The researchers examined the translation strategies used by a sample of 16 senior Arabic-speaking BA and MA students specialising in English and translation at the University of Sharjah, to solve the problems that they encountered in the translation process. The findings indicated that the participants encountered lexical, semantic, grammatical and syntactic problems in the process of translation. The findings showed that the participants used 10 main strategies to translate the excerpts, with literal translation being the most frequently employed. The findings also revealed several mistranslations or errors, which have been classified as lexical errors, grammatical errors, mistranslations of cultural references or items, and inappropriate use of certain translation strategies. These results led us to conclude that some translation strategies (e.g. the use of literal translation instead of idiomatic, and vice versa) were unsuitable and reflected a need for improvement of linguistic and sociolinguistic competence in the target language, which is essential for enabling Arab EFL learners to translate humorous literary texts.

Cultural Value and Locality in the Merapi Daily Short Story Collection “Lintang Johar Cikal Bakal Mataram Islam”

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.

Bentuk Ekspresi Emosional Tokoh Utama dalam Kumpulan Cerpen Lelaki-Lelaki Tanpa Perempuan Karya Haruki Murakami: Kajian Psikologi Sastra

Literary works are imaginative creations of authors reflecting upon the social environment of life. Literary works arise from contemplating the meanings and essence of life experienced, felt, witnessed, and expressed. This study examines the forms of emotional expression of the main characters in the "Lelaki-Lelaki Tanpa Perempuan" short story collection by Haruki Murakami. This study aims to describe the forms of emotional expression experienced by the main characters in the "Lelaki-Lelaki Tanpa Perempuan" short story collection by Haruki Murakami. The analysis of the forms of emotional expression of the main characters in the short story collection of "Lelaki-Lelaki Tanpa Perempuan" used a literary psychology approach. Emotional expression is rooted in inner conflict as it pertains to the psyche of an individual. The data for this study consisted of quoted sentences that represent the emotional expression of the main characters in the "Lelaki-Lelaki Tanpa Perempuan" short story collection by Haruki Murakami. A qualitative descriptive method was used to analyze the forms of emotional expression of the main characters. Data collection techniques involved reading and note-taking. Data analysis techniques included data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The validity of the data was employed through theoretical triangulation. This study reveals various forms of emotional expression of the main characters in the "Lelaki-Lelaki Tanpa Perempuan" short story collection by Haruki Murakami. These forms of emotional expression include disappointment, resignation, curiosity, worry, anxiety, confusion, fear, and sadness. Keywords: Short Story Collection of "Lelaki-Lelaki Tanpa Perempuan", Emotional Expression, Inner Conflict, Literary Psycholog

ANALISIS KESALAHAN PENGGUNAAN EJAAN DAN TANDA BACA PADA KUMPULAN CERPEN KARYA SISWA KELAS IX-B

This research is motivated by the many students who are still wrong in using punctuation when writing an essay. Many of the writings were untidy, imperfect and ambiguous, so the researcher wanted to know the level of punctuation errors experienced by students in class IX-B. This study uses a qualitative method that is descriptive, namely by describing 15 short stories by class IX-B students of SMPN 02 Cililin which have been analyzed on the use of full stop (.), comma (,), punctuation, writing names, writing foreign sentences, and initial writing of sentences. The problem discussed is whether or not the use of punctuation marks is correct in this collection of short stories. The purpose of this study is to find out punctuation errors when writing a short story. Based on the results of the discussion, it is known that there are still many students who have not been able to place punctuation marks properly and correctly, especially in the use of commas, periods, and writing names.

Where Is Utopia in a Time of Disaster and Catastrophe?

In search of new literary voices that might present an answer to Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 lament on the failure of contemporary literary fiction to find forms that adequately express the multiple challenges of the Anthropocene, I came across a review of Allegra Hyde’s debut novel in the Los Angeles Times. The novel’s title, Eleutheria, was suggestive enough to pique my interest: etymologically, it evokes the concepts of liberty and freedom; geographically, it calls to mind the small island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas that was colonized in the late 1640s by a group of English Puritans known as the Eleutheran Adventurers. Add to this that Willa Marks, the novel’s narrator-protagonist, is a twenty-two-year-old member of Generation Z, the same generation as the students we teach these days, and Eleutheria (2022) becomes a worthy candidate for an American Studies syllabus. What kind of narrative tapestry was the author able to weave out of the materials of history, climate change, and a young generation’s growing frustration with the ecological and political state of the world? I was ready to discuss these and similar questions with a group of students in a seminar on Anglophone Literature in the Anthropocene during the summer semester 2023. Serendipitously, the son of an American colleague and long-time friend studied with Allegra Hyde at Oberlin College, where she is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing. He suggested that she might be willing to discuss her novel with a group of German students. When I issued the invitation to join us digitally for one session, she accepted. I interviewed Hyde, who is also the author of two short story collections – Of This New World (2016) and The Last Catastrophe (2023)– a few days later. The following text is the transcript of that conversation. It has been edited for readability.

“The heat of a multitudinous assembly”: Striking short fiction and the rise of feminist potencia

AbstractThis article considers how a recent wave of Latin American short fiction captures with immediate topicality new forms of transversal political subjectivity engendered by the international feminist reinvention of the strike in the 21st century. Drawing on Verónica Gago's theorization of the political cartography of feminist potencia (power), alongside the work of Silvia Federici, Rita Segato and Sayak Valencia, it considers how the short story form facilitates a strategic recognition of interconnected violences perpetrated against women and feminized bodies, “mapping forms of violence based on their organic connection, without losing sight of the singularity of the production of the nexus between them” (Gago, 2020, p. 58). In particular, the article examines two exemplary short story collections, Cars on Fire (2020) by Mónica Ramón Ríos and Things We Lost in the Fire (2017) by Mariana Enríquez, considering how these writers repurpose the potential for socio‐criticism embedded in the fantastical short story by offering a multi‐focal critique of how patriarchy and gender violence interact with the structural inequalities unleashed by neoliberal capitalism. The article also considers how these riotous collections mediate the transversal fabric of communitarian struggle in feminist imaginaries, drawing narrative energy from the localised proliferation of neighbourhood assemblies and solidarity networks, while speaking to transnational feminist movements more broadly.

FEMALE CHARACTERS IN NGUYEN HUONG DUYEN'S SHORT STORIES

Female writer Nguyen Huong Duyen is a member of the Vietnam Writers Association. As a writer who has appeared on the lute for about 15 years, her work has given off new and different vitality in the way she looks at life and people, especially in women. Therefore, changing the taste is something people are still interested in in a fairly familiar menu. Her works have been received by the public and literary critics in many different ways. The scope of this study includes three collections of short stories by Nguyen Huong Duyen: “The arduous waiting wharf” (2006), “Among men” (2015) and “Writing to you from this kitchen” (2020). The theoretical research of the thesis is the theoretical issues of short stories, generalization of short stories by Nguyen Huong Duyen in the flow of contemporary short stories and regional prose of Central Province of Quang Binh, Vietnam; salient features of the character's world, and modes of expression. From there, readers can see the contributions of writer Nguyen Huong Duyen to the development of female short stories in particular and contemporary Vietnamese prose in general. The study explores and clarifies the characteristics of female characters in both aspects of content and art of characters portrayed in the short stories by Nguyen Huong Duyen. On that basis, it shows the writer's creative characteristics and places her short stories in the flow of contemporary female short stories. It can be said that the female character in Nguyen Huong Duyen's short stories has left a deep impression on readers. Each female character appears with different life paths and identities, but they are similar in one point: they all have an insatiable desire to find self. Approaching Nguyen Huong Duyen's short stories, the researchers hope to contribute to understanding and identifying the characteristics of the female character, the research object that creates the appearance of Nguyen Huong Duyen's short stories while also recognizing the writer's contribution. This is in the context of contemporary female short stories in particular and prose in general.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0019/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Dispatches from the home front: Violet Hunt as war writer and reluctant modernist

ABSTRACT The life and work of Violet Hunt showcases the tension between modernism's challenges to Victorian and Edwardian literary and social traditions, and the conservatism, particularly with regard to gender norms, of many of the modernist canon's key figures: institutions, writers and critics alike. Although her work was well-regarded during her lifetime, and she was a central figure in London's literary scene in the early-twentieth century, Hunt is now best known for her long, and ultimately disastrous, relationship with Ford Madox Ford. Her copious literary oeuvre, comprising seventeen novels, three collections of short stories, and several works of biography, translation and criticism, is now largely neglected. Hunt's exclusion from the modernist canon mirrors that of many other women writers of the period; however, Hunt's “recovery” remains a difficult case. Her numerous affairs, suffragettism, blending of Victorian, Edwardian and modernist styles, and authorial focus on the lives of women, all challenge conventional cultural and literary categories. Yet Hunt's work, especially during and after World War I, is important, as it offers an alternative not only to the male-centric war canon, but also to more traditional understandings of modernism, which is often presented as a break from the past.

Sorin Titel and Danilo Kiš

The present study aims to explore the similarities between the novels Lunga călătorie a prizonierului (Prisoner’s Long Journey, 1971) by Sorin Titel and Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča (A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, 1976) by Danilo Kiš. Both Central European writers, Titel (Romanian) and Kiš (a Serbian, born to a Jewish father and a Montenegrin mother) experienced the same traumas, stemming from their living through a nightmarish history and struggling to pursue their literary careers in countries under totalitarian regimes. Influenced by Samuel Beckett and Franz Kafka, while also learning from the contemporary French nouveau roman, Sorin Titel employs the well-known theme of travel in an allegorical novel apt to be made into a road movie – a journey with no beginning or end, enriched by means of myths and symbols, but offering neither revelation nor salvation to the traveler. Danilo Kiš takes a different approach: at first glance a collection of short stories, the stories included in A Tomb for Boris Davidovich enhance the information in the previous texts, adding new dimensions to the characters, accounting for their actions and impulses. At times, the omniscient narrator becomes an unreliable narrator, adding to the confusion, despite the exhaustive amassing of facts and data. Nevertheless, subtle affinities can be discovered in the common motifs of Titel’s and Kiš’s works: victims turned executioners and vice versa; imposture; desacralization; blood and slaughter. On the other hand, the most terrifying characters in A Tomb for Boris Davidovich are embodiments of a certain type of prisoners: trapped in amorality and in their own inability to evolve.

Arranging Stories: Framing Social Com-mentary in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers

Arranging Stories: Framing Social Com-mentary in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers

Those scary migrants: feanxiety and Brexit in Agnieszka Dale’s Fox Season and Other Short Stories

ABSTRACT This article explores affective narratives of migrants in a recent Brexit fiction in the context of feanxiety – a critical concept that brings together literary representations of fear and anxiety. The essay focuses on Agnieszka Dale’s short stories collection Fox Season and Other Short Stories (2017), which represents the social and affective experiences of Eastern European migrants living in post-Brexit Britain. Written after the 2016 referendum, the collection engages with issues of belonging and (un)belonging, national attachments, and postcolonial relations in the United Kingdom. Reading three short stories from the collection, ‘A Polish Joke’, ‘Fox Season’, and ‘A Happy Nation’, this article investigates how through comedy, humour, and distanced attitude Dale’s fiction fights detrimental prejudices about ‘fearsome foreigners’, reclaiming the lost agency of the migrants. This article argues that in Fox Season feanxiety operates as an aesthetic and an ethical mode but also as a political measure that operates within the modern power structures. Examining the experiences of migration through the lens of fear and anxiety not only enables a nuanced reading of the collection’s outlook on negative emotions surging in the UK but also facilitates a furthering of feanxiety as a productive critical framework within the merit of affect studies.

In the Mood for Kimono: Hayashi Mariko and the Weaving of Japanese Fashion into Popular Fiction

The field of postwar Japanese and international fiction has seen an expanding corpus of texts revolving around kimono. Many works, while tapping into the intricacies of sartorial traditions, contain actualized narratives of young girls and women experiencing or remembering kimono in prewar, postwar, and contemporary Japan. In these stories, the kimono—ever persisting, at times resisting—helps the protagonist to discover self-confidence and agency as they deal with loss, social expectations, family, and national history. This article focuses on Hayashi Mariko’s short story collection Stories about Kimono (Kimono o meguru monogatari, 1997) and her more recent novel The Imperial Visit to Ohara: The Story of an Obi-Making Family (Ohara gokō: Obi ni ikita kazoku no monogatari, 2014b). These two narratives work within all of these parameters and illustrate how authors can write consistently about the multiple meanings within kimono. Through analyzing how Hayashi describes kimono outfits and their implications, this article also explores how, as a literary device, the kimono connects with the concept of reality effect; emphasizes the power of the feminine gaze in Japanese literature; and reveals how the limits between fiction and reality can be broken down. When inspired by the specific mode of dress that is kimono, writers can prompt new inspirations for women to create their own stories with it, discarding the cliché of ‘yamato nadeshiko’ (lit: Japanese pink carnations, used to evoke Japanese demure, feminine beauty) to explore darker and/or more embodied experiences.

Applying the “Literature Circles” in Thematic Literature Teaching of Grade 10

This article has the task of proposing a theoretical framework to apply the “literature circles” in thematic literature teaching of grade 10: “Read, write and introduce a collection of poems, short stories or novel” in the direction of the General Education Program Literature subject 2018. Firstly, the article introduces the outlines around the definition, advantages and relevance of the application of the “literature circle” in thematic teaching, in order to provide theoretical background knowledge to the teacher. Secondly, the article aims to provide a specific theoretical framework, associated with each step of the implementation of the “literature circles” in thematic teaching, including detailed content instructions.

以“情”为线，以“史”为轴：朵拉短篇小说实践的赓续与新变

Dora, who is good at writing love and marriage novels, breaks away from the daily themes of marriage in her recently published collection of short stories and explores the dusty history of Malaysia. However, it should be noted that her expertise in emotions has not been neglected due to the intervention of history. On the contrary, this emotional awareness becomes an important path for her to enter and reflect on history. With “emotion” as the thread and “history” as the axis, Dora, in the literary dimension of daily life and history, not only tells stories but also focuses on the human perspective based on emotions.

Psychopaty of The Main Character in The Collection Short Stories Perempuan Yang Menunggu by DM Ningsih

This research is entitled Psychopathy of the main character in a collection of women's short stories waiting for DM Ningsih's work in terms of literary psychology. Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a group of behaviors and traits, including ego, deceit, shallow emotions, lack of guilt, remorse, empathy and an anti-social lifestyle as well as a tendency to ignore or violate social conventions and rules. This study aims to describe the psychopathy of the main character in a collection of short stories by DM Ningsih with a literary psychology approach, using Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic personality theory in particular, namely Personality Structure and Psychopathy-Checklist Revised Hare. The results of this study are (1) The form of psychopathic behavior of the main character in DM Ningsih's short story collection is based on the characteristics of the special actors in psychopaths, namely antisoacial behavior, likes to manipulate, aggressive behavior, sadistic behavior, and no regrets and no guilt so that the form of behavior can be determined psychopath. (2) the factors that cause the main character to behave psychopathically in DM Ningsih's short story collection are environmental and traumatic factors.

Theorizing Collective Trauma and Identity-Threat in Select Stories from Deshbhager Galpa: Tripura

Memory is a complex phenomenon that reaches out to far beyond what normally constitutes a historian's archives, for memory is much more than what the mind can remember or what objects can help us document about the past. There are then two aspects to this memory that concern us here: the sentiment of nostalgia and the sense of trauma, and their contradictory relationship to the question of the past. A traumatised memory has a narrative structure which works on a principle opposite to that of any historical narrative. At the same time, however, this memory, in order to be the memory of a trauma, has to place the Event - the cause of the trauma, in this case, Partition of 1947 in the context of Tripura-within a past that gives force to the claim of the victim. This has to be a shared past between the narrator of the traumatic experience and the addressee of the narration. Yet it cannot be a historicist version of the past, one that aims to diffuse the shock of the traumatic by explaining away the element of the unexpected. Hence the introductory segment of the paper might highlight the facts related to Tripura Bengalis, their arrival, and their stories of settlement. However, the purpose is to examine the psychological reactions to a traumatic event that affects an entire society; it does not merely reflect an historical fact, the recollection of a terrible event that happened to a group of people. The aim is to analyse the features of traumatic memories and, thus, how individuals construct and integrate their experiences and struggles through narratives. The chosen text is select stories from Deshbhagger Galpa:Tripura, a collection of short stories focusing on Nostalgia, Identity-crisis and Collective Trauma.