Collection Of Short Stories Research Articles

Humanization and Transcendence Aspects in Kuntowijoyo’s Short Story Collection Persekongkolan Ahli Makrifat (The Conspiracy of Makrifat Experts)

In the study of prophetic literature, there are three important aspects, namely aspects of humanization, liberation, and transcendence that appear in literary works. These three aspects, which are the pillars of prophetic values, are found in most of the works of Kuntowijoyo, a Muslim scholar, historian, and writer who is also the initiator of prophetic literature. This research focuses on the humanization and transcendence aspects in a collection of short stories Persekongkolan Ahli Makrifat by Kuntowijoyo. The research uses a qualitative method with descriptive analysis. The data analysed and described by the content of the prophetic aspects that become the focus of this research. The data were collected by recording sentences from some of the short stories in the short story collection book Persekongkolan Ahli Makrifat. The Data analysed and interpreted based on Kuntowijoyo's prophetic literary theory. This research found that in the short story collection Persekongkolan Ahli Makrifat, there are two prophetic aspects that have powerful messages. These aspects represent a prophetic message about the importance of realizing the balance between divine consciousness and human consciousness in life.

Интерпретация категории фантастического в малой прозе Дино Буццати

The purpose of the study is to explain the specifics of the category of the fantastic in the short stories of the 20th-century Italian writer Dino Buzzati. The article examines the features of the interpretation of the fantastic by a writer known for his special approach to the philosophical and aesthetic category that has remained relevant for several centuries. The choice of different collections of short stories for the study is due to the need to analyze the category of the fantastic using the examples of texts separated by a time distance. Over the years, the writer has remained true to the principles of interpretation of the fantastic that he once defined. The scientific novelty of the work is related to the identification of several types of the category of the fantastic in the material of Dino Buzzati’s short stories in accordance with the writer’s concept of the fantastic. As a result of the study, it was found that for Dino Buzzati, the fantastic is not something exceptional, opposed to reality. The category of the unreal is associated with the motives of expectation and fear, which allow a more accurate interpretation of the features of the studied category. In the analyzed stories, the types of the actually fantastic, the conditionally fantastic, and the symbolic fantastic are distinguished. The connection between the categories of the absurd and the fantastic is significant. The category of the incredible occupies an important place in Dino Buzzati’s aesthetic system, influencing its development.

Dead Mouse

This is a translation of Veena Verma’s (2 September 1960 - present) short story titled "Dead Mouse" for your consideration. This story is part of Verma’s collection of Punjabi-language short stories titled Mul di Tiviin (Bought Woman), which was published in 2015. Mul di Tiviin is a collection of woman-centered short stories narrating the economic, social, and cultural precarity of Punjabi women, both in Punjab and in the diaspora. Veena Verma is an important Punjabi-language short story writer. She resides in the United Kingdom where she works as a social worker. Her stories narrate the challenges and tribulations of Punjabi women trying to navigate the diaspora far from their natal homes in the Punjab, whether in Pakistan or India.

‘The Key Thing’: Fairy Tale Lore and Intertexts in Little Red and Other Stories

‘Little Red Riding Hood’ is not only an intertext for the first story in Little Red and Other Stories but for the entire volume. An iconic fairy tale, known primarily in the version by the brothers Grimm, it is also one of the most commented on and reworked stories. While most retellings give precedent either to Little Red Riding Hood or the wolf, Ní Dhuibhne’s revisiting of the tale accords importance too to the role of the grandmother. She counters the tendency to appropriate fairy tales and sideline their enticement and wisdom by excavating their deep content especially the affects and primal predicaments that they depict. Fairy tale motifs in her short story collection allow the articulation of emotions that could not otherwise be voiced, provide a means of parsing everyday experience, and open a portal onto the magical and the numinous.

Lost in the Familiar

This essay opens with a creative response to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s short story ‘The Shortcut through IKEA’ and continues with a reader’s appreciation of her 2012 short story collection The Shelter of Neighbours. Consisting of fourteen stories, the collection is set in the fictional south county Dublin estate of Dunroon Crescent. Each story draws, in one way or another, on the Irish proverb ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine (‘people live in one another's shelter’). Dunroon Crescent is a community in proximity, where connections have either been forged or exist solely because of geography. The estate’s inhabitants are detached from themselves and each other but their lives also overlap and intersect, illuminated by the light of their pasts, by remembered loss and the legacies of earlier choices.

Theorizing "Exercise Book" Through the Perspectives of Three Translation Theorists Jakobson, Derrida and Benjamin

A noble translator uncovers a text for the target language readers. An amateur translator, on the other hand, may destroy the prospect, beauty, and liveliness of the text. Therefore, while translating a text, a translator has to turn on his/her utmost possible creative aptitude along with a fanciful imagination of linguistic ability in context. The text “Exercise Book” is a short story, the translation of “Khata”, extracted from the collection of Rabindranath Tagore's short stories titled Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories, translated by William Radice. This analysis attempts to explore the emotional narrative and discovers if it interprets the subjectivity of Uma’s feelings and thoughts depicted in the short story “Khata” relatively. In addition, this paper is an exertion to understand and scrutinize which category of the translation does this story follow, while translating a text whether it is a sense-for-sense translation or word-for-word translation and whether it is a literary art form or not. For theorizing the translated short story three translation theories by Jakobson, Derrida and Benjamin have been reconnoitered in the paper. Keywords: Translator, creative, sense-for-sense, word-for-word, art, translation

Theorizing "Exercise Book" Through the Perspectives of Three Translation Theorists Jakobson, Derrida and Benjamin

A noble translator uncovers a text for the target language readers. An amateur translator, on the other hand, may destroy the prospect, beauty, and liveliness of the text. Therefore, while translating a text, a translator has to turn on his/her utmost possible creative aptitude along with a fanciful imagination of linguistic ability in context. The text “Exercise Book” is a short story, the translation of “Khata”, extracted from the collection of Rabindranath Tagore's short stories titled Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories, translated by William Radice. This analysis attempts to explore the emotional narrative and discovers if it interprets the subjectivity of Uma’s feelings and thoughts depicted in the short story “Khata” relatively. In addition, this paper is an exertion to understand and scrutinize which category of the translation does this story follow, while translating a text whether it is a sense-for-sense translation or word-for-word translation and whether it is a literary art form or not. For theorizing the translated short story three translation theories by Jakobson, Derrida and Benjamin have been reconnoitered in the paper. Keywords: Translator, creative, sense-for-sense, word-for-word, art, translation

Theorizing "Exercise Book" Through the Perspectives of Three Translation Theorists Jakobson, Derrida and Benjamin

A noble translator uncovers a text for the target language readers. An amateur translator, on the other hand, may destroy the prospect, beauty, and liveliness of the text. Therefore, while translating a text, a translator has to turn on his/her utmost possible creative aptitude along with a fanciful imagination of linguistic ability in context. The text “Exercise Book” is a short story, the translation of “Khata”, extracted from the collection of Rabindranath Tagore's short stories titled Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories, translated by William Radice. This analysis attempts to explore the emotional narrative and discovers if it interprets the subjectivity of Uma’s feelings and thoughts depicted in the short story “Khata” relatively. In addition, this paper is an exertion to understand and scrutinize which category of the translation does this story follow, while translating a text whether it is a sense-for-sense translation or word-for-word translation and whether it is a literary art form or not. For theorizing the translated short story three translation theories by Jakobson, Derrida and Benjamin have been reconnoitered in the paper. Keywords: Translator, creative, sense-for-sense, word-for-word, art, translation

Code Switching and Code Mixing in the Short Story Collection Mangongkal Holi by Saut Poltak Tambunan

Code Switching and Code Mixing in the Short Story Collection Mangongkal Holi by Saut Poltak Tambunan

A brief analysis of Guy Ritchie’s postmodernist style in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Black comedy is not a strictly critical concept of literary theory, but with the application of postmodernism in movies, the application of black humor in black comedy subverts the traditional way of humor. As early as the 5th century BC in Greece, comedian Aristophanes created literary works with humorous black color. In the 1960s, the publication of Friedman’s short story collection Black Humor marked the formal birth of black humor literature. (Thompson Bordwell 78) After the popularity of this school for several years, its influence penetrated the film field. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels by Guy Ritchie is a typical representative of contemporary black comedy movies.

‘My open eye’: Souvankham Thammavongsa, Anthony Veasna So and short fiction as minor literature

From the 1980s to the 2000s, contemporary world fiction gained increasing prominence through the maximalist form of the postcolonial novel. More recently, short story collections with postcolonial themes, realist styles and minimalist constraints have gained in prominence, even as patterns of migration entangle the categories of local and global. This article focuses on two recent and acclaimed books, How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa, and Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So, in order to argue that these reflexive, humorous and polyvocal collections provide new and generative iterations of contemporary global fiction through the form of the short story.

An Anthropocene ecofeminist reading of D. H. Lawrence’s The Prussian Officer and Other Stories

This article explores what might be revealed by a reading of D. H. Lawrence’s earliest short story collection from our present perspective of the Anthropocene. What signs might there be of his later expression of his anxieties about human relationship with the cosmos? Is his later articulation of the tensions that are the source of those anxieties to be found in his earliest short fiction? How successful is his earliest mode of the short story in raising questions that might trouble his readers today? Do stories written by Lawrence around the First World War offer any clues to the causes of our present environmental crisis? How does the relationship between nature and gender that would guide an ecofeminist reading contribute to and problematize all these foregoing questions?

The Literary Prose of Ernest Koliqi

This paper analyzes and interprets the prose of Ernest Koliqi including his short story collections Hija e maleve (“The Shadow of the Mountains”, 1929), published in Zadar; Pasqyrat e Narçizit (“The Mirrors of Narcissus”, 1934), published in Bari and Rome; Tregtar flamujsh (“Flag Merchant”, 1935), published in Tirana; and the novel Shija e bukës së mbrume (“The Taste of Leavened Bread”, 1960), published in Rome. Pasqyrat e Narçizit/“The Mirrors of Narcissus” (1934) is written in a style between poetry and prose. In Hija e maleve/“The Shadow of the Mountains” (1929), the author remains truthful about Albanian traditions. The theme of this collection portrays the main elements of the Albanian way of living and their mentality. The central aspect of Koliqi’s works deals with the drama of the homeland, the struggles of the Albanian intellectuals in general and those of Shkodër in particular. Most stories present cohabitation with mythological creatures; however, there is also Tregtar flamujsh/“Flag Merchant” (1935) which shows modern symbolism with an element of psychoanalysis. In Shija e bukës së mbrume/“The Taste of Leavened Bread” (1960) Koliqi writes about life, the struggles, and the atmosphere of Albanian life. This novel is filled with patriotic, social, and moral values of the Albanian people, even though the main character of the story lives in Albania and abroad. Ernest Koliqi’s characters are typical Albanian people, and the spirit of his works is also of the typical Albanian spirit.

Scars of the Past – Stories: Creating A Short Story Collection Highlighting Childhood Emotional Neglect and Its Impacts in Adulthood

Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) is described as a parent’s failure to respond enough to their child’s emotional needs. Although the effects can be severe, it is rarely studied compared to other kinds of childhood abuse and maltreatment. The writers hope to raise awareness about the topic through a short story collection which consists of four stories. Each story shows different types of emotionally neglectful parents, its impacts on the victims as adults, and how they overcome their situation using Dr. Jonice Webb’s empirical insights on CEN as a theoretical framework. The protagonists: Amanda, Brian, Christine, and Daniel, are people in their early twenties who go through their lives trying to deal with the impact of childhood emotional neglect that their parents gave them. The stories show a few types of emotionally neglectful parents: the combination of the narcissistic parent and the achievement/perfection focused parent, the permissive parent, the workaholic parent, and child as parent. The impacts in adulthood materialize in these stories include hiding emotions and lack of self-love, lack of self-discipline, lack of self-esteem, and being overly responsible. The solutions pursued by the main characters are learning to say no, improving their sense of self-discipline, self-soothing, and trying to put themselves first.

Philip Huynh’s The Forbidden Purple City: New Canadian Refugee Narratives and the Borders of the Socio-Political Community

This paper examines Philip Huynh’s short story collection The Forbidden Purple City in relation to its engagement with the nativity–territory–citizenship triad on which Western socio-political communities found the principles of affiliation of their members. First, the Canadian reaffirmation of a discourse of national benevolence is contextualised to later draw on how the collection is nurtured by boundary-crossing ethics that interrogates any sequential relation between past and present, Vietnam and Canada, which usually structures refugee narratives. It is argued then that disruptive and productive time/space interconnections delegitimate any simplistic representations of easily assimilated grateful refugees, fracturing the convenient narration of Canada as a benefactor concerned with old and new international humanitarian causes. The newness of Huynh’s stories relies on their mobilisation of the discourse of state citizenship through exceptional migrancy and its disruptive border nature. In contrast to premises of birth and geographical territory, which lose ground as backbones of any affiliation, citizenship appears incomplete and processual. The stories use the precarious performativity of collective homogeneity expected of a former settler colony, like Canada, to launch agency and resistance to state homogenisation, and de-institutionalise the refugee subject to critically intervene sovereignty and political subjectivity. Finally, the stories evince that Canada’s social spectrum is ideal to explore the threshold opened by the adjacency of sameness and otherness embodied by Huynh’s protagonists. Their condition as diasporic refugee subjects augments the transformative potential of new refugee narratives, in which literal and metaphorical polymorphous borders unveil the bases of the contemporary Canadian socio-political community.

Significant Absences: Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Silence and Joyce’s Poetics of the Unspoken


 
 
 This paper discusses an important phase in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s analytic philosophy through a comparative examination of the profound correspondences that exist between his concept of silence and the poetics of another crucial authorial figure of the 20th century: James Joyce. Based on the hypothesis that there are striking resemblances between their early works, that is, between Joyce’s realistic short-story collection Dubliners and Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the article employs mostly close-reading, analytical-interpretative and comparative methods. It argues that silence was an intentional intellectual, aesthetic and ethical choice of both these authors, their way to preserve the autonomy of metaphysics and to honour the beauty of the unspoken.
 Starting from their common critical treatment of the habitual and largely alienated speech, the discussion connects Wittgenstein’s philosophical attitudes regarding the imprecision and inadequacy of every-day language and Joyce’s notion of ‘spiritual paralysis’ of the city-life, which he saw as the main motive for writing his collection about fin-desiècle Dublin. On the grounds of their shared views about the limits of words, behind which there are worlds that cannot be properly uttered, the idea of silence – or the highly significant narrative absence – grows to permeate the work of both. In the case of Wittgenstein, it is a call for a new philosophy, or anti-philosophy, which in negating metaphysics in effect preserves its independence from a discursive speech which cannot express it, whereas in the case of Joyce, correspondingly (and almost simultaneously), it is a quest for a new literary mode that will foreground a particular Modernist allusiveness, rhetoric of omission and deliberately incomplete, gnomonical narrative structures.
 
 

Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold

ABSTRACT The genre of romance has until fairly recently predominantly depicted white protagonists and presented readers with limited representations of ethnic and racial diversity. This paper provides an overview of the ever-increasing number of Black British authors who are currently addressing this significant gap in the British publishing industry and analyse Bolu Babalola’s debut Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold (2020) as a case in point. Love in Colour is a collection of short stories which questions the universality of western tales of love and celebrates Black love and heritage. My contention is that Babalola’s collection, for its innovative elements, not only evinces that contemporary Black British women’s writing, characterized by aesthetic and formal innovations, continues to “test simple generic categories”, but, in its celebration of the transformative power of love, also demonstrates that Black love matters.

Konflik Sosial dalam Kumpulan Cerpen Tak Ada Asu di Antara Kita Karya Joko Pinurbo

This research discusses a collection of short stories entitled Tak Ada Asu di Antara Kita by Joko Pinurbo. This anthology contains fifteen short stories, five of which have the same conflict, namely the conflict between characters who work as authors. The five short stories are "Ayat Kopi", "Guru Bahagia", "Duel", "Korban Hoaks" and "Cakrawala". This research aims to answer the problem formulation, namely how social conflict is depicted in the short story collection Tak Ada Asu di Antara Kita by Joko Pinurbo. The five short stories were analyzed using social conflict theory. Analysis using social conflict theory aims to determine the conflict contained in this short story. The conflict found is a conflict between the author's characters. The analysis of social conflict in this short story is divided into three, namely forms of conflict, causes of conflict, and conflict resolution. The form of conflict is a description of the conflict that occurs in the author's characters. The cause of conflict is the thing that starts the conflict. Conflict resolution is the process or thing that causes the conflict to end.

《喊女溪》：边境空间中的奇卡纳女性身份

In her short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Sandra Cisneros portrays the character of Cleofilas by combining the legendary tale of La Llorona. As a Chicana living in the borderland, her state of identity changes as she crosses the border. With the help of independent female characters and the awakening of her own consciousness, she eventually rewrites the legend’s tragic ending. However, Cleofilas is not ultimately transformed into a fully independent woman, but only partially awakens herself under the supervision and control of male authority.

HEGEMONI DALAM KUMPULAN CERPEN TEH DAN PENGKHIANAT KARYA IKSAKA BANU

This research discusses the aspect of hegemony in the short story collection "Teh dan Pengkhianat" by Iksaka Banu. The purpose of this study is to describe the characters, plot, and setting, as well as to describe the domination and hegemony in the short story collection "Teh dan Pengkhianat" by Iksaka Banu. Methodologically, a qualitative descriptive approach is used, while theoretically using a literary sociology approach. The collected data is then analyzed to assess and identify the aspects of Antonio Gramsci's hegemony in the short story collection "Teh dan Pengkhianat" by Iksaka Banu. The analysis result of "Hegemony in the Short Story Collection 'Teh dan Pengkhianat' by Iksaka Banu" shows the existence of total hegemony, declining hegemony, and minimum hegemony imposed by the Dutch on the natives as an effort to perpetuate their power in the Dutch East Indies. The aspect of hegemony can be seen from the ideas, storyline, narrative, and dialogue conveyed by the characters in the short stories "Sebutir Peluru Saja" and "Di Atas Kereta Angin". Hegemony in this short story collection can be identified through structural analysis which includes characters and characterization, plot, setting, time setting, and social setting.