Short Story Writer Research Articles

Peace and Conflict in Two Friends: A Naturalistic Short Story

As a mover and shaker man of letters, the French short story writer Guy de Maupassant penned hundreds of groundbreaking stories, yet sundry of them are still eclipsed owing to the rarity of reviews. Two Friends (1882), one of his eloquent works, is a pertinent case worth reading and analyzing. As a corollary, this article comes to terms with Two Friends to uncover the story’s narrative structure, point of view, setting dimensions, historical context, style, and symbolism to cognize readers about the significance of this piece of work that comes to grips with two dialectical phenomena which are peace and brutality. This juxtapositional datum in human nature echoes how realistic literature in the 19th century represented societies by shedding light on divergent issues in Two Friends and conversing about the impulse that thrusts Guy de Maupassant to tell about the faith of two commoners living in Paris. This investigation indulges realism in Maupassant’s work through the projection of commoner characters entangled with the dire reality of armed conflicts. Besides, naturalism discloses the reasonable forces of the environment and innate heredity that navigate the characters' actions. This will inform us about how war sometimes has the repercussions of foolish decisions or human greed, out of which innocent human beings are the overt victims who pay a heavy price.

African Short Story Writers and Intrapersonal Conflicts: A Critical Perspective on a Selected Short Story

African Short Story Writers and Intrapersonal Conflicts: A Critical Perspective on a Selected Short Story

Analysis of Ömer Seyfettin's Stories about the Balkans in Terms of Narration Techniques

One of the founding figures of contemporary Turkish short story writing, Ömer Seyfettin, produced hundreds of literary works in his short life. Having spent part of his life in the Balkans, the author's stories such as "Beyaz Lale", "Bomba", and "Hürriyet Bayrakları" contain elements related to the Balkans. In this study, these stories of the author have been analyzed in terms of narrative techniques. Qualitative research methods, specifically document analysis, were utilized in the study. At the end of the review, it was determined that narrative, description, dialogue, and inner monologue techniques were intensively used in the mentioned stories, with one story preferring the inner monologue technique. These techniques were found to play a significant role in shaping the preparatory phase in the stories, summarizing events over time, creating an atmosphere, directing the development of events, and revealing the personality traits of the protagonists. Especially in realistically narrating the massacres that Muslim-Turks were subjected to during and after the Balkan Wars, these techniques were found to be effective. In light of these findings, it is believed that Ömer Seyfettin's narrative techniques can serve as an example for contemporary short story writers.

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.

‘I’m not a fighter. I’m a lay down and die-er’: An interview with Diane Cook

A conversation between acclaimed American short story writer and novelist Diane Cook and writer A. J. Ashworth, focusing in particular on the ecological elements in Cook’s writing in her debut collection Man V. Nature. Cook also discusses the apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic in her fiction, writing about aftermaths, her own experiences with nature and the environment, as well as some of her influences.

CONFLICT WITH SOCIETAL GENDER ROLES: A COMPARATIVE FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF EDNA PONTELLIER AND NORA HELMER

Kate Chopin, an American novelist and short story writer representing women’s revolt against patriarchal rule, positions women in the center of her works. She deals with women's experiences in the context of gender roles, their conflicts with society, their discovery of their own bodies and the following awakening. Henrik Ibsen is one of the most important writers of Norwegian drama. Similarly, Ibsen highlights the individual's conflict with society as a kind of alienation on the axis of individual-society antagonism. Edna Pontellier, the protagonist in Chopin's novel The Awakening (1899), and Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House (1879), do not fit into the gender roles imposed on them by their societies. Both characters gain self-awareness through the discovery of their uniqueness. Henrik Ibsen and Kate Chopin wrote realistically about the problems their female characters encountered in the patriarchal social structure and their conflicts with social codes. The lives and choices of Edna and Nora, who both have the duties of pleasing their spouses, meeting the needs of the house and taking care of their children within the encompassing structure of the institution of marriage, are similar to each other. In this article, the lives of Edna and Nora, who are the objects of the patriarchal structure in the triangular relationship of man - child - family, will be examined comparatively in terms of their contradictions with society, their journey to self-discovery, their alienation and choices.

MARIAM AL-ZAROUNI: CRYSTALLIZING DIVERSITY

Mariam Al-zarouni is a prolific writer and artist in UAE: she is a poet, a novelist, a short story writer, a painter, and a sculpture. Her literary and artistic genre diversity has duly attracted the attention of both readers and critics due to the relatively brief span of time during which she has emerged as a female renown writer who has enjoyed a Pan-Arab fame, in addition to her connections with literary societies abroad. Interestingly, she embarks on a variety of contemporary issues that are related to her society. This paper is devoted to the study of Al-zarouni's literary works: selected poems from her two Poem Collections. The selected poems mainly focus on her feminist criticism of the outcomes of the Masculinity ancient societal structure. Her one novel A Letter from Harvard is a fiction work that has been granted the A'wees award, and it has been written to discuss Juveniles' issues. In her novel, the novelist\poet elegantly introduces a great lesson that the basic way to improve and develop her society is that of science. She really displays poignant knowledge of the Juveniles' mentalities

The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath's first-person narrative of core elements for diagnosing and treating clinical depression

SUMMARY The Bell Jar (1963) is a semi-autobiographical novel written by the confessional poet, novelist and short-story writer Sylvia Plath (1932–1963). It has been often cited as a recommended reading within the medical humanities, because of its powerful description of depression and the understanding-by-experience of the related psychiatric treatments. This brief article, primarily directed at the clinically oriented reader, presents a selection of excerpts from The Bell Jar to illustrate the main diagnostic features of clinical depression and the vital role of therapeutic relationship quality in hindering or facilitating treatment outcomes and recovery.

A Literary Stylistic Analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s Miss Brill

Katherine Mansfield, one of the most renowned female writers in the world of literature, created 93 works in her brief lifetime, many of which are considered classics by posterity. Mansfield’s outstanding contribution to literature lies in her innovation in the realm of short stories, and she is widely recognized as one of the finest short story writers in the history of English literature. Miss Brill is one such masterpiece, depicting the story of Miss Brill as she dresses neatly and goes to the park on a Sunday, sitting on a bench and observing the people passing by, listening to their conversations and the band playing. She imagines herself as a part of their world, but her illusions are shattered by a young couple, and she returns home, disheartened, to what feels like a cupboard of a home. This short story exemplifies the artistic techniques in Mansfield's storytelling, with one of the prominent features being the charm emanating from the stylistic choices in her works. Literary stylistics is concerned with the language features of literary works, exploring how authors use language to express the themes of their works and enhance their aesthetic value. This paper will delve into literary stylistics, focusing on the text of the short story Miss Brill, examining its lexical features, grammatical features, and figures of speech to explore how Mansfield uses specific language choices to convey and enhance the thematic significance and aesthetic effects of her work.

The Representation of Earlier African American Vernacular English by Charles W. Chesnutt

This article examines the validity of regional speech represented in the writings of an African American short story writer, essayist, lawyer, and stenographer Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932) with a corpus of dialogues extracted from his literary works (approximately 40,000 words). As a touchstone for exploring its accuracy, the Atlas data from Fayetteville, North Carolina, and the surrounding regions in Cape Fear and Pee Dee Valley− a region where the author spent his youth and his stories are set−are compared with the speech of his African American characters. The result reveals that the Atlas records and Chesnutt’s dialogues share many expressions in their regional lexicons ranging from single words to phrases. Considering the difficulty of recording all the synonyms and semantically related words from the same informant during the interview, the overall agreement between the two provides further evidence that as an African American writer who spent his formative years in a rural community in North Carolina, Chesnutt’s literary dialect offers a glimpse of earlier AAVE spoken in the region in the mid-nineteenth century. Furthermore, this article touches on Chesnutt’s racial identity and what led him to enter the literary world as it is pertinent to his linguistic background and the motive behind the use of literary dialect.

Du Crime À La Chose, Une Scénographie De L’indicible Chez Maupassant

This study concerns a study devoted to the staging of the crime by Maupassant. By focusing on the evocation of the “thing”, we brought out the scenography of the unspeakable in some short stories by Guy de Maupassant. The short story writer evokes incest, adultery or fornication using the word “thing”. Thus the thing is considered as that which is concealed. The “thing” in certain Maupassantian short stories means the unspeakable which is either incest, adultery or fornication. It also designates death, crime or anything that the writer chooses not to name. The “thing” is also described as “infamous” when what the short story writer designates is detestable, ignoble and shameful. It is this repugnance of what is mentioned that pushes the writer to use the term “thing”.

«Испытанный союзник»: советские контакты Ф. Боноски

The article reconstructs the literary contacts of the American writer and publicist Phillip Bonosky (1916–2013) with the USSR. When the US Communist Party reached its crisis point in 1956, Bonosky did not renege on his political commitments to the USSR, having established himself as a devoted communist and “defender of the foundations.” Based on archival materials deposited in RGALI, we demonstrate that such a pro-Soviet position promised the writer personal preferences, which he enjoyed with pleasure. Bonosky visited the USSR many times — both workwise and with cultural and entertainment visits. On many occasions, he tried using his acquaintances and pulled a few strings when it came to speeding up the publication of his works in Russian and receiving royalties for them. However, as a writer of short stories and “proletarian” novels, Bonosky enjoyed great success neither in the USSR nor in the USA: his writings remained a marginal phenomenon and were hardly perceived as a significant cultural value in the Khrushchev thaw era, despite the declared interest of Soviet critics in works about the life and struggle of American workers.

Roslan Jomel’s Experimental Short Stories and the Influences of Marquez and Murakami

In the 1970s, experimental Malay short stories underwent a profound change. Different factors such as writers’ exposure to other part of the world literature reading materials, including such schools of thought and international authors’ works, result in changes of writing techniques. Recent decade has witnessed the continued growth of experimental short stories and the emergence of numerous new authors with innovative styles and techniques. Roslan Jomel is one of the few experimental short story writers with a penchant for experimenting with new techniques and styles, to the point where critics have praised his originality and freshness. Considering this innovation, the purpose of this article is to describe the styles and techniques utilised by Roslan Jomel in his short stories. Through interviews with the writer and textual analysis of his short stories, it is evident that the short story writer demonstrates a proclivity for new narrative styles and techniques that contradict the conventions of previous experimental short story writing. His exposure to the works of international literary figures such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Haruki Murakami impacted his new techniques and styles. The influences of both authors in Roslan Jomel’s short stories is seen from the perspective of experimental fiction by Julie Armstrong

Vrednosni pluralizam u romanima Crni psi i Subota Ijana Makjuana

Ian McEwan, an influential and provocative British novelist and short-story writer, has addressed a variety of issues, distinguishing himself as a socially and politically engaged author. This paper explores contemporary liberalism as depicted in two of McEwan's novels, Black Dogs and Saturday, both charged with moral complexity. The analysis is approached from the perspective of value pluralism, which recognises the plurality of morally correct yet incompatible and incommensu-rable principles or values. These values may conflict with each other, but since all are correct, the conflicts remain unresolved. It is the author's belief that the novels highlight value pluralism through characters who, while navigating a pluralist environment, disclose the challenges and limitations of liberal democracies. The theoretical context this paper relies on is based on ideas of Isaiah Berlin and his notion of value pluralism.

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin: A Feminist Perspective

Kate Chopin is an American short story writer. She works beyond the imagination for female; therefore, she is considered to be a leading figure of feminism. She produces many short stories, but the story ‘The Story of an Hour’ is famous for the subjugation of female. It is semi autobiography of the writer that is why she has proposed her personal experience in this story. She fights for women in her era because she believes that there is no limit for women in social context. The researcher elaborates the elements of feminism through the character of Louise in her short story ‘The Story of an Hour’ from different perspective such as oppression, subjugations, freedom, identity, marriage, suffrage, struggle, and patriarchal system. The researcher applies Textual Analysis method along with the close reading to find out the above elements in the story. The researcher evaluates numerous research articles to provide evidence for the topic under stud.

A Few Words More about Victorian Women Writers and Germany: George Eliot and Amy Levy

Abstract This article revisits the relation between George Eliot and Amy Levy (1861–89), a lesbian New Woman Jewish poet, novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Levy’s most familiar response to Eliot is a scene in Reuben Sachs (1889), Levy’s last novel, which mocks Eliot’s portrayal of Jewish characters in Daniel Deronda (1876). But Levy was an avowed admirer of Eliot in her early life and alluded to Eliot positively in the short story “Between Two Stools” (1883). In considering Eliot’s potential legacy for Levy, this article examines their shared representation of psychic experience in “The Lifted Veil” (1859) and “The Recent Telepathic Incident at the British Museum” (1887), their shared consideration of conflicts between women’s intellectual aspirations and domesticity in Armgart (1870) and “Xantippe” (1880), and their shared representations of persecution of the Roma in The Spanish Gypsy (1868) and “Run to Death” (1879).

Analisis Struktural dan Nilai Moral dalam Cerpen “Rembulan Di Mata Ibu” Karya Asma Nadia

This article aims to analyze the structural and moral values in the short story Rembulan in the Eyes of Mother by Asma Nadia. Short stories are a form of fiction that usually focus on one event, have a single plot, and have a relatively short and limited time scope. The type of research used is structural study. This study focuses on the coherence between the intrinsic elements of short stories. Theme, setting, plot, point of view and characters must have a reciprocal relationship, determine and influence each other so that they form a complete short story and the researcher will research and explain the moral values that the short story writer wants to convey to the reader.

‘So what, I’m on the roof’: Lucia Berlin’s roots in Spanish and Chilean literatures

In 2015, the North American short story writer Lucia Berlin (1926–2004) was ‘rediscovered’ when her posthumous collection, A Manual for Cleaning Women, became a New York Times bestseller. It has since been translated into more than twenty languages, and has been received with particular enthusiasm in Spain and Latin America. Many of her stories are set in Chile or Mexico, where she lived for many years. This article proposes that Berlin’s adolescence in Santiago, her bilingual education, and her studies with Spanish novelist Ramón J. Sender at the University of New Mexico had important impacts on her writing. This connection has yet to be made: Berlin is most often associated with North American ‘dirty realism’, or other anglophone movements. I argue that we are wrong to place her work exclusively in the context of her country of birth, and propose that we read her alongside the hispanophone writers she learned from. In my first section, I describe Berlin’s experience in Santiago as a young, privileged North American, and explore how this formed her identity as an outsider–insider, or insider–outsider. In my next section, I focus on Berlin’s undergraduate years in New Mexico, charting her interests in liminal and domestic spaces, which may have been encouraged by Sender. In my final section, I examine the stories with Chilean settings that she published in 1988, and ask what prompted her to return to the country of her adolescence on the page.

Patriarchal Ideology: A Feminist Study in Pakistani Short Stories Fiction

This paper intends to examine the position of women during the patriarchal structure to become strong enough for honorable survival. We apply Gerda Lerner's creation of Patriarchy (1989) in the present study. Patriarchy provokes Women voiceless through various assumptions and ideologies. The study has been conducted through textual analysis of Pakistani Short stories while focusing on different customs and events represented by Pakistani feminists to highlight the patriarchal structures. It shows that women have been treated as objects without caring for their desires. Their disrespect for patriarchal notions may deprive them of their existence as human beings. It also pinpoints that women are oppressed, and subjugated, through patriarchal structures. We discussed female characters in the Pakistani Short story writers' works Shahrazad's Golden Leopard and Masroor's The Monkey Wound. Any struggle to get liberation from oppression results in sexist violence.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Abstract Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864), an American novelist and short story writer, 19th century, wrote over 46 novels, short stories and sketches, although his reputation as a novel writer came very late, when he was approximatively 46 years old. Hawthorne is known today for his reference novels written in between 1850 and 1860, namely: The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852), and The Marble Faun (1860). A precursor of the psychological novel and of modern psychoanalysis, through the deepness of the introspection and the exploration of the soul’s cinematic resources, Hawthorne depicts the American imagination using the ‘romance’ literary genre, which allows him an allegoric and symbolic approach as analysis benchmarks of the human soul. The author is distinguished by the idealist romantic wing and from transcendentalism, whose optimism and exaggerated idealism he rejected. His inclination towards moral ambivalence and psychologic introspection and the approach of the organic theory concerning life’s duality made him reconsider the role of the individual in puritan society, appreciating the value of the human effort before Providence.