Short Stories Research Articles

“Ma semblable, ma soeur”: Negative Capability and Self-Fashioning in “The Quilt Maker” by Angela Carter and Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

ABSTRACT Reading fiction by Angela Carter and Olga Tokarczuk side by side is a fascinating but eerie experience: the celebrated British fabulist and the Nobel-winning Polish writer-cum-public intellectual share some indefinable quality – their oeuvres resonate. My aim in this paper is to add to the critical debate on self-fashioning in Carter and Tokarczuk by comparing how they script their lives as reflected in their fiction. The following discussion of Carter’s short story “The Quilt Maker” and Tokarczuk’s Flights points to how they portray the ambiguities involved in being a female writer. Both writers emphasize the extreme subjectivity of their projects, both script their lives as reflected in their fiction, both create their literary personas with allusions to their real biographies, and both make these personas create constellations and patchworks of narrative fragments employing negative capability to suggest – rather than – tell stories.

Pengaruh Media Short Story Terhadap Kemampuan Kognitif Anak Kelompok B


 
 
 
 This study aimed to improve the cognitive abilities of children in group B. The design of this research is a pre-experimental one group pretest-posttes design. The research subjects were twenty children selected through purposive sampling. It can be proven by the results of the pre-test (before the experiment) amounted to 17.6, and the post-test (after the experiment) amounted to 21.9 The test results obtained tcount = 5.92417962, ttable value at = 0.05; dk = n-1 (20-1 = 29) obtained = 1.729. Thus, tcount is greater than ttable (tcount = 5.92417962; ttable = 1.729,). Based on the test criteria, Ha is accepted if tcount ≥ ttable at = 0.05; n-1; therefore, the alternative hypothesis or Ha can be accepted. All in all, it can be stated that there is an effect of the short story method on children's cognitive abilities. Short stories that are packaged in short and concise form make it easier for children to focus and comprehend information.
 
 
 

Analisis Penggunaan Klausa Bebas dan Klausa Terikat dalam Cerpen “Hujan Kemarin” Karya Melissa Amelia Putri

This research aims to describe the use of free clauses and bound clauses in a short story entitled “Hujan Kemarin” by Melissa Amelia Putri published on Kompas website. This is done to find marker characteristics that can distinguish between independent clauses and dependent clauses. The method used in this research is descriptive-qualitative method using content analysis. Sampling in this research analysis uses purposive sampling. Based on the results of the analysis, the following conclusions can be drawn: there are 14 representative sentences as the analysis material in which there are independent clauses and dependent clauses. The function of the dependent clauses in a sentence can be S, O, Pel, and K and can be located in front or behind the independent clauses. Keywords: syntax, clause, short story

SPINNER OF YARN – STORY WRITING WEBSITE

This research paper introduces an innovative online platform designed to cultivate creativity and collaboration among writers and readers. Leveraging contemporary web development technologies including MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js, the platform offers an intuitive interface for writers to share their original works, spanning from short stories to novels and poetry collections. Readers can navigate through a diverse collection of stories, interact with authors through comments and feedback, and forge connections within a vibrant community of like-minded individuals.With a vision to nurture a community grounded in creativity and cooperation, the platform serves as a hub where writers can showcase their talent and readers can discover captivating narratives. Ultimately, this initiative aims to inspire individuals to embrace the profound impact of storytelling, empowering them to share their unique perspectives with a global audience. Index Terms—Storytelling community, Scalable architecture, MERN Stack, User-friendly, Writers and readers, Creativity

Awakening and Wandering of Modern Consciousness During the May Fourth Period: A Case Study of Ding Ling’s Miss Sofia’s Diary and Meng Ke

Miss Sofia’s Diary and Meng Ke are both novels by Ding Ling in the late 1920s. The publication of Miss Sofia’s Diary caused a great sensation in the literary world at that time, which has been praised by some commentators as "a bomb dropped in this dead literature". The heroine Sofia is the representative of ideological emancipation during the May Fourth Period. Meanwhile, Meng Ke, Ding Ling's first short story, also reflects the awakening of women's modern consciousness in the times and gradually grasps the "self" discourse. This paper analyzes Ding Ling's modern consciousness and the reasons for women's awakening and wandering during the May Fourth Period, so as to explore the significance of Miss Sofia’s Diary and Meng Ke to the literature of the same period and modern women.

Zoppot / Sopoty. The unobvious dialectic of (temporary) neighbourhood (writingsby Stanisław Dygat)

The subject of this article is the non-obviousness of the holiday neighbourhood of Polish visitorsand German hosts in Sopot in the fi rst decades of the 20th century, especially in the interwarperiod. Admittedly, this was a temporary neighbourhood, but its context was obviously the historicalneighbourhood of the two nations. The crucial question, then, is: what is the result of the particularintermingling of these two communities? The answer to it must take into account the history of twentieth-century Sopot. Stanisław Dygat’s writings – selected novels, short stories and columns – serveas a literary illustration of the phenomenon.

Managerial activity of future physical education teachers aimed at building a positive image using visual technologies

With the integration of technology and social media in education, there is increasing interest in innovative approaches to enhance managerial skills among prospective physical education and sports teachers. The integration of technology and social media into education has prompted interest in exploring innovative methods to enhance the managerial skills of prospective physical education and sports teachers. This study investigates the impact of an intervention on the managerial skills of fourth-year students majoring in Physical Culture and Sports across three educational institutions in Kazakhstan. Out of 564 participants, 355 were eligible for analysis: 167 used chatbots and 188 followed conventional classroom methods. The intervention included a 4-week team management course starting in January 2022. Chatbot users accessed various materials such as short lecture videos, stories, assignments, infographics, and audio sequences, while conventional learners attended standard lectures and practical sessions. Following the course, participants undertook a 12-week teaching practice, with chatbot users also maintaining an active Twitter presence to build a positive image as future physical education teachers. Managerial skills were assessed using a 44-item questionnaire, covering Conceptual, Human, and Technical skills. Additionally, social media popularity was measured based on Twitter activity. Results showed that both groups significantly improved their Conceptual, Human, and Technical skills after the course. Chatbot users demonstrated greater improvement in Technical skills (p = 0.003, d = 1.139), while conventional learners showed stronger Human skills (p = 0.021, d = 1.32). Specifically, the mean score for Technical skills increased from 2.71 to 3.76 for chatbot users and from 2.65 to 3.20 for conventional learners. Moreover, chatbot-aided learners further enhanced their Conceptual and Human skills through social media engagement. Correlation analysis indicated a close relationship between managerial skills and social media popularity. These findings have significant practical implications for the education and development of prospective physical education and sports teachers. Integrating chatbots and social media into educational settings offers innovative approaches to enhancing managerial skills.

Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s Zarudzie and the activities of the Literary Institute

The article analyses Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s short story Zarudzie as an expression of his unconsciousreaction to the journalism and other writings that came from Jerzy Giedroyc’s circleand concerned the issue of the Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation. Given his personal connection toUkraine, Iwaszkiewicz may have felt compelled to respond, but the direct reason was most likelythe involvement of his grandson, Maciej Włodek, in smuggling the publications of the Literary Instituteto Poland, i.e. the case of the so-called mountaineers.

Minor characters, genre, and relationality: Antigone’s sister in contemporary literature

This essay investigates the distinction between major and minor characters by analysing the contemporary literary reception of a minor figure from one of the most canonical works in world literature: Ismene, Antigone’s sister in Sophocles’s Antigone. While Sophocles’s tragedy continues to elicit a startling number of rewritings and adaptations, the last two decades have seen a remarkable increase in rewritings which bring the heroine’s sister Ismene, a minor character in the original play, to the forefront. This multilingual, multi-generic, world literary corpus engages with Ismene’s relationship to heroism and sacrifice, moving away from tragedy and instead turning to a variety of genres: monologues, short stories, non-tragic plays, comedies, as well as hybrid forms that incorporate intermedial references. While much has been written about postcolonial and feminist rewritings of canonical Western texts, very little has been said about the attachments which secondary figures might elicit in peripheral literatures and minor authors. This focus, as this essay will show, helps refine notions of agency, solidarity, and connectivity in theories of the minor. The analysis presented here underscores the aesthetic, generic, and political implications of the revisionary representation of minor figures by contrasting Jeremy Menekseoglu’s theatrical rewriting Ismene (US, 2004) and Lot Vekemans’s monologue Zus van (Sister of, The Netherlands, 2005) as two distinct modes of engaging with Ismene as a paradigmatic minor figure. Pursuing the genre-theoretical and political questions raised by what Jeremy Rosen has termed “minor-character elaborations”, this essay identifies the practice of rewriting as a key literary strategy to decentre the major position of certain figures and genres in world literature. In dialogue with Rosen’s theoretical work, I argue for an aesthetic, enunciative, stylistic understanding of genre, which is best able to raise both the question of the minor character and that of minor-character elaborations within debates surrounding the minor.

Invigorating The Dislodged Roots in An Unwonted Land: Immigrant Narratives in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth

This study aims to explain the challenges faced by immigrants by analysing the short stories written by Jhumpa Lahiri. The organisation of this research study is intended to enable a thorough investigation of immigrant tales in Unaccustomed Earth. Through the framework of Homi K. Bhabha's theory of hybridity, this paper conducts a literary analysis of the stories, investigating themes, characters, and stylistic elements.  This study employs the notion of hybridity and its diverse manifestations to investigate how immigrants establish their roots in new territory after relocating and relinquishing their own cultural identity in order to assimilate into a foreign culture. Occasionally, individuals integrate their cultural values with the cultural norms of people from different backgrounds, while maintaining their own ethnicity and cultural identity. At times, people transition from one culture to another and mimic the colonisers or those in positions of power. Consequently, immigrants face several obstacles in their lives. An individual who refuses to adopt or accept the lifestyle, language, religious values, ethnicity, norms, and culture of the host society will have a feeling of alienation from that society. These consequences lead to an individual feeling nostalgia since they are unable to maintain their own cultural identity.  The research presented here asserts that individuals must achieve a harmonic balance between their own cultural values and the foreign culture in order to alleviate concerns and challenges such as identity crises, and to flourish in a new setting.

Religious reality in short stories with the theme of the COVID-19 pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, short story literary works emerged with the theme of the pandemic. This short story raises the theme of the pandemic and, at the same time, provides an overview of the religious realities that occurred during the pandemic. The pandemic creates new problems at the level of the religious habits. This is a dilemma faced by the Indonesian people. The reality of religion during the pandemic can be seen in the rituals of worship and religious habits. This research aims to describe the reality of religion during the pandemic in short stories with the theme of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data source in this research is nine short stories with the theme of the COVID-19 pandemic published in online media (suaramerdeka.com, republika.com, and cerpenmu.com) in the period 2020-2021. The selection of the nine short stories was based on a purposive sampling technique with a focus on novice writers. The technique used in this research is note-taking, which involves the writer reading and recording the findings of religious realities in short stories with the theme of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results of this research show two aspects of religious reality in short stories with the theme of the COVID-19 pandemic, namely worship rituals and religious habits. The reality of religion in worship rituals in short stories with the theme of the COVID-19 pandemic is to invite people to use religion to resolve the pandemic without worsening conditions. Meanwhile, the reality of religious diversity in religious habits shows the phenomenon of people still trying to realize religious habits during Eid by paying attention to the health protocols that apply amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Excerpts from Einar Schleef’s "Droge Faust Parsifal" (Drugs Faust Parsifal)

Arguably the most important books by Einar Schleef (1944-2001) are his novel Gertrud, a monologue narrated by his fictionalized mother, his diaries, and the work excerpted here, Droge Faust Parsifal (Drugs Faust Parsifal, 1997). Schleef also wrote plays and short stories, and was a theater director, set and costume designer, actor, illustrator, painter, and photographer. His work deserves a wide readership, yet only a story and a play have been translated into English (Buchner 1982, 130-138; Vivis 1987). Drugs Faust Parsifal’s 500 pages are autobiography, theater history, dramaturgy and cultural essay in one. It won the City of Bremen Literature Prize in 1998 and was adapted for the stage in 2011 by Armin Petras. The selected passages from Drugs, which are somewhat anomalous in a book mainly about dramaturgy, concern Schleef’s personal struggles; they have historical relevance and show his linguistic dexterity, articulated in his “suffering language, a language for suffering” (Windrich 2009, 481). Both as child and adult, he is an observer of a postwar society divided against itself.

The Development of Online Teaching Materials for Indonesia Foreign Speaker Level 5

Indonesian Language Learning for Foreign Speakers (BIPA) is increasingly in demand, especially BIPA learning, which is carried out online. However, in online BIPA learning, there are still obstacles. The obstacle is the availability of BIPA online teaching materials. This research aims to produce BIPA online teaching materials that are feasible for BIPA 5 students. This study uses the ADDIE development model to Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate. The resulting teaching materials are adapted to SKL BIPA 5 and consist of seven lessons that can be used for online BIPA learning. The seven units of material are natural disasters, historical places, Indonesian cuisine, short stories, let us discuss, creative poetry, and the hero. The presentation structure for each unit consists of learning objectives, pre-activity, material descriptions, practice questions, grammar notes, new vocabulary tables, and Indonesian insights. The material in each unit is designed to train the four language skills. Based on the due diligence on content, language, graphics and organization, presentation, and cultural elements in teaching materials, BIPA 5 online teaching materials are suitable for use by BIPA 5 students.

“That Would Be Undemocratic”: Individuality and Educational Differentiation in C. S. Lewis’s “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” (1961)

This essay surveys C. S. Lewis’s statement and critique of British education as found in “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” (Lewis, 1961) and other works within his oeuvre. In this short story, Lewis elaborates on the state of education in postwar English society through the eyes of his protagonist: a demon. In distilling Lewis’s Christian philosophy of education, the essay explores individuality, differentiation, and various correlated themes in juxtaposition to extant literature on twentieth-century educational reform. Having the educational impact of Christian tenets as the common denominator, the essay concludes with individuality and differentiation standing at the core of Christian education.

Accepting or Transgressing the Failure: Derrida and Agamben on Kafka’s Before the Law

This paper explores Derrida and Agamben’s reading of Kafka’s Before the Law. As a highly symbolic text, Kafka’s short story has elicited numerous interpretations, among which Derrida and Agamben proffer, to some extent, opposing readings that exemplify their broader philosophical projects. By elucidating the parallels between Kafka’s parable and the modern legal system, this paper analyses the different angles of Derrida and Agamben’s views in their interpretations. Upon examining various aspects of their analyses, which encompass their philosophical reflections on difference, origin, command, messiah, event, threshold, and outside, the paper concentrates on the concluding moment of the story. This particular juncture proves to be the most challenging, manifesting a profoundly intriguing question in critical philosophy, and the disparate interpretations of the two philosophers underscore this intellectual challenge. The paper argues that Derrida’s reading which accepts the failure of the village man without seeking any victory going beyond the legal system is a position that critical legal thinking needs to consider, while Agamben’s, here exceptionally, transgressive tendency in pursuit of an extra-legal space is something that should not be of concern for critical legal thinking. The paper argues that Derridean acceptance of failure constitutes a radical force for the deconstructive standpoint, immunizing it against reconciliation and identification.

A Report on C-E Translation of Children’s Literature: A Case Study of Gen Niao (Excerpts)

Gen Niao is a short story crafted by Cao Wenxuan, a distinguished contemporary writer in the realm of children’s literature. This story chronicles the maturation journey of a young protagonist named Gen Niao. Currently, there is no published translated edition of this book. This paper takes Gen Niao as an example to primarily explore the English translation of Chinese children’s literature. As international cultural exchanges deepen, English translation of contemporary Chinese children’s literature assumes paramount significance in facilitating cultural outreach. Due to the cultural and linguistic disparities between Chinese and English, translators often find it challenging to accurately and vividly convey the precise connotations of the source text, especially when the target audience is children. Hence, in order to convey the meaning of the source language as faithfully as possible, the author tackles the translation process from two aspects: lexical choices and syntactic structures. Based on the strategies of domestication and foreignization proposed by Venuti, the author primarily employs a strategy of domestication, supplemented by occasional foreignization to translate the selected passages, aiming to maintain fidelity to the original while ensuring readability for the target audience. By exploring strategies for translating Chinese children’s literature into English, this research encapsulates reflections and analyses concerning the practice of translating children’s literature, aiming to discover methods that can enhance the international impact of translated works and propel Chinese children’s literature towards global recognition.

Kolmogorov, stochastics in Bulgaria, and probabilistic problems with unexpected solutions

In this talk, I am going to share with the readers my memories of personal meetings with Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903–1987), the content of our conversations, and the fruitful consequences. The reader is familiar with, or could read, the timely prepared recent comprehensive paper [34], presented by N.M. Yanev at the 52nd Spring Conference of the UBM. Included here are several new details about Andrey Nikolaevich and the great influence of the Moscow Probability School on the development of Stochastics in Bulgaria. I have used MathSciNet and introduced the ‘Kolmogorov number’, a ‘collaboration distance’ between a mathematician and Kolmogorov, with a focus on Bulgarian stochasticians. I am writing about Kolmogorov’s approach to doing mathematics in general and the role of counterexamples. Discussed are two specific probabilistic problems which, according to him, are with most unusual solutions, ‘Skitovich-Darmois theorem’ and ‘Plackett problem’. Several related short stories and not well-known facts are presented.

The Implementation of Creative Writing Technique in Short Story with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Themes as the Initial Product of Digital Audio-visual Illustration for Trauma Healing Alternative

This research aims to create short stories with PTSD themes by applying the creative writing technique for short stories as the initial product of digital audio-visual illustration, which will be used as an alternative for trauma healing. The product of this research is a part of art therapy that can assist in expressing various emotions of both the creator of the work and its audience. This study applies the creative writing technique for short stories by Edward Archibald Markham, consisting of 10 key points in creative writing for short stories, namely: (1) preparing for the short story, (2) revision, (3) the opening paragraph, (4) revision 2 - paying attention to detail, (5) shape: structure and form, (6) revision 3, (7) character, (8) dialogue, (9) literary conceits and extended metaphors, and (10) advanced exercises. This technique was chosen because it is highly relevant in developing a short story that vividly portrays traumatic experiences for the readers to empathize with. This research is a continuous study and a collaboration of researchers from the Faculty of Language and Arts at Universitas Negeri Jakarta, with expertise in literary studies, music composition, and visual arts. Therefore, this short story serves as the initial product that will be further developed into a digital audio-visual illustration (mixed art) that will play a role as an alternative art therapy for trauma healing.
 Keywords: creative writing, short story, PTSD, trauma healing, narrative text

HYPONYMY FOUND IN KATE CHOPIN’S SELECTED SHORT STORIES

This study aimed at explain the types of hyponymy found in Kate Chopin’s selected short stories.  Semantic theory and hyponymy approach was used to answer the problem of study. This study used qualitative method. The data were taken of sentence by Kate Chopin selected short stories. The results of this study indicate that there are fifty three of hyponymy with fifteen superordinate it’s grouped in the types of hyponymy found in short stories by Kate Chopin. The types of hyponymy are taxonomic, functional, and collective: singular, heterogeneous stuffs, and collective: plural. Also fifteen superordinate are male, female, number, color, cloth, appearance, tell, see, time distance, size, occupation, part of body, water, and season.

The method of introduction in the collection of B.A. Lazarevsky “Doomed and Other Stories”

INTRODUCTION. The purpose of the study is to analyze the features of the poetics of the short stories by B.A. Lazarevsky from the collection “Doomed and Other Stories” (Berlin, 1921), which were created and published by the writer in emigration, using the example of the introduction technique. It should be noted that the collection was not previously subjected to literary analysis, and the artist's name was unfairly forgotten in his homeland after the revolution due to ideological and other reasons.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The specifics of using the Lazarevsky preface technique in the stories of the collection “Doomed and Other Stories” are considered. Historicalliterary, structural-poetic methods are used for the analysis.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. It is revealed that the technique of anticipation is embodied by the writer in the prophetic dreams of the characters, as well as in their ability to predict future events. Dreams characterize the emotional state of the characters and serve as a way to escape from the harsh reality. Most of the characters have developed intuition and emotional sensitivity. It is determined that the writer actively used the preface in other works of the initial period of emigration (“The Soul of a Woman”, “Captain's Widow”).CONCLUSION. The clarification of the features of the poetics of emigrant works through the analysis of the reception of the preface is the theoretical significance of the study. The practical significance lies in the possibility of using the materials obtained in the practice of university and school teaching literature of the Russian abroad.