“I Can’t Tell You Exactly Who I am …”: The Creation of Childhood and Adulthood in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2016 ◽  
pp. 207-219
Author(s):  
Nicole Balzer
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
The Creation

The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kahn
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
The Press ◽  
Character Study ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Plot Design

The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction charts the rise of the short story from its original appearance in magazines and newspapers. For much of the 19th century, tales were written for the press, and the form’s history is marked by engagement with popular fiction. The short story then earned a reputation for its skilful use of plot design and character study distinct from the novel. This VSI considers the continuity and variation in key structures and techniques such as the beginning, the creation of voice, the ironic turn or plot twist, and how writers manage endings. Throughout, it draws on examples from an international and flourishing corpus of work.

scholarly journals Analysis of Desires of the Main Character in the Short Story “Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch” by Peter Bichsel: A Study of Deleuze and Guattari’s Schizoanalysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
M. Kharis ◽  
Rosyidah Rosyidah ◽  
Sawitri Retnantiti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Recording Techniques

This study aims to describe the desires of the main character ‘der Mann’ in the short story by Peter Bichsel using Deleuze and Guattari’s Schizoanalysis theory. This was a qualitative study with a descriptive approach. The research data were comprised of words, phrases, and sentences. The collected data were subsequently categorized into types of desires. Data were analyzed using reading and recording techniques and described based on the proportion of desires. The results of the analysis showed that the main character receives constant pressures from society, leading to the emergence of paranoid desire, a desire that is formed due to the pressure of particular systems or social codes outside of the main character. This desire is schizophrenic at the individual level. In the short story, this desire is manifested through the creation of a new language by ‘der Mann’. In the end, the main character ‘der Mann’ can use new vocabulary at the levels of phrases and sentences, but unable to influence other language users. As a result, his newly self-created language is unacceptable in society. However, the schizophrenic desire at the individual level has the potential to destruct social formation

scholarly journals Self- Liberation and National Struggle in Yemeni Women's Early Short Stories

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Antelak Mh'd Abdulmalek Al - Mutawakil* Tomar
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
National Liberation ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Liberation Movements ◽  
Yemen Arab Republic

The first women's short story in the Yemen was published in the South in the 1960 at the beginning of the decade that was to witness national liberation movements in both the South and the North. In the South independence was gained from British colonial control in the 1967 when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen was formed. During this decade women from the South began to publish short stories. In the North the revolution of 1962 led to the creation of the Yemen Arab Republic, ending the rule of the Imams. But for most of the rest of the decade there was instability and fighting between republican and loyalist forces. Women from the North started to publish short stories in the 1970's . Since then Yemeni women have continued to write and publish their stories in newspaper, magazines and in anthologies1

scholarly journals BENCANA KABUT ASAP SEBAGAI DAMPAK BUDAYA KONSUMSI DALAM CERPEN “YANG DATANG DARI NEGERI ASAP”

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Dessy Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
New World ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
Real Thing ◽  
The Real ◽  
Industrial Distribution ◽  
Consumption Culture ◽  
The Creation ◽  
As If

<p class="JudulAbstrakKeyword">Literature, as a work containing facts and fiction, can obscure the conventions of realities and create new realities so that there are no visible boundaries between the real thing and the unreal thing. Fact and fiction coincide and simulate to form hyperreality. In the short story “Yang Datang dari Negeri Asap (Who Comes from the Smoky Country)” by Hary B. Kori’un, the existence of facts and fiction overlap each other. The author created the country of smoke as a fictitious world due to his contemplation on the consumption culture, which is a phenomenon in people’s lives and relates it to the haze disaster that keeps going to occur every year. The researcher sorts out facts and fiction that are interconnected in the short story to explore the creation of hyperreality using the perspective of Jean Baudrillard. As a result, the researcher found a consumption culture in the community, especially plantation entrepreneurs. The presence of a new world in a short story is a reproduction of the value of a sign or symbol that simulates as if there was a poverty scenario created by globalization through a variety of industrial distribution media to extract all potentials to benefit an established industry. Finally, consumption culture causes all aspects of life to be a commodity object because the needs that arise will always exceed the production of goods.</p>

scholarly journals Drought-breaking love: An analysis of the moral values implied in ‘Drought’ by Jan Rabie

Literator ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
C. N. Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Fundamental Value

In this article the tension in 20th century literary theory between absolutism and relativism is discussed. It is argued that, in spite of a movement from absolutism towards relativism, the age-old “absolute” values of truth, beauty and goodness have never been totally forsaken in the creation and the contemplation of literature. In an analysis of “Drought” by Jan Rabie, it is indicated how these values are implied and invoked in Rabie's short story. In conclusion, the fundamental value of love or charity is discussed, a value which contains and supersedes the values of truth, beauty and goodness, and reconciles the tension between absolutism and relativism.

scholarly journals On Some Features of Osip Mandelstam’s Representation in the Memories by Anna Akhmatova

Literatūra ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-153
Author(s):  
Galina Mikhailova
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
Narrative Prose ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Oral Evidence ◽  
Anna Akhmatova

The article presents some considerations on the motives for the creation and text strategies of Akhmatova’s memories of Mandelstam. The Pages from a Diary are viewed from two points of view: first, as a fragment of Akhmatova‘s memoir prose of a certain historical time, as an actualization of personal memory in order to correct collective cultural memory; secondly, as a supertext formed by numerous drafts, lists and variations.Within the framework of this genre, it is possible to single out a number of principles that Akhmatova is guided by when creating a memoir text: for example, a dialogical mode of a “conversation” with existing memories, documents, oral evidence; intention of myth-fighting, etc. A look at the Pages from a Diary as a work of narrative prose (based on Akhmatova’s definition of memories as a “short story”), called “The Death’s Way,” allows us to add the hero of her memoir to a number of “damned poets” that are not alien to Mandelstam.

scholarly journals Personality Psychology in Margaret Atwood’s Short Story Under Glass

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Dr. Y. Vidya
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Alive Today ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Margaret Atwood’s literature, both in the form of poetry and prose, is significant to an understanding of ‘female experiences’ more broadly speaking, though, Atwood attempts to explore questions of identity. She thus attempts to achieve the creation of a space and time in which readers can think critically about the world and their place in it. This self-reflexive form of analysis is significant in a modern and post-colonial world in which issues of gender have become increasingly critical, as it allows readers both a way of imagining and a way of criticizing ourselves and our own culture and that of others we perceive around us. Her stories are acute depictions of men and women, and are therefore interested in human curiosity but also in control and power.  Atwood focus lies also in the effects and dynamics of unequal power relations.  

Lucien Bailly (1871–1940): An eccentric troublemaker and a real precursor. A short story of shareholders’ activism in France at the beginning of the twentieth century

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 518-535
Author(s):  
Christine Fournès
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Minority Shareholders ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Proxy Fights ◽  
The Way

The article highlights the role of an eccentric troublemaker at the beginning of the twentieth century – Lucien Bailly. The Pont-à-Mousson company’s archives, one of the major joint stock companies in the mining industry at that time, provide a wealth of information about this very interesting character. It is argued that Lucien Bailly paved the way for present-day activism. While the nature of shareholder-activists is far different today, there is a similar dichotomy between private and public or cooperative and hostile actions. This is the true legacy of Lucien Bailly. He was also the pioneer of proxy fights with the creation of the first association defending minority shareholders and the precursor of social activism.

scholarly journals Revisiting Female Resilience within the Psychiatric in Janice Galloway’s Fiction

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Irene González Sampedro
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Spatial Representation ◽  
Rock And Roll ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Alternative Spaces ◽  
Do So

The aim of this article is to analyse the fractures in the performance of normative discourses of identity in Janice Galloway’s novel The Trick Is To Keep Breathing (1989) and her short story “and drugs and rock and roll”, included in her latest collection Jellyfish (2015). Drawing on the thematic dialogue between the two works, set in Scotland, this article focuses specifically on their protagonists’ processes of healing following a period of depression, and the urban spatial representation of these experiences. In order to do so, it examines various practices associated with psychiatrics that isolate and dehumanise citizens and lead to the creation of a sharp social dichotomy as regards wellbeing. Finally, the article approaches the spatial embodiment of these characters, as well as the creation of alternative spaces inside medical institutions as part of a continuum in Galloway’s exploration of female resilience.

scholarly journals Temasik: Between Convention and Invention

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-130
Author(s):  
Siti Hajar Che Man ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
The Creation

This article focusses on the issue of style of presentation by some Singapore short story writers on the livelihood among the Singapore society in the era of `65 leading to the early 90’s. Temasik (short story anthology by Singapore writers) published by the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka in 1987 and edited by Suratman Markasan is chosen for the purpose. Each and every short story in this anthology portrayed the what, where, who, how and when of the Singapore society after 1965 which later became the rigours of livelihood till today. The issues touched upon by the writers are analysed based on the existence of the inter-relation of two dimensions – namely the concept of the creation of creative works and the observation of its continuity and layering between invention and convention. The first concept deals with the bond between reality, imagination, illusion and fantasy whereas the second concept deals with the combination between the pattern of story telling which also mirrors the maturity and experience of the short story writers of the 80’s. The Temasik anthology is not only seen as a catalyst, but also as an impetus toward the production of creative works of quality, apart from ushering the emergence of Singapore writers and works in the era of e-literature. Keywords : Temasik , creative works, convention, invention, e-literature

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