The Decadent Short Story

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostas Boyiopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Social Concerns

The short story form and decadence are not only coterminous in 1890s Britain, but they also share common roots, as both hark back to Edgar Allan Poe. Even though the decadent short story eludes definition, it emphasizes style and rarefied subjectivity against the conventional Victorian novel’s emphasis on plot-driven narratives built around traditional moral values and social concerns. It is a self-conscious cross-genre that explores multifariously the tension between artificiality and life, thus reflecting the experimentalist ethos of its major outlet, the little magazine. In doing so, the decadent short story is distinguished by “excess in quintessence,” a paradox in which morbidity in its thematic and stylistic manifestations is enhanced by the delimiting nature of the form. This paradox makes the decadent short story “plotless,” static, and evanescent. Charlotte Mew’s “Passed” (1894), M. P. Shiel’s “Xélucha” (1895), and Jean Lorrain’s “The Man Who Loved Consumptives” (1891) consummately demonstrate its qualities.

KUMYK SATIRICAL AND HUMOROUS PROSE OF THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Malik Alievich Guseynov
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Social Component ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article considers the Kumyk satirical-humorous prose of the last thirty years on the example of the work of its prominent representatives A. Mamaev and G. Konakbiev, highlights its individual trends, content, artistic features. It is noted that in it, with the leading role of small genres, we can see the activation of a short story of an anecdotal form, the weakening of the social component against the background of increased writers’ attention to private phenomena, an appeal to traditional moral values, active operation by such comic means as playing words, transitions from the author's position to the position of characters, dynamic plots, spectacular finals, etc.

The Final Days of Edgar Allan Poe: Clues to an Old Mystery Using 21st Century Medical Science

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger A. Francis
Keyword(s):  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Documented Information ◽  
American Poet ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Magazine Articles

This study examines all documented information regarding the final days and death of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), in an attempt to determine the most likely cause of death of the American poet, short story writer, and literary critic. Information was gathered from letters, newspaper accounts, and magazine articles written during the period after Poe's death, and also from biographies and medical journal articles written up until the present. A chronology of Poe's final days was constructed, and this was used to form a differential diagnosis of possible causes of death. Death theories over the last 160 years were analyzed using this information. This analysis, along with a review of Poe's past medical history, would seem to support an alcohol-related cause of death.

Ray Bradbury

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Seed
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Prose Style ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Ray Bradbury ◽  
History Of ◽  
Film Genres

As much as any individual, Ray Bradbury brought science fiction's ideas into the mainstream. Yet he transcended the genre in both form and popularity, using its trappings to explore timely social concerns and the kaleidoscope of human experience while in the process becoming one of America's most beloved authors. This book follows Bradbury's long career from the early short story masterpieces through his work in a wide variety of broadcast and film genres to the influential cultural commentary he spread via essays, speeches, and interviews. Mining Bradbury's classics and hard-to-find archival, literary, and cultural materials, the book analyzes how the author's views on technology, authoritarianism, and censorship affected his art; how his Midwest of dream and dread brought his work to life; and the ways film and television influenced his creative process and visually oriented prose style. The result is a passionate statement on Bradbury's status as an essential literary writer deserving of a place in the cultural history of his time.

scholarly journals Analisis Nilai Moral dan Nilai Sosial pada Kumpulan Cerpen Karya Ahmad Tohari sebagai Upaya Pemilihan Bahan Pembelajaran pada Siswa Kelas X SMAN 5 Pandeglang

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Trisnawati Trisnawati
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Conduct Literature ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Analyze Data

The study aims to determine the moral values and social values in a collection of short stories by Ahmad Tohari as learning material in class X SMAN 5 Pandeglang. The aim of this study to 1) Provide knowledge about the values contained in short story, 2) Growing motivation in reading short story literature, 3) Increasing interest in appreciating short stories, 4) Able to analyze the values contained in short story literature, 5) Instill the positive values of short stories in everyday life. The method used in this research is descriptive analysis method. Descriptive method is the method used to make broader conclusions. Research data collection techniques were carried out using literature studies or documentation studies on Ahmad Tohari’s short stories. The steps in this descriptive study are, 1) Identify significant problems that can be solved through the descriptive method, 2) Formulate the problem clearly, 3) Determine the purpose and benefits of research, 4) Conduct literature studies related to problems, and 5) Collect and analyze data qualitatively. The steps of data collection are reading Ahmad Tohari’s short stories carefully, recording the appropriate data, identifying and classifying data and making data education. The results of the study indicate that the collection of short stories by Ahmad Tohari contains many values, especially moral values and social values.

scholarly journals Anti-transcendentalism and dark romanticism in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"

Entrelinhas ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-106
Author(s):  
Sofia Lopes
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
The 19Th Century

This review seeks to analyse the short story “The Masque of the Red Death”, by Edgar Allan Poe, and to study its connection to the anti-transcendentalist and dark romantic movements. Through an examination of the literary aspects contained in the story, this work aims to inspect Poe's writing style, notedly marked by a bold approach of the themes of death, mourning and decay, and to compare his aesthetic decisions - such as the strong symbolic streak, the reliance on colour and architecture and the artistic depiction of death - to the chief tenets that influenced anti-transcendentalist writers over the 19th century.

scholarly journals MORAL VALUES IN “FILOSOFI KOPI” SHORT-STORY ANTHOLOGY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN LITERATURE

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nani Solihati ◽  
Ade Hikmat ◽  
Yoma Elmikasri
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Literature Education

NILAI MORAL DALAM ANTOLOGI CERPEN FILOSOFI KOPIDAN IMPLIKASINYA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN SASTRAAbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi dan menemukan nilai-nilai moral yang terkandung dalam antologi cerpen Filosofi Kopi melalui kajian hermeneutik serta implikasinya dalam pembelajaran sastra di SMA. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif dengan teknik analisis isi. Nilai moral yang diteliti dibatasi pada nilai positif dalam antologi cerpen Filosofi Kopi. Sumber data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yakni antologi cerpen Filosofi Kopi karya Dewi Lestari yang berisi 18 cerita yang terdiri 8 cerita pendek dan 10 prosa liris, tetapi yang diteliti hanya 8 cerita pendek. Berdasarkan hasil analisis yang telah dilakukan terhadap delapan cerpen, dapat disimpulkan bahwa cerpen-cerpen karya Dewi Lestari mengandung nilai-nilai moral positif yang meliputi kejujuran, bertanggung jawab, kesetiaan, sopan santun, hati nurani, rendah hati, dan konsekuen. Implikasi hasil penelitian ini adalah pembelajaran sastra di sekolah dengan menggunakan beberapa judul cerpen dalam antologi cerpen Filosofi Kopi karya Dewi Lestari sebagai sumber pembelajaran berpotensi menghasilkan siswa yang mempunyai nilai-nilai moral yang baik. Kata kunci: nilai moral, cerpen, pembelajaran sastraAbstractThis study was aimed at identifying the moral values contained in Filosofi Kopi short story anthology through hermeneutic studies and its implications in the study of literature in thesenior high school. The study used a descriptive qualitative method with a content-analysis technique. The moral values under study were limited to positive values. The data source used in this study was written by Dewi Lestari. This short story contained 18 stories consisting of 8 short stories and 10 lyrical proses. The samples of this study were 8 short stories. Results show that the short stories of Dewi Lestari's work contain positive moral values that include honesty, responsibility, loyalty, courtesy, conscience, humility, and consequence. The implications of the study include the fact that literature learning using this anthology is able to improve the students’ moral values.Keywords: moral value, short-story, literature education

Houses and the Fate of Families : A Comparison of “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe and Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Eszter Enikő Mohácsi
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family

In Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” the house where the events unfold is described as a sentient being, and its first description forebodes the occurrence of dark events. In addition, Poe utilizes the house of Usher to show how the fate of the house and its inhabitants are connected. The House of Usher stands for the building itself as well as the family, and Usher himself believes that the house is alive and can also exert its influence on the people living in it. The house of Thomas Sutpen in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! is equally significant and is used to symbolize Sutpen’s will to establish his dynasty. The house is furnished luxuriously to establish his reputation in society, and Sutpen finally succeeds in bringing home a wife to the completed house. However, after the war the house is in ruins and Sutpen is unable to defy his fate anymore: he cannot rebuild the house, which – several years later – is burnt down by his own daughter, the partly black Clytemnestra. This paper compares and contrasts the houses and their function in the two works.

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 THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERNS OF SHORT STORY THE BLACK CAT

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-73
Author(s):  
Dewi Fatmawati ◽  
Tengku Silvana Sinar ◽  
Rohani Ganie ◽  
Muhammad Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Thematic Progression ◽  
Dominant Pattern ◽  
Progression Patterns ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study attempts to investigate thematic progression deployed in The Black Cat short story. The objectives of study are 1) To indicate the types of Thematic Progression in “The Black Cat” short story and 2) to describe the realization of Thematic Progression in “The Black Cat” short story. This study was conducted in descriptive qualitative design. The data were taken from the text of “The Black Cat” short story. The source of the data in this study was The Black Cat and Other Stories book written by Edgar Allan Poe. Systemic Functional Linguistics theory proposed by Halliday (1994) was used to analyzed thematic progression in “The Black Cat” short story regarded with Textual Function. In analyzing the thematic progression, there are three kinds of thematic progression: theme reiteration, the zig-zag pattern and the multiple- rheme pattern. The findings showed that the multiple- rheme pattern is the most dominant realized in 32 times (74%), theme reiteration is the second realized in 7 times (16,3%), and the zig-zag pattern is realized in 4 times (9,3%) and the least dominant pattern in “The Black Cat” short story.

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