The subconscious in James Joyce's `Eveline': a corpus stylistic analysis that chews on the `Fish hook'

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieran O'Halloran
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Stanley Fish ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Fish Hook ◽  
Do So

In James Joyce's short story, `Eveline', a young woman is thinking about a new life away from an unhappy existence which involves caring for a violent father. In the story, Eveline is to elope with Frank to Buenos Aires, but Eveline fails to join him on the night boat. This story has attracted much critical attention. In particular, commentators have picked up on the faint clues throughout that Eveline is not going to leave her home. It is as though Eveline's subconscious is communicating this while she is consciously reflecting on whether to elope with Frank. But how can such clues be identified in a systematic way whilst responding to the familiar charges made by Stanley Fish that stylistic analysis and interpretation is arbitrary and circular? In this article, I perform a corpus-informed stylistic analysis of `Eveline' in order to reveal some of these subconscious intimations whilst reducing as much as possible arbitrariness and circularity in analysis and interpretation. To do so, I build on formal insights into `Eveline' provided in Michael Stubbs's corpus-informed analysis by proceeding to a more functional exploration of the story.

Black Atlanta: An Ecosocial Approach to Narratives of the Atlanta Child Murders

PMLA ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Gary Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Toni Cade Bambara ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Do So

Moving beyond ecocriticism, this essay argues that an ecosocial reading of narratives of the Atlanta child murders (1979–81) is better able to examine the sometimes functional, sometimes broken interactions between sociocultural circumstances and particular urban ecologies. Far from latching onto an idealized, utopian sense of a restorative natural world, the ecosocial approach introduced here focuses critical attention on the traumatized and traumatic social and cultural histories that play out in particular natural as well as built environments. In various ways, child-murders narratives by Toni Cade Bambara, Tayari Jones, and others bear the conflicting burdens of memory and forgetting, of old and new and never–changing and ever–changing Souths. They do so in large part by acknowledging ecosocial dysfunctions as one way of moving, however provisionally and problematically, toward a more grounded, more communal idea and practice of interrelatedness.

Prozatorul Radu Stanca

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 70-73
Author(s):  
Mirela Nagâț
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Love Story

The present study discusses the only attempt Radu Stanca made to become a prose writer: „The Black Deck”, posthumous short story published in 1975 in Manuscriptum. The origins of this text, revealed by his correspondence with I. Negoițescu, consist in a double crisis: a personal one (a failed love story with german young woman) and a social one, deriving from the communist regime installed in the late 40’s, which brought him an existential seizure.

How Grief Became a Commodity

Grief ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 153-177
Author(s):  
David Shneer
Keyword(s):  
Human Emotion ◽  
Santa Monica ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Art Photography ◽  
Do So

In 1990, the G. Ray Hawkins Gallery in Santa Monica hosted Dmitri Baltermants’s first commercial exhibition. By most measures, it was a success. This chapter describes the transformation of his war photographs that portrayed deep human emotion into commodities on the marketplace. Since 1990, Baltermants’s work, especially Grief, has appeared on both sides of the Atlantic at art photography auctions and in exhibitions, often selling over the expected price and garnering much critical attention. In 1999, the Baltermants archive was sold to an American collector hoping to generate enough attention in the photographer to make back his investment. He failed to do so and sold it back to anonymous buyers in Moscow, who ended up incorporating Baltermants’s archive into a massive photo fund. The fund went belly up eighteen months after its founding, and the location of his archive remains a mystery.

Frame, Janet (1924–2004)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christy Pottroff
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Suicide Attempt ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Magical Realism ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Lunatic Asylum ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Janet Frame

Janet Frame was a celebrated New Zealand author with a prolific literary career and a dramatic personal history. Mirroring Frame’s own life, her writing frequently addresses poverty, marginalization, and the artist’s struggle in a conformist society. Both her prose and her poetry combine elements of modernism with magical realism. After a suicide attempt at university, she was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and spent eight years in mental hospitals in New Zealand, including the notorious Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, where she received numerous electroshock treatments. In 1952, while Frame was in the asylum, New Zealand’s Caxton Press published her collection of short fiction entitled The Lagoon and Other Stories, which was awarded a prestigious national literary prize, the Hubert Church Prose Award. At the time, Frame was scheduled to have a lobotomy—until hospital officials discovered that she had won the award. In total, Frame was the author of twelve novels, four short story collections, one book of poetry, and three volumes of autobiography. She received many awards and honors, and her writing has garnered numerous literary prizes and much critical attention.

The genesis and emergence of Education 3.0 in higher education and its potential for Africa

First Monday ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Keats ◽  
J. Philipp Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Interactive Education ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So

This paper presents a scenario in which education is approaching a potential tipping point, where major changes are about to happen as a result of developments in technology, social networking, deeper understanding of educational process, as well as new legal and economic frames of reference. The set of changes constitute what we refer to as Education 3.0, and it impacts on the roles and behavior of key stakeholders. Education 1.0 is mainly a one-way process, Education 2.0 uses the technologies of Web 2.0 to create more interactive education but largely within the constraints of Education 1.0. Education 2.0 is laying the groundwork for Education 3.0, which we believe will see a breakdown of most of the boundaries, imposed or otherwise within education, to create a much more free and open system focused on learning. The scenario we describe suggests that Africa can shape these changes to benefit its own development, but that if it fails to do so, it will be left behind and will end up impacted negatively by the changes that are inevitable. We list the adjustments required at the level of institutions of higher education to become leaders of Education 3.0 and present some of the activities that the University of the Western Cape is undertaking in this area. Finally, we offer a fictional short story to provide an Education 3.0 narrative.

scholarly journals A Feminist Stylistic Analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (132) ◽  
pp. 77-96
Author(s):  
Farah Hafedh Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Institutional Discrimination ◽  
Stereotypical Image ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Level Of Analysis ◽  
The Way

There has always been a belief that women in general are treated oppressively, viewed as inferior to men and subject to personal and institutional discrimination. Since literature reflects the way people think and shows the relationship between linguistic choices and socially construed meanings, this paper tackles Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” through a feminist stylistic approach to find out how female characters are represented. It also aims to explore whether the writer of the text under investigation reinforces or challenges the stereotypical image of women by viewing them as inferior or equal to men. Conducting a feminist stylistic analysis, by utilizing Sara Mills’ (1995) model of analysis involves the employment of a three-tiered level of analysis i.e. the level of the word, the level of the clause and the level of discourse. From the analysis of the short story under investigation, it has been concluded that the way women are represented is socially influenced by the prevailing held beliefs that women are passive, submissive, dependent on men, inferior to and unequal to men.

scholarly journals Stylistics analysis of the short story “My Old Man” by Ernest Hemingway

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-692
Author(s):  
Siti Ayu Hardiyanti
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Horse Racing ◽  
Methods Of Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Language Styles ◽  
Processing Language

This study aims to explore the language style of Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Old Man”. This research describes the stylistic used in the short story. Ernest Hemingway is one of the famous writers of prose and short story. Many people recognize his special works for short stories because Ernest Hemingway has a characteristic that makes him one of the best short story writers in Europe from a young age. My Old Man is the first work known for the lot use of stylistic styles that distinguish this story from Hemingway’s other works. The researcher limits the stylistic only to explore linguistics such as pragmatics and semantics. In addition, the researcher explains the features of stylistic devices which are on simile, poetry, and calque. This study combines 2 methods of analysis, namely textual and stylistic analysis. The results illustrated how Hemingway used stylistic to describe a child as the narrator, where he told in detail the dark experiences of his father in the world of horse racing in a coherent manner. Hemingway combined his imagination with processing language styles in the story. 

scholarly journals Wanjiru’s Search for self in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s “Minutes of Glory”

Afrika Focus ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Owen G. Mordaunt
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Identity Problem ◽  
Female Self ◽  
Forced Landing ◽  
Search For Self

This paper deals with Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s portrayal of the protagonist in his short story “Minutes of Glory”. Wanjiru finds herself trapped in an urban setting and is a victim of her situation and low self-esteem. The story is a poignant and touching study of this young woman who is battling with an identity problem and is seeking acceptance in a post-independence setting where women are exploited by men of the New Africa elite. She is regarded as “a wounded bird in flight: a forced landing now and then but nevertheless wobbling from place to place …” The story affirms female self-realization rather than perpetual self-alienation, and that validates the persistence in attaining her desired goal.

scholarly journals Wanjiru's Research for Self in Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's "Minutes of Glory"

Afrika Focus ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen G. Mordaunt
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Identity Problem ◽  
Female Self ◽  
Forced Landing

This paper deals with Ngugi wa Thiong'o's portrayal of the protagonist in his short story "Minutes of Glory". Wanjiru finds herself trapped in an urban setting and is a victim of her situation and low self-esteem. The story is a poignant and touching study of this young woman who is battling with an identity problem and is seeking acceptance in a post-independence setting where women are exploited by men of the New Africa elite. She is regarded as "a wounded bird in flight: a forced landing now and then but nevertheless wobbling from place to place ..." The story affirms female self-realization rather than perpetual self-alienation, and that validates the persistence in attaining her desired goal. KEY WORDS: Kenya, literature, psychology, short story 

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