scholarly journals TYPES AND FUNCTIONS OF EXTENDED RETICENCE IN ENGLISH SHORT STORIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY

2015 ◽  
pp. 132-138
Author(s):  
K. Aksenova
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century

scholarly journals Luigi Pirandello’s Works in Lithuania: Why the Dialogue Did Not Take Place

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 216
Author(s):  
Gitana Vanagaitė
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Luigi Pirandello ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Academic Paper ◽  
Henry Iv ◽  
Modern Identity ◽  
Creative Life

Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) was an Italian modernist writer and playwright who enriched literature with questions of modern identity as it relates to the contradiction between human consciousness and reality. Pirandello pondered questions of art and reality, mask and essence, life and form, and the fragmentation of a personality. In his works, he also foresaw what would later constitute the base of existential philosophy.The reception of Pirandello’s works in Lithuania has been limited, in part because of the small number of his works translated into Lithuanian – only a dozen short stories, two plays, and a novel.The first more or less systematic and thorough introduction to the play wright and his works took place in 1934, when the Italian writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his “bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage.” A few articles on Pirandello’s creative principles appeared in the Lithuanian press. A Lithuanian poet, Kazys Binkis, translated the beginning of Pirandello’s play, Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore (Six Characters in Search of an Author, 1921), and a writer, Kostas Korsakas, edited a book consisting of five novels, Pirmoji naktis (‘First Night’). A Lithuanian translation of his novel, Il fu Mattia Pascal (The Late Mattia Pascal, 1904), and two plays, Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore and Enrico IV (Henry IV, 1922), came out during the Soviet period.All translations were accompanied by a foreword containing basic biographical details about and introducing Pirandello’s cultural, literary and creative life. Although Pirandello gets attention in Lithuanian university textbooks, no academic paper about him or his works has been published yet. There have been no translations of Pirandello’s theoretical texts, his thoughts on the cultural situation, literature, and man at the beginning of the 20th century, i.e., a volume of essays Arte e Scienza (Art and Science) written in 1908 or an important long essay, L’umorismo (On Humor), in which author also examines the principles of his own art. On the other hand, the literary reception of Pirandello’s works has been supplemented by theater performances. Five plays of his were mounted and the play, Henry IV, was twice produced on Lithuanian theater stage.The article examines why Pirandello’s artistic ideas, which reached Lithuania during the second decade of the 20th century, remained on the periphery and failed to influence the literary canon. Keywords: Luigi

scholarly journals Women's Image in Arabic Fiction

1970 ◽  
pp. 7-8
Author(s):  
Rose Ghurayyib
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
English Department ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Arabic Fiction

In a study of 80 middle sized pages, Dr. Latifeh ez-Zayyat, Head of the English Department at Ain-Shams University, Egypt, presents the image of woman in the Arabic novels and short stories which appeared during the second half of the 20th century, particularly between 1960 and 1980, i.e. the period which was marked by important political and social changes in the Arab East.

scholarly journals JEJAK BUDDHISME DALAM NOVEL KARYA KWEE TEK HOAY “BOENGA ROOS DARI TJIKEMBANG”: PERSPEKTIF FENOMENOLOGI

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Yulianti Yulianti
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Chinese Philosopher

In the first half of the 20th century, many Buddhist background texts were published, primarily by private publishers. One of the scriptwriters was a Chinese Peranakan named Kwee Tek Hoay (KTH). As a Chinese philosopher and philosopher, KTH has written many short stories, novels, and translations in the field of kebatinan. The article attempts to investigate Buddhism, especially Buddhist phenomena with a phenomenological paradigm in one of the KTH works entitled Boenga Roes from Tjikembang.

scholarly journals A filológiai tudás mint határtapasztalat

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
László Bengi
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Publication Practices

Publication practices during the early decades of the 20th century had a significant impact on the approach to literary works for both writers and readers. The majority of authors, including Kosztolányi, published the same work several times in different papers. The genealogy of texts is pervaded by the effects of contingency and unintentionality due to the lack of authorial, and sometimes editorial, control in the extensive and variable dissemination of works. Nevertheless, since the interaction of variants and their contexts can be conceived of as a mutual process, the mentioned publication practices also give rise to the possibility that a textual frame can be built around a work by re-publishing connected writings of the author’s oeuvre in the same paper within a short period. As an example, i show how Kosztolányi compiled an almost invisible series of short stories about death and suicide around the publication of one of his novels in the middle of the 1920s.

David Bergelson

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet Lisa Murav
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Overall Evaluation

David Bergelson (b. 1884–d. 1952) was the most important Yiddish modernist prose writer of the 20th century. His innovations in style, character, and especially atmospherics, or “mood,” earned him immediate praise from literary critics, who saw him as the first Yiddish modernist. The fates and feelings of his characters, the settings, and his elliptical, decentered style reflect a unified artistic emotion, the highlight of his fiction. Bergelson wrote short stories, novels, essays, plays, and articles for newspapers and journals, including Eygns, Milgroym, and In shpan, which he founded and edited. Bergelson’s oeuvre can be divided into his Kiev period (until 1919), during which he wrote the novels The End of Everything and Departure, his self-imposed exile in Berlin (1921–1933), and the Soviet period (1934–1952). The Berlin exile was a time of great creativity, as well as a political turning point. Bergelson rather ambiguously proclaimed his turn to communism in 1926. This ideological turn, and the tragedy of his death (he was one of the prominent Soviet Yiddish writers killed on Stalin’s orders on August 12, 1952), has until recently overshadowed engagement with his literary work. Reappraisals of his literary creativity as a whole, and especially after his self-proclaimed turn to communism after 1926, are changing the overall evaluation.

scholarly journals Travel and “Homing In” in Contemporary Ethnic American Short Stories

Text Matters ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 239-249
Author(s):  
Jadwiga Maszewska
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Ethnic Literature ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
The World ◽  
American Ethnic Literature ◽  
American Short Stories

In American ethnic literature of the last three decades of the 20th century, recurrent themes of mobility, travel, and “homing in” are emblematic of the search for identity. In this essay, which discusses three short stories, Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use,” Louise Erdrich’s “The World’s Greatest Fishermen,” and Daniel Chacon’s “The Biggest City in the World,” I attempt to demonstrate that as a consequence of technological development, with travel becoming increasingly accessible to ethnic Americans, their search for identity assumes wider range, transcending national and cultural boundaries.

The Heart Is Alone: A Selection of 20th Century Japanese Short Stories.

1959 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 278
Author(s):  
Howard Hibbett ◽  
Richard N. McKinnon
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Selection Of

scholarly journals MODERNISM IN “MABEL” AND “THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER”

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aris Masruri Harahap
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Before And After

Modernism in writing had influences or impacts from the Industrial Revolution that took place before and after the turn of the 20th century. Unsurprisingly, it affected many changes in human’s thought. In this article, I discussed influences of the changes that are represented in two short stories titled “Mabel” by W.S. Maugham and “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence.

scholarly journals The Works Of Modern Jordanian Writer Ilias Farquh

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (11) ◽  
pp. 160-165
Author(s):  
Mukhiddinova Dilafruz Zokhriddinovna ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
New Form ◽  
Comprehensive Coverage

The study of short stories in Jordan in the early 60-80s of the 20th century shows that the problem of Palestine is one of the leading topics, received a deeper and more comprehensive coverage in their works. A characteristic side of the short story writers of Jordan 70-80s is that they take a biased anti-Israeli position. During this period, the writers create the short story which possesses a new form and content. It should be noted that the anti-Israeli position is characteristic of the short stories of Ilias Farquh, where the writer’s short story “Abo, illuminating the silence”, discusses the theme of the Palestinians who have become refugees in their homeland.

The Short Story in America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Champion
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Technological Advances

The short story is the only genre that can be considered uniquely American. The genre began as sketches, or tales, as in the classic tale “Rip Van Winkle.” The genre remained undefined until Edgar Allan Poe’s well-known 1842 review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales. Since Poe’s review, in which he distinguished short fiction from other genres, the American short story has evolved both in form and in content. Like other genres, the short story has evolved through various movements and traditions such as realism, modernism, and postmodernism; however, it has remained unique because of publishing opportunities that differ from longer works such as the novel. The short story genre shares elements of fiction with the novel, traditionally consisting of characteristics such as plot, character, setting, point of view, theme, and writing style. Although the short story shares elements of literature and writing devices with other literary genres, avenues for publication differ greatly. Unlike a novel, a short story is not published as a single entity. It is usually presented with works by other authors in a journal or magazine or in a collection of previously published stories by one author. The rise in popular magazines during the 1920s gave rise to the short story, as the magazines provided a publication outlet. During the second half of the 20th century the short story became less commercial and more literary, paving the way for artistic stories such as one appropriately called “The New Yorker Story.” However, as it became less commercial, the short story fell from popularity and became somewhat obscure in the manner in which poetry remains. Because short stories do not sell, publishers are hesitant to produce them. But during the 1970s, American universities began teaching creative writing classes, and the short story provided a suitable genre for teaching the art of fiction writing. Hence, the American short story experienced a renaissance, and a wave of literary journals emerged. About this time, minimalism was one of the styles most often used in the short story. Raymond Carver built on what Ernest Hemingway had started in America, and the short story took on a new form. During the latter half of the 20th century and early 21st century, women and ethnic writers were given more opportunities to publish short fiction, and the short story reflected progress in civil rights issues. Currently, the rise in technological advances has brought even more opportunities for publication, and more and more American authors are publishing short stories online, now a respected publication venue.

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