scholarly journals Entre a Literatura e o Jornalismo: Itinerários do Escritor Baiano Anísio Melhor (1885-1955)

2021 ◽  
pp. 153-172
Author(s):  
Ionã Carqueijo Scarante
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
The City ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Day By Day

Anísio Melhor was born in the city of Nazaré, located in the Recôncavo da Bahia, on May 7, 1885. From reading his work, the most important source of information found about the writer, it is clear that journalism is one with his life. Self-taught, it was in the newspapers that he directed and collaborated that he became a poet, novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, folklorist and chronicler. Among the literary genres he published in periodicals, chronicles are the texts that most show his modus scribendi, as well as pointing out clues to his intellectual path and his evolution as a writer. In some of his texts, he discusses the journalist's solitary work, combining his experiences as a reader of the most varied newspapers and, especially, as a journalist in his small town. According to the writer, the provincial newspaper values every reader in its small town, knows its audience very closely, writes down the events day by day: now it is the chronicle of social nature, now it is the commentary on the deaths, now it is telluric poetry, now it is the birth of another child, now it is the chapter of another novel or novella. Thus, in the newspaper he founded and directed for a few decades, O Conservador (1912-1945), Melhor every day (re)constructed the history of his people, recording their traditions, stories and memories. The researches carried out in literary archives for the composition of this article contributed to revive the memory of this writer and to divulge his literary production and his work as a journalist.

Heroism in the Age of Consumerism: The Emergence of a Moral Don Quixote in John Updike’s “A & P”

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Zakarya Bezdoode ◽  
Eshaq Bezdoode
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
Moral Decision ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
Story Writer

This paper analyzes John Updike’s short story “A & P” in the light of Max Weber’s notion of moral decision-making. A prominent contemporary American story-writer and literary critic, Updike has devoted his fiction to subjects’ rational and moral problems in the contemporary consumerist society. Updike’s lifelong probing into the middle classes’ lives is a body of fiction that raises questions about determinism, moral decision, and social responsibility, among others. “A & P” is a revealing example of such fiction and one among Updike’s most frequently anthologized short stories. The story, titled after a nationwide American shopping mall in the early twentieth century, investigates the possibility of decision-making within consumerist society. This paper demonstrates how Updike’s portrayal of his characters’ everyday lives reveals the predicament of intellectual thinking and moral decision-making in a consumerist society and warns against the loss of individual will in such societies.

Symons, Arthur William (1865–1945)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostas Boyiopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
French Symbolism ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Story Writer

Arthur Symons was a British poet, art and literary critic, memoirist, playwright, short story writer, and editor. He was born in Milford Haven, Wales, on 28 February 1865, the son of Cornish parents: Reverend Mark Symons (1824–1898), a Wesleyan Methodist minister, and Lydia Pascoe (1828–1896). Symons was the foremost exponent of Decadence and the leading promoter of French Symbolism in Britain. An enthused socialite, he manoeuvred successfully through London artistic circles and the Paris avant-garde. In 1901 he married Rhoda Bowser (1874–-1936) and in his later years he retreated to Island Cottage, Wittersham, Kent. In 1908–1910 he suffered a mental collapse in Italy, moving in and out of asylums; he chronicles this experience in Confessions: A Study in Pathology (1930). He recovered and resumed his literary career until his seventies, mainly regurgitating themes of his fin-de-siècle period. He died on 22 January 1945.

William Bulloch, 1868 - 1941

1941 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 819-852
Keyword(s):  
Historical Research ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
The Past ◽  
London Hospital ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

William Bulloch, Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology in the University of London and Consulting Bacteriologist to the London Hospital since his retirement in 1934, died on n February 1941, in his old hospital, following a small operation for which he had been admitted three days before. By his death a quite unique personality is lost to medicine, and to bacteriology an exponent whose work throughout the past fifty years in many fields, but particularly in the history of his subject, has gained for him wide repute. Bulloch was born on 19 August 1868 in Aberdeen, being the younger son of John Bulloch (1837-1913) and his wife Mary Malcolm (1835-1899) in a family of two sons and two daughters. His brother, John Malcolm Bulloch, M.A., LL.D. (1867-1938), was a well-known journalist and literary critic in London, whose love for his adopted city and its hurry and scurry was equalled only by his passionate devotion to the city of his birth and its ancient university. On the family gravestone he is described as Critic, Poet, Historian, and indeed he was all three, for the main interest of his life outside his profession of literary critic was antiquarian, genealogical and historical research, while in his earlier days he was a facile and clever fashioner of verse and one of the founders of the ever popular Scottish Students’ Song Book .

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.

scholarly journals Breaking the Rules: Innovation and Narrative Strategies in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters

2003 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-120
Author(s):  
Carmen Haydée Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Sandra Cisneros ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
Story Line ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Stage Direction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Considerable Length

Conventional approaches to literary genres conspicuously imply definition and classification. From the very beginning of our incursions into the literary world we learn to identify and differentiate a poem from a play, a short story from a novel. As readers we classify each written work into one of these neatly defined literary genres by following basic guidelines. Either we classify according to the structure of the work (stanza; stage direction/dialogue; narrative) or the length (short story; novelette; novel). What happens though when a reader encounters a work of considerable length made up of individual short pieces or vignettes that include rhythm and rhyme and is framed by an underlying, unifying story line linking the vignettes together? Is it a novel or a collection of short stories? Why does it sound and, at times, look like a poem? To further complicate classifications, what happens when a reader comes across an epistolary format with instructions on which letters to read first: letters made up of one-word lines, poetic stanzas, or italicized stream of consciousness; letters that narrate the history of two women's friendship? Is this a novel or a mere collection of letters?

Julian Barnes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Guignery
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Graham Swift ◽  
Kazuo Ishiguro ◽  
Julian Barnes ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Martin Amis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ian Mcewan ◽  
Story Writer

Julian Barnes (b. 1946) is an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist who received considerable praise in 1984 with the publication of Flaubert’s Parrot, a book that, together with A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters (1989), defies categorization. Barnes belongs to a generation of British writers (including Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Graham Swift) who came to prominence in the 1980s at a time when suspicion toward the main tenets of realism, foundational grand narratives‚ and the figure of the stable and reliable narrator led many authors to disrupt and subvert conventional modes, favor historiographical metafiction and postmodernist skepticism‚ and experiment with narrative strategies. Thus, a number of scholars have examined Barnes’s work through the prism of postmodernism on the grounds of the metafictional dimension of some of his books, his transgression of realist strategies and reliance on various forms of intertextuality, and his mistrust of truth claims and fondness for fragmentation, polyphony‚ and generic hybridity. Several of his books (fictional and nonfictional) have been analyzed for the way in which they challenge the borders that separate existing genres, texts, arts‚ and languages and, thereby, oscillate among novel, essay, biography‚ and meditation. However‚ the restrictive label of postmodernism can apply to only part of Barnes’s production‚ as other novels published throughout his career are inscribed within a more conventional and realistic framework—in particular, such early books as Metroland (1980), Before She Met Me (1981), and Staring at the Sun (1986)—and his most recent production is marked by a less ironic and subversive mood and a more personal, subdued‚ and melancholy tone, for example in The Sense of an Ending (2011), which won the Man Booker Prize; The Noise of Time (2016); and The Only Story (2018). Barnes has also been praised for his art as an essayist and a short-story writer. Drawing from a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, scholars have examined such recurrent themes and concerns in Barnes’s work as memory, art, love, longing, death, or Englishness. They have also probed his self-reflexive questioning relating to the evasiveness of truth, the irretrievability of the past, the construction of national identity‚ and the relationship between fact and fiction.

Lewis, Sinclair (Harry) (1885–1951)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronwen Welch
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Small Town ◽  
World Order ◽  
Sinclair Lewis ◽  
American Life ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Lewis A

Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Born in the small town of Sauk Centre, in Minnesota, Lewis was the youngest of three boys; the eldest, Fred, was born in 1875, followed by Claude in 1878. Lewis was a sensitive and bookish boy, un-athletic and vulnerable. His, father Edwin J. Lewis, a doctor and a strict, domineering father, had a hard time understanding his youngest son, and sadly Lewis's mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, died when he was six years old; her death had a lasting impact of Lewis’ life and writing. In 1892, Edwin J. Lewis remarried Isabel Warner, a kind and deeply maternal woman who became a friend and confidant to the lonely Lewis. Lewis’ works are known for their satirical representation of the pettiness of American life and values, revolving around such icons of Americanism as religion, patriotism, small-town life, and commercial capitalism. The narrowness of this lens, however, must be located within the broader realm of turmoil against a world order which Lewis felt was all about commerce: a buying and selling that produced only greed and dissatisfaction.

scholarly journals Pemanfaatan Krisna Funtastic Land Sebagai Sarana Leisure And Recreation Di Desa Temukus Kabupaten Buleleng

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Gde Indra Bhaskara ◽  
Nyoman Ega Ismana
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Result Show ◽  
History Of ◽  
Leisure And Recreation ◽  
The City ◽  
Source Of Information

The development of tourism in Bali to date has had a positive impact on the economy of the community. In addition, tourism can increase foreign exchange and provide employment.This study contains what motivation and how the characteristics of visitors Krisna Funtastic Land and how appropriate utilization in Krisna Funtastic Land in Leisure and Recreation activities. The data used in this study are qualitative data in the form of Krisna Funtastic Land, the state of facilities and infrastructure, the history of Krishna Funtastic Land and the utilization of visitors. The result-show that the characteristics of visitors who come to Krisna Funtastic Land based on age are the majority> 20 years old, based on the area of origin originating from the Regency of Buleleng, especially the City of Singaraja, based on female sex. Based on the level of education having a high school / vocational education level, based on the type of occupation the majority are still students, based on the source of information getting information comes from friends / relations. For the appropriate utilization in Krisna Funtastic Land based on the motivation and characteristics of visitors Krisna Funtastic Land which is one of the tourist attractions in Krisna Funtastic Land, so the manager should add the game rides not only focus for children, but also for adults, The type of game rides should more be reproduced to increase the interest of tourists to visit. Keywords: Utilization, motivation and characteristics

scholarly journals Babilónia superlotada: representações de Lisboa na obra de Luísa Dacosta / Overcrowded Babylon: Representations of Lisbon in the Work of Luísa Dacosta

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (62) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
João Cunha Borges
Keyword(s):  
Urban Growth ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
The City

Resumo: Este artigo estabelece paralelos entre textos da escritora portuguesa Luísa Dacosta (1927-2015) e a cidade de Lisboa, onde residiu nas décadas de 1940 e 1950. Tendo a escrita de Luísa sido notada pelo seu pendor autobiográfico e pela sua ligação com géneros literários como a crónica e o diário, identificam-se apontamentos verosímeis para a observação dum período fundamental no crescimento da capital portuguesa, então marcada por processos de urbanização planeada e transformadora. Assim, este artigo confronta textos de Luísa Dacosta com a história do urbanismo português, e particularmente da região de Lisboa. Do confronto entre a literatura e a história urbana obtem-se um retrato físico, mas também humano, da cidade como a escritora a conheceu e percepcionou, encontrando directrizes gerais sobre como a história da arquitectura e do urbanismo podem usar a literatura para compreender as implicações da transformação do espaço vivido.Palavras-chave: Luísa Dacosta; Lisboa; planos de urbanização; crescimento urbano; arquitectura.Abstract: This paper establishes parallels between texts by Portuguese writer Luísa Dacosta (1927-2015) and the city of Lisbon, where she resided in the 1940s and 1950s. Having Dacosta’s writings been noticed for their autobiographical nature and connection with literary genres like chronicle and diary, reliable observations can be identified with respect to a fundamental time for growth of the Portuguese capital, then marked by processes of planned and transformative urbanization. Thus, this paper confronts Luísa Dacosta’s writings with the history of Portuguese planning, particularly in Lisbon. From the confrontation between literature and urban history, a physical and human portrait of the city as the writer knew it is sought after, while finding some general guidelines on how the history of architecture and urbanism may learn from literature the implications of transforming inhabited space.Keywords: Luísa Dacosta; Lisbon; urbanization plans; urban growth; architecture.

Frank O'Connor

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Delaney
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Domestic Relations ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
The Impact

“O’Connor was, above all, a short story writer,” Maurice Sheehy proposed in the first extended bibliography of the writer’s work (Sheehy 1969, 168). Criticism over the last fifty years has generally endorsed this claim and has concentrated on O’Connor’s work as a practitioner and critic of the genre. Frank O’Connor (b. 1903–d. 1966) was the author of six volumes of short stories, the first of which, Guests of the Nation, appeared in 1931; his last volume, Domestic Relations, was published in 1957. He edited several collections of his own work, beginning with The Stories of Frank O’Connor in 1952, and additional collections were published posthumously; he was also the author of an influential study of short fiction, The Lonely Voice (1962) (see introduction to O’Connor as Short-Story Writer). Broadly speaking, O’Connor’s stories can be grouped into the following clusters: His stories of the 1930s engage with the fight for Irish independence and the subsequent disappointments of life in the newly emergent Free State; they also explore the uneasy relationship between traditional practices and modernizing values. His stories of the 1940s continue this concern with cultural clashes, intensifying the themes of frustration, provincialism, and loneliness, and dramatizing the power and the habitus of the Catholic Church in Ireland. In the late 1940s, O’Connor began writing for the New Yorker, and the impact of this magazine’s style can be seen in his short fiction of the 1950s and early 1960s; a number of stories from this period are narrated from the perspective of a child, many are nostalgic or whimsical, and some carry an autobiographical element. In addition to his short fiction, O’Connor was a novelist, dramatist, essayist, and literary critic; he had varying levels of success in each of these genres. Largely self-taught, he was fluent in Irish, and he was a distinguished translator of texts from the 7th and 8th centuries through to the modern period; his most famous translations include The Lament for Art O’Leary (1940) and The Midnight Court (1945). He was also a memoirist of note, and his first volume of autobiography, An Only Child (1961) is justly acclaimed. O’Connor wrote under the name “Frank O’Connor” throughout his life; this was a pseudonym of sorts, derived from his middle name (Francis) and his mother’s maiden name (O’Connor). His birth name was Michael O’Donovan.

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