The Death Effect in Literary Evaluation: Reverence for the Dead?

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Green ◽  
Eric W. Mohler
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Dead

It is commonly believed that the value of art and other creative works increases after the death of the artist. In an attempt to examine this so-called death effect we presented a short story to N = 431 undergraduate students asking how much money they would hypothetically spend to purchase a literary work. We experimentally manipulated: 1) whether the author died or moved after publishing a short story, and, 2) the gender of the author. Participants randomly received one of four possible biographical descriptions about the author. We predicted that participants would offer higher purchase prices and subjectively evaluate the work more positively when they believed the author was dead. Results were consistent with this hypothesis perhaps reflecting a certain reverence for the dead. We also found that evaluations of the story were more favorable when the purported gender of the author matched that of the participant.

‘Do you think you're at the Gresham?’: Accepting Imperfection in ‘The Dead’

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randi Saloman
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Secondary Quality ◽  
The Dead

Dublin's Gresham Hotel, where Gabriel and Gretta Conroy end their evening in Joyce's most famous short story, has a fascinating history. It was founded in 1817 by Thomas Gresham, who began life as a foundling rescued from the steps of London's Royal Exchange and was thereby given the name of the Renaissance statesman who built that exchange. This sixteenth-century Thomas Gresham was even better known, however, for his eponymous ‘Gresham's Law’. Both Gresham's Law and the hotel setting and history enter into and help to shape ‘The Dead’. Questions of value and valuing suggested by Gresham's Law are shown to be more complicated than they initially appear, as they intersect with the various forms of hospitality traced in the story. The ‘secondary’ quality of the famous Dublin hotel (built by the second, unknown Thomas Gresham) underscores – and ultimately redeems – the theme of secondariness that runs through ‘The Dead’.

STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ROBERT FROST’ POETRY IN WRITING CLASS AT MUSAMUS UNIVERSITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Natalia Manuhutu
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Student Evaluation ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Robert Frost ◽  
Writing Classes ◽  
Authentic Material ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Evaluation Of Teaching

This study investigated the students’ perceptions concerning the use of Robert Frost’s poetry in writing class at English Literature Department of Musamus University which was obtained through a survey. A total of 17 undergraduate students taking writing class participated in this study. The participants responded to a questionnaire and an open-ended questions concerning the two focal points: (1) how the students perceived the use of Robert Frost’s poetry in teaching writing, (2) the implementation of Frost’s poetry in improving students’ writing short story. The results of the study revealed that the implementation of Frost’s poetry helped them to be easier in writing short story. Most of the participants gave positive response to the use of Frost’s poetry in teaching them to write a short story. In addition, they seemed to prefer learning writing short story by using English poetry in writing classes. The concluding discussion addresses suggestion about the need to consider students’ wants and needs by gauging their perceptions as the student evaluation of teaching in order to keep up the better improvement to the teaching writing the texts and the using of authentic material or media in English Literature Department at Musamus University.

Kajian Aspek Moral Pada Buku Kumpulan Dongeng Si Kancil Karya Mb Rahimsyah Ar (Buku Pegangan para Bunda untuk Mendongeng Kepada Si buah hati)

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-47
Author(s):  
Siti Karomah ◽  
Agus Hermawan
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Social World ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Social

Abstract— Literary work, directly or indirectly, is the realization and imagination of the author as a reflection and the reality that the author gets from society. Literary works can be found through the life forms of society. Thus, literary works cannot be separated from the elements around them. Literary work along its journey always implicate man, humanity, life, and life. In essence, literary works are born for the surrounding community. Literary works are the products of authors who live in the social world. That way, short story literary works in the form of fairy tales are the author's imaginative world that is always related to social life. There are interesting things that are given to our children to change attitudes and daily ethics. Keywords—: Literary works; short stories; fairy tales.

Escalations : stories

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Stephen Haynie
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Missing Persons ◽  
Potential Break ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Sliding Scale ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The stories in "Escalations" cover a range of formal and dramatic content and operate on a sliding scale with regards to realism and surrealism: a woman waits in the darkness of her home for her husband, gun in hand, to investigate a potential break-in; a distracted husband realizes he has mistakenly returned from the grocery store with a woman who is not his wife; a small town's peacetime celebration leads to a disastrous dove infestation. Other stories foreground the manner of their telling: a surveillance team is contracted to follow a mysterious woman, only to find their desire for explanation and discovery delayed and thwarted; a middle-aged man's heroic rescue of a drowning child is ignored by the pool-side audience's criticism of his technique. Regardless the material or the narrative approach to the material, each story explores the conflicts that arise as characters navigate the tumultuous co-existence of both a private and public life. My critical introduction, "Missing Persons: Character Reduction and Recalcitrance in the Short Story," argues that a study of the concept of character in the short story distinguishes key issues of narrative ideology and craft that must be considered if one is to accept the short story on its own terms. Borrowing Austin M. Wright's term for how a work's material resists the shaping influence of its form, and extending his scope beyond issues of structure and closure, I propose that the short story demonstrates significant recalcitrance when it comes to the "visibility" of character. In the same way that a literary work becomes trivial when its form is entirely perceived, so do characters lose their vitality and mystery when they are completely understood. My critical introduction will examine the ways in which the short story limits, delays, and obscures the exposure of its characters as a method of productive resistance. It will ultimately argue that when character “visibility” and exposure is reduced or diminished, the character is more defined by the situation in which they are read than by our knowledge and understanding of them as individuals.

Narratives of Triumph and Rituals of Submission: Charlemagne's Mastering of Bavaria

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 93-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Airlie
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Herman Melville ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead

Among the more striking literary creations of Herman Melville is a short story entitiled ‘Bartleby’. The eponymous hero is a law-clerk who gradually withdraws from his employer's power, and ultimately from the world, by meeting all requests – to copy texts, to quit the premises, to co-operate with the authorities of the prison to which his intransigence finally leads him – with the phrase, ‘I would prefer not to.’ Melville's existential fable is disquieting on all sorts of levels and it has, perhaps, a special resonance for historians. The story's narrator is Bartleby's employer, a tranquil elderly man baffled by the latter's stubbornness. One of the problems the narrator faces is the shortage of sources: ‘this man … was one of these beings of whom nothing is ascertainable, except trom the original sources and … those are very small’. After Bartleby's death, the narrator learns that he had worked in the Dead Letter Office in Washington, and the story ends with a vision of piles of lost ‘dead’ documents and artefacts whose texts and meanings remain unread and beyond recall. As a text haunted by notions of unknowability and by the crushing weight of dead letters, ‘Bartleby’ seems to speak directly to some of the pre-occupations of historians in a post-modernist era.

scholarly journals SOCIAL PROBLEMS AS REFLECTED IN THE PREMAN, ANTHOLOGY OF THE SHORT STORY BY TIWIEK SA

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Galih Dwi Purboasri ◽  
Kundharu Saddhono ◽  
Suyitno Suyitno
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Social

  This study analyzed social problems as reflected in the Preman, an anthology of short story by Tiwiek SA.  The social problems were encountered in the attitudes the characters of the stories occured.  The study used ontent analysis that use psycholinguistics as an analysis of a literary work.  Sources of the study was an anthology consisting of six short stories.  The study revealed that social conflict in the story reflected problems in social daily live where Javanese community normally faced. The problems include: thuggery, clashes, greedines, infidelity, prostitution, economy, and social inequality.  Themes of good and bad conducts also appeared as performed by the primary characters.  

scholarly journals STRUKTURASI IDEOLOGI CERPEN “GERIMIS YANG SEDERHANA” KARYA EKA KURNIAWAN

MIMESIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Arif Kurniar Rakhman
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Dominant Group ◽  
The People

 The short story "Gerimis yang Sederhana" by Eka Kurniawan is an interesting literary work to be studied, through hegemony and structuration approaches. This short story presents a psychological impact (trauma) after the violence that occurred in the Chinese community in 1998, especially for victims of 1998 who chose to stay abroad. In the context of ideology, there are four ideologies in this short story, namely: the ideology of tyranny, humanism, conservatives, and liberalism. Tyrannical and conservative ideologies became the dominant group. The ideology of liberalism becomes ideological negotiation. The ideology of liberalism also reflects the author's ideology. Regarding the application of the structuration theory, Eka Kurniawan responded to the condition of the victims of 1998, who were still traumatized. This condition has an impact on their lack of participation in public spaces. The ideology of liberalism is expected to encourage that. As a result, five years later there was a deputy governor (subsequently governor) who was directly elected by the people to lead Jakarta from the Chinese community. That is, there is an influence between the agent (author) with the structure of society

scholarly journals USING GIBBS� REFLECTIVE CYCLE IN MAKING REFLECTIONS OF LITERARY ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Ikin Syamsudin Adeani ◽  
R. Bunga Febriani ◽  
Syafryadin Syafryadin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Reflective Writing ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Amy Tan ◽  
Classroom Context ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
English As Foreign Language

In English as Foreign Language (EFL) classroom context, it is compulsory for the students to make reflections of literary works. The current study is aimed at examining how the students implement Gibbs� reflective cycle in making reflections of literary analysis. The qualitative study employed a document analysis upon the students� reflection artefacts. The students� reflections are their responses to a short story written by Amy Tan. The findings of the study revealed that Gibbs� reflective cycle is a good framework to be used by the students in writing reflections upon literary works they are working on. The well-structured framework of writing reflection helped the students explore the literary work deeply, since the reflective cycle accommodates important aspects that can be explored from the literary work by the students. It can be concluded from this study that among the models of reflective writing developed by Kolb, Johnson, and Gibbs, the latest model is considered the most suitable to be used in literary classroom since its well-structured model enables the students to write better reflections of literary works.Keywords: reflective writing; Gibbs� reflective cycle framework; literary works; literary analysis.

scholarly journals Deconstructing Language Borders through the Hybrid. A Topical Approach to Margaret Atwood’s Dark Lady

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-83
Author(s):  
Liana Muthu
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Great Degree ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
Mixed Language ◽  
Linguistic Repertoire ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Starting from the premise that cultures assume myriads of foreign elements, alterities, and differences, this paper analyses a phenomenon that becomes a conscious and an intentional one, namely language hybridity. Our purpose is to give thoughtful attention to certain instances of hybridity perceived at the syntactic, semantic, and lexical levels. Since language users make their choice in any situational context, we witness a great degree of linguistic blending: e. g. the borrowing of words and phrases becomes tied to new ways of making meaning. Additionally, we face a dynamic increase of mixed language registers, styles, and voices that form a complex linguistic repertoire in a literary work. For exemplification, we will analyse Margaret Atwood’s experimentations across genre and linguistic boundaries encountered in her short story Dark Lady, integral part of the short fiction collection Stone Mattress. Nine Wicked Tales (2014). This narrative is characterized by a mixture of heterogeneous elements: hybrid phrases created as a result of borrowing words, elevated language (sprinkled with widely known Latin sayings), and alteration of idioms by one-word substitution. Hybridity becomes a way through which Margaret Atwood deconstructs language borders. In Dark Lady, the Canadian writer shows that hybridity stimulates innovation since the individual is allowed to move freely between spaces of meaning.

scholarly journals The Short Story “I Want My Son to Become a Murderer“ in Deconstructive Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Siti Hafsah
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Logical Reasoning ◽  
Binary Opposition

Deconstruction in short story "I Want My Son to Become a Murderer" shows a binary opposition which leads into an understanding that there is no hierarchy opposition. Derrida deconstruction in literary work aims to show logical and rhetorical non-equivalence between what explicitly written and what is implicitly hidden in the text. The deconstruction study shows how the contradictions should be uncovered from the text which called dissemination. The result of the analysis shows the opposition found are: (1) opposition between title and story; (2) opposition between the story and the footnote; (3) opposition between intuitive comprehension and logical reasoning; (4) opposition between fact and fiction; (5) opposition between “I lyric” and many people; and (6) opposition between the writer and the reader.

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