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. 

John Lehmann’s War Effort: The Penguin New Writing (1940–1950)

2020 ◽  
pp. 250-272
Author(s):  
Tessa Thorniley
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Elizabeth Bowen ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
Graham Greene ◽  
Literary Periodicals ◽  
The World ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Rosamond Lehmann

John Lehmann’s The Penguin New Writing (1940-1950) is considered one of the finest literary periodicals of World War Two. The journal was committed to publishing writing about all aspects of wartime life, from the front lines to daily civilian struggles, by writers from around the world. It had an engaged readership and a high circulation. This chapter specifically considers Lehmann’s contribution to the wartime heyday for the short story form, through the example of The Penguin New Writing. By examining Lehmann’s editorial approach this chapter reveals the ways he actively engaged with his contributors, teasing and coaxing short stories out of them and contrasts this with the editorial style of Cyril Connolly at rival Horizon magazine. Stories by, and Lehmann’s interactions with, established writers such as Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Green and Rosamond Lehmann, the emerging writer William Sansom and working-class writers B.L Coombs and Jim Phelan, are the main focus of this chapter. The international outlook of the journal, which promoted satire from China alongside short, mocking works by Graham Greene, is also evaluated as an often overlooked aspect of Lehmann’s venture. Through the short stories and Lehmann’s editorials, this chapter traces how Lehmann sought to shape literature and to elevate the short story form. The chapter concludes by considering how the decline of the short story form in Britain from the 1950s onwards was closely linked to the demise of the magazines which had most actively supported it.

scholarly journals MOTIF/ARCHETYPE THE OLD MAN IN THREE SHORT STORIES OF ANTON CHEKHOV, ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND NAM CAO

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-32
Author(s):  
Chuong Ngoc Dao
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Anton Chekhov ◽  
The Impact

Basing on poetics, structure of works and motif / archetype of the Wise Old Man, the paper examines and compares the image of the Old Man in three short stories: Tocka by Anton Chekhov (Russian), A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway (American) and Lao Hac by Nam Cao (Vietnamese). In each short story, the old man leads a lonely life. Their loneliness can’t sometimes be shared or isn’t shared such as the case of Iona Potapov, in Tocka of Anton Chekhov, who just lost his son last week; of the Old Man, in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place of Ernest Hemingway who suffered from loneliness in his old age; and of Lao Hac, in Nam Cao’s work of the same title, who, with hopelessness, has gone away to work in plantation for three years because his poor son couldn’t afford to get married. If the impact of rural elements in the process of social development from agriculture to industry is taken into consideration, we can put these three short stories in the following sequence: Lao Hac (1943) of Nam Cao, Tocka (1871) of Anton Chekhov, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1933) of Ernest Hemingway. It seems that the more the society is urbanized, the more loneliness can’t be wiped out. Now, the deeply rooted characters of the archetype of the Wise Old Man (according to Jung) are expressed in only three points: how to best bahave in loneliness.

A Study of Translation Methods Adopted in the Yangs’ Version of “Master Gao” from the Perspective of Manipulation Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Ruijing Qin ◽  
Chengfa Yu
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Lu Xun ◽  
Domestic Environment ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Translation Methods

Soon after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, foreign translation of Chinese culture was put on the agenda. Lu Xun’s short stories were selected as representative works and translated into English by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang (hereinafter referred to as “the Yangs”) in the 1950s and 1960s under the special international and domestic environment, and they have played an important role in spreading Chinese culture to the world. Based on André Lefevere’s Manipulation Theory, especially its three elements, namely, poetics, ideology and patronage, this paper examines the translation methods adopted by the Yangs in their translation of Lu Xun’s short story “Master Gao”. Through example analysis, the article concludes that the Yangs mainly adopted literal translation under the influence of poetics, ideology and patronage in the then special social background. It is hoped that the research aims to provide a theoretical and practical reference for future translation and dissemination of Chinese literary works to the world.

Regionalist short fiction as humble fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alda Correia
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Regional Literature ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Connections

The representation of the world cannot be separated from its spatial context. Making the effort to understand how space and landscape influence short stories and their structure, and are represented in them, can help us to make sense of the role of this formerly underestimated subgenre, its social and cultural connections and dissonances, its relation to storytelling and popular narratives, and its alleged low importance. How does the short story genre relate to regional and landscape literature? Can we see it as humble fiction and, in this case, how does the humbleness of this subgenre play a part in the growth of the modernist short story? The oral, mythic and fantastic sources of the short story, together with the travel memoir tradition that brought the love for landscape description and the interest in the narration of brief and easily publishable episodes of local life, helped to consolidate a connection between the short story form and regional literature. ‘Humbleness’ is used here in association with the absence of complexity, plainness, simplicity of approach to a complex reality, straightforwardness. From this perspective, aesthetic value was usually absent from regionalist fiction as its only aim was to render the local truth faithfully. However, this ‘aesthetic humbleness’, which should not be used as a generalization, has been increasingly questioned in regard to modernism, postmodernism and postcolonialism and also when we consider specific works.

EXPERIMENTAL ARTISTIC STRATEGIES OF S.D. KRZHIZHANOVSKIY

2019 ◽  
pp. 418-423
Author(s):  
Ganna Shubert
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Experimental Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Transitional Type ◽  
True Model ◽  
Experimental Type ◽  
Artistic Heritage ◽  
Dynamic Presentation ◽  
Experimental Strategies

The author of the article investigates original artistic heritage – experimental art strategies which are repre- sented in short stories by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskiy. The article gives short biographical information about Krzhizhanovs- kiy as his popularity is growing. The author of short stories is famous for his omniscience talent. Researcher distinguishes such experimental artistic traits as creation of heroes, model of creation individual author’s myth about the world, synthesis of literature kind and sort. These traits are specificity of transitional type of thinking Krzhizhanovs- kiy’s. According to investigations of following scientists M.Epstein, M.Khrenov, Y.Lotman, V.Silantieva Krzhizhanovskiy was identified as prominent representative of transitional cultural period of XX-th century. Researcher demonstrates series of artistic traits which are similar for transitional cultural period of XX-th century and short stories by Krzhizhanovskiy: disintegration of holistic systems; variable and dynamic presentation about existence, world, beauty, true; model of chaosmos; active production new conceptions artistic model of existence and world, human and system of their relationship; eschatological tempers; plurality and multiplicity of worlds; actualization of mythopoetic art; intensification of playing experimental type. Experimental strategies of creating heroes are the next: reconsideration traditional cultural discourse, different meta- morphosis and transformations, using artistic principal of alienation (by V. Shklovsky), active functioning of body’s code, and artistic model of substitution for lifelike heroes. Krzhizhanovskiy experiments also with artistic coordinates of world: space and time (chronotope). Artistic world in short stories by Krzhizhanovskiy disintegrates, splits up and such situations are used for creating plurality and multiplicity of worlds and interworld, quasiworld after apocalypse. Synthesis of literature kind and sort is a bright trait of transitional type of thinking. Short stories by Krzhizhanovskiy show original variants of metric prose. Krzhizhanovskiy uses diversity of principals for rhythmization through all the levels of artistic text. Beside, the principals of musical rhythmization are widely used in short stories. Krzhizhanovskiy coded 23-d Appassionata by Beethoven in one of his short story. The author creates complicated superstructure of the text that confirms diversity of searches artistic synthesis and experimental poetic.

scholarly journals Paralysed: A Systemic Functional Analysis of James Joyce’s “Eveline”

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-180
Author(s):  
Monika Kavalir
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World

In homage to the work of Uroš Mozetič, the paper takes as its starting point previously developed suggestions about how the language of “Eveline” conveys a picture of the heroine as a passive, paralysed character. Using Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics as a model of stylistic analysis, it investigates the contribution of both the ideational and the interpersonal metafunctions to the meaning of the text. The results extend and amend some ideas from the literature, such as the supposed prevalence of stative verbs, and suggest that while the short story as a whole predominantly uses material processes, their potential for change is mitigated by Joyce’s aspect, tense, and usuality choices. Eveline as the main character crucially has the role of a Senser, observing and internally reacting to the world around her, and even the processes in which she acts upon things and people are modalised and shown to be either hypothetical or instigated by others.

scholarly journals A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF O. HENRY AND PANNALAL PATEL’S SELECTED LOVE STORIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 461-467
Author(s):  
Shaurya Brahmbhatt ◽  
Jayana Jayendrabhai Gajjar
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
The World ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Story Collection

‘Love’ has always been a topic of interest for people around the world. Poets, novelists, painters, dancers have multiple works dedicated to ‘love’ and it seems they can’t get enough of it. Friendship, anger, cares, jealousies are emotions attached to love and have been dealt with by authors of the world. The ancient and the modern, the teens and the adults, males and female are in awe of ‘love’. This makes it a very interesting subject for study. William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry has written almost 300 short stories on various themes. He never failed to surprise the readers with a twist at the end of his stories. Pannalal Patel is a celebrated Gujarati author who, like Henry, has almost 20 short story collection under his name. He too has dealt with various themes including love, crime, sacrifice and more. The current paper focuses on comparing the love stories by these authors. The selected stories are The Gift of Magi and Witches’ Loaves by O. Henry and Sukh Dukh na Sathi and Nirupay by Pannalal Patel. As both, the writers belonged to two entirely different places and were active during a different time, the comparison of their stories will help to learn the idea of ‘love’ as the authors see it and the treatment of ‘love’ in their stories.

scholarly journals KARAKTERISTIK TEKS CERPEN KARYA SISWA KELAS XI SMA NEGERI 11 PADANG

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 300
Author(s):  
Nita Martiana ◽  
Harris Effendi Thahar
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Text Structure ◽  
Thick Description ◽  
Text Structures ◽  
Language Styles

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to describe (1) the characteristics of the short story text structure of class XI MIPA 4 SMAN 11 Padang and (2) the characteristic of the short story text elements by class XI MIPA 4 SMAN 11 Padang. Theories related to this research there are four theories, namely (a) understanding of short story text, (b) short story text structure, (c) elements in short story text, and (d) short story text style. The type of research used is qualitative research using descriptive methods. The data of this study are the results of the writing of the students of class XI MIPA 4 SMAN 11 Padang in the form of short stories totaling 33 short stories. The technique for validating the data used is a thick description. Data were analyzed using simple statistical descriptive techniques and qualitative analysis using formats. Based on the results of the study can be concluded,first, short story text by students of class XI MIPA 4 SMAN 11 Padang are more dominantly built on five structures, namely abstract, orientation, complications, evaluation, and resolution. It can be interpreted that the short story text by students of class XI MIPA 4 SMAN 11 Padang is not complex text structures. Second, short story text by students of class XI MIPA 4 SMAN 11 Padang dominantly using advanced plot. Third, short story text by students of class XI MIPA 4 SMAN 11 Padang then to use three types of language styles, namely hyperbolic style, personification, and simile. Kata kunci : Karakteristik, teks cerpen

scholarly journals “Concrete fragments”: An interview with Henrietta Rose-Innes

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham K. Riach
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
South African ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Writing ◽  
Story Writing ◽  
Gender Categories ◽  
Story Writer

South Africa has a long and rich tradition of short story writing, stretching from the early oral-style tale (MacKenzie, 1999), through the writing of the “fabulous fifties” (Driver, 2012; R. Gaylard, 2008), to the most recent post-apartheid texts. In this interview, Henrietta Rose-Innes describes her practice as a short story writer, noting how it differs from that of writing novels or poetry. For Rose-Innes, the short story offers a way to capture her view of the world; that is, in sudden, intense moments, rather than in wholly narrative terms. Combining a number of short stories into a collection, Rose-Innes suggests, can offer some perspective on the plurality of contemporary South African life. Over the course of the interview, she discusses her exploration of conventional gender categories, her unconscious use of Gothic tropes, and the possibilities for political writing in contemporary South Africa. Throughout, there is a concern for how her works negotiate questions of space and place, particularly in the context of South African writing.

scholarly journals Kias in Short Story Collection “Satu Hari Bukan di Hari Minggu” by Yetti A.KA, A Semantic Analysis Approach

Curricula ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ressty Putri Ariyati ◽  
Wahyudi Rahmat ◽  
Febrina Riska Putri
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Language Style ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
Language Styles

<pre><span>This study will discuss the form of class language in a collection of short stories. </span><span>Interestingly</span><span> in Indonesian in a unique collection of unique short stories to be studied, because most of the others have not thought form kias in a literature. Kias are always only examined in the form of text utterances containing the mandate of parents and so on. This research uses Keraf theory (2010) as a form of kias language style, and kias meaning using Manaf (2008) and Aminuddin (2008) theory. The method which is the method ordered by Sudaryanto (1993). The results of this study found that the forms and meanings of language styles found most often in the book </span><em><span>Satu Hari Bukan di Hari Minggu </span></em><span>Yetti A.Ka's work is simile, personification, irony, cynicism, sarcasm and epithet which refers to the meaning that corresponds to the short story text and in accordance with the context of the short story.</span></pre>

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