scholarly journals Pragmatic and stylistic aspects of expressing tolerance in modern American short stories

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Quantitative Aspect ◽  
Flash Fiction ◽  
Qualitative Aspect ◽  
Emotional Effect ◽  
Stylistic Device ◽  
American Short Stories

In the article, the aspects and types of such stylistic device as foregrounding are investigated in the short stories of contemporary American writers. The quantitative aspect of foregrounding prevails in flash fiction stories which is realized by means of stylistic convergence and parallelism. Convergences are mainly used in strong positions, especially in the endings, as in the stories by J. Updike, D. Galef, D.Eggers. The qualitative aspect of foregrounding is expressed with the help of tropes such as metaphor, simile and oxymoron which are also present in strong positions – titles, beginnings, endings (the stories by G. Paley, D. Galef, J. Updike). The idea of tolerance, sympathy, understanding is dominant in many flash fiction stories. Foregrounding, especially in the strong positions of the stories, emphasizes this idea, thus producing a strong pragmatic, emotional effect. Due to such device in the endings many flash fiction stories can be called modern parables of life, love, justice.

scholarly journals THE IMPORTANCE OF ARTICSIC DETAIL AS A FACTOR OF PROSE POETICALNESS IN THE SGORT STORIES OF THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AND CANADIAN WRITERS

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-24
Author(s):  
O. YEMETS ◽  
A. ZAKHARCHUK
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Flash Fiction ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Emotional Effect ◽  
Poetic Function ◽  
Final Text

The article considers the role and functions of artistic detail in the contemporary short stories. The investigation involved the flash fiction stories by the American writers written after the year 2020 and several short stories by the outstanding Canadian writer Alice Munro. The aim of the research is determining the major devices of prose poeticalness in these texts and revealing the role of artistic detail in creating poeticalness.Prose poeticalness is defined as such property of a prose text which involves the priority of poetic function and envisages the introduction of poetical features into prose – stylistic convergence, phonetical repetitions, parallelism, rhythm. Stylistic convergence can be considered the most foregrounded device of poeticalness as it involves the accumulation of different stylistic devices which add expressiveness to each other (M.Riffaterre). Our investigation shows that convergences function in strong positions of texts- the initial or final text fragments. Artistic detail is the object or some feature of the object which acquires special importance in the literary text (V.A.Kukharenko). Artistic detail is usually associated with metonymy or synecdoche, but unlike these tropes, it embraces the whole text. In the flash fiction stories and the short stories by A.Munro the major artistic details are objects like a coin (L.Wilson), a brooch (A.Munro), a glove (D.Shea) or a feature of appearance like a bruise (S.Dybek). These details characterize people’s behavior, their dreams and aspirations. Therefore, they symbolize love, friendship, sympathy and give polysemantic character to the narration. Another result of our investigation is determining the metaphoric detail (G.Paley) in the description of the woman, the mother of the defendant. Thus, the emotional effect of the artistic detail is realized in the metaphoric similes comparing the woman to the faded flower. These artistic details in combination with stylistic convergence create the impression of the texts as modern parables. The theoretical novelty of our research lies in the analysis of artistic details from the viewpoint of poeticalnees as well as in revealing the significance of emotional effect for prose poeticalness.The prospects of further research lie in the investigation of poeticalness in other genres of modern prose.

scholarly journals TRANSLATION OF GENUINE SIMILES IN SHORT STORIES BY P. G. WODEHOUSE

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Anzhela Boldyreva
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Stylistic Device

The article deals with such a stylistic device and expressive means as a genuine simile. It reveals its structure, ways of its creation in English and Russian, focuses on ways of its rendering into a target language.

scholarly journals Public Low-Cost Housing Design: The Residents’ Perception

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6S3) ◽  
pp. 262-269
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Quantitative Aspect ◽  
Qualitative Aspect ◽  
Residential Housing ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
The Public ◽  
Low Cost Housing ◽  
Housing Attributes ◽  
Housing Units

The purpose of this paper is to explore the design of public low-cost housing in Jigawa State, Nigeria and assess how residents perceived the housing units in relation to their culture and impact on their well-being. The housing units were constructed as an intervention by the government for low-income earners. This research was conducted through both qualitative and quantitative approaches. In qualitative aspect, three respondents were interviewed to express their perception on the public low-cost housing design, while quantitative aspect assessed the residential housing attributes of low-cost housing estates with view to identify the important housing attributes considered by the residents for their well-being and was used to support the qualitative aspect. This was achieved through descriptive statistics using Relative Importance Index (RII). A well-structured questionnaire was administered to the residents of public low-cost housing of Jigawa state, Nigeria. The results indicated that, the design of public low-cost housing in Jigawa State, Nigeria does not reflect the culture of the residents, most of the residents were not satisfied with it. In addition, out of fifty five (55) constructs from five (5) housing-related dimensions, the result identified thirty two (32) important attributes out of these, the residents considered twelve (12) to be the most important attributes affecting their well-being. Thus, the paper would serve as a blueprinted government, housing policy makers and housing developers to understand that, the housing constructions and infrastructural elements should reflect the cultural background of the beneficiaries. Views of beneficiaries before and after construction of public low-cost housing are of great importance. The findings of this paper were based on reviewed of earlier studies on residential-housing units, field work and research conducted on particularly the public low-cost housing in Jigawa State, Nigeria

scholarly journals Using volume of concept in the class environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Salih Gülen
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Small Proportion ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Quantitative Aspect ◽  
Qualitative Aspect ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Class Environment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

One of the tools that indicate the relationship between concepts is the volume of concept. Volume of concept is displayed that the relations between the concepts of the subject are exhibited in a meaningful harmonious and circular manner in a certain order. The purpose of this research; to be able to determine the usefulness volume of concept, from association tools of concept, in educational process. A mixed method was used in this study. Frequency and percentage values were calculated using comparative samples in the quantitative aspect of the study. In the qualitative aspect of work was used structured interview form, face to face interviews which were identified to code-categories and analyzed the data. As a result of the work, students had difficulty in drawing the volume of concept but they had expressed that the volume of concept was clearer. Moreover, it was determined that the rate of preference volume of concept during the exam was low. It can be said that use of the ready-made form of the volume of concept was increases although a small proportion of students prefer concept volume when presented in the same way with another tools. Various suggestions have been made as a result of the research.

Personality and affect in Hungarian and American short stories

Poetics ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 385-394
Author(s):  
Seymour Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
American Short Stories

The Anthology Game

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. Eller
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ray Bradbury ◽  
Failed Attempt ◽  
The Impact ◽  
American Short Stories

This chapter examines Ray Bradbury's failed attempt to publish a mainstream literary anthology of science fiction stories centered on Mars. The development of the Illinois novel was slowed by Bradbury's increased focus on the science fiction stories he was writing and revising with more and more frequency. Despite Don Congdon's influence with a wide range of editors, these stories were still not selling to the major magazines at all. What sustained both his spirit and his reputation during this period was his almost phenomenal success with the premier award anthologies of the day such as the Best American Short Stories annual and the O. Henry Prize Stories. This chapter considers the impact of Bradbury's anthology awards on his writing life by focusing on his membership in the leftist poetry magazine California Quarterly, founded by Dolph Sharp and others. It also discusses Bradbury's idea for an anthology that would consist of twenty-five science fiction stories, a project that he called “The Martian Chronicles. Edited by Ray Bradbury” and never came to fruition.

Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories

1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 869
Author(s):  
Alan R. Velie ◽  
Craig Lesley ◽  
Kenneth Rosen ◽  
Clifford Trafzer
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Native American ◽  
American Short Stories

scholarly journals Spanish-American Short Stories

1921 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Joel Hatheway ◽  
Chas. Alfred Turrell
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
American Short Stories

“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”: A Revaluation

PMLA ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 601-607
Author(s):  
Oliver Evans
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Caroline Gordon ◽  
Allen Tate ◽  
New Critics ◽  
American Short Stories

When “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” first appeared in Esquire (August 1936), it attracted immediate attention. It was promptly reprinted (in Best American Short Stories of 1937) by Edward J. O'Brien, who, praising it in his preface, remarked: “Nothing is irrelevant. The artist's energy is rigidly controlled for his purpose.” Since then it has been anthologized many times, and now it is probably safe to say that, with the possible exception of “The Killers,” none of Hemingway's stories has enjoyed greater popularity than this one. Hemingway's own opinion was that it was “about as good as any” of his shorter works.In the last ten or fifteen years, however, “The Snows” has come in for considerable disparagement, mainly from the so-called New Critics and their followers. In 1945 Ray B. West, Jr., wrote in The Sewanee Review: “While I consider this story one of Hemingway's best … it is spoiled for me by the conventionality of its leading symbol: the White-capped mountain as the ‘House of God’.” In 1950 Allen Tate and Caroline Gordon, referring to it in The House of Fiction as a “magnificent failure,” complained that it lacked “dramatic force” and objected that the symbolism was not properly integrated with the action. And in 1956 William Van O'Connor characterized it as a “rather puzzling story” and expressed dissatisfaction with the ending.

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