scholarly journals Moral Dilemmas of Poles Born in the Late Twenties: Reflections on the Drama Their Time, Short Stories, and Novels by Literary Critic Zbigniew Kubikowski

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Dorota Heck
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Lower Silesia

Zbigniew Kubikowski (1929-1984) was a literary critic, novelist, journalist, editor of monthly Odra in Wroclaw (Lower Silesia, Poland), and an activist of the Polish Writers’ Union. His biography seems to be representative for more or less independent intellectuals in the regime of communism. In spite of humiliation, persecutions, and invigilation he managed to preserve his ethical principles, although he was not able to achieve a full success as a man of letters. The ethics of his generation, so called “younger brothers” of war generation was founded on Polish independence and European existentialism.

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.

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra (1926–)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Irving
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
East West

Salma Khadra Jayyusi is an anthologist, translator, literary critic, and poet of Palestinian origins. A writer and researcher in her own right, she is better known for spearheading major projects aimed at introducing Arabic culture, literature, and history to Western audiences. Via the Project of Translation from Arabic (PROTA) and East–West Nexus programs, she has contributed to and helped to translate and edit dozens of novels, edited collections and anthologies of Arabic poetry, short stories, novellas, and scholarly articles.

scholarly journals SANTIAGO RAMÓN Y CAJAL Y LA LITERATURA DE FICCIÓN Los cuentos de vacaciones y su valor pedagógico

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Collado-Vázquez ◽  
Jesús María Carrillo
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
False Beliefs ◽  
Scientific Concepts ◽  
Educational Purpose ◽  
Scientific Education ◽  
Ramón Y Cajal

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, father of neuroscience, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906 for his neural theory. Besides being a great histologist, researcher, and teacher, he showed interest in photography, philosophy, astronomy, chess, and hypnosis. He wrote very relevant scientific and biographical works as well as his Vacation stories. Five science fiction tales, five short stories with an educational purpose that mix scientific concepts, fiction, and some irony, and where microscopy and microbiology are always present. These stories raise difficult social or moral dilemmas that are often motivated by advances in science or an incorrect scientific education of the population. Cajal sought to improve that education and banish false beliefs and superstitions.

scholarly journals LINGUPOETICS AND IMAGES IN FREE WORKS ERKIN A'ZAM

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 56-58
Author(s):  
Gayratova Gulzoda
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Psyche

Erkin Azam is one of the artists who considers creativity as destiny. The author has won the hearts of readers mainly with his stories and short stories. But in recent years, the author's novel "Noise" was published. Several articles have been published about the work. The author's novel is based on symbolism and is one of the most unusual works. The novel seeks to portray a particular aspect of life in terms of its own style. Changes in the development of different genres can be seen in the genre of short stories in the works of the writer. Umarali Normatov, a literary critic who has written about short stories in recent years, writes: “When we look at our short stories today, first of all, the subject matter attracts attention in terms of problems, form, style; Among them are works on historical, modern, socio-political, family, romantic themes, both traditional romantic, realistic, modernist, serious and humorous, adventure-detective. no matter what the diversity. ” As noted, in this genre, a variety of thematic stories have been created, in which the human psyche, character traits are interpreted. Analysis of the artistic features of the author's novel "Noise", the demonstration of the writer's skill determines the relevance of the topic

Between the treatise and epiphany, that is, about Leszek Szaruga for the eighth time

Tekstualia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (63) ◽  
pp. 135-156
Author(s):  
Piotr Michałowski
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Concrete Poetry ◽  
Creative Personality

The article, written on the occasion of the jubilee of an outstanding polish poet, prose writer, essayist, literary critic and literary scholar, possessing enormous achievements in each of these fields, is an attempt to determine his creative personality. The author wrote about him 8 times reserving individual books and now tries to merge his recognition into the overall portrait of the writer. He states that Szaruga is a linguistic poet and at the same time well-versed in literary tradition, as evidenced by numerous intertextual references, among others to the works of Borges in short stories and Lec in aphoristics. He perfectly accomplishes both classical forms: poetic treatise, lyrical miniature, sonnet as well as experimental: linguistic poems and concrete poetry. Finally, an experimental interpretation of one short poem is presented.

Shabtai, Yaakov (1934–1981)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shai Ginsburg
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Hebrew Literature ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Literary Achievement ◽  
Modern Hebrew

An Israeli Hebrew author, playwright, lyricist, and translator, Yaakov Shabtai was born in Tel Aviv in 1934 (Wikipectia …). Shabtai began translating plays and writing lyrics and original plays following his military service, when he lived in a kibbutz. In 1967, he moved back to Tel Aviv to dedicate himself to writing. In 1972, a collection of his short stories was published. Both his plays and short fiction received mixed reviews at the time of their original publication. In 1977, Shabtai published his first novel, ZikhronDvarim [Past Continuous], which was immediately recognized as a unique literary achievement and as one of the most significant works of modern Hebrew literature. Shabtai died in 1981 of heart failure. His second novel, SofDavar [Past Perfect], edited jointly by his widow, Edna Shabtai, and by the literary critic Dan Miron, was published posthumously in 1984 to great critical acclaim.

scholarly journals The Function of Imagery in War and Peace

Slavic Review ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 460-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Human Personality ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Tolstoy the man, whose awe-inspiring personality haunts us still, poses an enormous obstacle to those who wish to write about his work. One frequently encounters interpretations of the novels, plays, and short stories based on Tolstoy's aims in creating them and on what his consciously held values were or are believed to have been. Unfortunately for anyone who attempts this kind of evaluation, Tolstoy, one of the most complex and baffling men who ever lived, is notorious for his self-contradictions. Although we have some good biographies, Tolstoy deserves the attention of a scholar—probably not a literary critic—with a sophisticated view of human personality and the relationship between the individual and society, who will write an analytical account of his problems comparable to Erik Erikson's widely admired Young Man Luther.

The Art of Andrei Siniavsky

Slavic Review ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 663-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deming Brown
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Soviet Literature ◽  
Russian Author ◽  
Small Collection

The imprisonment of Andrei Siniavsky in 1965 stilled, in mid-career, the most original and enigmatic voice in contemporary Soviet literature. At the time of his arrest he was known in the USSR solely as a gifted, liberal literary critic and scholar. Abroad he was known as Abram Tertz, a mysterious Russian author—possibly not even a resident of the Soviet Union—who had written a brilliant, devastating critique of socialist realism, two short novels (The Trial Begins and Liubimov), six short stories, and a small collection of aphorisms (Unguarded Thoughts).

Computational Ethics

2011 ◽  
pp. 76-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia I. Ruvinsky
Keyword(s):  
Multiagent Systems ◽  
Moral Dilemma ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Agent Based Simulation ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Moral Landscape ◽  
Computational Perspective

Computational ethics is the integration of computer simulation and ethics theory. More specifically, computational ethics is an agent-based simulation mechanism that takes a computational perspective to ethics theory. This approach uses computer modeling and multiagent systems to generate societies of agents capable of adopting various ethical principles. The principle adopted by an agent will dictate its moral action in response to a moral dilemma. By simulating the agents’ application of ethical principles to moral dilemmas and observing the resulting moral landscape of a group of affected agents, we are better able to understand the social consequences of individual ethical actions.

War, Fiction, and Truth

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgio Mariani
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
The Other ◽  
War Fiction ◽  
Cognitive Resource ◽  
Rational Commitment ◽  
Structural Weakness ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
The One

This chapter examines the correlation between the Vietnam War and literary postmodernism in Tim O'Brien's “How to Tell a True War Story,” one of the short stories in the collection The Things They Carried. It considers the main structural weakness in O'Brien's narrative utopia as well as the paradoxes of war in the story. It shows how O'Brien's search for “truth” allows him to explore in a meandering though compelling way many of the rhetorical and moral dilemmas of the would-be anti-war writer. It argues that the story occupies an uncomfortable position between a postmodernist uneasiness with “truth,” on the one hand, and a rational commitment to rules for distinguishing between truth and falsehood, on the other. It suggests that O'Brien's imagination is a cognitive resource and, therefore, ultimately a political tool capable of unveiling the cowardice hidden behind what many call heroism, as well as the way even love can feed the monster of war.

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