scholarly journals HISTORICAL AND LITERARY CONTEXTS OF VSEVOLOD IVANOV’S STORY «RUNNING ISLE»

2021 ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
E. A. Papkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Symbolic Image ◽  
Similar Elements ◽  
Difficult Road

The story of Vs. Ivanov «Running Isle» (Begstvuyushchiy ostrov) and the typologically close novels by M. Plotnikov «Belovodye» and V. Shishkov «Scarlet Snowdrifts», as well asA. Platonov’s short-story «Ivan Zhokh», are considered in the article in the historical context of the early 1920s, when question of social ideal of the country - communism - was updated. The typological commonality of the texts is revealed by analyzing their composition, which includes similar elements: the appearance of the image of the righteous land - Belovodye; long and difficult road; the image of not «real» Belovodye - a rich, but devoid of righteousness land; a symbolic image of a long path to a true social ideal. It is shown that for Soviet critics the peasant social ideal was unacceptable.

scholarly journals The Urewera Notebook: Scholarly edition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rose Anna O'Rorke Plumridge
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Native Flora ◽  
Scholarly Edition ◽  
Photograph Albums ◽  
The Social ◽  
John Middleton Murry

<p>This thesis is a scholarly edition of Katherine Mansfield’s Urewera Notebook. The General Introduction summarises the purpose to which the notebook has been put by previous editors and biographers, as evidence for Mansfield’s happiness or unhappiness in New Zealand throughout 1906-8. It then offers an overview of the historical context in which the notebook was written, in order to demonstrate the social complexity and geographical diversity of the terrain that Mansfield covered during her 1907 camping holiday. This is followed by an analysis of Mansfield’s attitudes towards colonials, Maori and the New Zealand landscape. Mansfield’s notebook is permeated by a sense of disdain for colonials, especially when encountered as tourists, but also a fascination with ‘back-block ’settlers and a sense of camaraderie with her travelling companions. Mansfield repeatedly romanticised Maori as a noble ‘dying race’ with a mythic past, but was also insightfully observant of the predicament of Maori incontemporary colonial society. Her persistent references to European flora, fauna and ‘high culture’, and her delight in conventionally picturesque English gardens, reveal a certain disconnect from the New Zealand landscape, yet occasional vivid depictionsof the country hint at a developing facility for evokingNew Zealand through literature.In the Textual Introduction I discuss the approaches of the three prior editors of the notebook: John Middleton Murry polished, and selectively reproduced, the Urewera Notebook, to depict Mansfield as an eloquent diarist; Ian A. Gordon rearranged his transcription and couched it within an historical commentary which was interspersed with subjective observation, to argue that Mansfield was an innate short story writer invigorated by her homeland. Margaret Scott was a technically faithful transcriber who providedaccuracy at the level of sentence structure but whoseminimal scholarly apparatus has madeher edition of the notebook difficult to navigate,and has obscured what Mansfield wrote. I have re-transcribed the notebook, deciphering many words and phrases differently from prior editors. The Editorial Procedures are intended as an improvement on the editorial methods of prior editors.The transcription itself is supported by a collation of all significant variant readings of prior editions. Arunning commentary describesthe notebook’s physical composition, identifies colonial and Maori people mentioned in the text, and explains ambiguous historical and literary allusions, native flora and fauna,and expressions in Te Reo Maori. The Itinerary uses historical documents to provide a factually accurate description of the route that Mansfield followed, and revises the itinerary suggested by Gordon in 1978. A biographical register explains the social background of the camping party. This thesis is based on fresh archival research of primary history material in the Alexander Turnbull Library, legal land ownership documents at Archives New Zealand, historical newspapersand information from discussions with Warbrick and Bird family descendants.A map sourced from the Turnbull Cartography Collection shows contemporary features and settlements, with the route of the camping party superimposed. Facsimiles of pages from the notebook are included to illustrate Mansfield’s handwriting and idiosyncratic entries. Photographs have been selected from Beauchamp family photograph albums at the Turnbull, from the Ebbett Papers at the Hawke’s Bay MuseumTheatre Gallery, and from private records.</p>

scholarly journals Reproductive Racism in Danielle Evans’s “Harvest:” Black, Chicana, and White Motherhoods in the Context of Reproductive Rights Discourses

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Egg Donation ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Chicana Feminisms ◽  
Racialized Gender

Abstract The paper explores the short story “Harvest” (2010) by African American writer Danielle Evans and traces the figurations of the racialized aspects of gender in “Harvest” within the theoretical frameworks of Black and Chicana feminisms, motherhood studies, and intersectionality. After situating the Black and Chicana characters’ anxieties around egg donation in the historical context of reproductive rights, economics, and the politicization of Black and Chicana women’s bodies, I discuss how the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, and class impact the racialized gender identity of especially the Black protagonist and to a smaller extent that of her Chicana and white friends as well. I argue that the current practices of egg donation depicted in the story are imbricated in the wider system of racial capitalism that values women’s childbearing capacities differentially in terms of their race.

scholarly journals Saadat Hasan Manto, Partition, and Mental Illness through the Lens of Toba Tek Singh

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahir Jokinen ◽  
Shershah Assadullah
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Alcohol Addiction ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Work And Life

Abstract“Toba Tek Singh,” which describes the exchange of mental asylum inmates between India and Pakistan in the wake of partition, was perhaps Saadat Hasan Manto’s most well-known short story. Manto’s work was coloured by his experience of mental illness, including alcohol addiction and possible depressive disorder. This essay attempts to use “Toba Tek Singh” as a lens through which to shine an integrative light on the role of mental illness in Manto’s work and life, by discussing his personal experiences, themes of mental illness in the story, and the implications of his writing in the historical context of post-partition South Asia.

scholarly journals Centennial reflections on Steinbeck's reputation in Slovenia

2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
Danica Čerče
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Grapes Of Wrath ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
New Information ◽  
Sense Of Justice

Since the late 1920s and his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929), there has been little consensus about John Steinbeck's work, and he has often been praised or dismissed for the wrong reasons. In the wake of the novels with the sweeping reach and social consciousness of In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and despite the prodigious and startlingly diverse output of his career, Steinbeck was generally regarded as one of America's foremost engaged artists. However, the truth is that be was as much a postmodernist and a modernist, as a traditional proletarian writer. And though be made a significant contribution to the perception of the problems of his time by writing with empathy, clarity and a strong sense of justice about the downtrodden, the exploited, and the defenseless, which contributed to his immense public success, Steinbeck's novels lose none of their richness and power when removed from their historical context. With the human dilemmas on many levels of personal, philosophical, and socio-economic existence, and their deep humanistic, philosophical and ecological message, conveyed through numerous Biblical, Arthurian, and literary allusions, his works are as relevant today as they were when they were written.Appropriate enough, and given that this year marks the centennial of John Steinbeck's birth, celebrated with a year-long series of events taking place throughout the United States and paying tribute to the winner of the 0. Henry Short Story Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize for Literature by examining his legacy in American literature, film, theatre and journalism, and providing new information about the enduring value of his writing, this paper aims to capture the writer's reputation in Slovenia. The plan is to briefly analyse the most illustrative examples of Steinbeck criticism accompanying Slovene publications of his works; then to loosen the hold of deeply entrenched positions of Slovene reviewers, and to highlight the importance of considering Steinbeck's texts from new, insightful and politically unbiased perspectives of contemporary critical engagement. And last but not least, this discussion might hopefully induce Slovene publishers to new printings and translations of Steinbeck's works.

scholarly journals Supervivientes del Apocalipsis: un relato de ciencia ficción ‘gitano’

2020 ◽  
pp. 210-227
Author(s):  
María Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roma People ◽  
Post War ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors

En 1977 Monde Gitan, una revista francesa dedicada a la llamada “cuestión gitana”, publicó un artículo titulado Les survivants de l’Apocalypse, de Jean Ortica, integrante de una conocida familia ‘gitana’ del país. Se trata de un breve relato de ciencia ficción centrado en una catástrofe nuclear. En la historia, una familia de supervivientes debe aprender a vivir desde cero, sin poder apoyarse en la herencia de siglos de civilización. Son los romaníes quienes se sienten, en consecuencia, protagonistas de la historia de la humanidad y responsables del nacimiento de un nuevo mundo. Este relato puede ser leído de varias maneras, desde una historia de ciencia ficción distópica hasta una utopía gitana; incluso, podría ser entendido como un intento de adoctrinamiento asimilacionista por parte de la sociedad mayoritaria, desde una visión “civilizatoria”. El artículo explora estos múltiples sentidos como vía de entrada para el estudio de la situación del pueblo romaní en la Francia (y la Europa) de posguerra, teniendo en cuenta los factores sociales y culturales del contexto histórico -señaladamente, el miedo atómico propio de la Guerra Fría- pero también la situación del pueblo romaní tras el Holocausto nazi. Se trata de una forma de representar y combatir el anti-gitanismo desde la imaginación de la capacidad de agencia en un contexto de ficción extremo. In 1977 Monde Gitan, a French journal devoted to the so-called “Gypsy Question” published an article entitled “Les survivants de l’Apocalypse”. Its author was Jean Ortica, a member of a well-known “gypsy” family in France. It was a Science Fiction short story portraying a nuclear disaster. The narration stresses on how a surviving Roma family have to adapt and live starting from scratch, incapable of relying on the inherited history of centuries of civilization. The Roma are the people who thus play the main role in the new history of the humankind, feeling responsible for the birth of a new world. This story can be read in several ways, from a dystopian science fiction story to a gypsy utopia narration; It could even be understood as an attempt at assimilationist indoctrination by the majority society, from a "civilizatory” vision. The article explores these multiple meanings in connection with the study of the situation of the Roma people in post-war France (and Europe), taking into account the social and cultural factors of the historical context - remarkably, the rise of nuclear fear in the Cold War- but also the situation of the Roma people after the Nazi Holocaust. This story represents and faces anti-gypsyism from the self-imagination of the Roma capacity for agency within a fictionalized extreme context.

scholarly journals Literary Representation of Sport in Historical Turmoil: On Józef Hen’s “The Boxer and The Death”

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 291-299
Author(s):  
Paulina Korzeniewska-Nowakowska
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Literary Representation ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
The Holocaust

The present article strives to analyze a sporting war short story The Boxer and The Death by Józef Hen as an exemplary piece of sports writing immersed in a historical context. Although there is no entrenched tradition of sports writing in the Polish literary expression, the story offers a very classic sports narrative anchored in the Holocaust reality. Following the presentation of the figure of Hen and providing historical background for sport in concentration camps, the author analyzes the story, focusing on its two main characters: Janusz Kominek and Walter Kraft, as well as the values and symbols they represent. It is also argued that The Boxer and The Death fulfills the criteria of a traditional western, melodramatic narrative, and conforms to Robert J. Higgs’s Adonic model of an athlete in literature.

scholarly journals Edgar G. Ulmer — Roger Corman — Stuart Gordon. Filmowe adaptacje opowiadania Edgara Allana Poego Czarny kot

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 429-444
Author(s):  
Nina Ćwiklak
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
World War ◽  
Romantic Literature ◽  
Film Directors ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Byronic Hero ◽  
First World ◽  
Made In

The article entitled Edgar G. Ulmer — Roger Corman — Stuart Gordon. Movie adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Black Cat” is a comparative analysis of three adaptations of a gothic short story. The attempt at finding inspirations from romantic poetics in the works of film directors, created in different decades and answering the question of how is it possible to transfer assumptions of romantic literature into movie language, was made in this text. In the movie from 1934, Edgar G. Ulmer connects gothic poetics with modernism aesthetics. He also adds historical context, referring to events in the First World War. On the other hand, taking classic literature became an opportunity for Roger Corman to play with convention. He expresses it in the adaption from 1962, in which terror gives space to humour. Stuart Gordon in turn, creates a post-modern variation based on a theme of The Black Cat, making Poe himself the main character of the movie from 2005. The important criterion of interpretation includes the motives of the Byronic hero, cat, madness and crime. Analysis of different ways to re-interpret the gothic short story leads to conclusions about filmmakers’ attitude to literary prototype. Also, the cultural context of individual adaptations was pointed out.

scholarly journals The Urewera Notebook: Scholarly edition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rose Anna O'Rorke Plumridge
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Native Flora ◽  
Scholarly Edition ◽  
Photograph Albums ◽  
The Social ◽  
John Middleton Murry

<p>This thesis is a scholarly edition of Katherine Mansfield’s Urewera Notebook. The General Introduction summarises the purpose to which the notebook has been put by previous editors and biographers, as evidence for Mansfield’s happiness or unhappiness in New Zealand throughout 1906-8. It then offers an overview of the historical context in which the notebook was written, in order to demonstrate the social complexity and geographical diversity of the terrain that Mansfield covered during her 1907 camping holiday. This is followed by an analysis of Mansfield’s attitudes towards colonials, Maori and the New Zealand landscape. Mansfield’s notebook is permeated by a sense of disdain for colonials, especially when encountered as tourists, but also a fascination with ‘back-block ’settlers and a sense of camaraderie with her travelling companions. Mansfield repeatedly romanticised Maori as a noble ‘dying race’ with a mythic past, but was also insightfully observant of the predicament of Maori incontemporary colonial society. Her persistent references to European flora, fauna and ‘high culture’, and her delight in conventionally picturesque English gardens, reveal a certain disconnect from the New Zealand landscape, yet occasional vivid depictionsof the country hint at a developing facility for evokingNew Zealand through literature.In the Textual Introduction I discuss the approaches of the three prior editors of the notebook: John Middleton Murry polished, and selectively reproduced, the Urewera Notebook, to depict Mansfield as an eloquent diarist; Ian A. Gordon rearranged his transcription and couched it within an historical commentary which was interspersed with subjective observation, to argue that Mansfield was an innate short story writer invigorated by her homeland. Margaret Scott was a technically faithful transcriber who providedaccuracy at the level of sentence structure but whoseminimal scholarly apparatus has madeher edition of the notebook difficult to navigate,and has obscured what Mansfield wrote. I have re-transcribed the notebook, deciphering many words and phrases differently from prior editors. The Editorial Procedures are intended as an improvement on the editorial methods of prior editors.The transcription itself is supported by a collation of all significant variant readings of prior editions. Arunning commentary describesthe notebook’s physical composition, identifies colonial and Maori people mentioned in the text, and explains ambiguous historical and literary allusions, native flora and fauna,and expressions in Te Reo Maori. The Itinerary uses historical documents to provide a factually accurate description of the route that Mansfield followed, and revises the itinerary suggested by Gordon in 1978. A biographical register explains the social background of the camping party. This thesis is based on fresh archival research of primary history material in the Alexander Turnbull Library, legal land ownership documents at Archives New Zealand, historical newspapersand information from discussions with Warbrick and Bird family descendants.A map sourced from the Turnbull Cartography Collection shows contemporary features and settlements, with the route of the camping party superimposed. Facsimiles of pages from the notebook are included to illustrate Mansfield’s handwriting and idiosyncratic entries. Photographs have been selected from Beauchamp family photograph albums at the Turnbull, from the Ebbett Papers at the Hawke’s Bay MuseumTheatre Gallery, and from private records.</p>

scholarly journals Bogoboj Atanackovic and Serbian romantic short story

2013 ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Nada Mirkov-Bogdanovic
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Literary Work

In this study, specific features of emerging and development of Serbian short story (1845 -1865), has been examined; its relation towards tradition and literal conventions of former sentimentalistic and enlightening epoch, toward a parallel developments in this field of literary work and literary-historical context as a whole. The corpus of short stories of this period has been arranged and connected tipologicaly and their common structural characteristics have been established. In that context,, the position, role and significance of Bogoboj Atanackovic, as a first Serbian writer and initiator in romantic orientation in Serbian short story, has been reexamined.

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