DETAIL AS A MEANS OF ACTUALIZING EXISTENTIAL PROBLEM IN THE O. HENRY’S WORKS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE SHORT STORIES «THE GIFT OF THE MAGI» AND «THE LAST LEAF»)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Дмитрий Владимирович Пикалов ◽  
Артем Сергеевич Гончаров
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Existential Problem

Настоящая статья посвящена изучению художественной детали в творчестве О. Генри. В ходе исследования мы анализируем художественную деталь на примере новелл «Дары волхвов» и «Последний лист» с целью осмысления экзистенциальных проблем главных героев. Результатом исследования стало выявление особенностей формирования экзистенциального аспекта проблемы «маленького человека», сближения автора и читатель на основе художественного пространства бытовой новеллы. This article is devoted to the study of artistic detail in the work of O. Henry. In the course of the research, we analyze the artistic detail on the example of the short stories «The gift of the Magi» and «The Last Leaf» in order to comprehend the existential problems of the main characters. The result of the study was the identification of the peculiarities of the formation of the existential aspect of the problem of the «little man», the rapprochement between the author and the reader on the basis of the artistic space of the everyday novel.

Respect Your Neighbor as Yourself: Neighborliness, Caste, and Community in South India

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharika Thiranagama
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
South India ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Existential Problem

AbstractThis essay explores a global and existential problem—how ordinary people live and contend with historically deep subordination, humiliation, and exclusion—through an examination of the everyday lives of formerly untouchable caste Dalit communities in Kerala, India. I look at this through the lens of neighborliness: how people discuss how theylive togetherwith other castes and classes in small town and rural Kerala. Their continuing struggles with and experiences of humiliation and subordination must be placed within the historical context of Kerala, where deep inequality previously constituted every social relationship, and where the communist movement and other important social and political transformations have radically transformed living conditions and provided new languages and possibilities of equality within the official public sphere, if not the household. Drawing from the anthropology of ethics and engaging with philosophical discussions of living with others, I scrutinizeneighborlinessas an ethical landscape for Dalits living in new kinds of neighborhoods produced by political and social transformation. In doing so, I also reflect upon the ongoing conversations and interactions within which, for Dalits, respect, dignity, and worth are at stake. The essay also suggests new ways of understanding publics that are neither private nor part of the official public, but rather are networks of houses within rural neighborhoods—what I call “private-publics,” which are constituted through gendered caste relations.

PLOT «DEATH OF A YOUNG MAIDEN» IN THE POETICS OF SHORT STORIES BY I. A. BUNIN

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
E. A. Khudenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Existential Problem

The article is devoted to the consideration of the plot scheme associated with the death of a girl at a young age – a plot that is quite common in Bunin poetics. The mythological and ritual-sacral etymology of the plot is transformed in Bunin’s poetics into an existential problem of searching for human freedom and its borders, and generates a philosophical opposition/identity «love and death». The ways of introducing the plot scheme and the types of the girl’s death are original – a certain effect of “estrangement” of the author is created, indicating a deep ontological contradiction between the beauty and sensuality of a female character and the tragic end of her fate. The heroine’s life and death is based on the model of the ancient Greek pnigos, and has the qualities of hyperbolized theatricality, but without the effect of catharsis. Thus, the ritual and mythological content of the plot scheme is problematized and filled with new meanings in Bunin’s poetics.

scholarly journals Wasted lives

2003 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Fullagar
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Youth Suicide ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Expression Of Emotion ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Research And Policy

Youth suicide is a specific gesture of waste, a throwing away of the gift, and thus it embodies a powerful statement about young people's refusal to live. In this article I suggest that it is a refusal to engage with, and be sustained by, the particular economies of value, morality and meaning that govern identity within contemporary cultural life. From a post-structuralist perspective the metaphors through which suicide comes to be known are examined via indepth interviews conducted with young people ( n = 41) as part of a larger study also involving adults/professionals ( n = 40) within urban and regional communities. Shame figures predominantly in young people's accounts of suicidal experiences and the everyday social relations that govern the expression of emotion. In contrast to the positivist bent of much suicide research and policy, this article argues for the necessity of understanding the social dynamics of shame in relation to the forces of affect that constitute the emergent subjectivities of young people.

GOOD DEATHS IN WENDELL BERRY’S SHORT STORIES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Ens
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
The World ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article looks at how Wendell Berry’s short stories depicting good deaths offer a crucial exploration of the incarnate bonds of human affection. They do so, I argue, by pointing us to the vulnerable ordinariness of embodied love. I first describe these good deaths as ‘ordinary’ because of the way that they refuse a heroic mode of standing above the world and instead accept and live into the vulnerable connections that mark our materiality. I show also how this acceptance, and not any attempt to transcend the ordinary, is what opens these deaths up to the sacred, which I argue is a mark of belonging in love to the world and the love that moves the world. In the second section, I outline the relational role death plays in inaugurating and sustaining the gift-giving relational bonds that make up the life of affection in a place, such that there is a sense in which it is death that opens us up to love, even as death always marks an absence.

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.

ANALYSIS OF THE FINITE VERB PHRASES IN THE SHORT STORIES THE GIFT OF THE MAGI AND COSMOPOLITE IN A CAFÉ BY O. HENRY

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Rima Fitri Aulia ◽  
Ichwan Suyudi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Action Verb ◽  
Verb Phrases ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Main Verb ◽  
Finite Verb

This research focused on finding the types of finite verb and main verbs. The researcher used the short stories The Gift of The Magi and Cosmopolite in a Café by O.Henry to limit the finding data. The method of this research is qualitative research. The result of this research showed that there are 361 finite verb phrases and divided into two types of finite verbs, 1. Main verbs stand alone which occur mostly with 65.93%, 2. Auxiliaries stand with the main verb with 34.07% which may be modal (29.27%), passive (18.70%), perfective (24.39%), progressive (6.50%), combination of two auxiliaries (12.20%), and the negative do- periphrasis auxiliary (8.94%). Based on 361 datas of finite verb phrases, the researcher found the most dominant type of main verb is action verb with 62.05% and stative verb with 37.95%.

Diario veneziano e altri racconti: la rubrica di Milena Milani sul quotidiano La Stampa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Trevisan
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Sixties

This essay offers a thematic reading of some short stories appeared in the column that Milena Milani held in the daily newspaper La Stampa (Stampa Sera) from 1950 to 1964. In her texts, Venice is one of the cities of her youth, where to discover the everyday but also herself as a writer, a profession that will identify her spirit in life. My research also aims to highlight a brief catalogue of Milani’s short stories between the forties and the sixties that could be read in her books and in newspapers and magazines of that period. In the end, I also offer a list of her books in Italian Archives and author Funds connected to the Premio Strega: she wanted to participate to the prize in 1947 and then succeeded in 1954 and in 1964.

Matters of Generosity: On Art and Love

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pfaller
Keyword(s):  
Close Relative ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Gift

Even the most ordinary people become artists when they try to create proofs of love: be it to a beloved adult person, or a child, a grandmother, or some close relative or friend. The gift and the generosity can be seen as the prototypes of art and its ethics in everyday culture. Many features of the gift, therefore, reappear in the artwork: its exemption from the everyday use (i.e. its typical lack of usefulness), the stroke of genius, and the subtle uncanniness that makes it difficult to establish and maintain a non-ambivalent, entirely benign relationship with the artwork just as with the gift. These features should not be forgotten when today, under neoliberal efficiency fetishism, museums are increasingly forced to lure more people more often into their halls. The generosity of the museum party thus seems to become a strange double (or caricature) of the generosity that characterizes the very nature of art.

A TEXT IN THE TEXT: TECHNIQUE IN THE SHORT STORIES BY I.A. BUNIN

2019 ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Galina Yermolenko
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Mental Event ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Semiotic System ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Dialogic Relationships ◽  
The Master And Margarita ◽  
Mental Events

The article deals with a technique «a text in the text» in the stories by I.A. Bunin. Yu.M. Lotman in the article «A Text in the Text» showed that the text acts as a generator of meanings when it switches from one semiotic system to another. It happens, in particular, when a new external text is included in the semantic field of the «mother text», in which both subtexts interact and enter into dialogic relationships, they «transform and form new contents». The most illustrative examples of «a text in the text» are M. Bulgakov’s «The Master and Margarita» where chapters from the novel about Pontius Pilate are included in the novel about the Master and V. Nabokov’s novel «The Gift», which includes the text of the Godunov-Cherdyntsev novel about Chernyshevsky. In Bunin's short stories it is a more difficult task to apply this technique. Nevertheless, Bunin used the «a text in the text» approach.The article gives examples of quotes taken from the Bible which play a text-forming role in the lyric essays of the writer. The article also highlights passages from «Grammar of Love» that serve as main mental events in this short story. Finally, the article discusses the inclusion of the text by G. de Maupassant in Bunin’s story «Bernard» that transforms the meaning of the Bunin’s story. In all three cases, the dialogue of the two texts allows the author to expand his artistic tasks, move from the statement of facts to reflection, turn the narrated into a mental event, and give the work a philosophical character.

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