Weird History / Weird Knowledge

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-154
Author(s):  
Chloé Germaine Buckley
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
Epistemological Uncertainty

The 2003 horror short story collection, Shadows over Baker Street partakes of the Weird tradition of revising the history of human civilisation whilst also producing a secret history of the fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. The stories pit Conan Doyle’s master of rational enquiry against Lovecraft’s terrifying monsters. The contest is unsettling. Typically, detective fiction shores up faith in rational enquiry, whilst the Weird disrupts enlightenment narratives, suggesting that everything we know about the world is wrong. Shadows over Baker Street encourages the reader to surrender disbelief entirely in the face of the ‘ineluctability of the Weird.’ This surrender manifests a postmillennial structure of feeling towards epistemological uncertainty. Shadows over Baker Street is an example of how the Weird challenges rational, inductive reasoning and epistemological certainty, ushering in an era of belief - in the unbelievable.

scholarly journals The Intertextual Use of Greek Mythology in Agatha Christie’s Detective Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-331
Author(s):  
Tatiana Ternopol
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Comparative Methods ◽  
Greek Mythology ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
The Face ◽  
Greek Myths ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
Over Time

This study investigates the intertextual use of Greek mythology in Agatha Christie’s short stories Philomel Cottage, The Face of Helen, and The Oracle at Delphi, a short story collection The Labours of Hercules, and a novel, Nemesis. The results of this research based on the hermeneutical and comparative methods reveal that A. Christie’s intertextual formula developed over time. In her early works, allusions were based on characters' appearances and functions as well as on the use of motifs and themes from Greek myths. Later on, she turned to using allusory character names; this would mislead her readers who thought they already knew the formula of her stories. Although not a postmodern writer, A. Christie enjoyed playing games of allusion with her readers. She wanted them not only to solve a case but also to discover and interpret the intertextual references.

KONFLIK SOSIAL DAN POLITIK DALAM KUMPULAN CERPEN DRAMA ITU BERKISAH TERLALU JAUH KARYA PUTHUT EA: KAJIAN SOSIOLOGI SASTRA

Buana Bastra ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Fithroh Wahidah
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Story Collection

This study aimed to describe the social and political conflicts contained in the collection of short stories Drama Tells Too far work of Puthut EA and to describe thecorrelation between the short story collection The play was a story Too far work of PuthutEA with reality night history of Indonesian society. Sources of data in this study is the textcontained in the collection of short stories Drama Tells Too far work of Puthut EA. Whilethe research data is an excerpt sentence, description, dialogue, and other important mattersin the collection of short stories Drama Tells Too far work of Puthut EA. Data obtained byreading and writing techniques. Data were analyzed with the approach of sociology ofliterature and descriptive analysis techniques. The validity of the data obtained byconducting triangulation is triangualasi methods, sources of data and theory. These resultsindicate the existence of social and political conflict are contained in the collection of shortstories Drama Tells Too Far work of Puthut EA, containing social conflicts, among others:(1) gender conflict, namely: the oppression of women, (2) racial conflict, namely:discrimination of race Chinese, (3) inter-religious conflicts, namely: distrust ofcommunism, (4) conflict of interest, namely: the imposition of a leader, (5) interpersonal conflicts, namely: distrust of others, (6) the conflict between social classes, namely: socialinequality. Containing the political conflict, among others: (1) the weapons of battle and (2)the strategy politik. Correlation between the short story collection That play was a storyToo Far of Puthut EA works with historical reality of Indonesian society, among others: (1)The 1998 riots (2) The increase in fuel (3) Ethnic Discrimination (4) Dispute people of thesame religion (5) arrest Without Accompanied Official Letter (6) Violations of humanrights and (7) Poverty.  

The concept of baxt in the bilingual short-story collection glücksmacher - e baxt romani by Samuel Mago and Károly Mágó

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-241
Author(s):  
LORELY FRENCH
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Story Collection

This article presents a close reading of the Romani characters and their actions in five stories by Viennese Romani writer and activist Samuel Mago and in two stories by his brother, Hungarian award-winning journalist Károly Mágó, in their bilingual Romani and German collection glücksmacher - e baxt romani. Brief biographies and an outline of the history of Roma and antiziganism in Austria provide background to textual analysis that focuses on how characters in the stories engender baxt/“Glück,” which means both happiness and luck. This dual meaning has inspired philosophical, psychological, economic, and anthropological studies, but literary scholars have rarely examined the concept in texts by Roma. For the protagonists in the brothers’ stories, happiness and luck become based less on monetary fortunes than on other means to live and survive in dark times of persecution and discrimination. The characters’ decisions unveil perceptions of baxt that rely largely on acquiring food, preserving and passing down family heirlooms, receiving an education, and freeing oneself and one’s family from persecution.

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 The Toughest Indian in the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 54-55
Author(s):  
Julie Bolt
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
The World ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
Literature Class ◽  
Introductory Literature

Alexie’s short story collection proves to be “a great tool for complicating the issue of identity” in an introductory literature class.

Detective Fiction

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Humpherys
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Wilkie Collins ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Bleak House ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moonstone

Much of 19th-century detective fiction was published in periodicals, the form of Victorian detective fiction being primarily the short story, though there were a handful of novels and novellas. The genre of detective fiction novels as it came down into the early 20th century was essentially established in the previous century. The standard history of Victorian detective fiction (in which a detective works to solve a specific crime or mystery) starts with Edgar Allan Poe’s three Dupin stories (1841–1846), followed by the detectives of Charles Dickens (Bucket in Bleak House [1852–1853]) and Wilkie Collins (Cuff in The Moonstone [1868]) and culminating in the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet in 1887. These texts and writers were for the most part the only ones subjected to early critical study. Sometimes early histories of detective ficton would briefly mention other English precursors to Sherlock Holmes, including William Godwin, Things as They Are, or Caleb Williams (1794) and the Newgate Calendar (1774); Thomas Gaspey, Richmond: Scenes from the Life of a Bow Street Runner (1827); or William Russell, Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer, by “Waters” (1856). Since the 1990s, however, following on the increased interest in popular culture and the recovery of texts by women writers, as well as the theoretical turn, especially structuralism, attention has increased in other writers of detective fiction, either earlier or contemporary with the Sherlock Holmes stories though many critical works still treat only the Sherlock Holmes. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries as the canon of detective fiction has expanded, criticism has done so as well by focusing on 19th-century detective fiction in terms of genre, science, and the empire.

scholarly journals Excavation of History and Narration of Subaltern Orality in the Short Stories of Mahasweta Devi

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 159-166
Author(s):  
Anuranj C K
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Mahasweta Devi ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Tribal Communities ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
History Of ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
Bengali Language

In 1979 Mahasweta Devi had written and published a short story collection in Bengali language. Later, the short story collection had been translated into English by Ipsita Chanda and published in 1998 under the title of Bitter Soil. This paper studies two short stories from this collection of translation, which entitled as Little Ones and Salt respectively. Mahasweta Devi made tremendous contribution to literary, social and cultural studies in this country and she always believed that the real history is made by the ordinary people as she is also a political activist. Both these short stories represent the history of post independent India. Mahasweta Devi’s empirical research into oral history and haunting tales of exploitation and struggle as it lives in the cultures and reminiscences of tribal communities is highly relevant today.  

scholarly journals Znaczenie obrazów symbolicznych w opowiadaniu „Nema povratka” Miodraga Bulatovicia

2017 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 79-89
Author(s):  
Justyna Fudala
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
The World ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
Post War ◽  
Symbolic Images

The importance of symbolic images in the story Nema povratka written by Miodrag BulatovićMiodrag Bulatović is a representative of a grotesque avantgarde trend in post-war Serbian literature. In his short stories and novels, he referred to the notions of evil and moral decay. In a short story collection entitled Vuk i zvono, he depicted a war-stricken countryside of Montenegro, in which all elements of the world depicted are gradually devoured by fire. Only a few of the short stories from the above-mentioned collection have been translated into Polish. In the analytical part of the article, the most important motifs found in the translated texts are discussed.Значење симболичких слика у причи Нема повратка Миодрага БулатовићаY причама из збирке Вук и звоно доминира ватра, са којом су повезане људске судбине. Читалац има утисак да је човек само играчка у рукама судбине, а ватра преовладава у ње- говом животу. Булатовић приказује свет, који изгледа као пакао на земљи. Свеприсутност људских несрећа, рата и ватре ствара слику света пуног безнађa и туге. Зло се рaђa у људи- ма и утиче на њихов даљи живот. У циљу приказања трагизма и безнађа споменути писац користи много симбола, a њиховo значење je битно за разумевање текста.

scholarly journals Aspek Kepribadian Tokoh Utama dalam Kumpulan Cerpen Jurig Paséa jeung Nyi Karsih Karya Tini Kartini

LOKABASA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
Gita Kurnia Dewi ◽  
Ruhaliah Ruhaliah ◽  
Retty Isnendes
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Direct Analysis ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
History Of ◽  
Story Collection

The background of the research is the personality conflict of the main characters in the short story collection Jurig Paséa jeung Nyi Karsih. The theory used in this study is Todorov's structural theory and Jacques Lacan's literary psychological theory. This research aimed to analyze and describe: 1) the structure the short story collection Jurig Paséa jeung Nyi Karsih, 2) the personality aspects of the main characters in the short story collection Jurig Paséa jeung Nyi Karsih, and 3) factors that influence the personality of the main character. The method used in this research is descriptive analysis method. The data source of this research is a short story collection Jurig Paséa jeung Nyi Karsih by Tini Kartini. Data collection techniques using a literature study technique. The techniques in processing data are using direct analysis techniques. The instruments in this research use table instruments and data analysis cards. The results of the research are, first, the structure of the story in the short story collection Jurig Paséa jeung Nyi Karsih made completely, it is formed by the whole syntactic and semantic aspects, and the story illustrates the imagination that is strengthened by consciousness in the history of the community and life. Second, the personality aspects of the main character can be clearly analyzed based on the results of their (real) needs, their deficiencies (which are imaginary), and their desires (which are symbolic). Third, the personality of the main character can be analyzed because of the factors that influence the personality of the main character consisting of internal factors and external factors. In conclusion, the short story collection of Jurig Paséa jeung Nyi Karsih has the personality aspect of the main character in the presence of the psychiatric element of the main character and the factors that influence the personality of the main character's personality.AbstrakPenelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh adanya konflik kepribadian para tokoh utama dalam kumpulan cerpen Jurig Paséa jeung Nyi Karsih. Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu teori struktural Todorov dan teori psikologi sastra Jacques Lacan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dan mendeskripsikan: 1) struktur kumpulan cerpen Jurig Paséa jeung Nyi Karsih, 2) aspek kepribadian para tokoh utama dalam kumpulan cerpen Jurig Paséa jeung Nyi Karsih, dan 3) faktor yang mempengaruhi kepribadian tokoh utama. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif analisis. Sumber data penelitian ini adalah kumpulan cerpen Jurig Paséa jeung Nyi Karsih karya Tini Kartini. Teknik pengumpulan data dengan menggunakan teknik studi pustaka. Teknik dalam mengolah data yaitu menggunakan teknik analisis secara langsung. Adapun instrumen dalam penelitian ini menggunakan instrumen tabel dan kartu data analisis. Hasil penelitiannya yaitu, pertama, struktur cerita dalam kumpulan cerpen Jurig Paséa jeung Nyi Karsih dibuat dengan lengkap, artinya dibentuk oleh aspek sintaksis dan semantik yang menyeluruh, serta ceritanya menggambarkan imajinasi yang dikuatkan oleh kesadaran dalam sejarah masarakat dan kehidupan dahulu. Kedua, aspek kepribadian tokoh utama bisa dianalisis dengan jelas berdasarkan hasil kebutuhannya (yang nyata), kekurangannya (yang imajiner), dan hasrat keinginannya (yang simbolik). Ketiga, kepribadian tokoh utama bisa dianalisis karena adanya faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi kepada kepribadian tokoh utama yang terdiri atas faktor internal dan faktor eksternal. Kesimpulannya, kumpulan carpon Jurig Paséa jeung Nyi Karsih mempunyai aspek kepribadian tokoh utama dengan adanya unsur kejiwaan tokoh utama dan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi kejiwaan pada kepribadian tokoh utama.

scholarly journals Anachronism in Croatian lesbian literature

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-52
Author(s):  
Natalija Stepanović
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Lesbian Relationships ◽  
Female Self ◽  
Lesbian Literature ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
History Of ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
History Of Literature

Although queer literature can fit into common timelines of the history of literature, this essay discusses ways in which Croatian lesbian fiction challenges and sabotages such attempts. It combines interpretations of fin-de-siècle early lesbian writing (novels the Widow by Josip Eugen Tomić and the Passion by David Pijade) with those of contemporary texts. As for recently published texts, the essay analyzes short story collection Posudi mi smajl (Lend Me Your Smile) and novel Do isteka zaliha (Until the Supplies Run Out) by Nora Verde, the short story "Vrata Pakla" ("the Gates of Hell") by Ružica Gašperov and the postmodernist short story collection Moja ti (My You) by Jasna Jasna Žmak, in order to show that foreign model should not be uncritically applied to Croatian literature. These texts were published almost simultaneously, which prevents a simple understanding of Croatian lesbian fiction as developing from suffering and secrecy towards affirmation and open displays of identity. Also, the authors appropriate and reinterpret older genre models - in the essay, I show that the timeline of Croatian lesbian fiction is a queer (nonnormative) timeline. Like the coherent chronology, coherent identity also comes under question: Žmak destabilizes it through her postmodernist textuality. The authors of Croatian women's prose treat lesbian relationships as parts of female self-actualization narratives. This shows that Croatian lesbian (and, more generally, queer) literature cannot be reduced to gay and lesbian confessions targeting a similar audience.

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