Al-Hakim, Tawfiq (1898–1987)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lundell
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Government Corruption ◽  
National Theater ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Significant Figures

Tawfiq Al-Hakim (1898–1987) was an Egyptian playwright, short-story writer, and novelist generally credited with giving birth to the theater in Egypt. His fiction, in the form of several novels and short stories, is also widely canonized. Roger Allen called Al-Hakim "one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century Arabic literature" (Hutchins 1998: 9). Al-Hakim was also particularly concerned with developing an Egyptian National Theater unencumbered, though inspired, by European models. His various writings engage with themes of culture, love, rationality, the European literary canon, government corruption, experimentation of form and language, nationalism, vernacularism, colonialism, and gender.

From Newspaperman to Short Story Writer

Irvin S. Cobb ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Small Town ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Big City ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Attention To Detail

Ellis begins by describing Cobb’s successful ventures as a humorist and how his appearance played into his style. His attention to detail and offbeat subjects became a staple for Evening World readers. Cobb used his small-town Kentucky perspective to make observations about the big city in his first long-running humor series, “New York thro’ Funny Glasses.” The transplanted Kentuckian exemplified the racial attitudes of many white Americans in the early twentieth century. Eventually, Cobb’s writing found a place in the Sunday World Magazine. Cobb also tried his hand at writing short fiction. Over the next three decades, Cobb turned out an immense amount of copy for newspapers and magazines, wrote short stories and plays, dabbled in movies, and wrote novels. He never seemed to be short of ideas.

scholarly journals Condemnation of Religious Concepts: An Examination of Chubak's "An Afternoon in Late Autumn" through Bakhtin's Theory of Grotesque Realism

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67
Author(s):  
Sayed Mohammad Anoosheh ◽  
Muhammad Hussein Oroskhan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Lower Section ◽  
Persian Literature ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Late Autumn ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Style Of Writing ◽  
A Site

The first traces of modernism in Iranian society can be found in the second decade of twentieth century which was deeply embedded with religious concepts. With regard to Persian literature, short story was developed as a new genre and a sign of modernism of that period by prominent Iranian writers such as Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951), Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh (1892-1997) and Sadegh Chubak (1916-1998). In this way a cultural clash was broken out between the traditional religious concepts and the new modern ideas. Among these writers, Chubak was more influenced by the doctrine of modernism. He expressed his message colloquially through his short stories to instigate the lower part of society. His naturalistic style of writing delved into the most gruesome details of people's life with the aim of shocking his reader in experiencing a new perspective previously ignored. To highlight Chubak's style of writing attempt is made to explore one of the highly praised short stories entitled "An Afternoon in Late Autumn" on the ground of the Bakhtin's theory of grotesque realism cited in Rabelais and His World. Grotesque realism is a site upon which religious and social hierarchies can be subverted and renewed. This study tries to reveal that Chubak followed the Bakhtin's grotesque realism to evoke a new outlook particularly in the lower section of society.

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.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Margree ◽  
Daniel Orrells ◽  
Minna Vuohelainen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Professional Authorship

The introduction to the volume sets Richard Marsh in his historical context and argues that our understanding of late-Victorian and Edwardian professional authorship remains incomplete without a consideration of Marsh’s oeuvre. The introduction discusses Marsh as an exemplary professional writer producing topical popular fiction for an expanding middlebrow market. The seeming ephemerality of his literary production meant that its value was not appreciated by twentieth-century critics who were constructing the English literary canon. Marsh’s writing, however, deserves to be reread, as its negotiation of mainstream and counter-hegemonic discourses challenges our assumptions about fin-de-siècle literary culture. His novels and short stories engaged with and contributed to contemporary debates about aesthetic and economic value and interrogated the politics of gender, sexuality, empire and criminality.

Andreev, Leonid Nikolaevich (1871–1919)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Hinds-Bond
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Dramatic Works ◽  
Russian Author ◽  
Provincial Capital ◽  
Close Friendship ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Maxim Gorky

Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev was a prolific Russian author, widely popular in the first decade of the 20th century, whose fictional and dramatic works spanned the divide between realism and symbolism. Andreev was born in Orel, a provincial capital south of Moscow, and died in Finland. He studied law in St Petersburg and Moscow. After a brief and unsuccessful legal career, he worked as a journalist, prose writer and dramatist, quickly making a name for himself as a successful short-story writer once his stories began to appear in newspapers. His first published volume of stories (1901) was an immediate success, with its first two printings selling out in two weeks. He turned to playwriting five years later, although he continued to write short stories until late in life. Andreev’s creative work sparked much debate from both realist and symbolist writers. He developed a close friendship with realist writer Maxim Gorky, although the two grew to disagree on questions of literary style and politics, as Andreev’s work strayed from its early realist tendencies and revolutionary ideals. Gorky mentored Andreev in his early career and spearheaded a collection of literary reminiscences by famous writers upon the latter’s death. Andreev’s popularity waned, along with his health, during the final decade of his life.

Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia (1882–1941)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryony Randall
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Bloomsbury Group ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Leonard Woolf ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Literary Output

Virginia Woolf was one of the foremost literary innovators of the early twentieth century. A novelist, essayist, short-story writer and literary critic, she was also instrumental in disseminating the work of other key modernist writers, through the Hogarth Press which she ran with her husband Leonard Woolf. Author of such major works as Mrs Dalloway¸ To the Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own, she was a key figure in the Bloomsbury Group of writers, artists and intellectuals active in the early twentieth century. Although her bouts of mental illness (culminating in her suicide by drowning in March 1941) for many years overshadowed appreciations of her literary output, she is now recognized as one of the most important figures in the literature and culture of the period, whether in terms of the feminist politics of her work, or her ground-breaking experiments with narrative form and technique.

scholarly journals Appropriation of Caste Spaces in Pakistan: The Theo-Politics of Short Stories in Sindhi Progressive Literature

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 627
Author(s):  
Ghulam Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
Religion And Gender ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

This paper is an attempt to understand the appropriation of spaces of Dalits by Sindhi progressive activists and short story writers in Pakistan as they construct, or rather undermine, caste at the anvil of religion and gender to reframe their own theo-political agenda premised on political Sufism or Sufi nationalism. I specifically discuss the narratives emergent of the three popular short stories that are reframed as having exceptional emancipatory potential for the Dalits. Assessing the emancipatory limits of the Sindhi progressive narrative, I argue that while the short stories purport to give fuller expression to religious, gender-based, and class dimensions of the problem, it elides the problem of casteism and the subsequent existential demand of Dalit emancipation. Given the hegemonic influence of local Ashrafia class, the internal caste frictions are glossed over through political Sufism or Sindhi nationalism. This gloss of politicized Sufism hampers Dalit agency and rather facilitates the appropriation of Dalit spaces by the Ashrafia class. This leads to the conclusion that the seemingly progressive literary-political narratives framed in theo-political idiom may offer to the oppressed no more than token sympathy, compassion, self-pity, and false pride in legends. Instead, they allow the appropriation of spaces and events of the oppressed, and the objectification of oppressed bodies by the oppressor.

scholarly journals Urdu-26 A study of The Book of Mumtaz Shireen, “Manto: Noori Na Nari” according Islamic values

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-352
Author(s):  
Fatma Jabeen ◽  
Norina Tahreem Babar
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
International Literature ◽  
British India ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Islamic Values ◽  
Critical Reviews

Islam is a complete code of life. Allah Almighty has given this code of life through the Last Prophet Hazrat Muhammad ﷺ who passed his life according this code and present his life as Symbol for all mankind. He ﷺ told what is allowed and abandon from the misdeeds. Manto is represent as a person who write about misdeeds of life. Saadat Hasan Manto (11 May 1912 – 18 January 1955) was a writer author born in Ludhiana active in British India and later, after the partition, in Pakistan. Writing mainly in the Urdu language, he produced 22 collections of short stories, a novel, five series of radio plays, three collections of essays and two collections of personal sketches. Manto was known to write about the hard truths of society that no one dared to talk about. A review of Mumtaz Shireen book “Manto: Noori Na Nari”. Mumtaz Shireen is a Story Writer as well as an exceptional Critic of Urdu Fiction. She Presents her Critical reviews in a solid and well-reasoned manner in light of international literature. Mumtaz Shireen is Considered as one of the foremost critics of fiction. She has discussed the feature of novel, novelette, novella and short story. In   term of criticism, two of her books are worth mentioning the first book “Mayar” is a compilation of 13 of her critical essays. The 2nd “Manto: Noori Na Nari” is a compilation of Mumtaz Shireen’s miscellaneous writings about Manto. The following article is a comparative overview of book “Manto: Noori Na Nari” and Islamic Values and his place according to Islamic Values.  

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in “Button Button” by Richard Matheson

IJOHMN ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Muhammad Javaid Anwar ◽  
Basri Sattar ◽  
Muhammad Naveed Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Hierarchy Of Needs ◽  
Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Maslow’S Hierarchy Of Needs ◽  
Deep Impression

A short stories author and novelists named Richard Matheson was born on 1926 in US state New Jersey. Story writer Richard Matheson is best known for his science fiction’s works. His first story was “Born Man and Woman.” He also earned a good name for his popular fiction “I am Legend” as well as due to short story “Button Button” He passed away on June 23, 2013 (Editors, 2014). Alike various famous novelists and story writers Matheson also leave a deep impression of his readers. He also turned minor incidents and situations into extraordinary situations.

Zacharia, Paul (1945--)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanil V
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
The Village

Paul Zacharia, a short story writer, novelist, and essayist, introduced the notion of counter-modernity to Malayalam literature in the late 1960s. He rejected the self-definition of Western modernity and its Indian nationalist versions. Drawing upon the clarity of vernacular Biblical idioms and the intelligence of everyday rural life, Zacharia probed the fragile certainties of urban life, intellectual establishments, and religious orthodoxies. He acknowledged that ‘Jesus Christ, cinema, bars, friends, lovers, hens and dogs have given me stories.’ Zacharia was born in the village of Urulikunnam, near Kottayam, and published his first story, ‘Unni the Child’, in 1964. Zachariayude Kathakal, the collection of his short stories written up to the year 2000, won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006. Two of his novellas, Praise the Lord and Enthondu Visesham Pilathose? [What News, Pilate?], have been translated into English. Two short story collections are also available in English: Bhaskara Pattelar and Other Stories and Reflections of a Hen in Her Last Hour and Other Stories. Vidheyan [The Servile], a film that won best Malayalam film in 1993, was an adaptation of Zacharia’s story ‘Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum.’ Zacharia has been active in print media and publishing; he was one of the founders of the Asianet television network.

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