Wilson, Ethel (1888–1980)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kait Pinder
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Private Hospital ◽  
Social World ◽  
Canadian Population ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Chinese Canadian ◽  
Class Divisions ◽  
Moral Questions

Ethel Wilson was a modernist prose writer who lived in Vancouver, Canada. Wilson began writing late in life; although she was only six years younger than Virginia Woolf, she published her first book, Hetty Dorval, in 1947, six years after Woolf’s death. Wilson was one of the first Canadian writers to represent both the growing city of Vancouver — including its Chinese-Canadian population and the class divisions in Vancouver society — and the rich landscape of British Columbia’s interior. Her published work includes three novellas, three novels, a collection of short stories, and a collection of essays, stories, and letters published posthumously. An orphan herself, Wilson often wrote about women without families who must negotiate the difficult social world in order to become self-sufficient and self-fulfilled. For this reason, her works are latently, if not radically, feminist. Furthermore, she often presents and meditates on difficult moral questions. Wilson commonly quotes John Donne’s phrase ‘No Man is an Island’ to emphasize her protagonists’ obligation to juggle their own desires and the needs of others. Wilson died on 22 December 1980 at a private hospital in Vancouver.

Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley in Good Housekeeping Magazine

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-207
Author(s):  
Saskia McCracken
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Aldous Huxley ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Oxford Street ◽  
History Of ◽  
Good Housekeeping ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Women's Magazine

In 1931, Virginia Woolf was commissioned to write a series of six articles for Good Housekeeping, a middlebrow women’s magazine, which have typically been read by critics as five essays and a short story. Woolf’s series takes her readers on a tour of the sites of commerce and power in London, from the Thames docks and shops of Oxford Street, to ‘Great Men’s Houses,’ abbeys, cathedrals, and the House of Commons, ending with a ‘Portrait’ of a fictitious Londoner. This chapter has three aims. First, it suggests that Woolf’s Good Housekeeping publications can be read not simply as five essays and a short story, but, considering Woolf’s ethics of the short story, as a series of short stories or, as the magazine editors introduced them, word pictures and scenes. Secondly, this chapter argues that Woolf’s Good Housekeeping series responds to, and resists the Stalinist politics of, Aldous Huxley’s series of four highbrow essays on England, published in Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine. Finally, this chapter analyses a critically neglected short story by Ambrose O’Neill, ‘The Astounding History of Albert Orange’ (February 1932), published in Good Housekeeping, which features both Woolf and Huxley as characters, and which critiques, satirises, and destabilises the boundaries of highbrow literary culture. Thus, the focus turns from highbrow writers’ short stories to a story about highbrow writing, all published in the supposedly middlebrow Good Housekeeping, demonstrating the rich complexity of the magazine, its varied politics, and its generically hybrid publications.

Kajian Aspek Moral Pada Buku Kumpulan Dongeng Si Kancil Karya Mb Rahimsyah Ar (Buku Pegangan para Bunda untuk Mendongeng Kepada Si buah hati)

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-47
Author(s):  
Siti Karomah ◽  
Agus Hermawan
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Social World ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Social

Abstract— Literary work, directly or indirectly, is the realization and imagination of the author as a reflection and the reality that the author gets from society. Literary works can be found through the life forms of society. Thus, literary works cannot be separated from the elements around them. Literary work along its journey always implicate man, humanity, life, and life. In essence, literary works are born for the surrounding community. Literary works are the products of authors who live in the social world. That way, short story literary works in the form of fairy tales are the author's imaginative world that is always related to social life. There are interesting things that are given to our children to change attitudes and daily ethics. Keywords—: Literary works; short stories; fairy tales.

Culture, detention and exile

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Jorge Musto
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Cultural Movement ◽  
The Way

Among the exodus of Uruguayan artists and intellectuals described by Hortensia Campanella (p 29) is Jorge Musto. whose short story ‘Pale Browns and Yellows’ we published in Index on Censorship 2/1981. As actor, theatre director and journalist, Jorge Musto was associated with the two best-known standard bearers of the rich cultural movement which blossomed in Uruguay before the 1973 military coup: the El Galpón theatre company (Index on Censorship 2/1977 and 2/1979) and the weekly magazine Marcha (4/1974 and 2/1979). He has published several novels and short stories, and now works as a translator in Paris, having fallen victim in 1972 to the repression which paved the way for the final military takeover. It was in Paris that the following interview was carried out in February 1981 by Index on Censorship's Latin America researcher. Our apologies for having held it over for so long, for reasons entirely of space. The interview is translated from Spanish.

Students’ viewpoints on using tableaux to analyse short stories

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-256
Author(s):  
Logamurthie Athiemoolam
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Written Narratives ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Phenomenological Design

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to provide a detailed account of pre-service teachers’ viewpoints on the use of tableaux as pedagogy to analyse short stories in secondary schools based on their exposure to the use of tableaux and their active participation in the process of tableau creation. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a qualitative approach and a phenomenological design as it provides a detailed account of PGCE English Methodology pre-service teachers’ views on the use of tableaux to teach a short story. The data collection method used was written narratives based on the participants’ detailed accounts of their learning during the process of tableau creation and their viewpoints on the use of such an approach in the teaching of literature within secondary school contexts. The “rich, thick data” extracted from the written narratives were analysed thematically. Findings The findings indicated that although pre-service teachers were initially sceptical towards the use of tableaux as a strategy to teach a short story, as they grew in their understanding of the practices involved their insights into the themes, motifs and characters’ emotional, personal and psychological states of being were enhanced. Originality/value Research in the use of tableaux as a strategy for pre-service teachers to critically analyse and engage with short stories is a novel approach to teaching and limited research has been conducted in the field.

scholarly journals La fonction créative du stéréotype dans le récit bref en France au XVIe siècle

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
Witold Konstanty Pietrzak
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Moral Questions

In premodern literature, stereotype, called locus communis, had to play an important role inherited from Greek and Latin Antiquity’s rhetorics. In particular, it served as source of convincing arguments appropriate to discuss philosophical, theological or moral questions. The concept of common place has also found its use in short stories of 16th century. Firstly, in the realm of invention, when authors adapted narrative plots taken from written tradition; secondly, in the realm of elocution, when they employed topic images and sentences. The aim of this paper is to elucidate those two meanings of stereotype in French nouvelles published in that time.

Leung Ping-kwan

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rey Chow
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Recurrent Theme

In a writing career that spanned nearly half a century, Leung Ping-kwan produced tens of volumes of poems, essays, short stories, novels, and newspaper columns, as well as literary, film, and cultural criticism. His versatility was evident in the experiments he undertook in different genres and in the moves he made between artistic creativity and scholarly study. Leung also collaborated with photographers, visual artists, musicians, choreographers, translators, and academics in various multimedia projects, proving with his own work the rich possibilities of partnership that lie between academic pursuits and society at large. A recurrent theme of Leung’s writings is the literary and artistic mode he refers to asshuqing, a term usually (but less than ideally) translated as “lyrical” or “lyricism.” This chapter offers observations about the connotations and implications of this, Leung’s beloved, mode, especially as it is imbricated with his approaches to space.

Powers of Disgust: Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

2018 ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Maud Ellmann
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Katherine Mansfield

Woolf and Mansfield are often noted for their lyricism, but they also share a powerful undercurrent of disgust. This essay considers how recent theories of disgust pertain to their writing, especially to Mansfield’s In a German Pension and Woolf’s The Years. It concludes with a comparison of two short stories, Woolf’s “The Duchess and the Jeweller” (1938) and Mansfield’s ‘Je ne parle pas français’, which have aroused disgusted reactions in their readers.

Introduction

Street Songs ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Daniel Karlin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Marcel Proust ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Transient Nature ◽  
The Rich

Street Songs, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor’s cry of ‘Cherry-ripe!’, as it occurs in poems from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: the ‘Cries of London’ (and Paris) exemplify the fascination of this urban art to writers of every period. Focusing on nineteenth and early twentieth-century writers, the book traces the theme in works by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, George Gissing, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. As well as street cries, these writers incorporate ballads, folk-songs, religious and political songs, and songs of their own invention into crucial scenes, and the singers themselves range from a one-legged beggar in Dublin to a famous painter in fifteenth-century Florence. The book concludes with the beautiful and unlikely ‘song’ of a knife-grinder’s wheel. Throughout the book Karlin emphasizes the rich complexity of his subject. The street singer may be figured as an urban Orpheus, enchanting the crowd and possessed of magical powers of healing and redemption; but the barbaric din of the modern city is never far away, and the poet who identifies with Orpheus may also dread his fate. And the fugitive, transient nature of song offers writers a challenge to their more structured art. Overheard in fragments, teasing, ungraspable, the street song may be ‘captured’ by a literary work but is never, finally, tamed.

GENDER PECULIARITIES OF SPEECH STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN A LITERARY TEXT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shakhnoza Miralieva
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Gender Representation ◽  
Gender Specificity ◽  
Linguistic Means

The article deals with gender representation in English- and Russian-language literary works at the lexical and grammatical levels from the perspective of the strategies and tactics of speech behavior. The author focuses on the analysis of the gender specificity of linguistic means realization in dialogues with response expectation by the dialogue initiator; carry out the comparative analysis of gender specificity verbalization in English and Russian. The gender peculiarities of the use of remarks-stimuli and remarks-reactions, conditioned by sociocultural and psychological factors, are also described in the work and this article deals with the gender specifics of speech strategies in fiction, mainly in the novels and short stories of Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf.

scholarly journals A “How-To” Introduction on Pursuing Arts-Based Fiction Research and Writing as a Methodology: A Review of Fiction as Research Practice: Short Stories, Novellas, and Novels

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aniuska Luna
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Reading Texts

Research written as fiction can expand the audience pool and reach of knowledge generated in an accessible, familiar and less convoluted format than its more traditional methodological counterparts. Leavy’s (2013) book demonstrates how this is the case. Sh e eases interested researchers into how to plan and execute fiction - based research, and provides examples, useful tips and resources. An issue that is not explored in detail, however, is the advantages for readers of reading texts produced through this met hodology over those produced by fiction writers. This issue aside, Fiction as a research practice: Short stories, novellas, and novels is a compellingly written “how - to” introduction to how researchers can explore the rich layers and meanings of their rese arch in a creative format.

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