Between the treatise and epiphany, that is, about Leszek Szaruga for the eighth time

Tekstualia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (63) ◽  
pp. 135-156
Author(s):  
Piotr Michałowski
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Concrete Poetry ◽  
Creative Personality

The article, written on the occasion of the jubilee of an outstanding polish poet, prose writer, essayist, literary critic and literary scholar, possessing enormous achievements in each of these fields, is an attempt to determine his creative personality. The author wrote about him 8 times reserving individual books and now tries to merge his recognition into the overall portrait of the writer. He states that Szaruga is a linguistic poet and at the same time well-versed in literary tradition, as evidenced by numerous intertextual references, among others to the works of Borges in short stories and Lec in aphoristics. He perfectly accomplishes both classical forms: poetic treatise, lyrical miniature, sonnet as well as experimental: linguistic poems and concrete poetry. Finally, an experimental interpretation of one short poem is presented.

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.

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra (1926–)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Irving
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
East West

Salma Khadra Jayyusi is an anthologist, translator, literary critic, and poet of Palestinian origins. A writer and researcher in her own right, she is better known for spearheading major projects aimed at introducing Arabic culture, literature, and history to Western audiences. Via the Project of Translation from Arabic (PROTA) and East–West Nexus programs, she has contributed to and helped to translate and edit dozens of novels, edited collections and anthologies of Arabic poetry, short stories, novellas, and scholarly articles.

scholarly journals THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT’S TWO FRIENDS AND ARTURO ARIAS’ TOWARD PATZUN

Lire Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
Kristiawan Indriyanto
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
The Other ◽  
Thematic Structure ◽  
Privileged Status ◽  
Arturo Arias ◽  
The Status ◽  
Guatemalan Civil War

This paper compares and contrasts two short stories, Guy De Maupassant’s Two Friends and Arturo Arias’ Toward Patzun. Both stories have the same thematic structure as the harshness and brutality during wartime situation is a similar concern to the aforementioned writers. Although both writers foreground the savagery of war, the different cultural background, nationality, literary tradition cause differences in the way both writer narrate their short stories. While De Maupassant depicts the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), Arias squares his narration in the Guatemalan civil war (1960-1996). The differences of canonical status between De Maupassant and Arias is also scrutinized in this paper. While De Maupassant is a household name in Western literary tradition, the popularity of Arias remains obscure. This paper argues that the differences in canonization is linked also with the status of Two Friends in the hypercanon, on the other hand Toward Patzun is located in the countercanon. It is hoped that this paper can contribute toward questioning the privileged status of Western literary works compared to the non-Western author.

scholarly journals LINGUPOETICS AND IMAGES IN FREE WORKS ERKIN A'ZAM

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 56-58
Author(s):  
Gayratova Gulzoda
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Psyche

Erkin Azam is one of the artists who considers creativity as destiny. The author has won the hearts of readers mainly with his stories and short stories. But in recent years, the author's novel "Noise" was published. Several articles have been published about the work. The author's novel is based on symbolism and is one of the most unusual works. The novel seeks to portray a particular aspect of life in terms of its own style. Changes in the development of different genres can be seen in the genre of short stories in the works of the writer. Umarali Normatov, a literary critic who has written about short stories in recent years, writes: “When we look at our short stories today, first of all, the subject matter attracts attention in terms of problems, form, style; Among them are works on historical, modern, socio-political, family, romantic themes, both traditional romantic, realistic, modernist, serious and humorous, adventure-detective. no matter what the diversity. ” As noted, in this genre, a variety of thematic stories have been created, in which the human psyche, character traits are interpreted. Analysis of the artistic features of the author's novel "Noise", the demonstration of the writer's skill determines the relevance of the topic

scholarly journals Roald Dahl’s look at the British Empire through his two short stories “Poison” and “Man from the South”

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Luis De Juan
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Classical Approach ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
The South

The aim of this paper is to analyze two of Roald Dahl’s short stories, “Poison” and “Man from the South”, beyond the classical approach to Dahl’s fiction. If Dahl’s adult fiction is most often read in terms of its extraordinary plots, as well as its macabre nature and unexpected endings, my intention is to look into both stories in the light of postcolonial studies. Not only is this approach justified on account of the setting where the stories take place, India and Jamaica, once part of the British Empire; the pertinence of such a reading is underlined by the presence of a number of elements that are commonly found in colonial travel narratives and which therefore place Dahl’s stories in relation with a very different literary tradition, colonial literature.

scholarly journals THE POSITION OF LOW MALAY SHORT STORIES IN THE HISTORY OF INDONESIAN LITERATURE

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Pujiharto Pujiharto ◽  
Sudibyo Sudibyo
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Cultural Orientation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Diverse Cultures

This article tries to determine the factors causing the Low Malay short stories became unaccounted, especially those that were collected in Miss Koelit Koetjing (2005), in the constellation of the history of modern Indonesian literature. To answer these problems, this paper explores the criteria applied by the author of the history of Indonesian literature, comparing it with the Low Malay short stories, and relates them to their cultural historical context.The results showed the reason that Low Malay short stories collected in Miss Koelit Koetjing were not accounted, are caused by the following factors. First, most of the short stories still retain the traditional genres, such as hikayat (saga) and fairy tales, which show the strength of the cultural orientation of the past. Second, the authors of short stories are not natives; the author is not in the sense of the creator, the creator, but a storyteller, just to recount a story that has been there before. Third, short stories were published in newspapers and not in the book form. Fourth, the world of their stories came from diverse cultures and not from the world of the Indonesian archipelago. With a similar reality, it can be concluded that the short stories collected in Miss Koelit Koetjing, in the broad realm of Low Malay literature, is a literary tradition of its own in the constelation history of Indonesian literature.

Lowland Slovak youth literature and its interpretational and educational aspects (within and outside the school)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Patrik Šenkár
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
School Education ◽  
National Minority ◽  
Intercultural Relations ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
Youth Literature

Abstract An integral part of the Slovak cultural context is also Lowland Slovak literature, which includes certain areas of Hungary, Romania and Serbia. The paper outlines the partial development of Slovak youth literature in these regions. It gradually characterizes the most important aspects of diachrony of this segment of writing (in a certain chronotope that is bound to selected prototexts). Based on objective-subjective interpretations of three emblematic works of this context, it highlights - as a certain typology - not only the general / universal, but also the specific / particular (that is particularly relevant to the context) in intra- and intercultural relations. It accentuates the literary tradition, which is still a useful source of realistic short stories and novels for child percipients in these diasporas. It also traditionally and innovatively points out the typical features of teaching in individual national-minority schools in the mentioned countries. Methodologically (but also practically) it is, of course, based, on thematic, motif related, etc. aspects of the analyzed (selected) works and their possible reflection in school education and learning environment. Finally, the use of language / features / motifs / aspects / procedures is concretized in specific conditions outside the physical boundaries of the homeland as a kind of perspective on the correlation of the difficult process of cultural education itself.

Transgression in Jewish Literature

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-120
Author(s):  
Jyl Felman
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Tony Kushner ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Library Collection ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Angels In America

Jewish library collection policies as they relate to Jewish gay and lesbian issues are discussed. Questions considered are whether a book about gay Jews or a book written by a Jewish gay author should be included in Judaica collections. The issue is placed within a historical Jewish literary tradition which includes authors such as Grade, Ozick, Miller, Roth and Rukeyser-who write about such transgressive themes as sexuality, assimilation, self-loathing, agnostic rabbis, etc. Through personal examples drawn from her collection of Jewish short stories, Hot Chicken Wings, the author makes a case for including books with Jewish lesbian content. Also considered are the consequences of excluding such works and the ultimate arbitrariness of banning works with gay content from the Jewish library shelf. The author also comments on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America, written by a gay Jewish man, Tony Kushner. Even though Angels is being touted as an AIDS play, it is replete with Jewish characters, questions about assimilation, and Jewish self-loathing as exhibited by the lead character Roy Cohn. The play derives from a long tradition of Jewish avant-garde writing dealing with the nature of Jewish identity. For this reason, the author uses Angels to make a case against censoring gay themes in Judaica collections. Jewish literature throughout the ages has had a transgressive bent, and gay themes must be read in this context and viewed by Jews as legitimate literary material worthy of reading by Jewish communities.

scholarly journals Moral Dilemmas of Poles Born in the Late Twenties: Reflections on the Drama Their Time, Short Stories, and Novels by Literary Critic Zbigniew Kubikowski

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Dorota Heck
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Lower Silesia

Zbigniew Kubikowski (1929-1984) was a literary critic, novelist, journalist, editor of monthly Odra in Wroclaw (Lower Silesia, Poland), and an activist of the Polish Writers’ Union. His biography seems to be representative for more or less independent intellectuals in the regime of communism. In spite of humiliation, persecutions, and invigilation he managed to preserve his ethical principles, although he was not able to achieve a full success as a man of letters. The ethics of his generation, so called “younger brothers” of war generation was founded on Polish independence and European existentialism.

scholarly journals Robert Musil’s short stories: a dialogue of literary tradition and the author’s innovation

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-131
Author(s):  
L. V. Holomidova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
German Language ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Classical Epic ◽  
The Individual

The article deals with the analysis of the artistic technique of short stories by Robert Musil, an Austrian writer, through the prism of combining literary traditions of German – language short stories and the author’s innovation. In the scope of theoretical study of novel characteristics such short stories as „The Perfecting of Love”, „The Temptation of Quiet Veronica”, „Grigia”, „The Portuguese Lady”, „Tonka” from the collection of works „Unions” and „Three Women” help to point out the author’s definition in regard to the theory of modernist short story that is shown in Robert Musil’s essay „Short story as a problem”. Thus, the ways of realization of the theoretical bases of the literary tradition of the Austrian short story in combination with the consistent content formality of the author’s experimentalism are observed and highlighted. Its specific way of reproducing and combining the theoretical basis of the short story as a classical epic genre with individual authorial terms: „another state”, “possibility of suggestion, association and influence of mood”, „single case” and „commercial article” is shown. At the same time, the individual author’s synthesis of logic, psychologism and art is emphasized. A number of extensions of genre features of the poetics of R. Muzil’s short stories are outlined, and thus the exclusivity of the short story is pointed out as one of the most important forms of short prose of the end of the XIX – beginning of the XX century. It is concluded that this phenomenon is distinguished not as a complete break from traditional narrative structure of German short story, but as a specific opportunity to examine and analyse modern human consciousness.

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