scholarly journals The Use of Meta-discourse An Analysis of Interactive and Interactional Markers in English Short Stories as a Type of Literary Genre

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Dunya A AlJazrawi ◽  
Zeena A. AlJazrawi
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Comprehensive Model ◽  
Raymond Carver ◽  
American Authors

The present study investigated the frequency and type of metadiscourse markers in short stories as a kind of literary genre and how these markers are used by short story writers to produce persuasive texts. It is a pioneering study, since very few studies in the literature tackled literary genre and no study involved analyzing short stories. The corpus of 88,940 words consisted of 18 short story texts written by the three famous American authors Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and Raymond Carver. To analyze this corpus, Hyland’s (2005) comprehensive model of metadiscourse was used. Results of the study indicated that metadiscourse markers are employed by short story writers to produce coherent texts and to make their stories persuasive. These results agreed with those of previous studies that involved literary texts indicating that metadiscourse markers are used frequently in such texts. The study findings proved that short stories are considered as persuasive texts not only due to non-linguistic factors, such as transportation, but also due to a linguistic one, namely, the use of metadiscourse markers. This finding is the most significant one, since it refutes the opinion that short stories are persuasive texts solely due to transportation and other similar factors. 

scholarly journals De paradoxen van “Latijns-Amerikaans Handboek” van Kristien Hemmerechts en zijn vertaling

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hildegard Vermeiren
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Literary Genre

“Latijns-Amerikaans Handboek” by Kristien Hemmerechts proves that short stories as a literary genre are able to portray a complex multilingual adven-ture in just a few pages. The writer makes use of a Latin American setting to give shape to the galloping loss of identity of a young Flemish man, travel-ling with his girlfriend through the Peruvian Quechua world. The enormous cultural distance between the Flemish and Quechua cultures makes his metamorphosis as absurd as it is comprehensible. Because of her emotional faithfulness, his girlfriend does not intervene and as a result the young man dies. The translation of this short story in its turn poses the problem of the loss of that same cultural identity. In the name of his professional faithful-ness, however, it is the duty of the translator to intervene in time and to save from death the original cultural identity of the story.

scholarly journals RESEPSI SISWA MADRASAH TSANAWIYAH KABUPATEN BANTUL TERHADAP CERPEN REMAJA PADA SURAT KABAR KEDAULATAN RAKYAT

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Siska Yuniati ◽  
Burhan Nurgiyantoro
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
Emotional Aspect ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Literary Reception

Literary reception encompasses reader’s role in making meaning from literary texts. Student’s reception of teenage short story can give an idea of student’s acceptance of this type of text. This is interesting because students as teenagers are rarely involved in responding to teenage short stories, particularly ones available in newspapers. This research aims to examine the reception of teen short stories in the Kedaulatan Rakyat Newspaper by students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah in Bantul Regency in terms of intellectual and emotional aspects. Respondents in this study are 128 students of MTsN 1 Bantul, MTsN 3 Bantul, MTsN 4 Bantul, MTs Al Falah, and MTs Hasyim Asy'ari. The data were collected using a reception questionnaire focusing on intellectual and emotional aspects. The results of the study are as follows. First, in terms of intellectual aspect, the students’ reception of teen short stories in Kedaulatan Rakyat is high (70.82%), moderate (15.62%), and low (13.58%). Second, in terms of emotional aspect, the students’ reception of teen short stories in this newspaper is high (38.86%), moderate (20.28%), and low (40.86%). Fourth, there is no significant difference between the reception of students from state madrasah and private madrasah. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that students of class IX of Madrasah Tsanawiyah, Bantul Regency can understand well the elements of story builders and the structure of short story, language, themes, and conflicts in the short story. Students also understand the logic of the story in the text and feel the tension of the conflict. The new values in the short stories and actions of the main characters are quite acceptable to students. Students are also interested enough to discuss the short stories further. Meanwhile, most students felt less emotional impact and do not feel the tension presented in the short story.

scholarly journals Edgar Allan Poe: A Source for Miriam Allen Deford

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-99
Author(s):  
Maria Alice Ribeiro Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
The Family ◽  
Detective Stories ◽  
Point Of Departure

The influence of Edgar Allan Poe on North American culture and literature is still a subject of debate in contemporary literary theory. However, Poe’s creative legacy regarding the writings of Miriam Allen Deford remains neglected by the literary critics. Deford’s fiction explored a set of literary genres, such as biography, science fiction, crime and detective short stories. Taking these premises as a point of departure, this article aims to identify similarities between “A Death in the Family” and some of Poe’s works. Drawing on studies by J. T. Irwin, James M. Hutchisson and others, the objective of this paper is to analyze passages from Deford’s tale in comparison with the poetry and fictional prose of Poe. The analysis suggests that Deford’s horror short story “A Death in the Family,” published in 1961, was mostly inspired by Poe’s gothic tales, detective stories, and poems.

scholarly journals Enhancing Students' Reaction Writing via Short Stories: A Pedagogical Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainon Omar ◽  
Ezatul Marini Mohd. Ghazali
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
English Language ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Authentic Material ◽  
Technical Students ◽  
Post Test

Studies have shown that literary texts such as short stories have been able to develop students’ interpretative skills as well as provide opportunities for students to enhance their critical thinking skills. This study aimed at investigating the use of short stories on enhancing students’ reaction writing. The purpose of the study was to look into a new method that can assist students in expressing their views and opinions about current issues. Thus, a study was conducted to investigate whether the use of short stories as an authentic material can assist students in enhancing their reaction writing. An experimental study was employed on a group of technical students. A pre-test was administered followed by treatment sessions and finally a post-test before a semi-structured interview was conducted on lecturers. The study gathered data on the lecturers’ perceptions towards the idea of incorporating literary texts in their English language lessons. The findings showed that the use of the short story had assisted students to generate ideas to write their reaction paper although a lot of guidance had to be given by the lecturer. The students as well as the lecturers were optimistic on the idea of incorporating literature in the English language course. However, the choice of literary texts needs to be carefully selected and also students’ interests and needs are taken into consideration in order for them to write their reaction paper.

scholarly journals The Representation of Local Wisdom in Short Stories: A Study in North Sumatra

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
M Surip ◽  
S Fahmy Dalimunthe ◽  
M Anggie J Daulay
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social System ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The North ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
North Sumatra ◽  
Livelihood System

The purpose of writing this article is to provide an analytical study of literary texts associated with the diversity of local wisdom in North Sumatra. The emergence of short story writers in North Sumatra gives a new color in carrying the wisdom of the local culture. The content of short stories loaded with cultural contents is implicitly conveyed to provide knowledge about the culture itself that begins to fade. Problems in this study include how to examine local wisdom in the short stories of North Sumatra authorship. The theory used is Cultural Theory and Literary Anthropology, which is very relevant in exploring aspects of local wisdom in the content of the short stories. Qualitative descriptive methods are used in identifying and analyzing the contents of such short stories and then interpreted in the context of related local cultural wisdom. This of course requires an objective narrative so that the explanation does not deviate from the cultural packages of North Sumatra. The results of the research obtained illustrate the strength of local wisdom that appears in the content of the North Sumatra authorship short story. Aspects of the language system, social system, livelihood system, and arts represent local wisdom from the analysis of north Sumatra's authorship short stories. These values are examined from the background and from dialogues that arise from the contents of short stories and then constructed according to the theory used.

Saputangan Sirah Baragi : New Hegemony of Minangkabau Modern Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
Novi Yulia ◽  
Zurmailis Zurmailis ◽  
Khairil Anwar ◽  
Riyani Vadilla
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Printed Media ◽  
The 1960S

This paper seeks to reveal the existence of the modern literary genre of Minangkabau, in the repertoire of modern Indonesian literature. Modern Minangkabau literature was detected existed since the 1930s through the printed media of the time. But the genre only showed its entity in the 1960s through Nasrul Siddik's short stories recorded in Saputangan Sirah Baragi (1966). The anthology of this short story gives a firm limit to the existence of the Minangkabau modern literary genre, and the kaba genre by strengthening its epigons in local print media, such as writers in the Aman Makmur newspaper , Singgalang , Semangat , and so on in the modern Indonesian literary horizon. So that it becomes a new hegemony in the modern Minangkabau literature repertoire in particular.

Challenges and Distortions of Translating Grammatical Gender in Literary Texts: Julio Cortázar Translated into Various European Languages

2021 ◽  
Vol 98 (7) ◽  
pp. 679-691
Author(s):  
UWE KJÆR NISSEN
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Grammatical Gender ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Julio Cortazar ◽  
Relevant Question ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Biological Gender ◽  
Julio Cortázar

With a focus on various translations of the short story ‘Historia con migalas’ by one of the most renowned Latin American writers, the Argentinian author Julio Cortázar, this article describes and exemplifies numerous translational problems with respect to grammatical gender. In spite of the difficulties in Spanish of entirely avoiding gender/ sex references, Cortázar deliberately endeavours (successfully) to hide the gender of the protagonist couple by tricking the reader into a heterosexual, stereotypical mindset until, at the end of the story, he reveals that the couple consists of two women, forcing the reader to reanalyse and reinterpret the entire story. As this article shows, not all translators seem to be aware of Cortázar’s subtle play with grammatical gender, and vice versa - in this case - biological gender and, therefore, entirely miss the quintessence of the story. A relevant question that arises is whether it is possible in the languages under consideration to translate this playing with gender at all, or whether constraints as to the structure of the languages impede it (for example, differences between grammatical gender and natural gender languages). Finally, some evidence is brought forward to address the question of how the (mis)translated short stories were received by reviewers.

scholarly journals What “A Smile of Fortune” Has To Hide: An Intertextual And Comparative Reconsideration of the Texture and Theme of Conrad’s Tale

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 7-33
Author(s):  
Grażyna Maria Teresa Branny
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Light In August ◽  
Moby Dick ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
Point Of Reference

The present article is part of a larger project on Conrad’s less known short fiction, the area of his writing which is largely undervalued, and even deprecated at times. The paper’s aim is to enhance the appreciation of “A Smile of Fortune,” by drawing attention to its “inner texture” as representative of Conrad’s “art of expression,” especially in view of the writer’s own belief in the supremacy of form over content as well as “suggestiveness” over “explicitness” in his fiction. To achieve this aim a New Critical (“close reading”), intertextual and comparative approaches to Conrad’s story have been adopted, involving nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literary texts, i.e., both those preceding and those following the publication of Conrad’s ’Twixt Land and Sea (1912) volume featuring the tale in question. The intertextual reading of “A Smile of Fortune” against Bernard Malamud’s short story “The Magic Barrel,” Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, and William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, with Light in August as a point of reference, reveals the workings in Conrad’s story of the modernist device of denegation, which, alongside antithesis and oxymoron, seems to be largely responsible for the tale’s contradictions and ambiguities, which should thus be perceived as the story’s asset rather than flaw. The textual evidence of Conrad’s tale, as well as its comparison with three short stories: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and Peter Taylor’s “Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time,” seem to confirm the presence of the implications of the theme of incest in Conrad’s text, heretofore unrecognized in criticism. Overall, the foregoing analysis of “A Smile of Fortune” hopes to account for, if not disentangle, the story’s complex narratological meanderings and seemingly insoluble ambiguities, particularly as regards character and motive, naming Conrad rather than Faulkner the precursor of denegation.

scholarly journals The Comparative Analysis of Affect’s Realisation in The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat Short Stories (Approach: Appraisal System)

E-Structural ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-139
Author(s):  
Abd. Rahman Zain
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Group Discussion ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Appraisal System

Abstract. This study aims to investigate the realisation of affect in Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories entitled The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat. The short stories were analyzed using appraisal system adapted from Martin and White (2005). This study used qualitative method. The data are collected by using content analysis. The data were validated by 3 raters through Focus Group Discussion (FGD). The result shows that the most category of affect in The Tell-Tale Heart short story was “Insecurity: Disquiet” (33,33%). Meanwhile, in The Black Cat short story, the most category of affect was Unhappiness: Antiphaty (22,09%), Insecurity: Disquiet (18,60%), and Inclination: Desire (15,11%).Keywords: affect, appraisal, Edgar Allan Poe, short storiesAbstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti realisasi Affect pada cerita pendek Edgar Allan Poe yang berjudul The Tell-Tale Heart dan The Black Cat. Cerita pendek dianalisis menggunakan sistem Appraisal yang diadaptasi dari Martin dan White (2005). Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif. Data dikumpulkan menggunakan analisis isi. Data divalidasi oleh 3 penilai melalui Focus Group Discussion. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kategori Affect terbanyak pada The Tell-Tale Heart adalah “Insecurity: Disquiet” (33,33%). Sementara pada The Black Cat kategori Affect terbanyak adalah Unhappiness: Antiphaty (22,09%), Insecurity: Disquiet (18,60%), dan Inclination: Desire (15,11%). Kata kunci: Affect, Appraisal, Edgar Allan Poe, cerita pendek

scholarly journals Deutsche Kürzestgeschichte: Erzähltheoretische Analyse ausgewählter „short short stories“ von Kerstin Hensel und Heiner Feldhoff

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-262
Author(s):  
Joanna Graca
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Experienced Reader ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Pace Of Life ◽  
Gerard Genette

German Shortest Story: A Narratological Analysis of Chosen „Short Short Stories” by Kerstin Hensel and Heiner Feldhoff Kürzestgeschichte (lit. shortest story), which is the German term for a subcategory of short story, became established as a literary genre in the 20th century. Its condensed content conformed to the hectic pace of life but, in terms of the issues discussed, it was more essential and dedicated to an experienced reader. In this paper, a narratological analysis of selected shortest stories by Heiner Feldhoff and Kerstin Hensel will be conducted. A methodological basis for the analysis is the categories implemented by Gérard Genette. Its aim is to provide an answer to the question whether shortest stories could be, like any other epic texts, subject to a narratological analysis and to what extent the length of a text might influence the findings of such an analysis.

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