scholarly journals POETIC STYLE OF RACHEL JOYCE’S SHORT STORIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Наталия Сергеевна Курникова
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
British Literature ◽  
Flash Fiction ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Modern British Literature ◽  
Poetic Style

Статья посвящена исследованию поэтики «малой прозы» Рэйчел Джойс - яркой представительницы современной британской литературы. Автор статьи рассматривает художественные особенности семи рассказов из сборника «Заснеженный сад и другие истории» (2015). Сюжетообразующую роль в этих рассказах играет Рождество, что позволяет рассматривать их как проявление литературного архетипа «рождественского рассказа». Герои Рэйчел Джойс - «маленькие» люди, которые в канун Рождества оказались в сложной жизненной ситуации. Их частные истории о крахе и возрождении звучат на фоне предпраздничной рождественской суеты и всеобщего ожидания чуда. Используя сравнительно-сопоставительный и филологический анализ текстов рассказов, а также применяя методологию исторического и типологического подходов к рассматриваемым текстам, автор статьи выявляет и анализирует такие нарративные техники Рэйчел Джойс, как обращение к внутренней жизни и интимным переживаниям нестатусных героев; расширение границ жанра рассказа за счет взаимодействия с романной повествовательной формой; кинематографическая техника монтажа; иронические аллюзии на прецедентные тексты и явления массовой культуры; нарушенная хронология событий и преобладающее использование настоящего времени. Анализ поэтики рассказов Р.Джойс позволяет говорить о влиянии модернистских и постмодернистских эстетических традиций на жанр рождественской истории. The article is devoted to the study of the poetic style of “flash fiction” of Rachel Joyce, an outstanding representative of modern British literature. The author of the article analyzes the expressive manner and peculiarities of style of seven short stories collected in the book “A Snow Garden and Other Stories” (2015). The plot of these stories is centered on Christmas, which is reasonable ground to consider them as a manifestation of the archetype of a Christmas story, a long-standing literary tradition. Joyce’s characters are every men who found themselves in a difficult situation on Christmas Eve. Their private and intimate stories are told against the festive background and longing for a miracle. The comparative and philological analysis of Joyce’s short stories, as well as the methodology of the historical and typological approaches to the texts under consideration enable the author of the article to reveal and dwell on such narrative techniques in Joyce’s arsenal as addressing the inner life and intimate feelings of non-status characters; expansion of the genre of a short story through its interaction and contamination with the genre of a novel; cinematografic montage; ironic allusions to precedent texts and objects and phenomena of mass culture; distorted chronology of events and prevalence of the present tense. All these techniquestestify to the influence of modernist and postmodernist aesthetic traditions on the genre of a Christmas story.

scholarly journals THE SHORT STORY CYCLE IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LITERATURE (BASED ON THE SHORT STORIES BY J. MCGREGOR)

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 628-634
Author(s):  
G.I. Lushnikova ◽  
T.Yu. Osadchaya
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
British Literature ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Short Story Cycle ◽  
Contemporary British Literature ◽  
Story Cycle ◽  
Classical Traditions ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Short Narrative

The article is devoted to the poetics of the short story cycle - a genre of short narrative fiction, where classical traditions and experimental narrative techniques are used to explicate topical issues of contemporary British literature. Beside the fact that the stories are relatively short, they are characterized by semantic compression, gaps in meaning, “internal” psychological plot, intensity, expressive imagery, lyricism, implications. The consistency of the short story cycle is created by thematic complementarity, coherence of style and composition. The short story cycle by J. McGregor ‘That Isn’t the Sort of Thing that Happens to Someone like You’ is devoted to everyday life of English Fenland inhabitants and can be attributed to the ‘narrative of community’ genre, traditional for British literature. McGregor’s short story cycle embodies almost all modern tendencies of the genre: a wide palette of themes within the framework of topical issues; vivid psychological portraits and images; variety of narrative types and forms; suggestiveness, implications, specific usage of pronouns, stylistic devices of contrast and repetition.

Every Bird a Rival

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline R. Teruya
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Young Scientist ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Northridge Earthquake ◽  
Flash Fiction ◽  
Biracial Characters

Every Bird a Rival is a collection of short stories that explore nature, space, and belonging. With a mix of flash fiction and short stories, the collection brings together stories about characters looking for home often outside of the confines of four walls. There is a theme of the in between that the biracial characters exist in and search for placement and belonging when they are of two worlds. The natural world plays a pivotal role throughout the collection. It is through the natural world—landscape, animals, biology— that characters come to understand their place in their own narrative. From two kids in the aftermath of the Northridge earthquake, a young scientist seeking what it means to be a woman in this world, a group of boys losing their neighborhood, a budding ornithologist searching for meaning in fallen nests— there is a shared longing for what is just outside of their reach. Below I have included the table of contents and the final short story, "How to Spot a Whale."

scholarly journals A Study in the Short Stories of Kamala Das

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Jai Shankar Tiwari
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Women Characters ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Simple Language ◽  
Narrative Techniques

The study has been able to ascertain and prove beyond doubt that Das’s prose works are of no less ranking than her poems and that she has effectively employed the short story form to present the predicaments of Indian womanhood and their quest for identity and self-assertion. The exhaustive evaluation and thorough scrutiny taking up various aspects of he stories right from her themes, structure and style, narrative techniques to her portrayal of Indian women, their status in society, and identity crisis have finally led to the emergence of the New Indian woman. Das’s feminist approach and overt outlook, along with the quest for a self-determined and self-affirmed identity for Indian women, have been well established through a methodical and exhaustive contemplation of the diverse women characters. The conclusion that emerges from this study undoubtedly corroborates and attests that Kamala Das’s name stands at par with the pioneer Indian woman short story writers. Das has efficiently and effectively used the short story genre as a document of social criticism and has established herself as a feminist crusader, campaigning to acquire for the Indian womanhood an independent identity and self-dignity. Das’s short story, with its innovative style and techniques, simple language, and concise form, has been brilliantly explored in discussing the problems facing Indian womanhood, especially her search for selfhood. Das has adeptly highlighted and presented her outlooks with the help of her characters. The fact that her English fictional work has remained obscure and un-honored is a sad story and a loss to literature.

On the Margins of Modernism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Rosenmeier
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Chinese Fiction ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Chinese Writing

Xu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). Despite being an integral part of the Chinese literary scene, their bestselling fiction has, however, been given scant attention in histories of Chinese writing. This book is the first extensive study of Xu Xu and Wumingshi in English or any other Western language and it re-establishes their importance within the popular Chinese literature of the 1940s. Their romantic novels and short stories were often set abroad and featured a wide range of stereotypes, from pirates, spies and patriotic soldiers to ghosts, spirits and exotic women who confounded the mostly cosmopolitan male protagonists. Christopher Rosenmeier’s detailed analysis of these popular novels and short stories shows that such romances broke new ground by incorporating and adapting narrative techniques and themes from the Shanghai modernist writers of the 1930s, notably Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying. The study thereby contests the view that modernism had little lasting impact on Chinese fiction, and it demonstrates that the popular literature of the 1940s was more innovative than usually imagined, with authors, such as those studied here, successfully crossing the boundaries between the popular and the elite, as well as between romanticism and modernism, in their bestselling works.

Forming Provisional Identities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Contemporary Fiction ◽  
Short Story Cycle ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
American Literary History ◽  
Story Cycle ◽  
Narrative Techniques

The introduction argues that the short story cycle is the preeminent genre for articulating the uncertainty that characterizes literary responses to modernity. The introduction outlines two vital contributions of the cycle to American literary history: 1. the absence of textual harmony in the cycle initiated new, pervasive narrative techniques of proliferating perspectives and disrupting chronology that inflect modern and contemporary fiction and 2. the form of the cycle enables the expression of subjectivity without fixity. Contingency and multiplicity are so central to our social-media infused culture that provisionality is its defining characteristic, but this book shows that the seeds for this go back almost to the nation’s founding.

POLA NARASI PADA ANTOLOGI CERPEN TARIAN SALJU KARABAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
Novi Diah Haryanti
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Past ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Narrative Patterns

Abstract: This study aims to look at narrative patterns in the collection of short stories "Karaban Snow Dance" (TSK). From the fifteen short stories, the researchers took five main stories, namely the Karaban Snow Dance (Tarian Salju Karaban), The Fall of a Leaf (Gugurnya Sehelai Daun),  Canting Kinanti Song (Tembang Canting Kinanti), Jagoan Men Arrived (Lelaki Jagoan Tiba), and Origami Pigeon (Merpati Origami). Of the five short stories, environmental themes and honesty appear most often. The place setting depicted shows the environment that is close to the author or according to the author's origin. The main characters in the four short stories are children, only one short story Male Hero Tiban (Lelaki Jagoan Tiban/LJK) who uses adult takoh as the main character. The child leaders in LJK only appear in the past stories of the main characters. The five short stories do not show a picture of whole parents (father and mother). The warm relationship between mother and child appears clearly, in contrast to the father-child relationship that is almost negligent. The five short stories also represent how children become heroes for their family, friends, and environment.Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat pola narasi pada kumpulan cerpen Tarian Salju Karaban (TSK). Dari limabelas cerpen yang ada, peneliti mengambil lima cerpen utama yakni “Tarian Salju Karaban”, “Gugurnya Sehelai Daun”, “Tembang Canting Kinanti”, “Lelaki Jagoan Tiba”, dan “Merpati Origami”. Kelima cerpen menampilkan tema lingkungan dan kejujuran. Latar tempat yang digambarkan memperlihatkan lingkuangan yang dekat dengan penulis atau sesuai dengan asal usul penulis. Tokoh utama dalam keempat cerpen tersebut ialah anak-anak, hanya satu cerpen “Lelaki Jagoan Tiban” (LJK) yang menggunakan takoh dewasa sebagai tokoh utama. Tokoh anak dalam LJK hanya muncul dalam cerita masa lalu tokoh utama. Kelima cerpen tersebut tidak memperlihatkan gambaran orangtua utuh (ayah dan ibu). Relasi yang hangat antara ibu dan anak muncul dengan jelas, berbeda dengan relasi bapak-anak yang nyaris alpa. Kelima  cerpen tersebut juga merepresentasikan bagaimana anak-anak menjadi pahlawan bagi keluarga, sahabat, dan lingkungannya.  

INTERVIEW WITH PETINA GAPPAH

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Faith Mkwesha
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
First Language ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
The Third ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Book Award ◽  
The University ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
University Of Zimbabwe

This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Petina Gappah is the third generation of Zimbabwean writers writing from the diaspora. She was born in 1971 in Zambia, and grew up in Zimbabwe during the transitional moment from colonial Rhodesia to independence. She has law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Graz. She writes in English and also draws on Shona, her first language. She has published a short story collection An Elegy for Easterly (2009), first novel The Book of Memory (2015), and another collection of short stories, Rotten Row (2016).  Gappah’s collection of short stories An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was awarded The Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the richest prize for the short story form. Gappah was working on her novel The Book of Memory at the time of this interview.

POLIVARIABILITY OF THE BASTARD MOTIF IN THE SHORT STORIES BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT: CHARACTER IN SEARCH OF SELF-IDENTIFICATION

2018 ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Oksana Galchuk
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Guy De Maupassant ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Role Of It ◽  
Structural Methods

The theme of illegitimacy Guy de Maupassant evolved in his works this article perceives as one of the factors of the author’s concept of a person and the plane of intersection of the most typical motifs of his short stories. The study of the author’s concept of a person through the prism of polivariability of the motif of a bastard is relevant in today’s revision of traditional values, transformation of the usual social institutions and search for identities, etc. The purpose of the study is to give a definition to the existence specifics of the bastard motif in the Maupassant’s short stories by using historical and literary, comparative, structural methods of analysis as dominant. To do this, I analyze the content, variability and the role of this motive in the formation of the Maupassant’s concept of a person, the author’s innovations in its interpretation from the point of view of literary diachrony. Maupassant interprets the bastard motif in the social, psychological and metaphorical-symbolic sense. For the short stories with the presentation of this motif, I suggest the typology based on the role of it in the structure of the work and the ideological and thematic content: the short stories with a motif-fragment, the ones with the bastard’s leitmotif and the group where the bastard motif becomes a central theme. The Maupassant’s interpretation of the bastard motif combines the general tendencies of its existence in the world’s literary tradition and individual reading. The latter is the result of the author’s understanding of the relevant for the era issues: the transformation of the family model, the interest in the theory of heredity, the strengthening of atheistic sentiments, the growth of frustration in the system of traditional social and moral values etc. This study sets the ground for a prospective analysis of the evolution the bastard motif in the short-story collections of different years or a comparative study of the motif in short stories and novels by Maupassant.

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