Short Fiction
Window Dressing: Isolation in Cornell Woolrich's Short Fiction
... Woolrich’s fiction might inform us of his personal life and what we as readers can take away from ...his short fiction, but to identify prominent themes in the fiction itself, which likely ...
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Urban indians in the short fiction of Sherman Alexie
... Alexie’s short fiction, who also make unruly gestures in an attempt to recover that part of their identity that seems to be vanishing in the urban context, the final outcomes are not as positive as expected ...
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Five plots: the relationship between plot and genre in short fiction
... 13 It is significant to note that author John Frow observes that ‘one of the inherent problems with working with genre theory is of course the lack of an agreed and coherent terminology’ (2014: 65). This problem, in ...
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The afterlife of survival: a thematic guide to contemporary Canadian short fiction
... It appears to be impossible to move away from the discussion of what constitutes the ‘Canadian identity’. The battle against the natural world, or, in the twenty- first century, sometimes the battle to save it, whether ...
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The Hatayama Code and The question of meaning - resistance and interpretation in short fiction as practice research
... ‘The Hatayama Code’ was one of a number of stories I engineered to be recalcitrant – a term used by Austin M. Wright to describe various kinds of withholding characteristic of 20th century short fiction. My ...
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Jean Rhys's Tropographies: unmappable identity and the tropical landscape in Wide Sargasso Sea and selected short fiction
... novels, short fiction, and life writing – figures a performance of this sense of being ‘outside,’ perpetually ...the short story ‘I Used to Live Here Once’ (1976) this tenuous grasp on place is taken ...
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Australian literature : a study of the construction of short fiction in the Australian literary field
... The Australia Council Literature Fund assesses writers' applications on the basis of 'literary merit' also called 'literary excellence', 'cultural significance,' originality' and 'the po[r] ...
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Complete Change: A Short Fiction
... Nolan, a 28-year old barista, stuck in a world of incomplete moments, finds a new beginning in Brodie. Though a new friendship easily develops between the two, they find a much closer companionship when an accident turns ...
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Explorations of "an alien past": Identity, Gender, and Belonging in the Short Fiction of Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, and Margaret Atwood
... learned to police each other and to self-police, to self-sanction when these failures are perceived, thereby maintaining a subjugated position and reinforcing patriarchal hegemony. A link can be drawn between this and ...
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Versions of madness in Southern short fiction : Chopin, Faulkner, and O'Connor
... His exploration of the 'gothic' areas of the mind and the aberrant behaviour they produce sets the scene for later Southern writers such as Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'[r] ...
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Towards a critical edition of the short fiction of Sarah Grand
... of fiction to be exploring eugenic ideas in the mid-1890s: Ménie Muriel Dowie in Gallia and Grant Allen in The Woman Who Did (both published in 1895) used fiction to participate in these ...
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Without nostalgia : Nina Berberova's short fiction of the 1930s
... The story climaxes with the arrival of Kozlobabin's brother from Russia, who experiences a crisis of poor fit. The Kozlobabin brothers have not seen each other for nine years. 32 Semyon Kozlobabin has a grocery store in ...
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Science Fiction
... Science Fiction auch das Märchen und den Mythos zählt – somit zum formalen ...Science Fiction, Märchen und Fantasy ihre wunderbaren Elemente permanent ...
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INTERROGATING THE NATURE OF FICTION THROUGH ANDRE GIDE'S POETICS OF FICTION IN THE COUNTERFEITERS
... Self-reflexivity is an important literary method to investigate the phenomenon of artistic creation. Among the various genres of literature, novel seems to be the most dynamic and ever changing one. This research paper ...
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Women and the art of fiction
... In this new age of tourism and ever-expanding museum, gallery, and exhibi- tion culture, there must have been many who would have appreciated such a companion to give critical guidance on how to respond to art. It was ...
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Postmodernism in Urdu Fiction
... In the above quoted passage, Sarpanch, Nambardar, the sky of the winter, panchayat, service to animal religion, cow slaughter and wine are all words associated with a particular culture which is simultaneously reflective ...
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Science and Fiction: Analysing the Concept of Fiction in Science and its Limits
... proper fiction in literature and art from his analysis of fictional elements in ...proper fiction for a comparison with apparently fictional elements in ...
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Science Fiction
... science fiction): In the 2000s and 2010s, this collision between the two political valences of technology remains the dominant engine of SF speculation and creation, as our world becomes more and more like what we ...
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Ethical Design Fiction
... design fiction can create a basic understanding and points of departure for ensuing discussions and strategic ...design fiction into a mere publicity stunt, a ‘vapour fiction’ with no real ground for ...
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Science fiction and language : language and the imagination in post war science fiction
... It is shown that the various theories of language, implicitly or explicitly expressed by writers and critics concerned with invented languages and neologism in science fiction, embody a [r] ...
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