... theme of History. Lafferty blended the history with a bit of his own ideas to create this award-winning book. Very few other, modern science fiction writers can match R.A. Lafferty's achievements. Robert Sawyer, a Canadian sci-fi writer, was quoted in saying that Canadian writer have much more passion ... writers lost direction in the early 1950s. It is very possible that Lafferty was a member of the group of writers that put science fiction back on track. Lafferty's collection of essays shows this evolution to continue. It is possible that Moskowitz would agree with this assumption afte...

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• Grade Level: High School

... set its members on the edge of Hindu society. After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United ... on the uneventful lives of a group of Parsis who live in a ramshackle Bombay apartment block. While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to futu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... set its members on the edge of Hindu society. After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United ... on the uneventful lives of a group of Parsis who live in a ramshackle Bombay apartment block. While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to futu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... kitchen, washing dishes, chopping wood, peeling potatoes, washing linen-in short, doing all the chores like four good boys working for their own mother."" (Fiction A Pocket Anthology R.S. Gwyn Page 65 paragraph 3) These soldiers appeared to be like second sons to Mother Savage, doing what her son would be ... she was in; most likely when the text states: "This one has their names on it so you can write home about them."" (Fiction A Pocket Anthology R.S. Gwyn page 69 paragraph 3) Maupassant took the subjects for his pessimistic stories and novels chiefly from the Norman peasant life, the...

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... brought his drinking under control. He and his wife Maryann finally divorced in 1983. In September of 1983, Carver published the collection Cathedral. The book marked a shift in Carver's fiction away from the bare minimalist prose of his earlier work toward a fuller, more detailed style. Critics hailed the book as a transition in Carver's work, singling out several stories ... and critics and generated a variety of critical readings. Ewing Campbell, for example, agreed with earlier reviewers that "Cathedral" represented a "new" Carver. In a book-length study of Carver's fiction, Campbell...

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... arrangements offer a broad range of material for investigation. As the analysis will focus on the definition of stories of initiation and the appliance of these criteria on Hemingway′s short fiction, other aspects of interpretation (e.g. the often mentioned autobiographical content or stylistic devices which are characteristic for Hemingway′s iceberg-principle) have to be neglected. They should, however, ... effect on the protagonist before ascribing initiation to a story" (Marcus 192)), as it may prove difficult to provide evidence of this permanency. 3. Analysis of Hemingway′s sh...

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... intended learning outcomes of the new teaching: A Study in Practice During Spring Semester 2009, I taught the course "English 303: Short Stories" designed to introduce students to the short fiction of pre-modern and modern periods through short stories of England, Europe and Americas. The aims of the course are: To introduce you to a range of major authors and works ... ...

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... which will be defined and discussed in due order. He is best known for his tales of mystery and macabre. He is also one of the foremost pioneers of detective fiction and is generally considered part of the American Romantic Movement especially Dark Romanticism. A few of the recurrent themes and motifs in his writings are, death, horror, dream like atmospheres, murder ... ...

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... her works have appeared in the New England Review and Redbook as well as anthologies of Native American writings, such as, Earth Power Coming and That's What She Said, also Fiction by Native American Women. She has published two collections of poems, Jacklight (1984) and Baptism of Desire (1989). Her novel Love Medicine (1984) won the National Book Critics Circle Award ... ...

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... hypocrisy. "Hawthorne is judging the Puritans by their own Christian standard and judging that they failed" (Wagonner 154). There were also a few other elements added to the effect of his fiction such as irony and witchcraft. Neither one of these was major, but contributed to the overall effect and helped in conveying the themes. Hawthorne uses irony in the sense that ... ...

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... is depicted, the theme of the story, the irony of fate, is conveyed. Works Cited Chopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour, in Cassill, R.V., ed., The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, sixth edition, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2000. (260-263). Kate Chopin's use of irony in her short story, "The Story of an Hour," stands in direct contrast to the ... ...

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... the way they are narrated it is shown that the people are still very much connected with their European descent. Once again we deal with the characteristic feature of Irving's fiction, that is the usage of European, mainly German, folktale themes and motifs. Having introduced the life of the community, I shall devote the following paragraphs to the individual characters in these ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate