... particular fictional elements examined during the course contribute to the handling and effectiveness of the theme. Do not write on stories discussed in your seminar paper. The short stories discussed within this paper are; I want to know why by Sherwood Anderson, The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence ... , The Grave by Katherine Mansfield and My Son The Fanatic Hanif Kureishi. These short stories are all associated through the theme of childhood and youth and can be comparatively and contrastively discussed by using this theme as well as different ... fictional elements. Sherwood A...

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... intuitive leap. It is as if the narrator suddenly realizes that through contact with another person, he somehow encounters the divine. Historical Context Economic Climate The characters who people Carver's short stories, including "Cathedral," find themselves in times of diminishing expectations. In 1978, only about 11.7 percent of the United States population was considered "poor" by government standards. The rate ... worked, their joint income barely kept the family afloat. Their problems exacerbated by Carver's alcoholism, the family twice had to declare bankruptcy and start over. Li...

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... essay "What is an Initiation Story?" by Mordecai Marcus (1976), for example. The following report will deal with three selected short stories by Ernest Hemingway focussing on the protagonist Nick Adams, namely ,,Indian Camp", ,,The Battler" and ,,Fathers and Sons". These stories have been selected due to the fact that they give a representative overlook on different chapters of life of the protagonist, which ... this as a given fact, one could also employ the term `initiation′ for Nick′s process of gaining insight as an adult. 4. Conclusion As the above analysis of three exemplary s...

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... , gas-station attendant, and delivery man. He became extremely concerned in a writing career after having a creative-writing course at Chico State College (now California State University, Chico) in 1958. His short stories began to appear in magazines while he studied at Humboldt State College (now Humboldt State University) in Arcata, Calif (Encyclopedia Britannica). Later, he published French editions of Cathedral (1985) and ... What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1986). A third collection of short stories by Raymond Carver, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, was his first key ...

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... stories had little to do with his experience as an immigrant in Canada, but focused instead 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 future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short ... has done just that. Born in India but now living in California, she sees her fiction-so far a collection of short stories, Arranged Marriage (1995), and a novel, The Mistress of Spices (1997)-as a way of "dissolving boundaries."...

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... stories had little to do with his experience as an immigrant in Canada, but focused instead 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 future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short ... has done just that. Born in India but now living in California, she sees her fiction-so far a collection of short stories, Arranged Marriage (1995), and a novel, The Mistress of Spices (1997)-as a way of "dissolving boundaries."...

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... others. The 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 of the ... one, though, with England having more in number than the other two regions. While I wanted to stick to my own list, some of my students were in favour of including short stories from other regions such...

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... philosophical outlook leads us to psychology of his inner personality and is also one of the key techniques he employed in writing most of his stories. The present study tries to apply traces of psychoanalysis in the short story "The Oval Portrait" using specific technical terms of Freudian psychoanalytics including complexes, obsessions and disorders in human beings : Death Drive or ... themes and motifs in his writings are, death, horror, dream like atmospheres, murder. He published "The Oval Portrait" in 1842 which is also considered one of his shortest stories. While many critics su...

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... 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 Franco-Prussian War, the behavior of the bourgeoisie, and the fashionable life of Paris. (http://www. ... online-literature.com/maupassant/ Literature Network) As is evident with the short story of Mother Savage, the author was greatly influenced by the war. Having served in the French Army, many of his stories were written about this particular war. As it was discussed in cl...

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... writers. To some, Nathaniel Hawthorne has earned both of these titles. From writing several successful novels, and many short stories, Hawthorne has introduced the way of life in Puritanical America to many readers. Along with his views on this culture, ... way they treat other people. He does this by using primary characters in the novels The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and many short stories who have a problem, like an inner secret, or who have some kind of guilt, and shows how society looks upon these people. It regards ... elements because it was not appropriate f...

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... is present in every human's heart. I read many of his short stories and realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. I have watched movies that were created from his textual creations, read his poems, and his stories. Though often referred to as a psychopath I believe that Edgar Allan ... when it comes to the rendering of those darker motives that drive us on. For the purpose of this Essay I shall analyze four of Poe's short stories; "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," The Masque of The Red Death," and "The Tell-tale Heart." Although numerous critics have ...

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... decided to abandon her Catholicism, and started to write and publish. Her first novel -At Fault- was published in 1890, followed by two collections of short stories, "Bayou Folk- in 1894 and "A Night in Acadia- in 1897. "The Awakening-, another popular story written by her, was published in 1899, and ... and sketches in literary magazines. She liked her writing to be spontaneous, and normally she wrote her stories all at once, with little revision. "After the public uproar over The Awakening-, Kate wrote only seven short stories between 1900 and 1904. She died on August 22, 1904, after s...

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... writer, and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving, a writer widely considered as the father of the American short story. In my analysis, through comparing the two stories I want to look at the different functions legends play in the creation of the narrative. First of all, we should consider ... certain conceptions common in the Puritan past of the country. I shall look at these features of Irving's story in detail later on. Both stories are told in the er-narrative, the form that enables both detachment from the narrated material and a greater level of objectivity. Neverth...

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... neighbor treats him like an equal when he should be the superior because he is a white man and his neighbor is of color. O'Connor uses language throughout her stories that a reader almost cringes in present day hearing, like in the "Geranium" when it says " I say they got 'em a servant ... next door-a nigger- all dressed up in a Sunday Suit" (The Complete Stories 8). When I first started reading, I thought she was racist but as I write this paper, I have come to realize that it was in her nature to write like ... the reader about the history of the South and what went on from the 1...

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... an ethnic women writer has to pursue in American culture (Zaborowska 115). Yezierska's first book Hungry Hearts was a collection of short stories that was made into a Hollywood film. Through this book she went through the Cinderella experience. The film was very successful and she went to Hollywood ... Miserables, " To the masses, success has almost the same appearance as supremacy. Success, that pretender to talent, has a dupe, history (Hugo 51). After this short stay in Hollywood she returned to New York in poverty and lived out her life. Many books I have read see this as a down fall, ...

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... in writing. The New Mexico Quarterly Review published "The Wagons" in 1959, his first short story. In 1968 his first novel was published, Past Master. Lafferty wrote over two hundred short stories and over twenty full-length novels. Lafferty quit his job with Clark Electrical Supply in 1971 ... time. Lafferty's Nine Hundred Grandmothers is an interesting display of his sense of humor. This story is the title story of a collection of short stories. Ceran Swincegood, the main character in the title story, is a member of an expedition to an inhabited asteroid. This race of beings is ... Fin...

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... , when I was in elementary school, my one and probably only goal at that time was to impress the teacher with an excess of complicated vocabulary. So instead of beginning my stories with "Once upon a time- I probably used something like "And so it fortuitously occurred in an exciting annals of history that ." I at least hope my writing has come along way from ... accomplish that goal, but I am still a writer. In seventh grade, I discovered a marvelous new genre of literature: the short story. In the short story, I found again that pilot light that had not burned in me since my last award...

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... . Both of the literary works' hidden meanings also have many alternate hidden meanings that can change depending on the perspective from which the stories are read (Straus 652; Sokel 204). Another explanation to the wide variety of hidden meanings is that both authors, Kafka and Hemingway, ... of the substance emerges from the vague dialogue between the man and the girl, Jig (Link 3). In short stories, language is particularly notable because the decision to include each word is likely scrutinized by the author. This is particularly the case in Hemingway ... out of respect for his own si...

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... they face when separated from their native land and culture. Clarke assembles eight short stories each having unique characters and plots that tell about different aspects of the lives of immigrants in Toronto. Most of the stories are recounted in first person by vivid, comical and often grim characters and ... father's handwriting as "erratic script." From what Vittorio hears around him, he can only gather that his father is an unpredictable individual with a short temper. The lack of an appropriate father figure in Vittorio's life impacted his development as a child in that he was unso...

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... up on it. Paul is very unhappy with his common life and does not want to end up working in a factory like his father. He creates stories to make his life seem great which results in him not having any friends in his life. To fill that hole he chooses to spend most of his ... problems, and when he realizes this only temporarily fulfilled his dreams, he gives up and decides to take his own life. Within the text of Willa Cather's short story "Paul's Case" the use of symbols and motives help to develop and understand the main character. Paul is introduced as a smiling young man with disrespe...

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... obviously Fitzgerald himself that he is talking about. " It's been mighty funny, this success and all," said Dick. "Just before the novel appeared I'd been trying, without success to sell some short stories. Then, after my book came out, I polished up three and had them accepted by one of the magazines that had rejected them before. But the really awful days aren't when ... ...

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