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Caskey, Sarah A. "Open secrets, ambiguity and irresolution in the Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian short story." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ58399.pdf.
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陳淸貴 and Ching-kooi Chan. "Narrative techniques of Taiwan short stories." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/b30252866.
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劉燕萍 and Yin-ping Grace Lau. "Tragic elements in Tang short stories." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3120871X.
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符傳豐 and Suan-fong Foo. "A study of Lao She's (1899-1966) short stories." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31215233.
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Burgoyne, Mary M. "'At work on short stories' : the making, marketing, and reception of Joseph Conrad's early short fiction." Thesis, St Mary's University, Twickenham, 2016. http://research.stmarys.ac.uk/1167/.
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Nakasa, Dennis Sipho. "The dialectic between African and Black aesthetics in some South African short stories." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22394.
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Most current studies on 'African' and/or 'Black' literature in South Africa appear to ignore the contradictions underlying the valuative concepts 'African' and 'Black'. This (Jamesonian) unconsciousness has led, primarily, to a situation where writers and critics assume generally that the concepts 'African' and 'Black' are synonymous and interchangeable. This study argues that such an attitude either unconsciously represses an awareness of the distinctive aspects of the worldview connotations of these concepts or deliberately suppresses them. The theoretical and pragmatic approach which this study adopts to explore the distinctive aspects of the worldview connotations of these concepts takes the form, initially, of a critique of such assumptions and their connotations. It is argued that any misconceptions about the relations between the concepts 'African' and 'Black' can only be elucidated through a rigorous and distinct definition of each of these concepts and the respective world views embodied in them. Each of the variables of these definitions is also examined thoroughly through an application of, inter alia, Frederick Jameson's 'dialectical' theory of textual criticism, Pierre Macherey's 'theory of literary production' and also through the post-colonial notions of 'hybridity' and 'syncreticity' propounded by Bill Ashcroft et.al (eds). In this way the study examines the dialectical interplay between, for instance, such oppositional notions as 'African' and 'Western' (place-conscious), 'Black' and 'White' (race-conscious), and other forms of ideological 'dominance' and 'marginality' reflected in the 'African' and/or 'Black' writers' motivations for the acquisition, appropriation and uses of the language of the 'other' (i.e. English) and its literary discourse in South Africa, Africa and elsewhere in the world. A close textual reading of the stories in Mothobi Mutloatse's (ed) Forced Landing, Mbulelo Mzamane's (ed) Hungry Flames underlies an examination of the processes of anthologisation and their implications of aesthetic collectivism, reconstruction and world view monolithicism which repress the distinctive world outlooks of the stories in these anthologies. The notions of aesthetic monolithicism implicit in each of these anthologies are interrogated via the editors' truistic assumptions about the organic nature of the relations between the concepts 'African' and 'Black'. The notion of a monolithic 'African' and 'Black' aesthetic is further decentred through a close textual reading of the uses of the 'African' and 'Black' valuative concepts in the short story collections The Living and the Dead and In Corner B by Es'kia (formerly Ezekiel) Mphahlele. The humanistic pronouncements in Mphahlele' s critical and short story texts suggest various ways of resolving the racial demarcations in both the 'Black' and 'White' South African literary formations. According to Mphahlele, a predominant racial consciousness inherent in the racial capitalist mode of economic production has deprived South African literature and culture an opportunity of creating a national humanistic and 'Afrocentric' form of aesthetic consciousness. The logical consequence of such a deprivation has been that the racial impediments toward the formation of a single national literature will have to be dismantled before the vision of a humanistic and 'Afrocentric' aesthetic can be realised in South Africa. The dismantling of both the 'Black' and 'White' monolithic forms of consciousness may pave the way toward the attainment of a synthetic and place-centred humanistic aesthetic. Such a dismantling of racial monolithicism will, hopefully, stimulate a debate on the question of an equally humanistic economic mode of production.
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Bell, Lucy Amelia Jane. "Configurations of the fragment : the Latin American short story at its limits." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607767.
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Shishkin, Timur. "Marginalized Characters in Contemporary American Short Fiction." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/297.
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The focus of the present research work is the contemporary American short stories that bring up issues of compulsory norm and the conflict between marginalized characters and their environment. This research was based on those short stories that seemed to represent the idea of being "different" in the most complex and multilayered way, and its goal was to unfold new aspects of the conflict between "normal" and "abnormal"/"different". Variations of norm as well as diversity within the marginalized raise a number of questions about the reasons for their inability to coexist peacefully. The close reading and the analysis of the selected stories show that all the conflicts in them, in one way or another, repeat similar patterns and lead to the same root of the problem of misunderstanding, which is fear. To be more precise, all the cases of hate towards "different" characters can be explained by the hater's explicit or implicit fear of death in its various forms: inability to procreate one's own kind, cultural or personal self-identity loss, actual life threat in the form of a reminder of possible physical harm and death. Most often it would be the case where shame and fear of death overlap in a very complex way. In general, the cases of characters' otherness fall into three major groups. The nature of the alienation for each of these groups is described and analyzed in three separate chapters. Prejudice and stereotypes are playing a great role in formation of fears and insecurities which need to be dismantled in order to make peaceful coexistence possible. This work concludes with pointing out the crucial role of taking an approach of representation of various perspectives and diversification of voices in creative writing, academia and media in the context of multicultural society.
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MacKenzie, Craig. "The oral-style South African short story in English A.W. Drayson to H.C. Bosman." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002271.
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This study is concerned with a particular kind of short story in South African English literature - a kind of story variously called the fireside tale, tall tale, yarn, skaz narrative, frame narrative, or (the term used in this study), the 'oral-sty Ie story.' This kind of story is characterised by the use of an internal narrator (a fictional narrator or storyteller figure), the cadences of his or her speaking voice, and a 'reporting' frame narrator. Stories by A. W. Drayson, Frederick Boyle, J. Forsyth Ingram, W. C. Scully, Percy FitzPatrick, Ernest Glanville, Perceval Gibbon, Francis Carey Slater, Pauline Smith, Aegidius Jean Blignaut and Herman Charles Bosman form the principal body of primary sources examined in this study. The Bakhtinian notion of "simple" and "parodistic" skaz narratives is deployed to analyse the increasing complexity to be discerned in the works by these writers, which roughly span the 100 years from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the present century. A "simple" use of the skaz narrative is evident in the early or 'ur-South African' oral-style story, represented here by Drayson, Boyle and Ingram. With Scully and FitzPatrick the form is still used 'artlessly,' although the beginnings of a greater self-consciousness can be discerned. The' Abe Pike' tales by Glanville introduce a more complex use of the fictional narrator, a process taken a step further by Gibbon in his 'Vrouw Grobelaar' tales. With the latter, in particular, the complex or "parodistic" skaz narrative makes its advent in South African literature. The oral-style stories of Slater and Smith are largely a regression to the ear lier form, although there are aspects of their stories which anticipate Bosman. With Blignaut and Bosman, however, the South African oral-style story comes into its own. In their Hottentot Ruiter and Oom Schalk Lourens characters is invested all the complexity and 'double-voicedness' that was latent, and largely dormant, in the earlier oral-style narratives. Through Blignaut, and Bosman in particular, the South African oral-style story achieves its most economical, sophisticated and successful form of expression. The study concludes by looking briefly at the use of an oral style in short stories by black South African writers and argues that their stories are not, formally speaking, to be categorised alongside those by the other~ writers examined. The oral-style story, the study concludes, achieved its apogee in Bosman's Oom Schalk Lourens sequence and went into sharp decline after Bosman's death in 1951.
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Dai, Ping Emma, and 戴平. "The concept of love in the Ming short stories of Sanyan and Erpan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31222559.
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Natsina, Anastasia. "Greek short stories in the last quarter of the twentieth century : contribution to an exploration of the postmodern." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a5e8d523-e2de-449f-8b5e-fe16d86f4edb.
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The thesis examines Greek short stories written and published since the fall of the dictatorship in Greece in 1974, a year marking the beginning of the country's increasing opening to western lifestyles, mentalities and preoccupations. The present research explores two questions: How do Greek short stories of this period respond to the challenges of the postmodern condition, and what is the picture of the postmodern that one could draw from these texts. To this goal more than a hundred short stories are examined, by Sotiris Dimitriou, Michel Fais, Rhea Galanaki, E. Ch. Gonatas, Yiorgos loannou, Christophoros Milionis, Dimitris Nollas, I. Ch. Papadimitrakopoulos, Ersi Sotiropoulou, Christos Vakalopoulos, and Zyranna Zateli. The thesis is structured on a thematic basis, studying the major themes of reality and the subject, in order to evaluate the kind and degree of subversion that this fundamental bipolar axis of modern thought is undergoing in the postmodern condition. The readings are informed by contemporary theory, ranging from microhistory and Bakhtinian dialogism to poststructuralism and deconstruction, Levinas's ethical theory and Wittgensteinian language games. The textual analysis reveals that the traditional notion of reality as a unified totality is coming under severe strain; the critique mounted by the texts ranges from negative recognition of cosmological plurality through epistemological failure to an increasingly positive recognition of multiple incommensurate universes, be that by means of metafiction or, more radically still, a magic realism that transcends the world of the text to imbue performatively the world of the reader. The reality of the past in the form of historical truth is another target of scrutiny, as the unearthing of multiple insignificant, private and a-systemic events undermines the formerly dominant monolithic representations of the past and uncover its discursive construction, thereby facilitating the emergence of marginal historical subjects by means of fictional terms. Accordingly, the subject is no longer represented as a dominant and autonomous agent but as discursively constructed within a web of power relations. Yet this predicament creates the potential for a narrative identity and an alternative ethics founded on the acknowledgment of difference and interpersonal relations. Lastly, games, and especially language games, as a particular trope of merging reality and the subject, signal the cultural determination of irredeemable difference and plurality that is a constant in postmodern critique. Apart from suggesting the significance of the texts studied and proposing novel approaches to them, the thesis also promotes the re-evaluation of the short story as a genre in the study of the contemporary, while at the same time offering a detailed account of particular instances of postmodern critique on the fundaments of modern thought.
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Rose, Caroline. "Closure and the short story: with readings oftexts by Elizabeth Gaskell and Angela Carter." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31213571.
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盧仲衡 and Allan Chung-hang Lo. "Myth in the Zhiguai tales of the Six Dynasties." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31209920.
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HARMON, COY LEON. "CH'U YU'S "CHIEN-TENG HSIN-HUA": THE LITERARY TALE IN TRANSITION (CH'UAN-CH'I)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187951.
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The literary tale or ch'uan-ch'i, "transmission of the strange," evolved from the short fictional writings of the Six Dynasties and early T'ang periods and found full form as a short story in the classical language during the latter T'ang dynasty. Ch'uan-ch'i flourished through the Sung dynasty but fell into a period of relative inactivity during the Yuan dynasty. With the founding of the Ming in 1368 came renewed interest in the literary tale with the appearance of Ch'u Yu's collection of ch'uan-ch'i known as Chien-teng hsin-hua. Ch'u's tales became so popular that they soon inspired poet-official Li Ch'ang-ch'i to write the collection Chien-teng yu-hua in imitation of Ch'u's style. The two collections remained popular and influential through much of the Ming dynasty. The influence of both Ch'u Yu and Li Ch'ang-ch'i spread to Korea and Japan where many of their tales were rewritten and adapted to local settings. It was from Japanese editions of the Chien-teng hsin-hua that Ch'u Yu's contributions to the ch'uan-ch'i genre were rediscovered in this century. On comparison with earlier T'ang models, Ch'u Yu's tales show considerable similarity in style; however, the best of his tales show advancement in characterization, a broader range of subject matter, settings as varied as the tales themselves, and a level of society generally far removed from the scholar-official class commonly depicted in T'ang tales. It is in Ch'u Yu's thematic tales or tales of retribution that can be found the combination of elements that clearly illustrates his contributions to the ch'uan-ch'i genre. A reading of representative tales from both T'ang dynasty collec- tions and the large collection of literary tales by P'u Sung-ling in the Ch'ing dynasty illustrates the degree and nature of change in the literary tale over the centuries. The appearance of Ch'u Yu's Chien-teng hsin-hua in the early Ming dynasty not only revived interest in the genre but also contributed to the development of one of the most enduring forms of fiction in the history of China.
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Horikawa, Nobuko. "Not Just Child's Play| Neo-Romantic Humanism in Ogawa Mimei's Stories." Thesis, Portland State University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10285140.
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During the early twentieth century, Japan was modernizing in all areas of science and art, including children’s literature. Ogawa Mimei (1882-1961) was a prolific writer who advanced various literary forms such as short stories, poems, essays, children’s stories, and children’s songs. As a writer, he was most active during the late Meiji (1868-1912) to Taishō (1912-1926) periods when he was a socialist. During that time, he penned many socialist short stories and children’s stories that were filtered through his humanistic, anarchistic, and romanticist ideals. In this thesis, I analyze Mimei’s socialist short stories and children’s stories written in the 1910s and 1920s. I identify both the characteristics of his writing style and the themes so we can probe Mimei’s ideological and aesthetic ideas, which have been discounted by contemporary critics. His socialist short stories challenged the dogmatic literary approach of Japanese proletarian literature during its golden age of the late 1920s and early 1930s. His socialist children’s stories also deviated from the standard of Japanese children’s literature in the 1950s and 1960s. In this thesis, I break away from the narrow views that confined Mimei to certain literary standards. This thesis is a reevaluation of Mimei’s literature on his own terms from a holistic perspective.
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Weaver, Rosalie Mary. "Innovation within the modern short story through the interaction of gender, nationality, and genre, Margaret Atwood's Wilderness tips and Alice Munro's Open secrets." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq23675.pdf.
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Plouffe, Bruce. "The post-war novella in German language literature : an analysis." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74297.
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This study examines the interpretive possibilities in the shorter fiction of Post-War German literature. The corpus includes works by Rolf Hochhuth, Friedrich Durrenmatt and Martin Walser. The historical framework of the theory of the novella and short story provides a basis for a discussion of genre, extended to include the coordinates of metaphor and metonymy. With the exception of one text designated as a novel, these works demonstrate interlocking and restricted motif complexes, repetitive and parallel structure and the integration of most narrative components. They project a tenor of hermetic plurality from a vehicle of abbreviated and truncated referential discourse. They use myth and intertextuality to show general principles to be extrapolated from specific contexts. Metafiction complements the theme of the subject not at one with itself. A partial resolution to the incertitude of existence, rendered according to Freud and Lacan, is offered through the emerging role of women as a stabilizing factor.
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Watkins, Catherine, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Celebrating difference." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2004. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050915.120943.
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This thesis examines short fiction and some poetry by writers from four different Australian cultural communities, the Indigenous community, and the Jewish, Chinese and Middle-Eastern communities. I have chosen to study the most recent short fiction available from a selection of writing which originates from each culture. In the chapters on Chinese-Australian and Middle-Eastern Australian fiction I have examined some poetry if it contributes to the subject matter under discussion. In this study I show how the short story form is used as a platform for these writers to express views on their own cultures and on their identity within Australian society. Through a close examination of texts this study reveals the strategies by which many of these narratives provide an imaginative literary challenge to Anglo-Celtic cultural dominance, a challenge which contributes to the political nature of this writing and the shifting nature of the short story genre. This study shows that by celebrating difference these narratives can act as a site of resistance and show a capacity to reflect and instigate cultural change. This thesis examines the process by which these narratives create a dialogue between cultures and address the problems inherent in diverse cultural communities living together.
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Gaylard, Rob. "Writing black : the South African short story by black writers /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/3224.
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Kaplan, Stacey Meredith 1973. "The modern(ist) short form: Containing class in early 20th century literature and film." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10574.
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ix, 182 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.My dissertation analyzes the overlooked short works of authors and auteurs who do not fit comfortably into the conventional category of modernism due to their subtly experimental aesthetics: the versatile British author Vita Sackville-West, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short-story writer Elizabeth Bowen, and the British emigrant filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. I focus on the years 1920-1923 to gain an alternative understanding of modernism's annus mirabulus and the years immediately preceding and following it. My first chapter studies the most critically disregarded author of the project: Sackville-West. Her 1922 volume of short stories The Heir: A Love Story deserves attention for its examination of social hierarchies. Although her stories ridicule characters regardless of their class background, those who attempt to change their class status, especially when not sanctioned by heredity, are treated with the greatest contempt. The volume, with the reinforcement of the contracted short form, advocates staying within given class boundaries. The second chapter analyzes social structures in Bowen's first book of short stories, Encounters (1922). Like Sackville-West, Bowen's use of the short form complements her interest in how class hierarchies can confine characters. Bowen's portraits of classed encounters and of characters' encounters with class reveal a sense of anxiety over being confined by social status and a sense of displacement over breaking out of class groups, exposing how class divisions accentuate feelings of alienation and instability. The last chapter examines Chaplin's final short films: "The Idle Class" (1921), "Pay Day (1922), and "The Pilgrim" (1923). While placing Chaplin among the modernists complicates the canon in a positive way, it also reduces the complexity of this man and his art. Chaplin is neither a pyrotechnic modernist nor a traditional sentimentalist. Additionally, Chaplin's shorts are neither socially liberal nor conservative. Rather, Chaplin's short films flirt with experimental techniques and progressive class politics, presenting multiple perspectives on the thematic of social hierarchies. But, in the end, his films reinforce rather than overthrow traditional artistic forms and hierarchical ideas. Studying these artists elucidates how the contracted space of the short form produces the perfect room to present a nuanced portrayal of class.
Committee in charge: Paul Peppis, Chairperson, English; Michael Aronson, Member, English; Mark Quigley, Member, English; Jenifer Presto, Outside Member, Comparative Literature
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Wasserman, Herman 1969. "Postkoloniale kulturele identiteit in Afrikaanse kortverhale na 1994." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51879.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis contains the results of an investigation into constructions of cultural identity in recent works of short fiction written in Afrikaans. The investigation was conducted within the framework of postcolonial literary theory, with specific reference to the work ofHomi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Gayatri Spivak, Vijay Mishra and Bob Hodge. The conceptual apparatus concerning postcolonial reconstruction of cultural identities in reaction to the discourse of colonialism were applied to certain Afrikaans short stories to establish to what extent these texts could be considered a '
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張明明. "論靳以短篇小說的浪漫主義風格 = The romantic style on the short stories of Jin Yi." Thesis, University of Macau, 2009. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2101712.
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Uys, Hendrik-Muller. "Die problematiese afbakening tussen sommige kortverhaalbundels en die roman in Afrikaans, aan die hand van geselekteerde tekste." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20201.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the sixties many short story collections referred to as ‘eenheidsbundels’ (‘unified volumes’) have appeared in Afrikaans. Especially those collections published since the eighties and nineties prominently display an overall unity suggestive of the greater unity found in the novel. These collections are usually characterised by the recurring appearance of characters beyond the borders of the individual stories and the use of themes and recurring motifs that run through the collection. Sometimes the separate stories within a collection share the same time period or geographical space. The same narrator may also appear throughout the collection. Although the individual stories within a volume may be regarded in isolation (or even published in isolation), they will inevitably be deprived of possible interpretations that would otherwise have been evident in relation to the collection as a whole. As a result, it would seem that the boundary between the short story volume and the novel becomes blurred in these unified collections. The main objective of this thesis is to try to determine whether the short story collections under discussion represent a new genre or subgenre or whether they could possibly constitute a continuation of an existing genre. The point of departure is the suggestion by J.P. Smuts (1989: 23) that the phenomenon is linked to the writers of the sixties’ rebellion against stereotyped literary forms and that these collections appear to represent an intermediate form, something that lies between the traditional short story collection and the novel. Chapter 2 serves as the theoretical foundation of the research: the traditional characteristics of the short story and novel are investigated. Postmodernism as school of thought associated with the problematisation of the boundaries between genres is also investigated. In Chapters 3 and 4 two unified collections from the nineties are analysed: Jaco Botha’s Sweisbril (1999) and S.P. Benjamin’s Die lewe is ’n halwe roman (1999). The purpose of these analyses is to determine the extent to which the extensive unity in these collections can be compared to the unity found in the novel. The secondary goal of the thesis is to suggest (in response to Maritha Snyman’s appeal (2011)) a more suitable Afrikaans name for the study object (“eenheidsbundel”). Neil Cochrane and Nina Botes’s proposed term “kortverhaalsiklus” (“short story cycle”) (2011) is considered, but Andr P. Brink’s reference to “’n soort kortverhaal-roman” (“a kind of short story novel”) finally takes precedence. The conclusion finds that the type of collection under discussion does represent a hybrid intermediary form located somewhere between the traditional short story collection and the novel, a form the development of which was probably influenced by postmodernism. The form seems to be a continuation of the tradition of the short story collection, one that has evolved towards the novel. Cochrane and Botes’s term “kortverhaalsiklus” is rejected in favour of the proposed term “kortverhaal-roman” (with some qualifications). This term can co-exist with terms such as “hibridiese bundel” (“hybrid volume”) or the more vague “eenheidsbundel”. The observation that the term “kortverhaalsiklus” does not convey the hybrid quality of the form, and the fact that Suzanne Ferguson (2003) points out that not all unified volumes are necessarily cycles, was decisive.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Van die sestigerjare af het daar verskeie kortverhaalbundels in Afrikaans verskyn waarna literatore as ‘eenheidsbundels’ verwys. Veral di sedert die tagtiger- en ne ntigerjare toon ’n opvallende hegtheid wat selfs aan die groter eenheid van die roman herinner. Hierdie bundels word byvoorbeeld gekenmerk deur karakteroorvleuelings oor die grense van die verskillende verhale heen, die gebruik van oorkoepelende temas en die deurgaanse herhaling van motiewe. Soms deel die verskillende verhale in ’n bundel dieselfde tydvak of geografiese ruimte. Dieselfde vertellende instansie kan ook regdeur die bundel voorkom. Alhoewel die aparte bundelverhale in isolasie beskou (of selfs gepubliseer) kan word, word hulle so van interpretasiemoontlikhede ontneem wat slegs binne bundelverband waargeneem kan word. Dit wil gevolglik voorkom of die grens tussen die kortverhaalbundel en die roman in die eenheidsbundel vervaag. Die hoofdoelwit van hierdie tesis is om te probeer vasstel of die hegte eenheidsbundel van veral sedert die tagtigerjare in Afrikaans ’n nuwe genre of subgenre verteenwoordig en of dit moontlik ’n voortbouing op ’n bestaande genre is. Daar word uitgegaan van J.P. Smuts (1989: 23) se stelling dat die betrokke verskynsel aan die jare sestig se opstand teen geykte liter re vorme te koppel is en dat hierdie bundels ’n tussenvorm is, iets wat tussen die tradisionele kortverhaalbundel en die roman l . Hoofstuk 2 dien as die teoretiese basis van die ondersoek: die algemene kenmerke van die tradisionele kortverhaal en roman word ondersoek. Die postmodernisme as denkrigting wat met die opheffing van genregrense geassosieer word, word ook kortliks ondersoek. In hoofstukke 3 en 4 word twee hegte eenheidsbundels uit die ne ntigerjare breedvoerig bespreek: Jaco Botha se Sweisbril (1999) en S.P. Benjamin se Die lewe is ’n halwe roman (1999). Die oogmerk is om vas te stel in hoeverre die uitgebreide eenheid in hierdie bundels aan die hegte eenheid van die roman herinner. Die sekond re doelwit van die tesis is om, na aanleiding van Maritha Snyman (2011) se pleidooi, ’n meer geskikte benaming vir die studieobjek (“eenheidsbundel”) te probeer voorstel. Neil Cochrane en Nina Botes (2011) se keuse van die term “kortverhaalsiklus” vir die hegter soort eenheidsbundel word bekyk, maar Andr P. Brink se verwysing na “’n soort kortverhaal-roman” geniet voorlopige voorkeur. In die konklusie word bevind dat die bespreekte bundels wel ’n hibridiese tussenvorm verteenwoordig wat iewers tussen die tradisionele kortverhaalbundel en die roman gele is en waarvan die ontstaan en ontwikkeling waarskynlik deur die postmodernisme be nvloed is. Die vorm blyk ’n voortsetting van die kortverhaalbundeltradisie te wees wat in die rigting van die roman ge volueer het. Cochrane en Botes se term “kortverhaalsiklus” word afgewys ten gunste van die voorgestelde term “kortverhaal-roman” (met voorbehoude) wat naas terme soos “hibridiese bundel” en die vaer “eenheidsbundel” sou kon bestaan. Die waarneming dat die term “kortverhaalsiklus” niks oor die romanagtigheid of die hibriditeit van die vorm oordra nie, terwyl Suzanne Ferguson (2003) onder andere daarop wys dat nie alle eenheidsbundels noodwendig siklusse is nie, was hier deurslaggewend.
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Champagne, Blanche. "La femme de gouttière, recueil de nouvelles ; suivi de L'évolution de l'espace féminin dans des nouvelles québécoises des années 1954-1992." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ43053.pdf.
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Ribeiro, Juliana Seixas. "Misterios de Lygia Fagundes Telles : uma leitura sob a optica do fantastico." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270274.
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Orientadores: Luiz Carlos Dantas, Jefferson CanoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: O livro base para esta dissertação de mestrado é uma compilação de contos publicados em diversas fases da produção literária de Lygia Fagundes Telles, sendo o mais antigo deles "A estrela branca" (1949) e o mais recente "A presença" (1977). Inicialmente, esta coletânea foi publicada na Alemanha com o título Contos fantásticos, idéia que partiu de um projeto dos professores Maria Luiza e Alfred Ortiz. No Brasil o livro foi publicado em 1981 com um novo título: Mistérios. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar alguns contos de Lygia Fagundes Telles a partir de teóricos da literatura fantástica como Tzvetan Todorov, Irène Bessière, P. G. Castex, L. Vax, Jaime Alazraki, entre outros ressaltando o jeito singular com o qual a autora "tece sua teia" e mesmo a particularidade deste gênero em seus contos. Os contos incluídos na coletânea Mistérios apresentam temas bastante relevantes para justificar a leitura fantástica proposta, tais como: sonho versus realidade, duplo, mistérios sem solução, metamorfose, descontrole, loucura, paranóia, transformações do tempo e do espaço, ambientes insólitos
Abstract: The main book of this paper is a compilation of short stories published in several phases of the literary production of Lygia Fagundes Telles, being oldest of them "A estrela branca" (1949) and most recent "A presença" (1977). Initially, this book was published in Germany with the title Contos fantásticos, thanks to the work of the professors Maria Luiza and Alfred Ortiz. In Brazil, the book was published in 1981 with a new title: Mistérios. The objective of this study is to analyze some Lygia Fagundes Telles short stories from the point of view of the theoreticians of fantastic literature as Tzvetan Todorov, Irène Bessière, P. G. Castex, L. Vax, Jaime Alazraki, among others standing out the Lygia singular skill to "weave a web" and the particularity of this literary genre in her short stories. The rational interlaces to the unusual, the wonderful and the magic properties. The logic of the real appears paralyzed." The short stories included in the Mistérios book have too relevant themes to justify the fantastic analysis proposed, such as dreams versus reality, double, unsolved mysteries, metamorphosis, uncontrolled, madness, paranoia, time and space changes, unusual environments
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Literatura Brasileira
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Musilli, Célia 1957. "Literatura e loucura : a transcendência pela palavra." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269874.
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Orientador: Adélia Toledo Bezerra de MenesesDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: O objetivo da dissertação é analisar os livros Hospício é Deus ¿ Diário I e O Sofredor do Ver de Maura Lopes Cançado, escritora considerada esquizofrênica, fazendo uma relação entre literatura e loucura, com ênfase na linguagem utilizada. Em Hospício é Deus, ela utiliza a escrita como forma de organizar sua experiência no manicômio, dando voz à sua angústia não só como indivíduo, mas também como testemunha dos dramas coletivos. O livro é um relato realista, considerado um documento importante sobre a vida manicomial no Brasil nos 1950, período em que Maura passou por vários internamentos. Seu maior mérito é a dar voz aos loucos, legitimando um discurso de pessoas quase sempre excluídas do processo social e cultural. Na análise deste livro são abordados alguns eixos temáticos como Deus, loucura, culpa, sexo e afetividade, além da relação entre "olho e o olhar" bastante recorrente na obra de Maura, sob o ponto de vista da vigilância no hospício e sua observação atenta da realidade transformada em literatura. O Sofredor do Ver é uma obra ficcional pouco estudada. Traz doze contos nos quais a loucura e o delírio são temas que aparecem de forma objetiva ou subjetiva, demandando uma análise da linguagem a partir, sobretudo, das imagens poéticas que dão pistas sobre o inconsciente da obra. Seus contos apresentam forte conteúdo autobiográfico e traços surrealistas a partir de um viés delirante ou de conteúdo onírico, bem como pela crítica ao sistema manicomial que pontua toda sua obra
Abstract: The purpose of the dissertation is to examine the books Hospício é Deus ¿ Diário I and O Sofredor do Ver by Maura Lopes Cançado, writer considered schizophrenic, establishing a relationship between literature and madness, with enphasis on the language used by her. In Hospício é Deus ¿ Diário I , she uses writing as a way to organize her experience in the asylum, voicing her anguish not only as an individual but also as a witness of collective dramas. The book is a realistic portrayal, regarded as an important document on asylum life in Brazil in the 1950¿s, a period when Maura went through several hospitalizations. Its greatest merit is to give voice to the insane, legitimizing a speech of people most often excluded from social and cultural processes. Some thematic axes are discussed are approached in the analysis of this book, such as God, madness, guilt, sex and affection, and also the relationship between "eye and looking", highly recurrent in Maura¿s work, from the point of view of surveillance in hospice and her close observation of reality transformed into literature. O Sofredor do Ver is a fictional work scarcely studied. It brings twelve short stories in which madness and delusion are themes that appear objectively or subjectively, requiring an analysis of language from, mostly, poetic images that give clues about the unconscious of the work. Her short stories present a strong autobiographical content and surrealist traits from a delusional bias or a dream-like content, as well as the criticism of the asylum system that punctuates all of her work
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Teoria e Critica Literaria
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Poletto, Ana Júlia. "A leitura dos espaços inóspitos em Alice Munro : corpos (des)habitados e lugares (des)construídos." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2017. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/3106.
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Alice Munro, ganhadora do prêmio Nobel em 2013, é escritora exclusivamente de contos, e suas narrativas percorrem um imaginário de espaços desnaturalizados que questionam a ordem estabelecida sob um aparente equilíbrio. Esta tese analisa alguns contos das obras: Ódio, amizade, namoro, amor, casamento; Fugitiva; Felicidade demais; O amor de uma boa mulher e Vida querida, para estabelecer um diálogo entre as questões de leitura e o efeito estético produzido, seguindo a corrente de Wolfgang Iser. A busca de uma leitura da écriture féminine se faz necessária na construção de uma alteridade radical, o que permite repensar as questões de gênero e espaço. O texto, como fronteira e paisagem literária, nos permite pensar de que forma a leitura se transforma em espaço necessário para a compreensão do Outro. O percurso no imaginário de Alice Munro tem como ponto de partida o espaço, passando pelo lugar, delineando um corpo até chegar ao rosto, espaço último de alteridade. Desenvolvemos uma categoria denominada em nossa pesquisa como lítero-corpóreo, espaço fronteiriço entre uma materialidade corpórea, e a leitura que transforma as realidades vividas. As correntes literárias de espaço que utilizamos são diálogos entre literatura, geografia e filosofia: Luis Alberto Brandão, Doreen Massey e Gaston Bachelard são alguns dos teóricos que embasam a pesquisa.Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2017-09-01T12:19:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Ana Júlia Poletto.pdf: 1865019 bytes, checksum: bbf5aab52f5237cca265b704fd64c677 (MD5)
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Alice Munro, lauréat du prix Nobel en 2013, est écrivain exclusivement de contes, et ses récits présentent un imaginaire d’espaces dénaturés qui remettent en question l'ordre établi dans un équilibre apparent. Cette thèse se propose d'analyser quelques contes des œuvres : Un peu, beaucoup, pas du tout ; Fugitives; Trop de bonheur; L'Amour d'une honnête femme ; et Rien que la viepour établir un dialogue entre les questions de lecture et l'effet esthétique produit, selon la théorie isérienne. La recherche d'une lecture de l'écriture féminine est nécessaire pour construire une altérité radicale, ce qui permet de repenser le genre et l'espace. Le texte, tel que la frontière et le paysage littéraire, nous permet de réfléchir sur la façon dont la lecture devient l'espace nécessaire à la compréhension de l’Autre. Le parcours dans l’imaginaire de Alice Munro a comme point de départ l’espace, a suivre le lieu, les corps jusqu’à arriver au visage, l’espace dernier de l’altérité. Nous avons développé une categorie que nous appelons ‘litero-corporel’, l’espace de frontière dans une matérialité corporel et la lecture pour transformer la réalité. Nous avons faire un dialogue entre la littérature, la géographie et la philosophie: Luis Alberto Brandão, Doreen Massey et Gaston Bachelard sont certains des penseurs que nous utilisons dans notre thèse.
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Hayashi, Mari. "Images de femmes dans la littérature japonaise contemporaine, 1935-1975: cas des nouvelles couronnées par le prix Akutagawa." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210557.
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The images of Japanese women in the Japanese contemporary literature (1935-1975) — Short-stories crowned with the Akutagawa Prize\
Doctorat en sciences sociales, Orientation sociologie
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Thokoane, Makgalakgatha Daniel. "Characterization in some short stories of I.T. Maditsi." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9795.
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M.A. (African Languages)During the past few decades the short story as a literary genre has attracted much attention. Languages such as Russian, English, French, German and later Afrikaans have produced outstanding writers in this genre, whereas writers in relatively younger languages such as Northern-Sotho are- still grappling with complexities such as form and structure in this art-form. Up to the present, the North-Sotho writer I.T. Maditsi has produced three short story collections, namely Mogologolo, Monyane and Dipheko. A number of selected short stories were selected from the three anthologies for a literary analysis, with special emphasis on characterization, which is one of the most important elements of. a successful short story. Few similar attempts have been made so far in Northern-Sotho. Therefore this study will hopefully make a valuable contribution to a better understanding of the short story in general and the Northern-Sotho short story in particular.
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"A Marxist critique of D.B.Z. Ntuli's short stories." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12635.
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"從「佳人」形象看《禮拜六》雜誌短篇翻譯小說." 2009. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894239.
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葉嘉."2009年8月".
"2009 nian 8 yue".
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-131).
Abstracts in Chinese and English.
Ye Jia.
緒論 --- p.2
Chapter 第一章 --- 《禮拜六》概貌 --- p.6
《禮拜六》的編者和作者 --- p.6
《禮拜六》的讀者 --- p.12
Chapter 第二章 --- 《禮拜六》的翻譯 --- p.19
《禮拜六》的譯者 --- p.19
翻譯小說的刊行 --- p.21
翻譯小說的原著來源 --- p.24
Chapter 第三章 --- 短篇翻譯小說中的「佳人」 --- p.28
「佳人」的形象 --- p.28
「佳人」的群像 --- p.45
兩個傳統：本國文學和晚清翻譯 --- p.69
Chapter 第四章 --- 翻譯與原創及圖像的對話 --- p.77
翻譯小說與原創小說 --- p.77
翻譯小說與圖像 --- p.87
Chapter 第五章 --- 「佳人」對現實世界的回應 --- p.94
「佳人」與婚戀自由 --- p.95
「愛國佳人」、「英雌」與國家危機 --- p.98
「悍婦」與女權運動 --- p.101
Chapter 第六章 --- 再看譯者 --- p.106
「佳人」的譯者：敘事學與翻譯學角度 --- p.106
另一種翻譯觀 --- p.110
另一種「啓蒙」 --- p.112
結論 --- p.123
參考書目 --- p.125
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"The Chinese short story of 1917-1927: patterns of influence." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1988. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5886232.
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Mayekiso, Almitta Cordelia Theresa-Marie. "Cultural and religious contrasts and symbiosis in D.B.Z. Ntuli's short stories." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8640.
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Dikgale, Leuba Peter. "An appraisal of some short stories from H.M. Nkadimeng's Selepe Gomela." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/6137.
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M.A.The primary aim of this study is to make an appraisal of some short stories from H.M Nkadimeng's Selepe Gomela. The concept "appraisal" means to evaluate or to estimate the value, amount, quality or success. Like other literary genres, a short story has certain requirements. There is a great diversity in the form of the short story, but some distinguishing elements are its plot structure, setting, theme, characterization and style. It is in the light of these elements that Nkadimeng's collection Selepe Gomela will be appraised. As the title of this study indicates, only six of the nine short stories will be analysed. They are as follows: Lehumo le tliga bokgoba. Ruri o mpolaile hlogo ye ntsho. Mahlajana a a lahletga a le rufi. Mogwera ke tlo fihla le wena mo o yago. Letuku ke mokadikatga. Ke belegetS'e dithaka. It is hoped that these six short stories will adequately measure Nkadimeng's success or failure in the light of the aforementioned elements. The method of analysis in this study will be based on the existing critiques and some of the outstanding works of short story writers in older literatures such as English, Afrikaans and other African Languages. Attention will also be focused on earlier short story collections of Northern Sotho writers to present - day ones.
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Snyman, Francina. "Meerstemmigheid as verteltegniek in enkele tekste van Hennie Aucamp." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/11421.
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Joyce, Robin Rosemary. "The troublesome woman : a study of Barbara Pym's novels and short stories." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149686.
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This dissertation offers a revisionist account of Barbara Pym's fiction written between 1935 and 1979. It is an analysis of Pym's published work and unpublished manuscripts. The thesis contends that Pym's writing has a significant feminist dimension in the way it represents women characters and challenges conventions about women's role. Pym was a consummate observer. It is argued that, consciously or unconsciously, she interpreted her observations from a feminist perspective. Unlike post-1970s writers, she was ill equipped to place her observations into a feminist framework. Their familiarity with a body of feminist theory gave their work recognisable markers through which to interpret their feminist understandings. Re-reading Pym's work through some of those understandings demonstrates that, although she has no apparent feminist framework, many of the issues she raises and the way in which she approaches them, are feminist. It is argued that Pym continues some of Jane Austen's practices in her use of irony and mockery; confounding expectations of male and female behaviour; uttering truisms to highlight inconsistencies in behaviour; and using a conforming woman to contrast with a troublesome woman. This thesis argues that the arguments for a feminist re-reading of Austen's work are legitimately applied to re-reading Pym's texts. Until the 1970s, Pym also wrote subversive texts in inhospitable circumstances. The familiar conservative village setting or context for much of her fiction is a cover for the challenging exploration of the unequal nature of relationships between women and men. In the reception of Pym's fiction, the village has often been mistaken for the whole interest of the work. This thesis contends that Pym's techniques provided a cosy cover for representations of women and men that disturbed conventional pieties about marriage and women's social role. Pym would not describe herself as a feminist writer. However, Pym gives women's stories credibility, supports the notion of spinsters who choose to remain unmarried and observes friendships between women and realises them in her fiction. Pym's work is examined against feminist criteria. She gives what I refer to as the ""troublesome woman"" a central place in her narratives; her work destabilises the argument that women have inherently different characteristics from men and that nurturing is central to women's lives; binary feminist ideas are a recurring feature; and she features some aspects of the politics of difference. Pym's work is also compared with Fay Weldon and Zoe Fairbairns' acknowledged feminist work. Pym's feminist approach culminates in her 1970s novels, An Academic Question and Quartet in Autumn. --provided by Candidate.
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Mbwera, Shereck. "Short stories for life : implications of the Canonisation of the Zimbabwe story-telling tradition, with special reference to selected Zimbabwean short stories." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22592.
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This study examines the myth of the surrogate power of canonicity by exposing the condition of liminality of the Zimbabwean short story genre within African literary canon. Building on the hypothesis that canonisation distorts literature the study postulates that literary canon produce predictable biases in construing the position of the short story. It fossilises and condenses the marginal genres to the extent that the existing canon repertoire hardly recognises them. The peripheral but de facto canon of the short story genre entertains a strong relationship of heteronomy to the mainstream/central canon. This thesis studies this relationship which determines canon formation within the African literary systems. It challenges the prevailing status quo in which the short story is polarised against other literary modes. The polarity creates a charged diametric force between the presumed canonical genres and the supposedly non-canonical short story mess. What lacks in this equation of conflicts is a sense of revival, reformation and continuity of the short story canon. The marginality of the short story canon is predicated on factors external to the genre itself, such as the influence of colonial institutions, collegiate institutions and publishers on writers. These factors pervade the dialectics of canonical marginality of the genre. The study, which argues that there is no unanimity on theory of canon, proposes Africulture, as both a theory and praxis of Afrocentricity, to function as an arbiter of short story literary reputation and consecration. The research reveres the autonomous value of African story-telling tradition which withstood the test and movement of time, in the process, surviving not only the historical-cum-cultural threat of colonial loss and canonical displacement, but also the throes and will power of new media and digital technologies. The ascendancy of the electronic short story genre to canonical status remains questionable. Critical controversies abound about the canonicity of electronic literature. The study employs Technauriture as a theoretical model for rethinking the transcendence of the electronic short story canon. The study concludes that, by virtue of its resilience, the short story ought to be treated as a wholesale and independent genre, worth of full scale appreciation.African Languages
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Hassan, Mohamad Mokhtar. "Key concepts in Usman Awang's short stories : developing a critical tradition." Phd thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144627.
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Mokhatle, Mohanuoa Evodia. "The short stories of S.M. Mofokeng and M.P. Pelo : a comparative study." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/14231.
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The purpose of the study is to review the short stories of S M Mofokeng and M P Pelo critically in an attempt to interrogate their skills and techniques with a view to establishing how they complement each other. Furthermore the approach to the study will be informed by an integrated comparison and contrasting process.
In the main, this study deals with how the authors who wrote at different time periods differ in style, albeit on the same discipline, the short story.
The study comprises the introductory section, which includes the aims, method of approach, forerunners of the short stories, biographical sketches of the authors and organisation of the study. The setting, functions of the setting and definitions of keywords are also discussed. Characterization and the method of presenting characters is explained and the elements of style are identified and dealt with. A summary of the findings as well as the conclusion of the study is provided.African Languages
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"中國女作家短篇小說中的新女性: 一九一七年至一九三七年." 1991. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5895430.
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霍玉英.稿本(電腦打印本)
Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學中國語言及文學學部.
Gao ben (dian nao da yin ben)
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 319-338).
Huo Yuying.
Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue Zhongguo yu yan ji wen xue xue bu.
提要
目錄 --- p.1-5
前言 --- p.1-4
Chapter 一 --- 論文的研究目的 --- p.1-2
Chapter 二 --- 論文的研究範圍與方法 --- p.2-4
Chapter 1. --- 研究範圍
Chapter 2. --- 研究方法
Chapter 第一章 --- 緒言 --- p.5-29
Chapter 第一節 --- 晚清「小說界革命」及小說中女性形象的描寫 --- p.5-12
Chapter 一 --- 晚清「小說界革命」
Chapter 二 --- 晚清小說中女性形象的描寫
Chapter 第二節 --- 易卜生戲劇、易卜生主義的紹介及其對新文學的影響 --- p.12-20
Chapter 一 --- 魯迅的〈摩羅詩力說〉
Chapter 二 --- 《玩偶之家》的上演與洪深的〈嬌妻〉
Chapter 三 --- 一九一八年《新青年》的「易卜生號」
Chapter 1. --- 胡適的〈易卜生主義〉
Chapter 2. --- 袁振英的〈易卜生傳〉
Chapter 四 --- 早期新文學對易卜生作品思想的攝取
Chapter 第三節 --- 中國女性的覺醒 --- p.20-28
Chapter 一 --- 中國近代女子教育的發展
Chapter 1. --- 梁啓超興辦女學與蔡元培開放大學女禁
Chapter 2. --- 西方教會學校在中國女子教育所扮演的角色
Chapter 二 --- 秋瑾與中國婦女解放
Chapter 三 --- 「五四」時期的新女性
Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 --- p.28-29
Chapter 第二章 --- 新文學創作的拓荒者-陳衡哲 --- p.30-50
Chapter 第一節 --- 埋沒了的「第一人」 --- p.30-38
Chapter 一 --- 新文學小說創作第一人
Chapter 二 --- 女作家第一人
Chapter 三 --- 陳衡哲與婦女解放
Chapter 1. --- 「個人人格」與「性別人格」
Chapter 2. --- 婚姻觀念
Chapter 第二節 --- 陳衡哲短篇小說中的新女性形象 --- p.38-50
Chapter 一 --- 追求理想的知識女性
Chapter 1. --- 理想的追求
Chapter 2. --- 情感的昇華
Chapter 3. --- 晚境的孤寂
Chapter 二 --- 撫育子女為己任的賢惠婦女
Chapter 三 --- 小結
Chapter 第三章 --- 愛的禮讚者-冰心 --- p.51-90
Chapter 第一節 --- 人生究竟 --- p.51-67
Chapter 一 --- 「五四」驚雷來天地
Chapter 二 --- 愛的哲學
Chapter 三 --- 冰心的婦女觀
Chapter 四 --- 冰心的創作觀
Chapter 1. --- 「真」的抒發
Chapter 2. --- 創作的陶冶與思想技巧的攝取
Chapter 第二節 --- 冰心短篇小說中的新女性形象 --- p.67-90
Chapter 一 --- 時代的犧牲者
Chapter 二 --- 中外兼賅的理想新女性
Chapter 三 --- 孤寂的落拓者
Chapter 四 --- 小結
Chapter 第四章 --- 「五四」思潮掀起的産兒-廬隠 --- p.91-137
Chapter 第一節 --- 敢¨ёł窠臼的新女性 --- p.91-104
Chapter 一 --- 「五四」的産兒
Chapter 二 --- 廬隱的婦女觀
Chapter 三 --- 廬隠隱的創作觀
Chapter 1. --- 靈機說
Chapter 2. --- 個性與生命的表現
Chapter 3. --- 創作養份的攝取
Chapter 四 --- 廬隱的「停滯」
Chapter 第二節 --- 廬隱短篇小說中的新女性形象 --- p.104-137
Chapter 一 --- 精神戀愛
Chapter 1. --- 「憂讒畏譏」的弱者
Chapter 2. --- 「不畏譏誚」的勇士
Chapter 二 --- 同性愛戀
Chapter 三 --- 情智夾缝的新女性
Chapter 四 --- 擱淺的人
Chapter 五 --- 革命的「娜拉」
Chapter 六 --- 小結
Chapter 第五章 --- 中國的「曼殊斐兒」---凌叔華 --- p.138-175
Chapter 第一節 --- 高門的精魂 --- p.138-147
Chapter 一 --- 酒後的一派？
Chapter 二 --- 凌叔華小說創作的取向
Chapter 1. --- 站在時代洪潮以外？
Chapter 2. --- 溫婉嫻靜中見剛健
Chapter 三 --- 凌叔華對婦女問題的見解
Chapter 第二節 --- 凌叔華短篇小說中的新女性形象 --- p.147-175
Chapter 一 --- 新舊時代交替的婦女
Chapter 二 --- 時代新女性
Chapter 1. --- 賢妻
Chapter 2. --- 家庭束縛下的犧牲
Chapter i --- 沉悶的家庭生活
Chapter ii --- 家庭生活的煎迫
Chapter 三 --- 規矩以外的變奏者
Chapter 1. --- 同性愛戀
Chapter 2. --- 「娜拉」的踵武者
Chapter 3. --- 孤寂的人
Chapter 四 --- 小結
Chapter 第六章 --- 拔心不死的「卷葹」---馮沅君 --- p.176-197
Chapter 第一節 --- 大膽無畏的代言者 --- p.176-183
Chapter 一 --- 敢作敢言
Chapter 二 --- 馮沅君的文學創作觀及其作品的時代意義
Chapter 1. --- 文學創作觀
Chapter i --- 「為人生而藝術」？為藝術而藝術」？
Chapter ii --- 情感的抒發
Chapter 2. --- 作品的時代意義
Chapter 第二節 --- 馮沅君短篇小說中的新女性形象 --- p.183-197
Chapter 一 --- 不得自由我寧死
Chapter 二 --- 「靈」的追求
Chapter 三 --- 親子之愛與男女之愛的掙扎者
Chapter 四 --- 小結
Chapter 第七章 --- 黑暗中摸索的「莎菲」---丁玲 --- p.198-231
Chapter 第一節 --- 「近代女子」的姿態 --- p.198-208
Chapter 一 --- 從ModernGirl到「革命女性」
Chapter 1. --- 一顆炸彈
Chapter 2. --- ModernGirl
Chapter 3. --- 走向革命？
Chapter 二 --- 丁玲的文學創作觀
Chapter 1. --- 一九三零年以前
Chapter 2. --- 一九三零年以後
Chapter 第二節 --- 丁玲短篇小說中的新女性形象 --- p.208-231
Chapter 一 --- 都市的惶惑者
Chapter 二 --- 同性愛戀
Chapter 三 --- 「革命女性」
Chapter 四 --- 新時代的落後者
Chapter 五 --- 小結
Chapter 第八章 --- 結論 --- p.232-248
Chapter 一 --- 婦女觀的形成
Chapter 1. --- 西風的衝擊
Chapter 2. --- 家庭背景與學校教育
Chapter 二 --- 新女性形象的類型
Chapter 1. --- 精神戀愛的禮讚者
Chapter 2. --- 時代的犧牲者
Chapter 3. --- 賢妻良母
Chapter 4. --- 娜拉的踵武者
Chapter 5. --- 同性愛戀的追求者
Chapter 6. --- 孤寂的落拓者
Chapter 三 --- 結語
注釋（一至八章） --- p.249-307
附錄（一至六） --- p.308-318
中文參考書目及論文目錄 --- p.319-335
英文參考書目及論文目錄 --- p.336-338
後記 --- p.339
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Zulu, Timothy Mhlasilwa Badwini. "A comparative study of short stories by W.M.B. Mkhize and M.J. Mngadi with special reference to exposition, characterisation, style and themes." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/4664.
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This dissertation makes an investigation of two short story collections by the pioneering IsiZulu writers in this genre, W M B Mkhize and M J Mngadi with particular reference to exposition, characterisation, style and themes. The theoretical framework that has been used has been mainly the structuralist approach though others such as historical biographical and moral philosophical, Marxist or formalism and new criticism have also been used. This study consists of six chapters; the first chapter serves as the general introduction to the whole dissertation. The authors' biographical sketches have been given. The discussion of the methodology, definition of the important concepts, parallel works in isiZulu short stories, the chapter outline, theoretical framework and the conclusion make up the rest of the chapter. Chapter 2 focuses on exposition. Different kinds of expositions as used by authors have been dealt with and the effects they have on the readers. The different expositions have been discussed as the authors use them. These include the variety of dialogues and monologues. The others are character, event and nature type of expositions. Chapter 3 deals with characterisation. Naming, plausibility of characters, different kinds of
characters and the educative value they have on the readers has been studied. Major and minor characters have been discussed in this chapter.
Chapter 4 concerns itself with style. This includes diction, phrases and sentences, the use of proverbs and figures of speech have been analysed. Precise word selection and symbolism have been investigated in the authors' works. Chapter 5 in this research has to do with themes. The study of themes as covered by authors has been covered. The research has confined itself to general, specific and presentation of themes as the serious concern of writers in sending messages to the readers. Chapter 6 deals with general conclusion. It has finalised the evaluation and given the final overview and conclusion. Lastly it has given suggestions for some further research on the study of Mkhize and Mngadi's short stories.Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003.
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Wasosa, Wellington. "Deviance and moralisiation as portrayed in selected post-independence Shona novels and short stories." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19842.
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This thesis is an exegesis of the portrayal of deviance in selected post-independence Shona fictional works. The analysis is done within the context of moralisation in Shona literature. The forms of deviant behaviour discussed include prostitution, homosexuality, crime and violence and negligence of duty within families. The fictional works are Mapenzi (1999), Totanga Patsva (2003), Ndozviudza Aniko? (2006), Ndafa Here? (2008), and Makaitei? (2008). All the fictional works are set during the period of the Zimbabwe Crisis and this becomes the context of the criticism of the manner in which deviance is handled by the writers. Particular attention is paid on the causes and solutions to deviance, images of deviants and the implications of such images in attempting to understand the realities of deviant behaviour. The research adopts an eclectic approach through a combination of literary and sociological theories to unpack issues concerning the litigious subject of deviance. The research fully acknowledges that deviance is a fluid and controversial concept as it varies with cultural frameworks and historical periods of certain societies. Thus the research has endeavoured to locate deviance with the ambit of Shona existential philosophy and the period of the Zimbabwe crisis. The research advances the argument that no human being is inherently deviant but there are certain circumstances and eventualities that are responsible for the development of such a personality. Therefore deviance herein is viewed as a response to the situation and in the case of this research it is the crisis which then is responsible for nurturing the people into deviance. In most of the situations, deviance is shown to be essentially a survival strategy by those who engage in it. Prostitution, homosexuality and crime have been shown to be largely economic necessities as the collapsing economy during the period of the crisis came with amorphous challenges and people resorted to anti-social behaviour in an attempt to live contenting lives. With regards to prostitution, homosexuality and crime, the writers have to a larger extent been able to contextualise deviance in terms of the crisis although Mabasa has been shown to display some ambivalence in his treatment of prostitutes in Mapenzi and Ndafa Here? There are instances he castigates prostitutes as social renegades which somehow weakens his vision. Apart from this, it has also been argued that deviant behaviour can be a result of the frustrations people face as they battle the vagaries of life. Violence and negligence of duty within families is argued to be a consequence of the frustrations from the poverty brought by the crisis and the movement into the diaspora as this has its own challenges that disempower people to carry out their duties as sanctioned by culture. Also, the research advances the argument that oral literature continues to impact on written literature and one such area is that of moralisation which continues to be a major priority of the writers. Except for the authors of the short stories in Totanga Patsva, moralisation on issues to do with deviance has been done in an enlightening way as the writers unearth the underlying causes of deviant behaviour and these are found in society and not individuals. The writers of the short stories have shown to be largely influenced by feminism and erroneously blame male deviants for the problems faced by women instead of explaining men`s behaviour in the context colonialism and neo-colonialism which brought various challenges related to gender relations in Africa not experienced hitherto. The direction in terms of qualitative development which Shona literature is taking in post-independence era is positive as the writers are shown to be tackling sensitive political, social and economic issues and their impact on the human condition.African Languages
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"Plot exposition in D.P. Thulo's O Hopola Jwang?" Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14329.
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"論新筆記小說對中國新時期現實主義的重探與跨越: A study of the "new anecdote" and realism in the new era of China." 2015. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6115618.
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自八十年代始，中國大陸文藝雜誌相繼出現一批帶筆記風格或直接以筆記體寫作的短篇小說。研究者不僅探討此等作品轉化運用傳統文體的寫作現象及美學特徵，更為配合「新時期」之文藝氣象，進而以「新筆記小說」的文類加以歸納，突出其「舊瓶新酒」的現代意義。新筆記小說與筆記傳統的連繫，無疑為論者提供最佳範本，展開「傳統」與「現代」對話和融合的可能性的探討。相關討論嘗試為新筆記小說爭取文學史位置，卻無法脫離「新」與「舊」、「傳統」與「現代」簡單的二分框架，弱化了這些短篇小說作為探索新時期寫作出路的尖兵角色。本文重新提出新筆記小說的研究，認為是理解八十年代文藝界重新定義、拓展現實主義和小說實踐的關鍵。新筆記小說作家結合筆記與小說的特性，其實已觸及敘事的真實與虛構的辯證，在中國的紀實傳統中力尋書寫現實的可能。本文分別以汪曾祺 (1920-1997)、林斤瀾 (1923-2009)和鍾阿城 (1949- )的新筆記小說為研究個案，探討三位作家如何借用筆記小說的文體結構和敘事特質，形構現實主義小說的另類形式，突破意識形態對「現實主義」小說的制約。與此同時，當「現實主義」在「現代性的追求」壓力下面臨一元性的崩解，新筆記小說作家堅持「擬真」的嘗試，顯得意味深長，本文將作進一步的討論。Since the 1980s, a number of fictions written in the note-form have emerged in literary magazines on Mainland China. These works were put under a genre named "New Anecdote" (XinBiji Xiaoshuo, 新筆記小說) which implies the transformation from the classical anecdote to the modern anecdote. Researchers put emphasis mainly on the classical aesthetic characteristics found in the new form of the anecdote. However, it is observed that their studies were limited to the simple framework based on the binary oppositions of "old" and "new" as well as "traditional" and "modern". Such discussion had obscured the actual role of the new anecdotes being taken in the particular historical context of China in the New Era.
The form of "New Anecdote" is, in fact, a fusion of note and fiction, which can possibly hit the border of realistic and imaginary narratives. The practice of "New Anecdote" is closely related to the development of Realism in China in the Twentieth Century. Based on the discussion about "reality" from the writers of new anecdotes, this thesis attempts to point out that the "New Anecdote" is a key to understand how the writers of the time re-defined the realistic writings and their relationship to the society in China in the 1980s.
This thesis gives an in-depth analysis of the new anecdotes written by three contemporary writers, namely Wang Zengqi 汪曾祺 (1920-1997), Lin Jinlan 林斤瀾 (1923-2009) and Zhong Acheng (Ah Cheng) 鍾阿城 (1949- ). It will illustrate how these three writers make use of the structure and the narrative style of the anecdote to re-create new forms of realistic fiction, and to achieve their aims of breaking through the ideological constraints of Realism. Meanwhile,since realistic fiction has been considered as an antiquated and declining form under the development of aesthetic modernity in China in the 1980s, it is crucial to profoundly discuss the essence of the new anecdotes with reference to the socio-historical background of the New Era.
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Parallel title from English abstract.
Thesis (M.Phil.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-131).
Abstracts also in English.
Wang Suyun.
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Moss, Margaret Loughery. "Prelude to Fame: Trauma Theory in the Early Short Fiction of Ernest Hemingway." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2768.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)While it is commonly acknowledged that the primal traumatic events of Hemingway’s time as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I had a profound influence on his works of fiction, there has been relatively little exploration of the notion that the “working through” which occurred in the recovery from his own personal trauma manifests a complex and interwoven relationship with the writing process. This is certainly not unknown territory for scholars; when Hemingway first embarked upon the earliest fiction writing of his professional career, biographical research indicates he was once again enduring a traumatic experience of sorts. Yet formal trauma theory has rarely been applied to the study of Hemingway’s most intensely autobiographical short fiction. It is my contention that the “working through” of Hemingway’s writing process demonstrated in his published and unpublished Nick Adams stories was prompted by both his defining war-time trauma experience and his later, more private hardships.
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Crous, Elsa. "L’enjeu du jeu dans Risibles amours de Milan Kundera." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8301.
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M.A. (French)Milan Kundera is known for being almost obsessive in guarding his privacy, and in the manner in which he controls any translations of his writings. Despite such strictures, the works of this former exile from Czechoslovakia, who now resides in France and writes in French, have been translated and disseminated to a worldwide audience of readers. It is not only his fictional writings which have earned him kudos, but also his ventures into non-fiction, viz. literary criticism. Having April 1st as a birth date was to have a dramatic impact on Kundera, who later declared that this significant date, which is frequently associated with humorous pranks, pushed him to assume the role of philosophical fool in his writings. It is the different manifestations of games which come under scrutiny in this study, as represented in the seven short stories which make up the anthology Laughable Loves (Risibles Amours). Following an investigation of the differences between ancient and modern perception of what qualifies as ‘play’ or ‘games’, the games theories of reputed authors such as Johan Huizinga, Roger Caillois and Stuart Brown are used to form the theoretical basis of this part of the study. The research is further augmented by Eric Berne’s theory on the psychology underlying the games people play, as it manifests in interpersonal relationships. However, no study of games would be complete without investigating the dark side of play, when the game is corrupted through the actions of the players, referees or spectators, or when what starts as a battle of wills spirals into what could best be described as war games. In the pages of this anthology the reader is introduced to various characters who dare to think they can manipulate other people or events, but end up being played by those very people, or by circumstances beyond their control.
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Cooper, Lucille. "Is there a woman in the text? : a feminist exploration of Katherine Mansfield's search for authentic selves in a selection of short stories." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2410.
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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), British Modernist writer whose search for authentic selves in the lives of the characters in her short stories, is reflected in her innovative style of writing in which she examines the interior consciousness of their minds.
Mansfield questions the inauthentic lives of the characters, revealing that the roles they play are socially imposed forcing them to hide their true selves behind masks.
The stories which have been chosen for this study focus on women characters (and men also) who grapple with societal prescriptions for accepted actions, and are rendered mute as a result. The women characters include all age groups and social classes. Some are young and impressionable (The Tiredness of Rosabel, The Little Governess and The Garden Party), others are married and older (Bliss, Prelude and Frau Brechenmacher attends a wedding ), while there are also middle-aged women in Miss Brill and The Life of Ma Parker.English Studies
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Andrews, Chad Michael. ""Minds will grow perplexed": The Labyrinthine Short Fiction of Steven Millhauser." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4023.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Steven Millhauser has been recognized for his abilities as both a novelist and a writer of short fiction. Yet, he has evaded definitive categorization because his fiction does not fit into any one category. Millhauser’s fiction has defied clean categorization specifically because of his regular oscillation between the modes of realism and fantasy. Much of Millhauser’s short fiction contains images of labyrinths: wandering narratives that appear to split off or come to a dead end, massive structures of branching, winding paths and complex mysteries that are as deep and impenetrable as the labyrinth itself. This project aims to specifically explore the presence of labyrinthine elements throughout Steven Millhauser’s short fiction. Millhauser’s labyrinths are either described spatially and/or suggested in his narrative form; they are, in other words, spatial and/or discursive. Millhauser’s spatial labyrinths (which I refer to as ‘architecture’ stories) involve the lengthy description of some immense or underground structure. The structures are fantastic in their size and often seem infinite in scale. These labyrinths are quite literal. Millhauser’s discursive labyrinths demonstrate the labyrinthine primarily through a forking, branching and repetitive narrative form. Millhauser’s use of the labyrinth is at once the same and different than preceding generations of short fiction. Postmodern short fiction in the 1960’s and 70’s used labyrinthine elements to draw the reader’s attention to the story’s textuality. Millhauser, too, writes in the experimental/fantastic mode, but to different ends. The devices of metafiction and realism are employed in his short fiction as agents of investigating and expressing two competing visions of reality. Using the ‘tricks’ and techniques of postmodern metafiction in tandem with realistic detail, Steven Millhauser’s labyrinthine fiction adjusts and reapplies the experimental short story to new ends: real-world applications and thematic expression.