Dissertations / Theses: 'Short story'

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Tucker, Katherine. "Comer: A Short Story." Ohio University Art and Sciences Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouashonors1525185196109174.

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Guimaraes, Jose Flavio Nogueira. "The short-short story: a new literary genre." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-826GX4.

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This thesis proposes a study of a new postmodern prose fiction genre, the short-short story. Considerations of generic classifications and boundaries are followed by an historical overview and analysis of short fiction from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, especially under the influence of the Russian Anton Chekhov, who is regarded as the father of the modern short story. The postmodern short-short story is seen as emerging from this trend, a hybrid genre with characteristics of the narrative language of other prose genres such as the short story and the journalistic writing. The cluster of features, such as condensation, lack of character development, surprise endings, etc., which is seen as characteristic of the short-short story are discussed, and ten examples are summarized and analyzed, including two traditional short stories for contrast. It is seen that the short-short story may be further broken into what is called 'the new sudden fiction', and the even shorter and more radical 'flash fiction'.
Esta dissertação se debruça sobre o estudo de um novo gênero da ficção literária pós-moderna o mini-conto. Discussões sobre classificações genéricas e limites são seguidas por uma análise e visão geral histórica da ficção curta do século XIX ao XXI, especialmente sob a influência do russo Antón Pávlovitch Tchekhov, o qual é considerado o pai do conto moderno. O mini-conto pós-moderno é retratado como que tendo ascendido dessa corrente, um gênero híbrido com características da linguagem narrativa de outros gêneros da prosa literária tais como o conto e a escrita jornalística. Um grupo de características, tais como concisão ou brevidade, ausência de desenvolvimento das personagens, finais surpreendentes, etc., as quais são vistas como traços do mini-conto, são sugeridas, e dez exemplos são resumidos e analisados, inclusive dois contos tradicionais para efeito de comparação. Considera-se que o mini-conto provavelmente se desdobrará no que hoje é chamado the new sudden fiction, e na sua outra versão ainda mais curta e radical denominada flash fiction.

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Mathieson, Andy. "The accident a short story /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/644.

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Malatji, Reneilwe. "Love Interrupted (Short story anthology)." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6004.

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This collection of stories focuses on struggles between black South African men and women. Several of the stories explore how the rise of the affluent and powerful black woman is redefining relationships. Other stories in the collection describe women who do not know how to free themselves from their subservient role, or do not want to. Issues of interracial relations between blacks and whites in contemporary South Africa also feature in most of the stories.

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Norledge, Jessica. "Reading the dystopian short story." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/17537/.

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This thesis presents the first cognitive-poetic account of the dystopian short story and investigates the experience of dystopian reading. In doing so, it takes a mixed-methods approach that draws upon various types of experimental and naturalistic reader response data in support of my own rigorous stylistic analysis. The study focuses upon four contemporary short stories published within the last ten years: George Saunders’ ([2012] 2014g) ‘The Semplica Girl Diaries’; Paolo Bacigalupi’s ([2008] 2010a) ‘Pump Six’; Genevieve Valentine’s ([2009] 2012) ‘Is this your day to join the Revolution?’; and Adam Marek’s ([2009] 2012b) ‘Dead Fish’. These texts were selected for their focus upon socially relevant thematic concerns, their cultural resonance and their inherent didacticism – attributes which I argue determine the dystopian reading experience. In moving beyond the periodic demarcations imposed on dystopian narrative by traditional literary criticism, this study argues for a reader-led discussion of genre that takes into account reader subjectivity and personal conceptualisations of prototypicality. My research therefore offers a new contribution to the area of dystopian literary criticism, as well as advancing research in cognitive poetics and empirical stylistics more broadly. Framed within Text World Theory (Gavins, 2007; Werth, 1999), my thesis builds upon existing research and advances text-world-theoretical discussions of world-building, characterisation and reading experience. In particular, I argue for a more nuanced discussion of paratextual text-worlds and propose a systematic account of social cognition that can be applied in Text-World-Theory terms. As an original piece of stylistic analysis, this thesis challenges traditional conceptions of genre and aims to extend existing discussions of the emotional experience of literary reading. As a result, several contributions are also made to the field of empirical stylistics, as I test multiple reader response methods and combine key findings from each case study to present a multifaceted account of dystopian reading.

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Yenser, Helen E. "LINDA LAND: A Short Story." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1001.

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“LINDA LAND” is a short story about a man who created an amusement park based on Hell, and his teenage son, who has developed a crush on the preacher’s daughter. Though there are many real-life muses that inspired the story—like Simon Rodia, the artist behind the Watts Towers—the four main literary sources are William Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet,” Karen Russell’s novel, “Swamplandia!,” Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Mirror,” and Charlie Kaufman’s screenplay, “Adaptation.”

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Gulli, Simone. "Going Green: A Short Story." Thesis, The University of Sydney Business School, Discipline of Finance, 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29974.

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This paper investigates whether firms’ degree of environmental sustainability motivates short selling investment strategies. This paper also addresses whether short sellers successfully target firms with poor future performance, and whether this performance is driven by previous environmental activity. By using a unique panel of 3,466 publicly listed firms in the U.S. between 2002 and 2021, this study is the first of its kind to provide evidence that a significant, negative relation exists between short interest and past environmental performance. This study additionally finds that firm performance and past short interest are inversely related, and firm performance and past environmental activity are positively related. These results are attributed to recent surges in environmental activism by market participants, where corporations must implement environmentally sustainable business practices to ensure positive future performance in an increasingly green society.

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Marotti, Heather. "Numbers: A Short Story Collection." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/245040.

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Howe, Jeff. ""Predators" a short story collection." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/32025.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University. Please note: creative writing theses are permanently embargoed in OpenBU. No public access is forecasted for these. To request private access, please click on the locked Download file link and fill out the appropriate web form.
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Glenn, Samuel Jonathon. "Modern Love and Other Stories with an Introduction to the Genre and Scholarship Including a Survey of the Text." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1398945327.

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Cormick, Craig, and n/a. "Unwritten histories : a short story collection." University of Canberra. Creative Communication & Culture Studies, 1999. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060629.161724.

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Phillips, Jacqueline Roma. "The short story: theory and practice." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493263.

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This thesis combines creative and critical writing in an inquiry into the short story as a distinctive form with its own narrative devices. The combination of creative and critical writing constitutes a discourse of poetics - that of a writer writing about her own creative work, and that of others. Therefore I would consider the entire thesis to be a poetics of practice. 1 am concerned with the form of the short story rather than with content although content will be referred to as appropriate to the analysis of my own compositional poetics, and that of other writers. It is intended that the collection of short stories reflect my own creative development and are therefore arranged in the order in which they were written.

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Roettjer, Jennifer. "Short story in Revelation 4-5." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p090-0352.

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Simpson, Richard. "How to Tell a Story: Mark Twain and the Short Story Genre." TopSCHOLAR®, 2007. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/378.

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This study examines the short fiction of Mark Twain in relation to major theories concerning the short story genre. Despite his popularity as a novelist and historical figure, Twain has not been recognized as a major figure in the development of the short story genre. This study attempts to show that the short fiction produced by Twain deserves greater regard within studies specific to the short story, and calls for a reconsideration of Twain as a dynamic figure in the development of the genre. The introductory chapter lays the groundwork for understanding how the short story genre has developed since its inception as an actual literary genre, and outlines the existing Twain scholarship concerning his short fiction. Differences between the traditional and modern forms of the short story are defined, and Twain's chronological position in the evolution of the genre is briefly explained. Chapter one examines two of Twain's short stories—"The $30,000 Bequest" and "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg"—in relation to the compositional theories of the first major short story theorist: Edgar Allan Poe. This chapter shows how these two Twain stories abide by Poe's rules concerning unity of effect. Chapter two explores Twain's "Journalism in Tennessee" and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" in relation to the modern short story, and examines these two stories through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of genre. This chapter closely examines Twain's use of various dialects to show that these two stories contain an unrealized complexity and are very closely related to the ostensibly "plotless" short fiction that developed in the twentieth century. The final chapter takes Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger" and examines it with respect to both old and new theories of the short story genre. This chapter shows how "The Mysterious Stranger" fuses both traditional and modern forms of the short story genre. The conclusion to this chapter reiterates the argument for a greater appreciation of Twain as a short story artist.

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Gagnon, Lucie. "De la nouvelle au recueil : la singularité d'un genre." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59943.

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This thesis on literary writing consists of a critic and of a fiction.
The critic entitled De la nouvelle au recueil: la singularite d'un genre is the result of a detailed research regarding the literary characteristics of the short story. The last part of the text is devoted to a study on the collection.
This essay is followed by the creation Aspirations. This collection contains thirteen stories, of which twelve are moments of quiet cruelty in every day life.
The characters in Aspirations attempt to resist silently to the aspiring power of certain events. Most of them keep up struggling for life.

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Whitehead, Sarah. "Make it short : Edith Wharton's modernist practices as a short story writer." Thesis, Kingston University, 2009. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20261/.

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In this thesis I argue for a repositioning of Edith Wharton’s short stories in relation to both the twentieth century and modernism. Whilst Wharton was acclaimed for her novels, I argue that the short story, the genre in which she felt most proficient as a writer, yet is still habitually overlooked by critics, presents Wharton at her most experimental and "renovat(ive)", to use her own words. I consider how the restrictive confines of the short story, both in terms of its brevity and commercial value, particularly in relation to the magazine market, were exploited by Wharton to her own advantage, and how her literary craft flourished in such a contained form. I do not argue for a re-envisioning of Wharton as a modernist writer, rather for recognition of her modernist tendencies both in terms of her narrative technique and her interaction with the literary marketplace. Accordingly this thesis is divided into two parts; the first considers Wharton's poetics: her use of myth, modes of narration, creation of narrative gaps, and her notable use of ellipsis points (closely associated by critics such as Henry with modernist writing). The second part of this thesis explores Wharton's modernist practices outside her texts. Here I investigate Wharton's short story magazine publication history, outlining the uneasy balance between her challenges to editorial policy in both the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and her businesslike attitude toward the profession of writing. Finally, given recent critical reassessments of modernism and its relationship with both the short story and the magazine industry, I argue for the timely recognition of the distinctly modernist nature of Wharton's popular, mass marketed short fiction.

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Ng, Ting-fai. "A linguistic approcah to Cantonese story puns." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41004905.

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Buchholz, Sabine. "Narrative Innovationen in der modernistischen britischen Short Story /." Trier : WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/364990716.pdf.

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Boddy, Kasia Jane. "The form of the contemporary American short story." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281926.

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Haidrani, Salim Ullah. "The short story in Pakistan-Panjab 1947-1980." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503479.

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The thesis examines the development of the short story in Pakistan Panjab from 1947 to 1980. While the main focus is on short stories by the major Panjab-born authors of the period writing in Urdu, the principal literary language of the province, attention is also paid to the emergence of short story writing in the rival local languages, Panjabi and Siraiki. The first part of the thesis consists of three general chapters designed to establish the necessary overall context for the subsequent discussion of the work of individual writers. These chapters deal in turn (1) with the successive regimes which have governed Pakistan, with particular reference to their often abrupt shifts in cultural policy; (2) with the complex patterns of language use in Pakistan, especially the implications for the status of Urdu caused by the immigration of the Urdu-speaking Muhajirs from India and the subsequent rise of local nationalism in the country's provinces; and (3) with a survey of the place of literature in Pakistani culture and society, particularly the role of the short story. The second part deals with the work of leading writers and schools. Separate chapters (4-8) are successively devoted to the description and analysis of the Urdu stories of Ahmad Madim Qasimi, Ashfaq Ahmad, Bano Qudsia, Mas'ud Ash'ar and Anwar Sajjad, while chapter 9 covers the Urdu stories of the Young writers of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad school, chapters 10 is devoted to stories written in Panjabi during the period, and chapter 11 to the still more recent emergence of short stories in Siraiki. A brief concluding chapter is followed by a comprehensive bibliography of the primary and secondary sources which, together with interviews conducted with the writers whose work is dealt with here, from the basis of this thesis.

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Ayala, Jennifer Rose. "Postmodernism and myth love story, a short novella /." Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida State University, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/lib/digcoll/undergraduate/honors-theses/244584.

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Cox, Ailsa. "Time and subjectivity in contemporary short fiction." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1999. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8428.

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The aesthetics of contemporary short fiction have been shaped by its ability to engage with time as a boundless process of becoming. Historically and philosophically, the emergence of the short story as a specific genre may be related to modernist concepts of time and subjectivity. 'Real' time, as it is experienced by the subject, is a flux, in which past and present co-mingle. In Bergsonian terms, an unquantifiable 'duration' 1S contrasted with Newtonian concepts of absolute time as a succession of discrete units. As Hanson has argued, narrative in the short story 1S structured by a seemingly random association of 1mages rather than linear causality. I contextualize the short story genre, historically and culturally, examining texts by George Egerton and Katherine Mansfield before moving on to the main focus of my thesis, which is texts by Alice Munro and Grace Paley. These also present a dynamic reality, within time as a continuum. However, while utilizing modernist techniques, they also subvert them, problematizing concepts of transcendence. The blurring of the boundaries between autobiographical discourse, orality and fiction is used to destabilize notions of a unified subjectivity and of fixed truth. My analysis applies Bakhtinian theories on language and subject formation to investigate this presentation of time as endless self-renewal. I also draw on Genette's narrative theory and introduce Kristevan theory to investigate the speaking subject from a psychoanalytical viewpoint, with particular reference to the gendered subject. The Bakhtinian concept of the chronotope enables the theorization of the space-time nexus as the foundation of generic specificity; I offer a generic chronotope for the short story, which is grounded in the present moment. An examination of the fiction-making process, through a discussion of my own short stories, concludes this discussion of the short story as a form of contact with undefinable reality.

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Hildebrand, Cassidy T. R. "Translation and Analysis of Suzanne Myre’s Short Story Collection Mises à mort: A Case Study in Translating the Short Story Cycle." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24019.

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In translation studies, the short story cycle has been largely overlooked as an object of study in prose translation. This thesis serves as a case study on the practice of translating the short story cycle, using my translation of Suzanne Myre’s 2007 short story collection Mises à mort as a paradigm. The thesis comprises four sections: the first is devoted to a discussion of the short story cycle, a modernist form of the short story collection. It is a hybrid subgenre, balancing elements of both the traditional short story collection, characterized by heterogeneity, and the novel, characterized by homogeneity. In this first section, I examine a few definitions of the cycle, then I discuss the subgenre according to a four-part criteria established by Gerald Lynch: ‘character,’ ‘place,’ ‘theme’ and ‘style or tone.’ In the second section, I provide an analysis of Mises à mort within the framework of short story cycle criteria; an examination of the characters, setting, overarching themes and stylistic parallels serves to demonstrate how and why I ultimately interpreted the collection as a short story cycle. The third section is my complete translation of the work. In the fourth and final section, I discuss what implications my interpretation of Mises à mort as a cycle had for my translation thereof, and what unique challenges it presented. I compare my first draft, produced in the mindset that I was translating a traditional collection, to my final draft, revised to accommodate the cohesiveness of the work. This thesis serves to demonstrate how a translator can accommodate for the dual nature of the short story cycle, simultaneously maintaining the discreteness and interconnectedness of the stories.

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Cailes, John. "Following the game." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1016.

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This thesis consists of a collection of seventeen short stories and a critical essay of approximately 8000 words. Selected stories from this collection are discussed at varying length in the essay. Within the essay I have attempted to look at- and in one case in particular to demonstrate - the operation of some of the theories put forward by several literary critics- notably, Roland Barthes, Wolfgang lser, Mikhail Bakhtin and, to a lesser degree directly, Norman Holland. Not all of my stories were written with the specific purpose of having them conform to or elucidate a model: rather, to preserve what to my mind is implied in the term 'creative writing', only a few - one, perhaps - came to life as a technical exercise and the process of that tale's evolution is referenced in the essay.

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Xiong, Wei. "Nothing Sweet Nothing: A Collection of Short Fiction." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1188308957.

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Verdone, Martina. "Le désordre créateur : développement, validation et essai d'un outil pédagogique papier-crayon pour favoriser la créativité dans la nouvelle littéraire /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1995. http://theses.uqac.ca.

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Johnston, Pamela Emily. "A girl like you /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9974643.

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Chacko, Mathew. "Broadcast from the flood and other stories /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9999277.

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Rogers, Evelyn Somers. "The discontinuity of history : stories real and otherwise /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3036852.

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West, Patrick L. "The world-swimmers." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1999. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1251.

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This thesis has two main parts. The first comprises a collection of nineteen short stories, entitled The World-Swimmers. The second takes the form of an exegesis, 'Framing Fictions & Fictional Friendships,' which provides a critical commentary on the collection, and on the nexus of text and context. The stories vary in length from approximately 1,000 to over 4,000 words. Various writing styles are used to develop fictional explorations of a range of themes, which include: the relationship between the natural and the human worlds, the imbrication of local place and international space, obsession, entrapment, and desire. However, perhaps the most salient theme is that of the continuous interplay between ideas and daily life. The exegesis begins with a consideration of the concept of the artistic frame. A general theoretical analysis of framing, inspired by the chapter 'Parergon' in Jacques Derrida's The Truth in Painting, provides an anchor for more particular speculations about a few of the frames, no doubt actually many in number, which close over the unstable boundary of The World-Swimmers. The exegesis also argues that friendship-especially in its non-intuitive Forms-constitutes a stimulating 'matrix of thought' for considering the relationships that my collection has, to its thematic concerns, to the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges, and to certain literary genres. I suggest that The World- Swimmers is primarily a magical-realist text, which nevertheless presents many of the traits of postmodern writing.

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Schubert, Susanne. "Die Kürzestgeschichte Struktur und Wirkung : Annäherung an die Short Short Story unter dissonanztheoretischen Gesichtspunkten /." Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39923752g.

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Bertoncini-Zúbková, Elena. "`Nyoko-Nyoko`: an unpublished short story by Saad Yahyai." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91601.

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Saad Yahya, born in Zanzibar in 1939, studied architecture and town planning in Great Britain and in Canada; since 1968 he has lectured at the University of Nairobi. He portrays everyday life of typical inhabitants of Zanzibar and Nairobi, displaying a penetrating understanding of their problems and of their state of mind, linked with a remarkable stylistic ability. He is an acute observer who presents his characters with humour and irony, but also with a profound insight. Furthermore, in his stories, under the surface of everyday activities there is always some hidden antagonism or passion, never spelled out, but only alluded to. Several years ago Yahya sent me the manuscript of two other stories which I hoped to translate and publish in Italy, but ultimately it was not possible. I have included one of them, called Nyoko-nyoko and consisting in five typewritten pages, in the syllabus of my literary courses in Naples and in Paris. It is a rare - if not unique - Swahili story in which the main character is a Mzungu, a white man: the British governor of an imaginary East-Aftican country called Nyalia, who has to abandon his post suddenly for unspecified reasons. He regrets to must leave the country he has learned to know and to like; however, behind the mask of liberality and tolerance is hidden a self-conceited racist. The story describes his last day in Africa after a long stay.

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Russell, Paul Andrew March. "Early modernism and the English short story, 1890-1920." Thesis, University of Kent, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264598.

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Hassaine, F. "Moore, Joyce and the modernist Anglo-Irish short story." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372957.

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Crane, David Jonathan. "Sudleigh : place and politics in the modern short story." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/22894/.

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This thesis consists of a short story collection and an accompanying critical commentary. The story collection comprises ten linked stories all set in a fictional small town in southern England: the eponymous Sudleigh. The cycle examines ordinary lives within that landscape. While the stories may vary in their naturalism, they are linked by a common setting and a scrutiny of the sociological and political nuances of small-town England. The accompanying critical commentary examines, through the lens of writing technique, how writers have used the realist short story not just to portray snapshots of the human condition but also to engage with the issues central to the societies they inhabit. Through the analysis and discussion of various stories by such writers as Chekhov, Joyce, Mansfield, Hemingway, Carver, Simpson, Kelman and Munro, the four chapters respond to several questions. How can the writer renew the realist short story and make it relevant? How can the writer make the short story both represent and interrogate reality? What role does the evocation of place play in the realist short story and its capacity to construct socio-political implication? It also explores the capacity of the story cycle to expand the short story’s socio-political potential, and the suitability of its fragmentary form to portray a fragmented society. In light of the modern, realist short story tradition, the final chapter offers a detailed reflective commentary on the processes and choices made in the writing of Sudleigh. As well as exploring such issues as voice, style, compression, structure, endings, editing practice, constructing the fictive town and binding the cycle, the reflective commentary also weighs the nature of my own socio-political engagements, and my efforts to renew the form.

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Ells, Amy Louise. "Notes Towards Recovery : a short story collection and exegesis." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2015. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/703504/.

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My practice-based PhD consists of a creative work, Notes Towards Recovery, and an exegesis discussing my writing process. Notes Towards Recovery comprises twenty-one stories set in Canada, thematically linked through an exploration of absence and loss, in particular the spaces left in a family unit when one member is missing or has left through divorce, dementia or death. The critical essay opens with my aesthetic statement and explanation of how the themes of the stories are bound up with my past in terms of place, personal history and post-colonial influence. After suggesting that my subject dictated using the form of short story over any other, I discuss the importance of liminality to my fiction. My use of Boyd’s Converging Strange Loop methodology resulted in my weaving a study of Alice’s Munro’s recent fiction throughout my critical essay. I explain imitatio as I interpret it and demonstrate my practice of it using Munro’s work. I then explore how, by comparing versions of Munro’s stories as they appeared, first in magazines and later in Dear Life, I was able to focus on five key areas of her revision process. After analyzing how a close reading of her work shaped the way I approached the redrafting of my own short stories, I review stylistic choices I made when shaping my collection. In conclusion I examine how writing this exegesis has strengthened my creative work, and consider my future in terms of contributions to the academic conversation about Munro’s narrative strategies, and in terms of my own creative writing.

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Ells, Amy Louise. "Notes Towards Recovery: a short story collection and exegesis." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2015. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/703504/1/Ells_2015.pdf.

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My practice-based PhD consists of a creative work, Notes Towards Recovery, and an exegesis discussing my writing process. Notes Towards Recovery comprises twenty-one stories set in Canada, thematically linked through an exploration of absence and loss, in particular the spaces left in a family unit when one member is missing or has left through divorce, dementia or death. The critical essay opens with my aesthetic statement and explanation of how the themes of the stories are bound up with my past in terms of place, personal history and post-colonial influence. After suggesting that my subject dictated using the form of short story over any other, I discuss the importance of liminality to my fiction. My use of Boyd’s Converging Strange Loop methodology resulted in my weaving a study of Alice’s Munro’s recent fiction throughout my critical essay. I explain imitatio as I interpret it and demonstrate my practice of it using Munro’s work. I then explore how, by comparing versions of Munro’s stories as they appeared, first in magazines and later in Dear Life, I was able to focus on five key areas of her revision process. After analyzing how a close reading of her work shaped the way I approached the redrafting of my own short stories, I review stylistic choices I made when shaping my collection. In conclusion I examine how writing this exegesis has strengthened my creative work, and consider my future in terms of contributions to the academic conversation about Munro’s narrative strategies, and in terms of my own creative writing.

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Edwards, Robert. "Mythology, ideology and the contemporary American short story cycle." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/55957/.

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The present study proposes that there is an intrinsic relationship between the contemporary American short story cycle and the myth and ideology of the United States. I argue that the contemporary form of the story cycle has become the genre of choice for certain authors whose work explicitly challenges the dominant ideological discourses of Euroamerica and its underpinning mythologies. The five authors and the texts I discuss are Tim O’Brien and The Things They Carried, Julia Alvarez and How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Gerald Vizenor and Landfill Meditation, Sherman Alexie and Ten Little Indians, and Thomas King and Green Grass, Running Water. In the thesis I address the interrelationship between ideology and mythology and this is the foundation for my examination of the way that these five disparate writers each uses the story cycle in his or her own distinctive way to challenge a dominant ideology and the mythology that underpins it.

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Algebali, Salma Ibraham. "The portrayal of women in the Libyan short story." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1987. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28536/.

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This thesis sets out to examine the portrayal of women as an important literary aspect of the Libyan short story. An attempt has been made to identify the main features of such portrayals and to point out the degree to which major short story writers in Libya are conscious, in one way or another, of the importance of the problems confronting Libyan women and the need for their emancipation. The method adopted for this purpose is to discuss the varying levels of consciousness of the problem against a background of modern literary criticism which, although not fully developed in Libya, is nonetheless becoming increasingly important. As a corollary, it has been possible to discuss various ideological attitudes only in relation to the formal and structural issues which are often raised regarding the short story as a literary genre. Among these issues are the organic interdependence of form and content, success or failure in attempting to objectify human experience in an adequate artistic form, and the degree to which ideological considerations or commitment can be regarded as relevant to our appreciation of the Libyan short story as an art-form. The degree of ideological commitment to the problem of female emancipation is not, in itself, a determinant of artistic success, but it may pave the way for literary creation in which a progressive role for women in Libyan society is combined with fuller consciousness of the importance of the formal elements of the Libyan short story.

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Feagin, Aprell McQueeney. "“The Angular Degrees of Freedom” and Other Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700030/.

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The preface, " Performing Brain Surgery: The Problematic Nature of Endings in Short Fiction," deals with the many and varied difficulties short story writers encounter when attempting to craft endings. Beginning with Raymond Carver and Flannery O’Connor and moving to my own work, I discuss some of the obscure criteria used to designate a successful ending, as well as the more concrete idea of the ending as a unifying element. Five short stories make up the remainder of this thesis: "In-between Girls," "Crocodile Man," "Surprising Things, Sometimes Amusing," "Good Jewelry," and "The Angular Degrees of Freedom."

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Uttich, Laurie. "Middle Ground: A Novella and Collection of Short Stories." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3577.

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This collection of fiction - a novella and a collection of short stories - focuses on the commonality of the human condition. While we create separations for ourselves by focusing on distinctions such as, religion, class, gender, and race, we are, I believe, spiritual beings sharing a human experience. My work tends to explore these distinctions and our motivations for embracing them. In the novella, Middle Ground, two sisters in alternating narrative voices share the story of their parents' struggles with separation, sobriety and cancer. Their voices, as distinct as their perspectives, explore the landscape of a family, the borders between forgiveness and acceptance, the self-preserving act of looking beyond imperfections and weaknesses, and the realization that truth is an illusion and flawed love the only certainty. The short story collection consists of eight pieces. Many of these stories explore characters in a state of recovery - a brain tumor operation, a death of a spouse, a shot to the head where a bullet rests and reminds - and plot occurs as these characters attempt to move on. They meet sandhill cranes who cry out in pain for the death of another, lovers who speak in italics, vets who swear that the blasted silence is louder than King Kong screaming in your ear. They sit with shrinks who lie, sleep with poets who stray, compete with incarcerated ex-husbands who were "man enough" to put a gun to a woman's head and pull the trigger. They are nothing - and everything - like all of us, and readers are invited to join the characters beside the mirror of our collective Middle Ground.
M.F.A.
Department of English
Arts and Humanities
Creative Writing MFA

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Simpson, Hyacinth Mavernie. "Orality and the short story Jamaica and the West Indies /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ59155.pdf.

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Cortez, Emiliano Carlos. "Teaching the Short Story in Spanish: Literary Analysis and Commentary." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278478/.

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The problem of this study was to develop a simplified Spanish teaching guide for analytical commentaries about contemporary short stories in Spanish. To realize this study, major approaches in analytical commentary of short story instruction in classes of Spanish in American colleges and universities were identified through intensive research and have been incorporated into the guide. Consequently, general principles for the analysis and explication of the contemporary short story in Spanish are identified. The objectives in these major principles found in the literature are concepts which meet the needs of the present-day student in an ever-changing society. The analytical commentary on the short stories focuses on specific and essential elements of the short story. It is based on four selected representative authors from the Hispanic world—Juan Rulfo, Ana Maria Matute, Sabine R. Ulibarri, and Horacio Quiroga—and four short stories of their respective authors from anthologies used in Spanish classes in the United States of America. The linguistic analysis and commentary on the short story are basically limited to the linguistically cultural aspect. Those educators of the Spanish language and Hispanic literatures having a personal interest on the subject may find useful the reference list constructed. It was compiled from resources obtained through a computer search and the card catalogs in their respective places: Biblioteca Municipal de Salamanca, Espana, Biblioteca Nacional de Espafia, Madrid; Dallas Public Library; ERIC; Fondren Library, Southern Methodist University; Texas Woman's University; and Willis Library, University of North Texas. Recommendations for instructional evaluators and educators in Spanish are enumerated in Chapter V. Also, based on the results of the development of the teaching guide, recommendations for further research and studies are suggested.

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Kennedy, Michael P. J. "The short stories of Hugh Garner: Ground-level realism within the Canadian short story tradition." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/21385.

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Hackman, Terri Lee. "Twenty-nine short stories and threat, invasion and dread : the short story and the home." Thesis, Bangor University, 2012. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/twentynine-short-stories-and-threat-invasion-and-dread--the-short-story-and-the-home(3a051e07-ce93-456b-a8eb-323eb27d694a).html.

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The first section of this thesis consists of a collect of original short fictions which encompass a variety of themes and modes. Amongst other concerns, these stories probe ideas of safety, threat and invasion originating from both outside and inside of the home thereby questioning assumptions of the home as a secure and safe place. A criticism in the second section examines five short stories, from a variety of influential writers, to compare and demonstrate the development of states of high anxiety through the use of the reader's knowledge and experiences of cultural or community identity and the home. Impressions of the uncanny are invariably involved.

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Mesman-Hallman, Kira. "The Way Things Were." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/812.

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These pieces were written as an exercise in examining how people, with all their idiosyncracies and differences in perception, can experience a single event in massively different ways. The headline for this story is simple. A young man on break from college comes out as gay to his best friend, and when his erotic feelings are unrequited their summer together falls apart. That is the story, but where is the truth? As I see it, the truth as we think of it is unobtainable. There is no one, perfect version of events that satisfactorily explains the hugely different reactions among the four characters that inhabit these stories. There are as many versions of the truth as there are people who experience it. Would you care to read and add another?

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Segarra, Malyn Matilde. "In the Drowning City" and Other Stories." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2063.

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"In the Drowning City" and Other Stories is a collection of fiction written and revised during Malyn Segarra's graduate studies at the University of Central Florida. Most of the collection examines the transient nature and fragility of identity and shifting roles within the family unit. All focus on a particular span of time, the transition into young adulthood. Each character is faced with an obstacle or event that tests his or her beliefs, integrity and sense of self. As each one struggles to make a unique and permanent impression in the world, he or she must come to terms with the past, in some cases, breaking away from it. Although the characters come from varying backgrounds, the themes that thread the collection are universal. The three stories that serve as the backbone of the collection, "Slashing, Tripping and Other Offensive Plays," "In the Drowning City," and "This Is Just a Modern Love Song" find the protagonists striving to adapt to their newly transformed environments. As the situations they face become more complicated and the resolutions exceedingly compromised, the innocence and certainty associated with childhood is jeopardized.
M.F.A.
Department of English
Arts and Humanities
Creative Writing MFA

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Fitt, T. Henry. "Novodvorskii-Osipovich : a writer out of time." Thesis, Keele University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322165.

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Rai, Misha. "Housewives, Mothers and Other Stories." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1341425288.

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Piper, Daugharty L. G. "Heart Shot: A Collection of Stories." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1460976616.

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