THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUFFERING: A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF H.E. BATES'S SHORT STORIES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO 'THE OX' (original) (raw)

Stylistic Peculiarities of Herbert Bates Stories

IJRASET, 2021

This article discusses stylistic peculiarities of Herbert Bates stories. In addition, the specific stylistic features encountered in his works are analyzed separately. Special aspects of the works are cited using examples.

Existential Concerns in Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

Existential philosophy addressed questions that either had been overlooked by traditional philosophy for a long period of time (e g the individual’s experience of anxiety in the face of death, the failure of rational thinking and science to inquire essential aspects of human life) or had resurfaced again following the disappointment caused by the destructions and absurdity of the two world wars in the first half of the twentieth century (e g questions pertaining to the meaningfulness/meaninglessness of the human endeavour and of human life in general) Russian realist novelists Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy are often invoked among the earliest existentialist thinkers, along with philosophers Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche Drawing on the works of philosophers Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, this paper will examine how the existentialist preoccupation with death anxiety, ethics, and authenticity is represented in two short stories by...

Chekhov's Environmental Psychology: Medicine and the Early Stories

Chekhov's Environmental Psychology: Medicine and the Early Stories, 2020

In light of the historical circumstances surrounding Anton Chekhov's early writing career and his own statements about the importance of medicine to it, there is surprisingly little scholarship on how medicine shaped his prose. What ideas was he introduced to in medical school and how did he apply them? Which of these drew his attention as he strove to articulate a new artistic vision? How did Chekhov draw on his experience with medicine to experiment with new themes and forms in his literary writing? This article addresses these questions by focusing on the aspects of medicine that had the most discernable influence on Chekhov as he developed his literary writing: hygiene, clinical medicine, and psychiatry. It argues that Chekhov engaged with core issues of medicine not only as a medical student who wrote case histories of his patients, but also as a groundbreaking writer. As he transcodes insights from the clinic into his prose, he creates a new conception of details that disclose relationships between settings and characters and an environmental psychology emerges across his medical writing and fiction. His stories envision relationships between physical and mental life with such originality that he becomes a new literary force not long after completing his medical education.

E.M. Forster’s Short Stories as Emotive Fantasies

Journal of Human and Social Sciences, 2021

Research Artichle As an Edwardian author and a 'reluctant modernist' E.M. Forster penned several short stories as well as great novels. In the three selected short stories titled "The Story of a Panic", "The Story of a Siren", and "The Celestial Omnibus", Forster makes use of fantasy fiction based on the feeling of desire. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how Forster's emotive fantasies are constructed through features of "longing for another world or a lost world" and/or "finding our own world enchanted". Some of the underlying motifs such as mythological figures, pastoral images, beauty and individualism are also part of the discussion. Using the theory of Todorov's fantasy and Manlove's arguments regarding fantasy fiction as a springboard for discussion, this study argues that even though the selected short stories by Forster are shaped by desire as emotive fantasies, the feeling of desire does not lead to a satisfaction; in other words, desire is an inconlusive and discontinuous feeling which contributes to the formation of the stories.

Narrative Mode: A comparative Study on Selected Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy and Edgar Allan Poe

World Journal of English Language, 2016

Narrative mode is the way in which narrators designed to present the intended story in narratives. narrative mode is therefore the very important issue that should be studied for it is through their narrative mode or way of narration of the narrator that writers can do an effort in the reading process of readers in literature or work of art, and it is due to this reason that scholars like Ronald Barthes' idea of 'death of the author' believe the writer has not a power to say 'the reader should do and shouldn't do like this and that' after his/her writing is over. Thus, narratives ingeneral and narrative mode should be taken as a central point in the investigation of narrative strategies; since other aspects of narration like voice, focalization, narrative time and etc would be included in the discussion of narrative mode as a way of narration. Therefore, this study discusses narration in one organized work of study for narrative mode has a tendency to include almost all elements of narration or narratology for narratology is the study of narration and narrative mode is all about ways/techniques of narration in narrative strategies. All in all, the very intention behind this research is related to bring one window of consideration on the different types of narrators and narrative modeshow the narrative is intrusive or extrusive to the story. In other words, if we consider all the criteria tried to be used by the different scholars in the classification of narrators that different scholars classify differently, we can subsumed into one paradigm-related with narrators' extrusiveness or intrusiveness to the narrative story they narrate. Therefore, our narrative mode that we can experience in literary texts would be either 'telling mode or showing mode', the direct or indirect mode or the diegesis or mimesis mode of narrative. Regarding to the literary products underdiscussion; some short stories of Tolstoy and Poe; both these two authors are very famous and well recognized personalities in the Easter/Russia and Western/America part of the world respectively.

Notes on Anton Chekhov's "A Boring Story" (1889)

Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was a Russian dramatist and short fiction writer. Chekhov’s fiction had a tremendous influence on the fiction of the first half of the Twentieth Century, the fiction of “Modernism”. "A Boring Story" is about the last days of a dying medical professor, Nikolai Stepanovich. During this time, he comes to question the prevailing presuppositions he had concerning the meaning of his life.

MAUPASSANT AND CHEKOV: THE EVOLUTION OF THE MODERN SHORT STORY

he International Research Specialist ISSN: 2350-1499 (Online); 2350-0751 (Print) International Journal of Recent Trends in English Language Teaching (ELT), Education, Psychology and Allied Researches Peer Reviewed (Refereed) International Journal Run by Dr. JK Research Foundation, Chennai, India, 2015

Abstract: his article aims at tracing the transformation of the traditional tale into a short story and a vignette over a period of about five decades. In the process one finds that the principal trends have been set by a few outstanding talents which shaped the structure, content, vision and scope of the emerging genre. The two major schools of thought happen to be complementary and inclusive and contribute to the growth of the genre. Be it ‘trick-ending’ or ‘zero-ending’, it is an aesthetic choice rather than a dogmatic omission. Key-words: vignette genre, Complementary trick-ending, Zero- ending, dogmatic, aesthetic etc.

Characters in the dramatic narratives of Robert Frost: a psychological study

2010

Narrative poems, especially the dramatic narratives occupy a unique place among the numerous poems written by Robert Frost. Most of these are placed in New England rural setting, but the characters and situations that are depicted in these poems and the conflicts that arise as these characters confront one another, surely have a universal appeal. The main focus in these poems is not on the actions and adventures of the characters, nor on any dramatic incidents in their lives, but on some special personality traits, chiefly brought out through the conversation that goes on between them, and some of their characteristic responses. The present study is an attempt to observe these characters closely as they express themselves in dialogue and action. The first chapter begins with a discussion on the nature of the narrative in general and the dramatic narrative in particular. The elements of the dramatic is discussed with particular reference to characterisation. With the objective of ana...