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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"American Short Stories"”.
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“They Drink Tea": Everyday Loneliness and the Poetics of Place in Russophone American Short Stories (The Cases of Nina Berberova and Olga Zilberbourg)
This thesis examines the short fiction of Russian-born writers Nina Berberova (1901-1993) and Olga Zilberbourg (1979-) to explore how female émigré and immigrant authors articulate displacement through the motifs of loneliness, memory, and space. Though separated by time and geography, both writers …
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An Analysis of Authors, Characters and Dependency of Women Protagonists in the Short Stories of Selected Literary Anthologies
… in female protagonists in selected modern American short stories. The study was limited to selections in Scott, Foresman and Company textbooks used in eleventh grade classrooms nationwide for the past twenty-five years. The samples came from four editions beginning with 1963 and ending with …
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Special relationships: Anglo-American love affairs, courtships and marriages in fiction, 1821-1914
… courtships and marriages between British and American characters in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American short stories and novels. I argue that these transatlantic love stories respond to shifting Anglo-American cultural, political, and economic exchanges during the period. …
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The Freedom to Choose: The Aesthetics of Choice in Short Stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Cade Bambara
… Baraka observes in his essay "Northern Iowa: Short Story and Poetry," that "For black people, freedom is our aesthetic and our ideology." The focus on liberation has artistic and political resonance for African Americans. Freedom--as communal aesthetic and ideology--provides a useful starting …
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La justicia y el absurdo en el cuento latinoamericano contemporáneo.
… muestra significativa de la cuentística latinoamericana de la segunda parte del siglo veinte considerando como caso de estudio los cuentos "Luvina" de Juan Rulfo, "La siesta del martes" de Gabriel García Márquez y "El regalo" de Rosario Ferré. Mediante la perspectiva de la crítica cultural, se …
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Coyote Mail
<p>This thesis consists of four short stories. They are traditional in the sense that each involves a conflict, and resolution of a conflict. "Coyote Mail," the first story, deals with a grandfather who must face the fact that change is inevitable, and that he cannot interrupt it. "Ambush" involves …