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Teaching Kate Chopin’s Short Fiction

Author(s): Anca-Luminita Iancu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was a significant American writer at the end of the 19th century, best known for her controversial novel The Awakening, although she also wrote over 100 short stories that captured the life and the people of Natchitoches Parish in Louisiana. Chopin was mainly known as a regional writer or local colorist, but in her stories she was mostly interested in the condition and needs of women, discussing such avant-garde subjects as the constraints of marriage, divorce, adultery, and suicide. By looking at several Kate Chopin short stories, this essay proposes various strategies and activities for teaching her short fiction to undergraduate students, as part of a course on American women’s writing, entitled “Women in Literature (1870-1930).”

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SILENCING THE WOMAN YŌKO TAWADA’S SHORT NOVEL THE BATH

Author(s): Monica Tamaș / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2015

Yōko Tawada’s short novel The Bath follows the metamorphoses of the main character, a young Japanese woman, unsuccessful in preserving her identity and in rejecting the requirements of the cultures in between which her existence seems trapped. Her body becomes the place of negotiation between two patriarchal cultures. First, Germany, which is represented by her boyfriend Xander, who puts make-up on her face in order to make her look “more Japanese” and teaches her his language, hindering at the same time any form of self-expression. Secondly, Japan, depicted by a very muscular mother and several Japanese male chauvinist figures. The narrator faints during a business meeting where she was interpreting and is rescued by the ghost of a woman whose face is half-burnt, a character inspired by the tragic demise of the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann and her novel Malina. The ghost steals the narrator’s tongue, leaving her speechless, but this muteness can be interpreted both as a way to defy patriarchy or the means to surrender to it, as we can read in feminist analyses of Freud’s “hysterical” patients suffering from aphasia. The maternal metaphor comes to balance the encounter with patriarchy and emphasize the possibility of rebirth and recreation.

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Masaldan Şiire Ve Hikâyeye: Cahit Sitki’nin Abbas Hikâyesini Metinselaşkinlik İlişkileri Kurami’na Göre Anlamlandirma

Author(s): Gülşah Durmuş / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 84/2015

Known as a strong poet, Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (1910- 1956) also wrote short stories which were parallel with his poems. In this study, Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı’s short story Abbas has been analysed in accordance with “The Transtextual Relations Theory” put forward by Gérard Genette in order to reveal intertextual relations in literary texts. In his theory, Genette has regarded intertextuality as one of the five transtextuality relations including hypertextuality, paratextuality, architextuality and metatextuality. In the study, Tarancı’s Abbas short story is regarded as the hypertext; his Abbas poem and a folk tale -which was listened by Tarancı from his grandmother when he was a child- as the hypotext. The work has been analysed in terms of not only the hypertextuality relation but also other transtextual relations. In paratextuality, other texts that the author interrelates by means of the title he’s chosen for his work have been determined; in architextuality the literary form of the work has been stated and in metatextuality the evaluations of the author that he made about Abbas short story and its hypotexts in other texts, have been stressed. Establishing transtextual relations between folk tales and his own works of art, Tarancı provided endlessness to his creatures and share his heartbreak of love with all the people. The result of the study is that the artists who want to be a bridge between successors and predecessors of them, establish intertextual relations for creating endless work of arts.

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Halk Hikâyelerindeki Aşkin Antropolojik Betimlemesi

Author(s): Çiğdem Kara / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 80/2014

The subject of this study is love between man and women who in minstrel folk tales. Aim of the study is described the love narrated by minstrel tales. For this purpose, theories and models on love which based on ethnographic data and mainly developed by anthropologists, are utilized. The study is organized into three sections. In first section, a minstrel tale is analyzed by structural model developed by İlhan Başgöz. Second section is directly related to aim of the study. The love is described under six topics: First, indicators of romantic love are searched; after, the ways of represent of love are determined; then it is discussed that someone can be in love with how many person in same time; the effects determining the selection of a lover are listed; symptoms of being in love are revealed; and finally sings of courtship are explained. During the analysis is given examples from different minstrel tales and their variations. Some of the findings obtained at the end of the study are as follows: In minstrel tales are narrated traditional romantic love as coherent with almost universal features and in a quite perfect style. Love in minstrel tale is represented not only verbally but also experienced physically. The lover are generally approved by families at the beginning of the tales. Cultural love maps, economy and obstacles are primarily decisive in selection of lover. The most common courtship sings are music and present. The most significant symptoms of love on lover are given a special meaning to person with fell in love; intrusive thoughts, sexual attractiveness, and the desire to be together.

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Ponty a kádban

Author(s): László Balaton / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 897/2024

Short story by László Balaton.

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Ribiszke

Author(s): Kitti Dubán / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 897/2024

Short story by Kitti Dubán.

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Doktor ohjeshoidmine, mister minnalaskmine

Author(s): Johanna Ross / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 3/2025

Review of: -Katrin Ruus: Prügimaja Dionysos. Puänt, 2024. 216 lk.

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Tolle lege; mozaic; fake you; jurnal spiritual (pe sărite);carmen saeculare;

Author(s): Ruxandra Cesereanu,Gabriela Adameşteanu,Petru Cimpoeşu,Magda Cârneci,Ioan Moldovan,Liviu Antonesei / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 12/2024

Literary texts by various Romanian writers.

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Iarna iubirilor gingașe

Author(s): Bogdan Alexandru Stanescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2025

This article contains a short fictional story.

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Petre și ceilalți/ Cineva

Author(s): Alexandru Potcoavă,Viorel Marineasa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2025

This article contains two short stories.

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Tăunul

Author(s): Andrei Ujică / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3/2025

I woke up with a heavy head that morning, like after one of those nights when you know you've had a long dream, from which you remember nothing, and you keep wondering what happened beyond the threshold of sleep.

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