Literature generally and fiction particularly are permanent features of human life. Different types of story, classic and modern, varies in their themes, technique as well as their way of ...presentation. These variations based on changing values of human beings with respect to their age. This article analyses the social background of story and its changing types. There are some interesting aspects of story genres regarding the diversifications of old and modern way of human life as well as prospective social changes. These dimensions are discussed here in light of profane life. The core focus is the Modern Urdu short story.
This research is motivated by the low level of studentsskills in listening to short stories.This can be seen in the value of listening to students who are under the minimumcompleteness criteria ...(75).This is due to the lack of interest and motivation of studentsin listening to short stories, learning models applied by teachers that are less precise,and the classroom atmosphere that is less supportive of the achievement of listening learning objectives. This type of research is Classroom Action Research. This researchmethod is qualitative and quantitative methods. The purpose of this study was toincrease the activity and student learning outcomes in learning to listen to short storiesby applying theQuantum Teaching model in class XI IPS 1 of SMA Negeri 2 Rambah.The results of this study were (1) improving the quality of student activity from cycle I by46%, cycle II by 62%, cycle III by 76%, and cycle IV by 96%, there was an increase instudent activity in listening to short stories to be very high quality, and (2) thecompleteness of learning outcomes from the first cycle is 41.38% with an average valueof 73.06, the second cycle is 55.17% with an average value of 78.65, the third cycle is72, 41%with an average value average of 82.07, and cycle IV of 100% with an averagevalue of 87.10. Based on the results of the study it can be concluded that the applicationof the Quantum Teaching model in learning to listen to short stories can increase theactivity and learning outcomes of class XI IPS 1 SMA Negeri 2 Rambah Hilir.
The emigration of Slovaks to overseas countries had a mass character at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. This phenomenon led to the emergence of a cultural-anthropological and subsequently ...literary topos of the Amerikán – “Americaner” (a person who returned from emigration to America to their homeland). Vojvodina Slovak writers in the early 20th century – the realistic prose writer Ján Čajak (1863 – 1944) and the prose writer and modernist playwright Vladimír Hurban Vladimírov (VHV, 1884 – 1950) among others – also addressed this topic. They perceived modernization processes differently, as evidenced by their choice of the genre. J. Čajak, in his moralistic short story Vysťahovalec (The emigrant, 1904), emphasises tradition, religion, stability, and the order of the old world; he sees emigration as a destructive element. VHV incorporated the same social theme into the genre matrix of melodrama in the short story Dievča zo slepej uličky (The girl from the blind alley, 1913). He critically captures the conservatism of the domestic environment and the mentality of Vojvodina Slovaks. Through the gradation of situations of emotional uncertainty, he introduces modernist poetic techniques into the traditional rural realistic short story. The thematological article primarily follows the relationship of both texts to the modernist discourse of the period.
Though ordinary aesthetics is self-evident as a principle, fruitful as a method, it remains partly undefined. It seems the major difficulty is to mark out its territory, so much so as, after ...Wittgenstein, it endorses the most part of what used to pertain to ethics. Our hypothesis is that starting from art forms may prove helpful in defining ordinary aesthetics; and the article suggests that short-story writing is a paradigmatic pathway to ordinary aesthetics as it is to the ethical unsaid.
In the hierarchical order of the caste-based Indian society Dalits are placed at the bottom and so they are deprived of the equal opportunities and rights enjoyed by the dominant upper caste people. ...Indian caste system has made them untouchable and compels them to remain silent and subjugated only to maintain the controlling power of the upper caste people. But the degree of oppression of the Dalit women is more intense than the Dalit men. If the causes of the Dalit men’s oppressions are caste and class, the issue of gender discrimination is added in the case of Dalit women. They are oppressed not only by the upper caste people but they are also subjugated by the Dalit men of their own community. So in every sphere of life the Dalit women have to remain silent to claim their rights. Their exploitations and sufferings are portrayed in Dalit literature. In the selected short stories published in the anthology Poisoned Bread (2009) edited by Arjun Dangle, the picture of their social exclusion is vividly portrayed. Dalit women are treated by both of the societies, Dalit and upper caste, like less than human. The present paper would like to look back at manifold forms of oppressions faced by the Dalit women of Indian society.
This post-test experimental study aims to see the difference achivement of the tenth graders of SMAN 1 Sekongkang who were taught using indigeneous Sumbawa song and those who were taught using ...conventional materials in writing the short story. This study assigned 22 students for the experimental and 22 students for the controlled group. A test to write a short story was developed and each work was evaluated using criteria of a good short story. The results of this study show that students who received treatnents using indigeneous Sumbawa song exhibit significantly from those who received conventional media showing statistical testing at p=0.05 that is t-vale = 14.725 that is greater than t-table = 1.682.
In his introduction to Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature, Michael Gardiner argues for bringing together these two separate bodies of texts which are intimately joined. Within the ...context of the “‘postcolonial’ spaces of Scotland and Canada” (Gittings, 1995: 135), in this article I offer a comparative reading from the standpoint of Sara Ahmed’s affect theory of the post-millennial short stories of A. L. Kennedy and Alice Munro, based on their shared belief in a transatlantic new humanism which privileges emotions.
One of the female phenomena which was authored by the authors short stories in Media Indonesia is the narrative of oppressed women. The purpose of this study is to explore the image of women in ...short stories in the Media Indonesia. This research is descriptive qualitative research that focuses on the image of women. The approach used in this research is the feminism approach. The data were analysis techniques using heuristic and hermeneutic techniques. The results of the study indicate that there are various negative treatments experienced by women. The author used the short stories as a representation of their images through the Media Indonesia daily. Women's image is manifested in the form of physical image, psychic, helpless, resigned to the situation, housewife, loyalty, child guard, domestic, husband's companion, and social.
This article aims at showing that Shahriyar Mandanipur employs narrative techniques in his short stories that look like those one finds in post-modernist fiction, but that these narrative techniques ...are rooted in a modernist world view. There is a truth and a reality in Mandanipur’s short stories – contrary to the post-modern belief – but in Mandanipur’s short stories this truth and this reality is always defined by a narrative and a narrator. Hence one must talk about different angles on truth and reality as demonstrated by the following analysis of Shahriyar Mandanipur’s short story Shatter the Stone Tooth.
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