Short story index : supplement /

Continued by the annual Short story index.

A selection from the world's greatest short stories, illustrative of the history of short story writing.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Best short stories of ... and the yearbook of the American short story.

Published: New York : Dodd, Mead, 1926-1932.

The National, a short story.

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The best short stories of 1915 : and the yearbook of the American short story /

The water-hole / Maxwell Struthers Burt -- The wake / Donn Byrne -- Chautonville / Will Levington Comfort -- La Derniere mobilisation / W. A. Dwiggins -- The citizen / James Francis Dwyer -- Whose dog? / Frances Gregg -- Life / Ben Hecht -- T. B. / Fannie Hurst -- Mr. Eberdeen's house / Arthur Johnson -- Vengeance is mine / Virgil Jordan -- The weaver who clad the summer / Harris Merton Lyon.

The book of the short story /

Introduction.--The shipwrecked sailor. About 2500 B.C.--The book of Ruth. About 450 B.C.--Apuleius. The story of Cupid and Psyche. 2d century A.D.--Boccaccio. Frederick of the Alberighi and his falcon. 1353.--The story of Ali Baba, and the forty robbers destroyed by a slave. 1548.--Cervantes. The liberal lover. 1613.--Defoe. The apparition of Mrs. Veal. 1706.--Voltaire. Jeannot and Colon. 1764?--Irving, W. Rip Van Winkle. 1819.--Scott, Sir W. Wandering Willie's tale. 1824.--Mérimée, P. The taking of the redoubt. 1829.--Balzac, H. de. La Grande Bretéche. 1832.--Hawthorne, N. The birthmark. 1843.--Poe, E.A. The cask of Amontillado. 1846.--Turgeneff, I. A Lear of the steppes. 1870.--Stevenson, R.L. Markheim. 1884.--Maupassant, G. de. A coward. 1885.--Kipling, R. Without benefit of clergy. 1890.--A list of representative tales and short stories.

A manual of the short story art.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Best short stories of ... and the yearbook of the American short story.

Mode of access: Internet.

Die Sprache des Wahnsinns. Harald Kaas und sein Erzählband ‘Uhren und Meere’:Harald Kaas and his short story collection 'watches and seas'

This essay examines the only book published by the late Harald Kaas. His collection of short stories Uhren und Meere (1979), dealing with depictions of psycho-pathological states of mind, gained Kaas a short-lived notoriety as he himself was a certified schizophrenic possessing first-hand experience of psychiatric treatment. This essay sets out to investigate whether or to what extent the stories in Uhren und Meere can be understood as a document of the language of madness. It concludes that despite the biographical dimension of his schizophrenic experience, Kaas’s texts fail to voice an as it were unadulterated language of madness. However, when read in conjunction with his quasi-poetological interview statements, it is possible to determine the very nature of madness as a collapse of a logical system of language. Meaning that language cannot actively be used to express madness, while at the same time madness can express itself in a language that we necessarily fail to understand. The language of madness manifests itself as the madness of language.

Silvio Romero e os contos populares brasileiros de origem indígena: uma proposta de análise

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Escolarização e tradição : o conto popular vai à escola

É sobretudo nos finais do século XIX e princípios do século XX que, no contexto português, a literatura popular de expressão oral ganha evidência, fruto do trabalho de recolha e pesquisa que uma elite intelectual, predominantemente liberal e republicana, lhe consagra. Esta literatura popular, objecto de reconstrução erudita, é hoje ainda frequentemente vista como uma manifestação literária de “segunda ordem”, praticamente ausente nos currículos universitários, minoritariamente presente nas publicações académicas. Ela inscreve-se, contudo, junto de produções de autores “consagrados” e de produções não literárias, nos actuais programas de Português do Ensino Básico. É à compreensão dos modos de apropriação escolar desta literatura de tradição oral, em especial do conto, que este estudo se consagra. Em termos metodológicos, o estudo inscreve-se no âmbito da pesquisa qualitativa, centrando-se fundamentalmente na descrição e interpretação de dados verbais produzidos em sala de aula, bem como nos discursos que para as aulas se constroem. Focamos, assim, as práticas discursivas de professores de Português - leccionando a disciplina a alunos do 3º ciclo de escolaridade - e as instâncias discursivas que mediatamente regulam essas práticas: os programas Oficiais (as indicações aí preconizadas para a abordagem da temática) e os manuais (“tradutores” desse discurso oficial e fonte mais próxima do trabalho pedagógico do professor). As conclusões aqui evidenciadas poderão ser um contributo para a compreensão sobre o modo como “o conto popular vai à escola”, i.e., sobre o modo como a “tradição”, pela acção da “escolarização”, se transforma.

Short fiction of Thomas Hardy: an exploration and assessment

Hardy's novels and poetry have received extensive criticism, in due proportion to their merit. Hardy's short stories, however, have been virtually excluded from the annals of Hardy criticism, even though Hardy wrote over forty short stories, several of which are truly outstanding. In part, the reason for this neglect is because of the neglected state of the short story in Victorian England. Short fiction, published mainly only in periodicals and never collected in volume form, was obscured to a large extent by the highly popular serial novel. This thesis examines Thomas Hardy's short stories in the context of both the Victorian period and the Victorian short story genre, and explores the ways in which Thomas Hardy improved upon and deviated from some of the common types of short fiction being written in his day.