Collected Short Stories

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Women defending themselves: Cuban Romantic feminine voices (poetry and short stories)

Throughout history, women have played an important role in literature. Nevertheless, since Sappho's poetry until now, feminine voices have had to struggle for recognition of their works. ^ Before the nineteenth century, women were almost ignored in Spanish literature. Society kept them as “ángeles de la familia,” taking care of their homes, husbands, and children. Some of them, such as María de Zayas y Sotomayor in Spain and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in Mexico, complained about their situation in their writings. However, they expressed their fight not as a generation but as individuals. ^ In the nineteenth century, the ideas and ideals of Romanticism, were brought to Latin America from Europe. Cuba was among those countries where the new movement took roots. Initiated by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, a group of women began to participate in literary reunions, and to found newspapers and magazines where works authored by women, dedicated to feminist ideas, were published. They indeed through literature started to live out womanhood in order to intellectually leave the ideological prisons where society had been keeping them. ^ This study scans the literary works of all Romantic women writers in Cuba. It specifically analyzes poetry and short stories, and investigates how these authors expressed themselves in their works against the patriarchal society, where they lived and wrote their books. An eclectic critical method has been used. ^ Findings were very revealing. Only three of the fourteen writers studied in my dissertation had been previously mentioned by major critics. Most of them had been ignored. However, the greatest discovery was that they prompted something new: For the first time they projected themselves as a group, as a collective consciousness, and this fact established a difference with former women writers in Cuban literature before Romanticism. In other words, they produced a “Renaissance” in Cuba's literature. In spite of how they lived between 1820 and 1900, their struggles for women's rights have linked them to our current times. ^

The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield, embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches : with a critical introduction /

Title within ornamental border in gold and colors.

Auswahl deutscher Prosa der Gegenwart : mit Lebensbeschreibungen der Verfasser und Anmerkungen /

Mode of access: Internet.

Taschenbuch für Bücherfreunde, 1913 /

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Deutscher Novellenschatz /

Vols. 7- also numbered 2. serie, v.1-

Die Welt des Leichtsinns; 10 Geschichten von der Liebe.

Schluss, von Fritz von Ostini.--Greifenstein, von Raoul Auernheimer.--Der abreisskalender, von Karl Ettlinger.--Das liebchen von Berlin, von Henry F. Urban.--Die lokomotive, szene von Ludwig Wolff.--Die geschichte der kleinen Blanche mit den grossen händen, von Reinhard Koester.--Wie Katharina Meerdegen kultiviert wurde. Ein lebenslauf in briefen, von Willy Ruppel.--Carola Caroli, von Max Hochdorf.--Bubis liebesglück, von E. von Stehlin.--"Tilly"; moderner lebensgang, durch inserate und zeitungsauschnitte verfolgt von Elmon.

Deutsche kleinstadtgeschichten ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Norddeutsche Erzähler. Novellen von Wilhelm Jensen, Heinrich Seidel und Julius Stinde.

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Where Stories Collide : Montage and the Short Story Cycle

This thesis uses Sergei Eisenstein’s filmic theories of montage to examine the modernist American short story cycle, a genre of independent short stories that work together to create a larger and interrelated whole. Similar to the shot-by-shot editing process of montage, the story cycle builds its intertextual meaning story-by-story from an aggregate of abrupt narrative transitions and juxtapositions. Eisenstein famously felt that montage, the editing together of film fragments, was not a process of linkage, but of collision –each radically different shot in a film should crash into the next shot, until audience members were intellectually provoked into synthesizing these collisions through dialectical processes. I offer montage as an interpretive strategy for negotiating the narrative collisions in story cycles such as Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses, and Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples. For Go Down, Moses, I argue that Eisenstein’s politically rendered “montage of attractions” provides a template for investigating the shock tactics behind Faulkner’s chronologically and racially entangled stories of whites and African Americans. For The Golden Apples, I consider the opposites and doubles in Welty’s fiction with Eisenstein’s similar belief in the “opposing passions” of the world. Not only, then, do I suggest that the modernist story cycle bears a cinematic influence, but I also offer Eisenstein’s theories of montage and collision as a heuristic for formal, thematic, and even political patterns in a genre infamous for its resistance to definition and classification.

Stories by foreign authors.

Spanish: [v.10] The tall woman, by P.A. de Alarcón. -- The white butterfly, by J. Selgas. -- The organist, by G.A. Becquer. -- Moors and Christians, by P.A. de Alarcón. -- Bread cast upon the waters, by Fernan Caballero.

German literature pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets.

The short reign of Sultan Osman and other stories

A character discovering and testing the limits of his emotional or psychological range most interests me. What will he choose to do? Stay within his old boundaries? Or try and go beyond them? What does he learn about himself in the process? And, finally, what price will be exacted, either for his staying where he is, or for his choosing a new level of self-knowledge? "The Short Reign Of Sultan Osman and Other Stories" is a collection of short stories set in either the United States, Greece, or Brazil, and ranging in time from 1972 to today. Each story presents its protagonist with challenges unique to a specific time and place. In most of these stories, the protagonists are driven by an urge for love or for mastery, and these urges send them across landscapes of delusion or folly before they can arrive at some sense of self-knowledge.