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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDubbed a "small feminist classic" by Elaine Hedges, Susan Glaspel's 1917 short story "A Jury of Her Peers" and Trifles, the one-act play from which it is derived, is a wonderful fictionalized account of a...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTo map Peyton Farquhar's dream in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and to achieve the startling effect of Farquhar's death, Ambrose Bierce uses the one-point perspective principle. In drawing a diagram in one-point...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAttempting to account for the emergence of the short story in America in the first half of the nineteenth century, Charles E. May has argued that the distinctive contribution of Irving, Hawthorne, Poe and Melville to...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDarn ... is an employee of the French government. He is engaged in the responsible task of education. --Laurence Perrine Daru ... has betrayed his mission as teacher. --Diana Festa-McCormick [O]ne...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn Faulkner's most widely anthologized story, "A Rose for Emily," the narrator is as important to plot as Emily Grierson. Using the first-person plural 48 times (Kempton 106), he speaks, as most interpreters of the...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe girl asked him what mysteries he meant, and he said: "Oh, peculiarities of his work, inequalities, superficialities. For one who looks at it from the artistic point of view it contains a bottomless ambiguity."...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"The Bucket Rider" ("Der Kubelreiter") is one of the less attended to writings of Franz Kafka. As an example of autobiographical consciousness, this three-page narrative deals with the questions of Kafka's own...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"There was always a glass of gin-and-tonic in his hand." ("Where I'm Calling From" 212) "Howard had a small glass of whiskey beside his cup." ("A Small, Good Thing" 297) In biographical discussions of Raymond...