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- 31: William Faulkner
- ... of prose fiction. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, where he lived a life filled with good times as well as bad. However, despite bad times he would become known as a poet, a short story writer, and finally one of the greatest contemporary novelists of his time. William Faulkner's accomplishments resulted not only from his love and devotion to writing, but also from family, friends, and certain uncontrollable ... interest in poetry around 1910, but no one in Oxford, Mississippi, could tell him hat to do with his poems. Faulkner, who was very talkative, would always entertain Estelle Oldham by telling her vividly imaginary stories. Eventually, Faulkner grew very fond of Estelle. She became the sole inspirer and recipient of Faulkner's earlier poems. Not long after Faulkner began seeing Estelle regularly, he met a man named Phil Stone who ... of modern aestheticism"(Minter 36). Faulkner enrolled at the University of Mississippi, and did not let his academic years distract him from writing more poems. The Mississippian, the student paper, published "Landing in Luck." The short story, nine pages in length were created directly from his direct experience in the Royal Air Force flight training in 1916. After awhile he began to get tired of school once again. He started ...
- 32: Short Stories by Hemingway: Nick Adams
- Short Stories by Hemingway: Nick Adams In the Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway a young boy by the name of Nick Adams goes through his life's tribulations slowly learning and experiencing new things. Nick Adams is a young boy that is very ...
- 33: Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
- ... day, that man put a shotgun to his head and killed himself. That man was Ernest Hemingway. Though he chose to end his life, his heart and soul lives on through his many books and short stories. Hemingway’s work is his voice on how he viewed society, specifically American society and the values it held. No other author of this century has had such a general and lasting influence on the ... wrote, “did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could only have one end.” Along with the numerous novels he wrote, Ernest Hemingway was also a devoted short story writer. His stories covered every subject from fishing to hunting to death. One story that continues the man cannot be destroyed theme, is The Macomber Affair, also called The Short Happy Life of ...
- 34: Life and Work of Shirley Jackson
- ... almost as soon as she could write it" (Friedman, 18). As a child, Shirley was interested in sports and literature. In 1930, a year before she attended Burlingame High School, Shirley began writing poetry and short stories. Jackson enrolled in the liberal arts program at the University of Rochester in 1934. But after periods of unhappiness and questioning the loyalty of her friends, she withdrew from the university. For the next year ... Life Among the Savages." Between 1945 and 1947, Jackson was occupied with her first novel, "The Road Through the Wall." But it was in 1948 that her greatest success was achieved. The publication of the short story, "The Lottery", brought fame, as well as letters from readers all over the country. But more often there were abusive letters from people who did not understand her motives or what she was ...
- 35: The Call of the Wild: Determinism and Darwinism
- ... worked at many jobs and in 1897, and, in 1898; he participated in the Alaska gold rush. When he returned to San Francisco, he began to write about his experiences. He wrote a collection of short stories entitled The Son of the Wolf, which was published in 1900. London lived an interesting life, during which he wrote more than 50 books. He also was an author with enormous popular success. He had experience as a war correspondent. Sadly after two broken marriages and a reoccurring alcohol problem, he died from a kidney disease at the age of 40. Many of his stories, including The Call of the Wild (1903), deal with the returning of a civilized creature to the natural state. London's style—brutal, vivid, and exciting—made him enormously popular outside the United States; ...
- 36: The Great Leapfrog Contest And
- In the short stories, The Good Corn written by H.E. Bates and The Great Leapfrog Contest by William Saroyan techniques such as characters, point of view, setting and structure work together to explore the issue of personal conflict ... and establish tension between the main characters in each story. An examination of these techniques allow a more enhanced reading of the texts and in turn evoke a particular response from the reader. In the short story The Good Corn there are three main characters which are portrayed in such a way as to allow a tension and personal conflict to be created but only after the reader is positioned ...
- 37: Isaac Asimov
- ... Bloom, 251). Asimov attended school and was a very bright student. He went to college at Columbia University. He graduated from there with his master’s degree in Chemistry in 1941. His career was cut short though because in 1942 he moved to Philadelphia Naval Yard to work for the war. In 1945 he entered the army. In July of 1946 he was discharged from the army and he moved around ... One of his favorite things to do was sing and he belonged to 2 other groups the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. There were two additional societies, which Asimov belonged to that influenced some of his stories (10). At the young age of eleven years old Asimov began writing. With his first attempt at writing he began The Greenville Chums at College. This was a story based on the lives of 3 ... astounding publisher of this magazine was John W. Campbell Jr. He and Asimov had a close relationship and it was this that gave Asimov his beginning of a prosperous career. Asimov wrote mainly science fiction stories about robots. His themes of his stories were mainly based around his ideas that robots were rational programmable beings and friendly towards humans (Bloom, 251). Asimov’s stories are mainly based around science fiction. ...
- 38: Intertextualilty - The Mocking
- Intertextuality The difference between short stories and novels extends far beyond the obvious, Short stories are often read in a single sitting and can be defined as a brief version of logical events usually revolving about a singular plot. Whilst a novel may retain many of the characteristics ...
- 39: Intertextuality Of To Kill A Mockingbird and A Blow, A Kiss
- Intertextuality Of To Kill A Mockingbird and A Blow, A Kiss The difference between short stories and novels extends far beyond the obvious, Short stories are often read in a single sitting and can be defined as a brief version of logical events usually revolving about a singular plot. Whilst a novel may retain many of the characteristics ...
- 40: The Short Story Theories Of Ed
- In both of the articles, each author is trying to share his view, or theory on the short story. The view of Edgar Allen Poe is very pessimistic toward the novel and other forms of long fiction, while B.M. Ejxenbaum takes a more analytic approach. Poe writes, The novel certainly requires what is denominated a sustained effort but this is a matter of perseverance, and has but a collateral relation to talent. Is the main difference between the authors of short stories and those of novels that the novel writers are just non-talented over-achievers? Indeed, it does take talent to be able to convey a story with little or no build up, character development ...
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