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Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Short story --- Short story. --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Faulkner, William, --- Parker, Dorothy, --- Toomer, Jean, --- Munro, Alice, --- Tolstoy, Leo, --- Bowen, Elizabeth, --- O'Connor, Frank, --- Shiga, Naoya, --- Vonnegut, Kurt. --- Narayan, R. K., --- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, --- Stein, Gertrude, --- Morrison, Toni. --- Gaines, Ernest J., --- Head, Bessie, --- Mishima, Yukio, --- O'Brien, Tim, --- Kincaid, Jamaica. --- O'Flaherty, Liam, --- McCullers, Carson,

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Fiction --- Roman --- History and criticism --- Periodicals --- Histoire et critique --- Périodiques --- Fiction. --- Arts and Humanities --- General and Others --- Literature --- Périodiques --- EBSCOASP-E EJLITTE EPUB-ALPHA-S EPUB-PER-FT --- Periodicals. --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Korte verhalen. --- Kurzepik. --- Fiction - History and criticism - Periodicals. --- 18.05 English literature. --- Short story --- Epische Kurzform --- Epik --- Kleinepik --- Kurzprosa --- Prosa --- Kurzform

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This study engages with the troubled question of authorial subjectivity and ethics in Modernism in general and in Conrad's short fiction in particular, and offers an original theoretical perspective, inspired by the work of Derrida and the early philosophical writings of M. M. Bakhtin. Part One of the book focuses on the relational dynamics in 'Under Western Eyes' and 'The Secret Sharer', and develops a 'heterobiographical' reading matrix, which serves as a psycho-textual and philosophical approach to modes of authorial presence in the text. Part Two offers close readings of ten short stories spanning the whole of Conrad's career and clustered into five chapters--'Writing and Fratricide', 'The Pathos of Authenticity', 'The Poetics of Cultural Despair', 'The Romantic paradox', and 'Addressing the Woman'. This part of the book engages with the interpretative problems posed by these stories through a cultural-historical perspective, linking Conrad's essentially Romantic sensibility and his unique position on the threshold of Modernism with some of the issues that have emerged from the 'Postmodern turn': the relationship between metaphysics and subjectivity, the conception of inter-subjectivity as prior to and constitutive of subjectivity; the permeability of textual and psychological boundary-lines; and the desire for subjective aesthetization. These issues, which can all be traced back to the cultural crisis of the turn of the century, are still with us at the close of the millennium.

Ethics in literature --- Ethiek in de literatuur --- Ethique dans la littérature --- Kortverhaal --- Nouvelle --- Novelle --- Short story --- Subjectiviteit in de literatuur --- Subjectivity in literature --- Subjectivité dans la littérature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Short stories --- Story, Short --- Authorship --- Fiction --- History and criticism --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Conrad, Józef, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Konrant, Tzozeph, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Conrad, Joseph --- Criticism and interpretation --- England --- Conrad, Joseph, - 1857-1924 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) --- Modernisme (littéraure) --- Morale --- Subjectivité --- Critique et interprétation --- Grande-Bretagne --- Dans la littérature

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This captivating story of the Jewish community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania reveals a pattern of adaptation to American life surprisingly different from that followed by Jewish immigrants to metropolitan areas. Although four-fifths of Jewish immigrants did settle in major cities, another fifth created small-town communities like the one described here by Ewa Morawska. Rather than climbing up the mainstream education and occupational success ladder, the Jewish Johnstowners created in the local economy a tightly knit ethnic entrepreneurial niche and pursued within it their main life goals: achieving a satisfactory standard of living against the recurrent slumps in local mills and coal mines and enjoying the company of their fellow congregants. Rather than secularizing and diversifying their communal life, as did Jewish immigrants to larger cities, they devoted their energies to creating and maintaining an inclusive, multipurpose religious congregation. Morawska begins with an extensive examination of Jewish life in the Eastern European regions from which most of Johnstown's immigrants came, tracing features of culture and social relations that they brought with them to America. After detailing the process by which migration from Eastern Europe occurred, Morawska takes up the social organization of Johnstown, the place of Jews in that social order, the transformation of Jewish social life in the city, and relations between Jews and non-Jews. The resulting work will appeal simultaneously to students of American history, of American social life, of immigration, and of Jewish experience, as well as to the general reader interested in any of these topics.

Jews --- History. --- Pennsylvania --- Johnstown (Cambria County, Pa.) --- Ethnic relations. --- Affair. --- American Jews. --- American middle class. --- Americans. --- Autobiography. --- B'nai B'rith. --- Bankruptcy. --- Boutique. --- Career. --- Clifford Geertz. --- Coal town. --- Collective memory. --- Customer. --- Debt. --- Department store. --- E. P. Thompson. --- Eastern Europe. --- Economy. --- Emigration. --- Employment. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Ethnic group. --- Ethnic studies. --- Ethnoreligious group. --- Everyday life. --- Extended family. --- Family economy. --- Habitus (sociology). --- Haskalah. --- Historical sociology. --- Historiography. --- Household. --- Housewife. --- Hungarians. --- Ideology. --- Illustration. --- Immigration to the United States. --- Immigration. --- Income. --- Informant. --- Institution. --- Interwar period. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish name. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Kashrut. --- Laborer. --- Layoff. --- Literature. --- Lithuania. --- Livelihood. --- Lower East Side. --- Middle class. --- Minority group. --- Moses Rischin. --- Newspaper. --- Oral history. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Payment. --- Peasant. --- Politics. --- Postmodernism. --- Profession. --- Reform Judaism. --- Religion. --- Residence. --- Retail. --- Salary. --- Secondary education. --- Secularization. --- Shopkeeper. --- Shtetl. --- Slavs. --- Small business. --- Social center. --- Social environment. --- Social history. --- Social relation. --- Society of the United States. --- Society. --- Sociology. --- Standard of living. --- Sunday school. --- Superiority (short story). --- Synagogue. --- Tailor. --- Talmud Torah. --- Tkhine. --- United Jewish Appeal. --- Western Pennsylvania. --- Wholesaling. --- Workforce. --- World War I. --- World War II. --- Writing. --- Yiddish. --- Zionism.