Short Stories in Global Literature

This book looks beyond delity to emphasize how each adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's short stories functions as a creative response to a text, foregrounding the signi cance of its uidity, transtextuality, and genre. The adaptations analysed range from the rst to the most recent and draw attention to the uidity of textual…

Reader-response theorists such as I. A. Richards (1974), L. Rosenblatt (1993), S. Fish (1970), and W. Iser (1978) argue that reading is an act which is actualized in the form of a "transaction" between the text and the reader.They observe that each reading activity is a unique experience in which the reader is involve…

No Homelike Place:The Lesson of History in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World Timothy Wright (bio) [Errata] Early in Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982), the narrator Etsuko makes a grim admission. Her eldest daughter, brought to England as a child when Etsuko left Japan after the w…

With their brevity, ascetic style, and lack of resolutions, Raymond Carver's minimalist short stories have often served as an example of an unstylized and even clumsy attempt to depict the more prosaic aspects of everyday life, resulting in a literature of utter banality. Against the background of the unquestioned cul…

• DANIEL JUST

The debut novel of Zadie Smith, White Teeth, handles the notions of “history” and “root” momentously. The novel, which presents the characters’ past and root with many minor stories, functions as a historical bond connecting the past to the present and the future. As a postcolonial and multicultural novel, White Teeth…

• SEDA ARIKAN

This paper examines the strategies Anne Sexton, Carol Ann Duffy, and Margaret Atwood employ in their revisionist mythmaking project to disclose and denounce the detrimental impact of patriarchal norms and institutions on women and gender equality. The poets rewrite classical myths and fairy tales this time to tell the…

This paper examines the strategies Anne Sexton, Carol Ann Duffy, and Margaret Atwood employ in their revisionist mythmaking project to disclose and denounce the detrimental impact of patriarchal norms and institutions on women and gender equality. The poets rewrite classical myths and fairy tales this time to tell the…

• BURCU AKKOYUN

The purpose of this study is to decipher the relationship between trauma and the differentiating perception of the self and time by discussing varying post-traumatic responses of the traumatized characters in Ian McEwan’s The Cement Garden (1978) and The Child in Time (1987). To this end, the study applies trauma theo…

• NİLAY ERDEM AYYILDIZ

Rebecca Makkai’s short story collection Music for Wartime (2015) features thirdgeneration characters, like the author herself, who revisit the familial trauma narratives of the Second World War in Transylvania. The collection’s postmemorial dynamics therefore relies on the first generation’s lived experience mediated…

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• ZAFER ÖZMEN

The portrayal of women in patriarchal communities and their resistance against the tyranny of males are one of the most evident themes of literary texts. Feminist writers and scholars object to the conventional premise that women are inferior, silenced, or marginalized figures, and they aim to alter the mindsets of tr…

• SAMET GÜVEN