Discussing Literary Genre

Studies in Short Fiction 24.2 (1987): 163. MAS Ultra - School Edition. EBSCO. Web. 22 Feb. 2011.

Studies in Short Fiction 21.4 (Fall 1984). Rpt. In Short Story Criticism. Ed. Janet Witalec

S. Elliot wrote in his essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” that “no poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone” (37). It is not necessary to compare to dead poets and artists, it can also be useful to compare living authors against each other to see the value of each piece of literature and to see the connection they share. The Scarlet Letter, The Handmaid’s Tale, and When She Woke share a connection that can become visible through intertextuality. The main point of intertextuality is to see the similarities of two or more pieces of literature, be they implicit or explicit. Through the intertextual relationship literature comes out of the box, be it the box of genre, or any other box for classification. Pieces of literature can fully develop its potential. Comparing the three novels in question in this thesis has shed new light onto each and every one of them. Question that arose in one novel might be answered in another novel. It is a symbiosis of knowledge and interpretation. The theory of intertextuality shows that everything is connected in one way or another. Just as the protagonist in the three novels are connected to each other, literature is connected. Everything can stand on its own, but making a connection gives new meaning to

The article “American Short Fiction and World Story” by Alan Cheuse compares the old tales to the modern short story. To start the article he talks about the old type of stories by famous writer Homer. Here talks about how these books are written by the culture of the time. With that being said, he makes the assumption that the old time tales are only applicable to the time in history they were written. This is pretty obvious because in today’s world we rarely see the events that happened in such ages. Next after talking about the period before modernism he starts to contemplate the creation of the modern short story. Here he makes a surprising claim, where he says that the modern story actually started in the United States with the famous poet Edgar Allen Poe. This is surprising to many because in the literature world most people associate modernism with European writers such as Chekov and Flaubert. He actually states the this modern sense of writing started in North America, then went to Europe and finally arrived to the res of the world including North America again. So we are left to ask, what is the modern short story like? Well, Alan Cheuse compares the modern short story to the art story. He says the perfectionists of it such as Hemmingway; owe their credit to writers like Poe because he in fact started it. The art story is a story that is written and can be applicable to any situation within real life. That is Alan Cheuse argument, and main ide of the whole article.

There are different forms and examples of exemplary and classic literature which have been deemed as significant works that are highly esteemed worldwide. These examples of literature would awe the world with how much literary skill they entailed when they were composed and written: attention to details as to formation of characters, the most crafty of plots, the most eloquent speeches and lines, the most astounding of twists of scenes, and most of all, the most universal and meaningful of themes. The theme of any literary work is what makes it great as it should be able to encompass the immense diversity of the world and as it would be able to transcend the boundaries of religion, age, race, gender, etc. Two examples of this great and

It is a typical novel genre text, by the in medias-res, the short period of time the story stretches on, the few characters and by the “open” ending of the story.

I chose to approach this assignment by focusing on an aspect from Devitt that I was still having a hard time figuring out. The new conception of genre is a more complex approach than the older conventional concept of genre. Devitt express her concern with the old concept of genre and present evidence or theory that the older concept may present restrictions whereas the newer concept, although more complex allows for more diversity in the construction of the genre. As stated on page 575,” Once our attention shifts to the origins of genres, it also shifts away from their formal features” The new concept is to create a genre that will unify two divided opposite groups to help us understand the process of language in writing a genre.

A short story is a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel. In the first semester of school we focused on reading shrot stories and learning about many literary elements.Short stories can have many pros and cons. A con is Short stories don't have as much detail towards them and sometimes are all over the place like for example The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. However, there is many pros for a short story for example It helps decide what kind of author someone likes and what type of genre you like reading. Also a pro in a short story is the short story widens the reader's style. In the following paper i will be comparing and contrasting two short stories. One Mark Twain's (Comedy-Conflict)The Invalid’s Story, on the other hand George Toudouze’s (Conflict) Three Skeleton Key.

Novels have become one of the most prominent literature outlets, owing to the appreciation they have garnered and inspired from multiple authors. With its prominence, a trend has arisen where authors tend to follow a standard line of thinking, be it regarding themes or writing styles. An example of a commonly adopted literature concept amongst most authors is the concept of magical realism, which is expressible through the use of magic in novel settings. Through analyzing Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion, the paper will determine why authors use magic realism in their literature pieces while connecting this concept to their themes.

Over many years, genre has become an important role in everyone’s life. Scholarly authors such as Winsor, Pare, Berkenkotter, and Huckin, have noticed this trend and how it is important for people to understand this concept in order to understand writing. Some of these trends are noticeable in social groups such as businesses, educational settings, and other discourse communities in which they all were simplified to a specific standard within their group. These genres will facilitate activities, impact social relationships, identities, and structure communities. It is important to know that not all communities will share common genres; in fact, they might vary heavily.

Short stories can share themes, motifs, symbols, consequences, and plot lines, even if there is never any intention to share a common element between the stories. The stories can be written close together or in different decades and still be linked to the one another. They can also be worlds apart with different meanings in the end, but that does not stop them from having similar ideas expressed within them. The following three stories, “Lagoon” by Joseph Conrad, “The Rocking Horse Winner” by DH Lawrence, and “The Lady in the Looking Glass” by Virginia Woolf, are three totally different stories that share common threads that make them the stories that they are.

When short stories started to be written in the American Romanticism Time Period, they were very different from the ones today, but they didn’t change abruptly. Over the different periods like the American Romanticism, Dark Romantics, Realism, Moderns, and Contemporary, the events changed the style of writing and the characteristics of the way the authors in these times wrote their stories. The authors in these eras started to revolutionize the way they wrote according to occurrences in that particular period. Another thing that affects the periods are the way public starts to think and the events that start happening in the United States. There are many unique factors that contribute to the American Romanticism, Dark Romantics, Realism, Moderns, and the Contemporary Time Periods.

However, the novel’s genre is undefined, and subtly incorporates a blend of genres into a carefully constructed framework such as, gothic, melodrama, sensationalism, satire and caustic irony. The serialisation was visual and contrasted with Hardy’s dramatic use of imagery and artistic convention. Most people are not aware that the chapters sent to Stephen were not only sent in month by month, but temporal and correspond to the calendar year month with month.

Many authors like to write fantasy novels, stories that detached themselves from reality, novels that tell us about magic, parallel dimensions, between others. But even in these fictional stories there is still the presence of the universal themes that can be touched not only in this kind of novels but also in the simpler ones, themes like the fight between good and evil, love, between others.

The paper will analyze the literary skills in the novel. The literary styles will be analyzed in the context of their significance in influencing the plot and characters. The literary analysis will include review of the major literature styles the author uses and the characteristics of characters in regards to adapting the requirements of the specific literature styles. Additionally, the review will also include a perspective of the importance of style used by the author.