Author Archives
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Analysis of Grace Paley’s Stories
Despite her small literary output, Grace Paley’s (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007) innovative style and the political and social concerns she advocates in her work have enabled her to generate significant critical attention. Her stories treat traditional themes,… Read More ›
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Analysis of Cynthia Ozick’s Stories
Cynthia Ozick’s (born April 17, 1928) thesis for her master’s degree was titled “Parable in the Later Novels of Henry James,” an exercise that she later thought of as a first step in an act of devotion that resulted in… Read More ›
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Analysis of Tillie Olsen’s Stories
Tillie Olsen’s (January 14, 1912 – January 1, 2007) Tell Me a Riddle contains four stories arranged chronologically in the order in which they were written: “I Stand Here Ironing,” “Hey Sailor, What Ship?,” “O Yes,” and “Tell Me a… Read More ›
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Analysis of Liam O’Flaherty’s Stories
To experience the full range of Liam O’Flaherty’s (28 August 1896 – 7 September 1984) stories, one must deal with the exceptions in the collection The Stories of Liam O’Flaherty, notably “The Mountain Tavern,” which, like his historical novels, treats… Read More ›
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Analysis of Seán O’Faoláin’s Stories
Seán O’Faoláin’s (born February 22, 1900, Cork, County Cork, Ireland—died April 20, 1991) stories are varied. The earliest ones deal with the immediate political concerns of the Irish Civil War. Others use irony, although the irony tends to be gentle… Read More ›
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Analysis of Frank O’Connor’s Stories
Although widely read in Western literature, Frank O’Connor’s (17 September 1903 – 10 March 1966) literary character is most profoundly influenced by tensions within the literature and life of Ireland, ancient and modern. He was a dedicated student of the… Read More ›
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Analysis of Flannery O’Connor’s Stories
Flannery O’Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) is uncharacteristic of her age. In writing about the pervasive disbelief in the Christian mysteries during modern times, O’Connor seems better suited to the Middle Ages in her rather old-fashioned and… Read More ›
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Analysis of Edna O’Brien’s Stories
Edna O’Brien (born 15 December 1930) has written short stories throughout her long career. “Come into the Drawing Room, Doris” (retitled “Irish Revel” in The Love Object collection) first appeared in The New Yorker on October 6, 1962. “Cords,” published… Read More ›
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Analysis of Joyce Carol Oates’s Stories
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is a very American writer. Early in her career, she drew comparisons with such predecessors as Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner. The chiefly rural and small-town milieu of her earlier work expanded over… Read More ›
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Analysis of Vladimir Nabokov’s Stories
Vladimir Nabokov’s (born April 22, 1899 — July 2, 1977) early stories are set in the post-czarist, post-World War I era, with Germany the usual location, and sensitive, exiled Russian men the usual protagonists. Many are nascent artists: wistful, sorrowful,… Read More ›
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Analysis of Bharati Mukherjee’s Stories
Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 – January 28, 2017) has herself become one of the literary voices whose skillful depictions of the contemporary non-European immigrant experience in the United States she credits with “subverting the very notion of what the… Read More ›
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Analysis of Yukio Mishima’s Stories
The world will never know what course the literary career of Yukio Mishima might have taken had he not died at the age of forty-five. Nevertheless, he was the best known of post-World War II writers among critics and readers… Read More ›
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Top Scopus Indexed Journals in English Literature
1. English Historical Review -(OXFORD) (https://academic.oup.com/ehr/pages/About) 2. ASIATIC: IITUM Journal of English Language & Literature (https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL) 3. English for Specific Purposes (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/english-for-specific-purposes) 4. The Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) (https://www.aate.org.au/journals/english-in-australia) 5. English in Education (Wiley) (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17548845) 6…. Read More ›
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Analysis of Herman Melville’s Stories
After the critical and commercial failure of Moby Dick and Pierre, Herman Melville, who was then supporting his wife and children, his mother, and his four sisters, was desperate for money. So when he received an invitation from Putnam’s Monthly… Read More ›
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Analysis of W. Somerset Maugham’s Stories
W. Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) first claimed fame as a playwright and novelist, but he became best known in the 1920’s and 1930’s the world over as an international traveler and short-story writer. Appearing in… Read More ›
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Analysis of Bobbie Ann Mason’s Stories
Often compared with Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, and Frederick Barthelme, Bobbie Ann Mason (born May 1, 1940) writes fiction that reads like life. Her characters struggle with jobs, family, and self-awareness, continually exuding a lively sense of being. Those who… Read More ›
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Analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s Stories
Katherine Mansfield’s (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) themes are not hard to discover. In 1918, she set herself the tasks of communicating the exhilarating delicacy and peacefulness of the world’s beauty and also of crying out against “corruption.”… Read More ›
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Analysis of Thomas Mann’s Stories
Thomas Mann’s (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) early stories are set in late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Europe, primarily in Germany and Italy. The protagonists are artists, disillusioned romantics with an ironic view of the cost… Read More ›
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Analysis of Bernard Malamud’s Stories
All Bernard Malamud’s (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) fiction seems based on a single affirmation: Despite its disappointments, horror, pain, and suffering, life is truly worth living. His work may be best understood in the context of mid-twentieth… Read More ›
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Analysis of Carson McCullers’s Stories
Carson McCullers’s (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) short stories (ruling out for the moment the novella The Ballad of the Sad Café, 1943, serial; 1951, book) often explore the intense emotional content of seemingly undramatic situations. Plot is… Read More ›
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