Author Archives
-
Analysis of Nadine Gordimer’s Stories
Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) is a distinguished novelist and short-story writer. About Selected Stories, drawn from her earlier volumes of stories, a reviewer said that the stories “are marked by the courage of moral vision… Read More ›
-
Analysis of Hamlin Garland’s Stories
Hamlin Garland’s (September 14, 1860 – March 4, 1940) most enduring short stories are those dealing with the Middle Border (the prairie lands of Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakotas). Collected for the most part in four books, they… Read More ›
-
Analysis of Gabriel García Márquez’s Stories
Gabriel García Márquez’s (1927 – 2014) fiction is characterized by a thread of common themes, events, and characters that seem to link his work together into one multifaceted portrayal of the experiences of Latin American life. From the influences of his… Read More ›
-
Analysis of Mavis Gallant’s Stories
The often somber tone of Mavis Gallant’s (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014) work is strengthened by the combination of acute lucidness and understated stylistic richness. Gallant is a remarkable observer. She succeeds in creating worlds that are both… Read More ›
-
Analysis of E. M. Forster’s Stories
All of Forster’s best-known and most anthologized stories appeared first in two collections, The Celestial Omnibus and The Eternal Moment. The words “celestial” and “eternal” are especially significant because a typical E. M. Forster story features a protagonist who is… Read More ›
-
Analysis of Gustave Flaubert’s Stories
Gustave Flaubert’s (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) Three Tales, published during the year 1877, when he was fifty-six years old, reflects the variety of styles of his literary production as a whole. “Un Coeur simple” (“A Simple Heart”)… Read More ›
-
Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was a professional writer who was also a literary artist. In practical terms this meant that he had to support himself by writing short stories for popular magazines in order… Read More ›
-
Analysis of William Faulkner’s Stories
William Faulkner (1897-1962) has been credited with having the imagination to see, before other serious writers saw, the tremendous potential for drama, pathos, and sophisticated humor in the history and people of the South. In using this material and, in… Read More ›
-
Analysis of Louise Erdrich’s Stories
Just as fiction in general has opened up to a diverse ethnic spectrum of writers, so too has short fiction, and Louise Erdrich’s (born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) stories stand as excellent examples of contemporary Native American literature…. Read More ›
-
Analysis of Ralph Ellison’s Stories
Because most of Ralph Ellison’s (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) short fiction was written before his career as a novelist began, his short stories are often analyzed biographically, as the training ground for the novelist he was to… Read More ›
-
Analysis of Stuart Dybek’s Stories
Chicago has a long tradition of producing fine writers who use the city as their literary landscape. Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandburg, Upton Sinclair, and The odore Dreiser, among others, belong to this tradition. Stuart Dybek, while drawing heavily on the… Read More ›
-
Analysis of Andre Dubus’s Stories
Among American story writers of the twentieth century, the one to whom Andre Dubus is most often compared is Flannery O’Connor. Although Dubus’s works are not generally marked by the wry, ironic wit that permeates O’Connor’s work, both writers are… Read More ›
-
Analysis of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Stories
In spite of his desire to be acknowledged as a writer of “serious” literature, Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) is destined to be remembered as the creator of a fictional character who has taken on… Read More ›
-
Analysis of Fyodor Dostoevski’s Stories
Fyodor Dostoevski’s (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881) works fall into two periods that coincide with the time before his imprisonment and following it. The seven-year hiatus in his creative output between 1849 and 1857 corresponds to the four years… Read More ›
-
Analysis of Isak Dinesen’s Stories
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (born 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) reacted against the psychological and social realism of contemporary Danish literature and looked back to the Romantic storytellers for inspiration. Like them, she preferred the longer, drawn-out tale to… Read More ›
-
Analysis of Walter de la Mare’s Stories
Walter de la Mare’s (25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) stories take the form both of wish fulfillment and nightmare projections. Believing that the everyday world of mundane experience is a veil hiding a “real” world, de la Mare… Read More ›
-
Analysis of Stephen Crane’s Stories
Perhaps because his writing career was so short, critics have devoted much space to Stephen Crane’s (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) slight, decidedly apprentice series of sketches collectively entitled The Sullivan County Tales. One trait that the sketches… Read More ›
-
Analysis of Julio Cortázar’s Stories
Influenced by the European movements of nineteenth century Symbolism and twentieth century Surrealism, Julio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984) combines symbols, dreams, and the fantastic with what seems to be an ordinary, realistic situation in order to… Read More ›
-
Analysis of A. E. Coppard’s Stories
The unique quality of A. E. Coppard’s short fiction derives from his powers as a lyrical writer, his sympathetic understanding of the rural, lower-class folk who organically inhabit the English countryside so memorably evoked in his tales, and his “uncanny… Read More ›
-
Analysis of Robert Coover’s Stories
Robert Coover’s (born February 4, 1932) central concern is the human being’s need for fiction. Because of the complexity of human existence, people are constantly inventing patterns that give them an illusion of order in a chaotic world. For Coover,… Read More ›
You must be logged in to post a comment.