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Themes & ProjectsMysteries, December 2008–January 2009
Maritime literature, January–March 2009 Melville read-through, part I, Typee—White-Jacket, December 2009–January 2010 Whirlwind tour of Russian literature, February–May 2010 Epistolary literature, July 2009–June 2010 Melville read-through, part II, Moby-Dick—Billy Budd, July–September 2010 The Unstructured Clarel Readalong, August–September 2010 The Art of the Novella Challenge, August 2011 The bibliographing Reading Challenge, January 2011–present Authors
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By nicole
I tried starting out by giving a brief summary of the plot of “The Runenberg,” but found that doesn’t quite work. Or at least, it’s very difficult to do properly, because of how wiggly the story is when you get right down to it. But here goes: Christian, raised in the lowlands to be [...] 13 November, 2009 | Category: Ludwig Tieck | Tags: 19th century, German literature, in translation, Short stories |
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Even without any prompting, my brilliant readers connected Robert Coover’s short story “The Babysitter” with Spanking the Maid when I described the repetition, with variation, in the novel. But I believe there is an important difference between the two, which wouldn’t have been made clear from my first post, now that I’ve read “The [...] 6 November, 2009 | Category: Robert Coover | Tags: 20th century, American literature, Short stories |
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By nicole
In Owen Warland, “The Artist of the Beautiful,” Nathaniel Hawthorne has created an almost too-perfect representation of the Romantic artist. Even as a child Owen had no use for the utilitarian, even for faux-utilitarian toys. Only Beauty has ever interested him. Not fit for manual labor, he’s apprenticed to a watchmaker, learns his trade [...] 18 September, 2009 | Category: Nathaniel Hawthorne | Tags: 19th century, American literature, Short stories |
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I wanted to look at some good, sturdy old American short fiction this week, since I’d even gone slack on my specially designed “easy Friday posts,” and after thinking about some Melville and Hawthorne it was suggested I go all the way back to Washington Irving. So I did. Other than a brief sketch [...] By nicole
Is it actually a thing to say that the world can be divided into Hemingway people and Fitzgerald people, or is it just something I’ve thought long enough that I think it’s a thing? Anyway, I believe this is at least as valid as the Beatles/Elvis bifurcation (or Beatles/Stones). I’ve always fallen on the [...] 8 August, 2009 | Category: F. Scott Fitzgerald | Tags: 20th century, American literature, Short stories |
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This week I’m going to move on from the tiny “Up in Michigan” and stretch the short story as far as it can go in the other direction, to what is rightfully a novella, Revenge. Wikipedia tells me Jim Harrison’s work “has been compared to that of Faulkner and Hemingway” and since the Hemingway [...] 31 July, 2009 | Category: Jim Harrison | Tags: 20th century, American literature, Short stories |
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Didn’t take me long in my story series to get to Hemingway, did it? Well, I won’t pretend I’m surprised. I did post about him earlier this week as well, but in fact, I re-read “Up in Michigan” (1923) because I’d been discussing with the consumption partner the Michigan stories, which he likes best. [...] 24 July, 2009 | Category: Ernest Hemingway | Tags: 20th century, American literature, Short stories |
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This week was the first anniversary of this blog, and I think that makes it a good time to try out something new. I love short stories, and while I do read short story collections from time to time I feel like I could be reading a lot more individual short stories. So starting [...] By nicole
What does Yukio Mishima think patriotism is? Well, if you know anything about his history, you can probably guess. Knowing that, I have to say, detracted from the reading experience. It’s clear from chapter one what will happen, and I had made a pretty good guess just from the title. Scene by scene, all [...] 24 March, 2009 | Category: Yukio Mishima | Tags: 20th century, Japanese literature, Short stories |
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“The Chimes” is one of Charles Dickens’s “other” Christmas stories—except that it is actually a New Year’s story. Wuthering Expectations has an excellent post about it, and there’s a bit of a discussion at The Valve as well. First, let me say that while somewhat baffling it was a really fun story, and anyone [...] 22 December, 2008 | Category: Charles Dickens | Tags: 19th century, English literature, Short stories |
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