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5 Readers Reading (1975) [15] pursues this conclusion based on case studies of five university students who gave free association responses (according to psychoanalytic technique) to three short stories. They showed that their literary experiences were shaped by readers' identities, and not by the texts they read.
Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher.He was one of the leading U.S. critics [according to whom?] of the 20th century who analyzed the contemporary cultural, social, and political implications of literature.
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as ...
Chicago Review is a student-run literary magazine founded in 1946 and published quarterly in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago.The magazine features contemporary poetry, fiction, and criticism, often publishing works in translation and special features in double issues.
Teachers can also use short story collections as introduction or further exploration to a genre. [12] By providing several works from that genre, students can get a feel of its conventions. Another potential use is to challenge students to evaluate and criticize literature by using short story collections as a jumping off point. [12]
Dealing with a strong cough, Anton Chekhov wrote "The Student" while on a monthlong vacation to Yalta, a city he found to be "ever so boring". [2] The story, which initially bore the title "In the Evening", was published in issue number 104 of the newspaper Russkie Vedomosti (The Russian News) [b] on April 16, 1894, [a] and, at just four pages long, was one of Chekhov's shortest stories.
A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's goals and methods. Although the two activities are closely related, literary critics are not always ...
Prominent short story awards such as The Sunday Times Short Story Award, the BBC National Short Story Award, [37] the Royal Society of Literature's V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, [38] The London Magazine Short Story Prize, [39] the Pin Drop Studio Short Story Award and many others attract hundreds of entries each year. Published and non ...