tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161136885462262525.post6251613730285925047..comments2024-03-09T00:19:36.011-08:00Comments on Reading the Short Story: Subtext: An Old Concept with a New Name: Example of Stephen Crane's "An Episode of War"Charles E. Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11642048806407593585noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161136885462262525.post-8090878194669655752021-03-15T03:38:40.615-07:002021-03-15T03:38:40.615-07:00Thumbs up with your post, but I reckon we should g...<br />Thumbs up with your post, but I reckon we should give a slight consideration in some areas with respect to social norms in the medical world. For instance, there should be enough female doctors to proceed with their careers as gynecologists and provide a comfortable atmosphere, best to attend to female patients in their private problems. <a href="https://sehatkahani.com//" rel="nofollow">Best Doctors in Karachi</a><br /><br />aisha lakhanihttps://sehatkahani.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161136885462262525.post-71738591938346070462015-08-10T13:41:34.153-07:002015-08-10T13:41:34.153-07:00Thanks to Karl for his thoughtful comments. I app...Thanks to Karl for his thoughtful comments. I appreciate the kind remarks. I understand that my younger academic colleagues need to publish to climb the tenure/promotion ladder, but I grow weary when so many of them claim to make great new discoveries about literature when they are simply coming up with new names for old concepts. To call story a "text" rather than a "story" contributes nothing new, it seems to me, And to say you are "deconstructing" a text or "unpacking" a work when you are doing the same kind of thing that the New Critics did over half a century ago does not constitute a new discovery.<br />Charles E. Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11642048806407593585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161136885462262525.post-63108047712854793932015-08-09T13:10:19.598-07:002015-08-09T13:10:19.598-07:00What a lovely examination and analysis of Crane...What a lovely examination and analysis of Crane's remarkable story this is. As is so often the case with this blog, I'm deeply grateful to you for sharing your insights.<br /><br />When scholars write about fiction, it often seems to me that they're too eager to chase after obscure subtexts (or uses of symbol, or metaphor, or theme, or whatever term they prefer). If they can discern some new subtext that hasn't been written about in a published article before (or beaten to death in a thousand student term papers), then hurrah; they've done their job as literary scholars. This game of "find an obscure new subtext" probably makes more sense with novels, since novels are likely to contain quite a number of different subtexts, (or uses of symbolism, or recurring metaphorical themes, etc.). And I think it's often the case with a good literary novel that the "point" of the book is not in any single dominant subtext, but rather in the rich variety of subtexts that can be mined from the material.<br /><br />But short stories, as you've often pointed out, are far more intensely focused than novels. They're more likely to be "about" one single, sharp, and (in the case of a truly great story) exquisitely profound theme. In the case of a short story, the game of "find an obscure subtext" is likely to become an exorcise in missing the point of the story. The scholar runs the risk of peering myopically through a magnifying glass at some small peripheral issue while the real grandeur and beauty of the story fly unnoticed over his/her head.<br />Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05827682993126698431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3161136885462262525.post-44010086432480635762015-08-08T04:18:58.807-07:002015-08-08T04:18:58.807-07:00Short story are very interesting ot read. I like s...Short story are very interesting ot read. I like stories more. I am working in writing company of <a href="http://www.clazwork.com/scholarship-canada-essay-writing-expert-wilcox/" rel="nofollow">scholarship essay writing service</a>addirigibhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11360125231861135674noreply@blogger.com