CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE SHORT FICTION “MAGIC” BASED ON NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH’S APPROACH

In the discussion about social injustice, inequality becomes a core issue. It is proven by inequality themed short stories which are still relevant nowadays although they were written decades ago. In this paper we analyse the 1928’s short story Magic written by Katherine Anne Porter under Fairclough's (1922) critical discourse analysis. It aims at finding social wrong—especially inequality issues in the short story and finding possible ways to solve the social wrong.The analysis will be done in the framework of Fairclough’s critical discourse methods which divides the discourse into three dimensions, i.e. linguistic description of the language text, interpretation of the relationship between the discursive processes and the text, and explanation of the relationship between the discursive processes and social processes (Fairclough, 1995). To describe the linguistic aspect of the text, appraisal theory is used as the approach to support the process of analyzing the linguistic elements that create the discourse. Thus, the analysis will link the linguistic and social contexts of the discourse. The results show that there are some social wrongs happen in the story. It is also shown through judgement, affect, and appreciation.

Quem pode comer na mesa do capitão? Intertextualidade e alteridade nas obras de Katherine Anne Porter e Ana Margarida de Carvalho

Este artigo pretende analisar as relações intertextuais e a alteridade nos romances The Ship of Fools (1962) da escritora americana Katherine Anne Porter e Não se Pode Morar nos Olhos de um Gato (2016) da autora portuguesa Ana Margarida de Carvalho. Partindo de uma abordagem comparatista, com o intuito de analisar semelhanças no seio das diferenças, recorrendo aos contributos teóricos de Tiphaine Samoyault, Ingedore Koch, Paul Voestermans, entre outros, discutiremos o modo como a intertextualidade se assume como porta de entrada na alteridade – elemento fulcral nos dois romances. Com efeito, em ambas as obras, num ambiente de confinamento claustrofóbico, os olhares hostis de desconfiança lançados ao “outro” revelam preconceitos conducentes à injustiça e à discriminação social. Em ambos os casos, “a mesa do capitão” simboliza um estatuto privilegiado, acessível apenas a uma elite minoritária. Por fim, abordaremos a forma como a alteridade confere sentido às inter-relações estabelecidas nas duas obras, sublinhando uma visão pessimista da natureza humana, de inegável atualidade, que nos faz refletir no modo como em pleno século XXI, numa sociedade globalizada, percebemos e (con)vivemos com o “outro”.

Analysis of Women Characters in Miranda Stories

Katherine Anne Porter was awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Award for her most important works The Collection of Short Stories which include 27 short stories, nine of which are Miranda stories consisting of Old Mortality, The Old Order and Pale Horse,Pale Rider. Miranda stories give an account of the life experience of three generations of females in Miranda family, including Miranda’s grandma, aunt Amy and Eva and Miranda herself. Combined with the background of Potter’s life and feminist movement in the United States, this paper analyzed the existence status and the images of female characters in Miranda family, and explored the process of female consciousness, which will help comprehensively understand Potter’s works and her female’s awakening.

Katherine Anne Porter’s Familiar Countries

In a career that spanned nearly half a century, Katherine Anne Porter developed a transregional, transhistorical consciousness marked by the multiple, iterative contagions of modernity. Considered mainly a Southern writer—despite marginal claims to both the region’s territories and its elite genealogies—Porter habitually displaced a complex Southern imaginary onto unlikely places and times. This essay locates Porter’s most “Southern” meditations in remote contexts, including her commentaries on postrevolutionary Mexico, where she spent much of the 1920s; her lifelong work on a never-completed biography of the Puritan polymath Cotton Mather; her unpublished Bermuda poems; and her only completed novel, Ship of Fools (1962), which charts a transatlantic voyage on a second-class cruise liner. Porter protected her South fiercely but dialectically; her stake in a Southern narrative would emerge only circuitously, by way of alternative geographies and narratives where she identified variously with the elite and the dispossessed. In the end, Porter’s South poses an instructive challenge for the scholars still attempting to define and deconstruct the region: it is at once everywhere and nowhere; an agent and an inheritor of colonial-capitalist trauma; a refuge and a nightmare.

Anderson, Sherwood

Sherwood Anderson was an American short-story writer, novelist, and memoirist. He was a businessman turned author whose writing often rendered the lives of ordinary people in the Midwest during the emergence of modern culture. His most enduring literary legacy is Winesburg, Ohio (1919), a work that explores the inner lives of an array of characters in a small, seemingly isolated town. His experimental prose style, along with his lyrical treatment of everyday lives, influenced a number of American modernists, including Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, Katherine Anne Porter, Henry Miller, William Faulkner, and Nathanael West. Sherwood Anderson was born in 1876 in Camden, Ohio, the third of seven children. His experiences growing up in the small town of Clyde, Ohio — where he helped support the family by taking on a wide variety of jobs — served as the basis for much of his later writing. He served in the military, worked as an advertising man, and managed an Ohio paint factory. In 1912, he suffered what most historians think was a nervous breakdown in response to business and marital stresses. Anderson would later write about this time as a moment when he repudiated the life of materialism in order to fully invest himself in artistic pursuits.