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Keep Calm and Read Short Stories МІНІСТЕРСТВО ОСВІТИ І НАУКИ УКРАЇНИ КАМ’ЯНЕЦЬ-ПОДІЛЬСЬКИЙ НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ УНІВЕРСИТЕТ ІМЕНІ ІВАНА ОГІЄНКА І.С. КАЗИМІР KEEP CALM AND READ SHORT STORIES Навчально-методичний посібник Кам’янець-Подільський – 2020 1 УДК 811.111’373(075.8) К42 Друкується за рішенням науково-методичної ради факультету іноземної філології Кам’янець-Подільського національного університету імені Івана Огієнка (протокол № 4 від 14 травня 2020 року) SHORT STORIES Рецензенти: Уманець А.В., кандидат філологічних наук, доцент, за- A short story is one of the most popu- відувач кафедри іноземних мов Кам’янець-Подільського lar forms of literature. Even though it is a національного університету імені Івана Огієнка. fiction, a product of the author’s imagina- Галайбіда О.В., кандидат філологічних наук, доцент, tion, you may become interested in reading завідувач кафедри англійської мови Кам’янець-Подільсь- it because it deals with people, places, ac- кого національного університету імені Івана Огієнка. tions, and events that seem to familiar. At other times it may stir Казимір І.С. your imagination because it deals with the fantastic – or unusual. К42 KEEP CALM AND READ SHORT STORIES: Whatever your reason for enjoying a particular short, you will навч.-метод. посібник / Уклад. Казимір І.С. – Кам’янець- find that because it is short, you can usually read it in one sitting. Подільський: ТОВ “Друкарня Рута”, 2020. – 104 с. A short story is made up of elements: plot, character, setting, ISBN 000-000-0000-000-0 point of view, and theme. The plot is the sequence of events in the story. The characters are the people, and sometimes the ani- Навчально-методичний посібник призначений для mals, that play a role in the story. The setting is where and when самостійної роботи студентів факультету іноземних мов і the events take place. Often the plot, characters, and setting work покликаний на удосконалення лексичної, комунікативної together to reveal a theme, or insight into life. та соціокультурної компетенцій. У посібнику містяться Adventure stories, mysteries, science-fiction, animal-tales – англомовні автентичні тексти, які спрямовані на форму- these are just a few of the varied types of short stories that authors вання мовленнєвих, писемних навичок, умінь та активі- write. In this paper you will encounter many of these types, and зацію критичного мислення у ході занурення в іншомов- you will learn strategies to help you understand and appreciate ний простір. УДК 811.111’373(075.8) short stories more thoroughly. ©Казимір І.С., 2020 ISBN 000-000-0000-000-0 ©ТОВ “Друкарня “Рута”, 2020 2 3 “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... In 1910, Katherine Mansfield began writing more regularly, Do the hardest thing on earth for you. and her work was being published. Editor John Middleton Murry Act for yourself. Face the truth.” rejected a story she sent into the magazine Rhythm, so she sent him her story The Woman at the Store, which he accepted. Kath- Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) erine Mansfield and John Murry engaged in a romantic relation- is remembered for her short stories and ship after the submission of this story. The two were married in poems. Considered a modernist, Kather- 1918, just after Katherine's divorce from Bowden was finalized. ine Mansfield wrote several short story During this time, Mansfield published several stories, including collections with some of her most pop- How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped, A Dill Pickle, and Millie. ular stories being The Garden Party, A Due to her continuous affairs with other men and women, her Dill Pickle, Mr and Mrs Dove, and The relationship with Murry was very unstable, and they continu- Fly. Some consider her one of the best ously separated and reunited, although they never divorced. short story writers of all time. In this les- Mansfield’s health began to decline just as her work started son, we will learn about Katherine Man- receiving international attention. She was diagnosed with tuber- sfield's life and her career. culosis in 1917. Despite her health, she published two major Katherine Mansfield was born in collections, Bliss in 1920, and The Garden Party in 1922. Wellington, New Zealand in 1888. Man- During her writing career, Mansfield was incredibly in- sfield was the middle child, with two older and two younger sib- spired by the works of Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. Her lings. As a teenager, she had a few stories published in her high many friends included Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence, both school's magazine. of whom helped her get published. At the height of her career, In 1903, she and her sisters were enrolled at the Queen’s Col- she was considered a modernist, a writer during this time period lege in London, England. Katherine perfected her cello skills and who went against traditional literary traditions. worked as an editor for the school's newspaper. Literary modernism was a literary movement that reacted While she finished her education, she traveled across Europe, to the industrialization of the world. Writers in this movement and in 1906, she went home to New Zealand for several years before moved away from romantic ideals in favor of sparse details, first returning to London. In London, she had an affair with a man named person point of view, stream of consciousness, and a close look Garnet Trowell, and she became pregnant; however, she then married at the harsh realities of the world. Many of Mansfield's short George Charles Bowden. Garnet's family did not approve of their stories, including the ones briefly covered in this lesson, follow relationship and her mother was furious with her, so Katherine was these principles. sent to a spa in Germany. During her stay, she miscarried, and when Even before she died at the age of thirty-four Katherine Man- returned to London again in 1910, she had completely changed. sfield had achieved a reputation as one of the most talented writers 4 5 of the modern short story in English. From 1910 publications in coveries of hers, some of them too terrifying for words, but others periodicals like the New Age through the five volumes of stories quite presentable and amusing. published before her death, Mansfield was recognized as innova- Rosemary had been married two years. She had a duck of a tive, accessible, and psychologically acute, one of the pioneers of boy. No, not Peter – Michael. And her husband absolutely adored the avant-garde in the creation of the short story. her. They were rich, really rich, not just comfortably well off, Her language was clear and precise; her emotion and reac- which is odious and stuffy and sounds like one’s grandparents. tion to experience carefully distilled and resonant. Her use of im- But if Rosemary wanted to shop she would go to Paris as you age and symbol were sharp, suggestive, and new without seem- and I would go to Bond Street. If she wanted to buy flowers, the ing forced or written to some preconceived formula. Her themes car pulled up at that perfect shop in Regent Street, and Rosemary were various: the difficulties and ambivalences of families and inside the shop just gazed in her dazzled, rather exotic way, and sexuality, the fragility and vulnerability of relationships, the com- said: “I want those and those and those. Give me four bunches of plexities and insensitivities of the rising middle classes, the social those. And that jar of roses. Yes, I’ll have all the roses in the jar. consequences of war, and overwhelmingly the attempt to extract No, no lilac. I hate lilac. It’s got no shape.” The attendant bowed whatever beauty and vitality one can from mundane and increas- and put the lilac out of sight, as though this was only too true; li- ingly difficult experience. lac was dreadfully shapeless. “Give me those stumpy little tulips. Those red and white ones.” And she was followed to the car by a thin shop-girl staggering under an immense white paper armful A CUP OF TEA that looked like a baby in long clothes.... One winter afternoon she had been buying something in a little antique shop in Curzon Street. It was a shop she liked. For Rosemary Fell was not one thing, one usually had it to oneself. And then the man who exactly beautiful. No, you kept it was ridiculously fond of serving her. He beamed whenever couldn’t have called her beau- she came in. He clasped his hands; he was so gratified he could tiful. Pretty? Well, if you took scarcely speak. her to pieces... But why be Flattery, of course. All the same, there was something... so cruel as to take anyone to “You see, madam,” he would explain in his low respectful tones, pieces? She was young, bril- “I love my things. I would rather not part with them than sell liant, extremely modern, ex- them to someone who does not appreciate them, who has not quisitely well dressed, amaz- that fine feeling which is so rare...” And, breathing deeply, he ingly well read in the newest unrolled a tiny square of blue velvet and pressed it on the glass of the new books, and her parties were the most delicious mixture counter with his pale finger-tips. Today it was a little box. He of the really important people and... artists – quaint creatures, dis- 6 7 had been keeping it for her. He had shown it to nobody as yet. The discreet door shut with a click. She was outside on the An exquisite little enamel box with a glaze so fine it looked as step, gazing at the winter afternoon. Rain was falling, and with though it had been baked in cream.
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