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The Elephant and Other Stories & Guilt and its repercussions : Bernard Malamud's 'The Magic Barrel'
Thesis (PhD (Creative Writing))--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/77314 The Elephant and Other Stories & Guilt and its repercussions : Bernard Malamud's 'The Magic Barrel' The Elephant and Other Stories Medalie, David angel.dionne@umoncton.ca Dionne, Angel T. UCTD Creative Writing Thesis (PhD (Creative Writing))--University of Pretoria, 2020. The Elephant and Other Stories is an original collection of short stories that depict themes of unfulfilled expectations, relationships, and isolation. The stories explore the complexities of the choices people make, particularly when they are wrestling with feelings of grief and guilt Guilt and its repercussions: Bernard Malamud’s ‘The Magic Barrel’ examines how guilt and suffering function in Malamud’s narratives as moral lessons. The thesis explores the philosophical questions of guilt, being, and relationships by interpreting Malamud’s work through the lens of Buber’s teachings. Throughout the project, attention is drawn to the art of storytelling, and how both Malamud and Buber believed storytelling to be useful in depicting the moral quandaries inherent in human existence . Three stories from Bernard Malamud’s The Magic Barrel are examined against the backdrop of Martin Buber’s “Guilt and Guilt Feeling” as well as his seminal texts I-and-Thou and Between Man and Man. The stories are “The Magic Barrel”, “The Mourners”, and “The Bill”, with a short introductory analysis of The Assistant in the first chapter. Although the primary focus is a reading of Malamud’s work as moral teaching, the secondary focus is on the power of story-telling to breathe life into complex and often times obscure philosophical and ethical concepts. English PhD (Creative Writing) Unrestricted 2020-12-08T08:29:36Z 2020-12-08T08:29:36Z 2020-04 2020 Thesis Dionne, AT 2020, The Elephant and Other Stories & Guilts and its repercussions: Bernard Malamud's 'The Magic Barrel', PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd http://hdl.handle.net/2263/77314 A2021 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/77314 en_US © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Creative Writing The Elephant and Other Stories & Guilt and its repercussions : Bernard Malamud's 'The Magic Barrel' |
| title | The Elephant and Other Stories & Guilt and its repercussions : Bernard Malamud's 'The Magic Barrel' |
| title_full | The Elephant and Other Stories & Guilt and its repercussions : Bernard Malamud's 'The Magic Barrel' |
| title_fullStr | The Elephant and Other Stories & Guilt and its repercussions : Bernard Malamud's 'The Magic Barrel' |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Elephant and Other Stories & Guilt and its repercussions : Bernard Malamud's 'The Magic Barrel' |
| title_short | The Elephant and Other Stories & Guilt and its repercussions : Bernard Malamud's 'The Magic Barrel' |
| title_sort | elephant and other stories guilt and its repercussions bernard malamud s the magic barrel |
| topic | UCTD Creative Writing |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/77314 |