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23 Απρ 2020 · Ham in “The Hiding of Black Chief,” Caesar in “A Municipal Report,” and Lizzie in “The Guilty Party” are only isolated examples of O. Henry’s proficiency in… Literary Theory and Criticism
- Analysis of O. Henry’s The Last Leaf - Literary Theory and Criticism
One of the most famous of the O. Henry tales, “The Last...
- Analysis of O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi – Literary Theory and Criticism
Although many critics do not view O. Henry’s stories as...
- Analysis of O. Henry’s The Last Leaf - Literary Theory and Criticism
26 Μαΐ 2021 · One of the most famous of the O. Henry tales, “The Last Leaf” (1907) not only concludes with the usual O. Henry surprise ending, but, like “A Service of Love,” is conveyed with a narrative tone of sadness and even despair.
24 Μαΐ 2021 · Although many critics do not view O. Henry’s stories as first-rate literature, some of his many hundreds of tales have become classic. “The Gift of the Magi,” touching as it does a common human cord, is one of those stories.
The stories of the US short-story writer O. Henry, real name William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), are characterised by their irony and by their surprise endings, which became something of a signature of a good O. Henry short story.
O. Henry combines two different aspects of the short story that contributed to his success—the oral voice of the raconteur derived from frontier humorists and a highly patterned structure ...
To O Henry, the clerk is neither abnormal nor subnormal. He writes of him without patronizing him. He realizes the essential and stupendous truth that to himself the clerk is not...
26 Ιουλ 2017 · Although his stories have been translated into dozens of languages and reprinted and anthologized hundreds of times, literary critics have found his fiction of little artistic worth. As a result, his stories are rarely taught above the eighth-grade level.
