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Short Stories by Selected Women Writers
Republic of the Philippines
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHEASTERN PHILIPPINES
College of Arts and Sciences
Davao City

Declaration Originality

We, Cheah Kaye Rosales and Charisma J. Tabingo, declare that this research is probably original. This study was made through our best and knowledge and was done by us.

Cheah Kaye Rosales Charisma J. Tabingo
Researchers

October 2013
Date Signed
Short Stories by Selected Women Writers

An Undergraduate Thesis
Presented to the Faculty of the
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Southeastern Philippines
Bo. Obrero, Davao City

In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirments for the Degree
Of Bachelor of Arts in Literature

Cheah Kaye Rosales
Charisma J. Tabingo

October 2013

ABSTRACT ROSALES, CHEAH KAYE and TABINGO, CHARISMA J., University of Southeastern Philippines, Davao City, “Short Stories by Selected Women Writers”

Adviser: Prof. Dayenne Sipaco This study was conducted to determine the usual Form of the five short stories. It is also analyzed the events and character’s situation in the story. The Formalistic Approach was used in the study. The study found that the writings of the five authors Kerima Polotan Tuvera, Aida Rivera Ford and Irish Shiela Crisostomo show their great knowledge of the Philippine history.
This study was conducted through the use of Formalistic Approach. The researchers gathered all five short stories by selected women writers and read the story, analyzed and studied. The researchers use the formalistic approach to analyze the form of the study. We choose form for easy to make the structure of this study.
Furtheremore, this study analyze the elements used in Kerima Polotan-Tuvera’s The Virgin and A House Full of Daughters, Aida Rivera-Ford’s Love in the Cornhusk and The chieftest Mourner and Iris Shiela G. Crosostomo’s The Steel Brassiere. The chapter 1 included the

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