The Island in R. L. Stevenson’s The Beach of Falesá: Confluence(s) as Subversion by Julie Gay

“…Then, the article highlights the spatio-temporal duality of the island by highlighting its liminality, and the generic hybridity it leads to, as the novella oscillates between realism, romance and the fantastic, among others. …”
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Urban Spaces and Architecturally Defined Identity in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts by Wayne E. Arnold

“…Nathanael West’s 1933 novella, Miss Lonelyhearts, depicts a New York City that defines its inhabitants through the architectural structures enveloping them. …”
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Changing Medium: The Contemporary Reception of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in Two Graphic Novels by Nathalie Martinière

“…A number of contemporary authors/artists have chosen not to “write back” vehemently to what they find problematic in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, but to resort to a different medium and “rewrite” or adapt the novella as a graphic novel, as if the power of images could clarify the text for 21st-century readers. …”
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De la caresse d’un rêve aux tortures d’un cauchemar : la lecture du testament par Utterson dans The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde de Robert Louis Stevenson by Samia OUNOUGHI

“…This article aims at orientating the real reader’s eye towards the reader in the text, for Stevenson’s novella is first and foremost a collection of texts the reception of which much depends on the reading of Jekyll’s will by J.G. …”
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Alcott’s Other Little Woman: Erotic Love and Victorian Childhood in “A Marble Woman: or, The Mysterious Model” by Etti Gordon Ginzburg

“…Thus underlined by desire rather than love, the novella plays on the Victorian eroticization of childhood.…”
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“Gestures of Air and Stone”: Translating Ethan Frome into Dance in Cathy Marston’s Snowblind by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau

“…When choreographer Cathy Marston sought to translate Ethan Frome into dance, it was the “elemental feel” of the novella that inspired her quest for finding ways of dancing “New Englandly,” to paraphrase Emily Dickinson, and to choreograph what literature feels like. …”
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Sino-noir of Serial Killers and Dismemberments by Sheng-mei Ma

“…In the 8-episode TV series, Why Try to Change Me Now, director Zhang Dalei adapts Shuang’s novella told from multiple perspectives into a tour de force in slow cinema, drawing from cinema verité with non-professional actors, natural lighting and sound, an almost stationary camera, and minimalist acting. …”
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Lorsque Bellagamba réécrit Campanella : Temporalité et généricité à l’épreuve de l’Histoire by Marc Atallah

“…L'article analyse « La Cité du Soleil » d'Ugo Bellagamba pour en faire ressortir les procédés d'autoréflexivité et le rapport à la temporalité, afin de montrer que cette novella questionne, d’une part, les fonctions discursive et pragmatique de toute utopie et, d’autre part, les rapports s’établissant entre ce genre littéraire et ses avatars (en particulier la science-fiction).…”
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A meninice mentida e o futuro profanado:as narrativas de Valêncio Xavier by Fernanda Borges

“…Such artifacts are arranged inorder to compose an album in the novelMinha mãe morrendo e o menino mentidoand an obituary inMeu 7º dia: uma novella rébus. From a lied childhood to adesecrated funeral, Valêncio Xavier lights and reworks childhood memories anddesigns and mocks the inevitable future. …”
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Sex and the City: A Situationist Reading of Jens Jorgen Thorsen’s Film Adaptation of Henry Miller’s Quiet Days in Clichy by Jennifer Cowe

“…Whilst acknowledging the film’s place within a wider changing Danish culture, I will aim to show that the film engages with the key Situationist theories of Dérive, Psychogeography and Détournement and that it reflects contemporary societal issues whilst remaining true to Henry Miller’s anarchic and joyful novella. Thorsen was unarguably one of Denmark’s most inventive and revolutionary filmmakers and Quiet Days in Clichy can be viewed in relation to his engagement with the concepts of the SI.…”
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À mourir de peur/rire : The Great God Pan d’Arthur Machen (1894) by Sophie Mantrant

“…The text seems intent on making the reader’s flesh creep, and yet many early reviewers stated that it failed to do so, some going as far as claiming that the novella made one shake with laughter rather than with dread. …”
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Les autres pirates des Caraïbes : transtextualités transatlantiques chez Michel Séligny (1807-1867), écrivain créole de la Nouvelle-Orléans by Clint Bruce

“…Taking into account the ambiguous status of free gens de couleur, our study contextualizes and analyzes narrative strategies employed in the fictional representation of the exploits of slave-trading privateers in local history, to the effect of contesting their role in popular memory; such techniques include the appropriation, through rewriting, of a novella by French author Eugène Sue.…”
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« The Encantadas » ou le décompte du temps en archipel by Michel Imbert

“…This article endeavors to unravel the various strands or strata of time in Herman Melville’s novella, “The Encantadas,” and uncover the manifold layers of the text and its intertextual interplay. …”
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‘Here gather daily those young eaglets of glory’: Robert Louis Stevenson, the Savile Club and the Suicide Club by Robert-Louis Abrahamson

“…Robert Louis Stevenson, one of these young men of promise, relished the social opportunities of the club, especially the company of fellow bohemians but was also aware of the limitations of the club, and its potential for complacency and false posturing. His novella ‘The Suicide Club’, depicting a club similar to the Savile, satirises the artificiality of the club, and of all such clubs, and of the superficial respectability of the members’ bohemian pretensions, which shelter the ‘gentlemen’ from a genuine and fulfilling engagement in the battlefield of life.…”
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Psyche and Pygmalion: The Heart’s Desires Revised in Louisa May Alcott’s “A Marble Woman” by Michaela Keck

“…Taking my cue from Hans Blumenberg’s notion of the “work on myth,” according to which myth is always in the process of revision, this article explores Alcott’s reconfiguration of the Psyche and Pygmalion myths in her novella “A Marble Woman” in conjunction with the nineteenth-century context of women’s quest for self-possession in marriage. …”
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Historia e historización, ficción y metaficción en Los surcos del azar, de Paco Roca by Jacqueline Sabbah

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Conceptual Metaphors in Visual Language The Graphic Novel City of Glass by Ilana Shiloh

“…Artists Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli have adapted Auster’s novella into a graphic novel and their version figures on the list of the best comic books in the 20th century. …”
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Performing Womanhood: Fictions of Love in Louisa May Alcott’s Behind a Mask by Stéphanie Durrans

“…This article discusses Louisa May Alcott’s novella Behind a Mask in the light of Melville’s last novel, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857), arguing that, behind the mask of a sentimental novel that appears to conform to stereotypes, Alcott depicts a true-to-life heroine and shows how fiction can actually uncover the truth of life, how the many parts we play obfuscate our deeper nature and how a woman’s life in particular is nothing but a continuous performance on the social stage. …”
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‘L’Amour aux Antipodes’: Tasma, Australia and the French Connection by Judith Johnston

“…This article investigates Tasma's only known French publication, ‘L'Amour aux Antipodes’ (‘Love in the Antipodes’) which first appeared in August 1880 in the Parisian periodical La Nouvelle Revue, possibly to capitalise on the popularity of a series of lectures on Australia which she had delivered in various French and Belgian cities. I argue that the novella is designed specifically for a French readership, not only in terms of setting, but also because Tasma's usual critique of gender ideology is replaced with a determined anti-clericalism, possibly in response to current debates in Paris at the time and a wish to avoid the fraught gender politics of the Third Republic.…”
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Water Remediation by Reyna Natividad-Rangel, Manuel A. R. Rodrigo, Julie J. M. Mesa, Rosa M. G. Espinosa

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