Victorian and Edwardian Virtual Reality: from Stoker to Forster by Catherine Lanone

“…E. M. Forster’s 1909 short story ‘The Machine Stops’ evidences on the contrary a dystopian distrust of technology. …”
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Joseph Conrad’s ‘Youth’: A Melting Pot for the Old and New by Samir Elbarbary

“…Conrad’s short story ‘Youth’ is interestingly complex in its weaving together of disparate fictional elements old and new. …”
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Marsolaire d’Amira de la Rosa. La violence occultée by Mercedes Ortega González-Rubio

“…This article approaches gender-based violence in Caribbean Colombian literature, through the short story Marsolaire (1941), written by Amira de la Rosa. …”
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“Nothing could stop it, nothing”: The Burden of Postsouthern History in Barry Hannah’s “Uncle High Lonesome” by Clare Chadd

“…This paper considers Barry Hannah’s short story “Uncle High Lonesome” (1996) as a postsouthern reworking of the modernist “southern burden” paradigm. …”
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Poésie/collage : Deux modalités du faire dans le champ de l’autre by Claudine Armand

“…Driven by the same desire to express an inner experience and to explore the complex relationship between the I and the others, the author has shifted from poetry and short story writing to engraving and collage. However, even when she worked essentially in graphic arts, she was never able to abandon her favorite mode of expression, verbal language. …”
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Apocalypse Now? Kate Atkinson Reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Barbara Weiden Boyd

“…Kate Atkinson’s short story collection, Not the End of the World (2002), has typically puzzled reviewers, unsure of its goals and hesitant about its success. …”
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« Inverser la plaisanterie afin de secouer le joug » ou comment vicier un stéréotype by Jacqueline Berben

“…An excellent example is the short story, “The Appropriation of Cultures,” in the collection Damned If IDo (2004). …”
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Specular Metamorphoses: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “The Ray of Displacement” by Asunción López-Varela

“…This paper focuses on Harriet Prescott Spofford’s short story “The Ray of Displacement” which appeared in The Metropolitan Magazine in October 1903. …”
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« Faire clair et vif avec des éléments complexes » by Cordula Reichart

“…In the novel Salammbô and the short story Hérodias, Flaubert turns to pre-Christian antiquity in order to present modernity its complexity, its entwinement in religious and historiographical discourses of power, in a « clair et vif » manner. …”
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Voir et être vu du sommet : le cas de Needles Lookout dans « Sitting on Top of the World » de T.C. Boyle by Caroline Roussel

“…Written in 1989, T.C. Boyle’s short story "Sitting on Top of the World"1 is a rewriting of the topos of the solitary mountain, which usually brings to mind a hermit-like style of life dedicated to the exploration of existential crises, and thus implying an ensuing spiritual quest, amidst the hardships of the wilderness. …”
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L’univers sonore de Sredni Vashtar (Andrew Birkin, 1981) by Sophie Mantrant

“…This article explores the film’s soundscape to show how it participates in the construction of the oppositional system that underpins Saki’s short story. Carl Orff’s ‘O Fortuna’ is used as a symbolic signifier strictly associated with the world of the child, as opposed to the adult’s. …”
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Narrating Violation: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Circumstance” by Rita Bode

“…The several critical interpretations of Harriet Prescott Spofford’s short story, “Circumstance,” generally acknowledge the presence of sexual violation, but they also tend to de-center it, either glossing over it, or enlisting the nature and implications of the assault to serve other ends. …”
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Floating Cities: Xi Xi, Magritte, and the Insouciance of Allegory by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

“… `Floating Cities: Xi Xi, Magritte, and the Insouciance of Allegory’ examines the ekphrastic relation of text and image in relation to the operations of analogy, the proportions of which have cracked, and allegory as an insouciant genre. Xi Xi’s short-story `Marvels of a Floating City’ is clearly linked to a reflection on Hong Kong’s hand-over from London to Beijing in 1997, but it also passes through that fixed date to ask how such an image-text might operate along different registers as we pass from Aristotle toward Benjamin and Deleuze. …”
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Écriture et trauma dans “The Giant Wistaria” : Quand Charlotte Perkins Gilman revisite le gothique by Paule Lévy

“…This article purports to highlight the relationship between text and trauma in Gilman’s, “The Giant Wistaria”, a short story based on one of the topoi of the gothic tradition: the haunted mansion.Gilman humorously introduces a “trouble in the genre”, turning her dark tale into a subversive version of the birth of the American nation. …”
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Kabalistyczna egzegeza opowiadania "Śmierć i busola" Jorge Luisa Borgesa by Jadwiga Clea Moreno-Szypowska

“…This article seeks to decipher Jorge Luis Borges’ short story Death and the Compass in a Kabbalistic spirit. …”
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Clarissa Dalloway’s itinerary: narrative identity across texts by Monica LATHAM

“…This article sets out to examine the migration of Virginia Woolf’s character Clarissa Dalloway from its original score (The Voyage Out) to other autographic (the short story “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street” and the novel Mrs Dalloway) and allographic (Robin Lippincott’s Mr Dalloway and John Lanchester’s Mr Phillips) texts. …”
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Feline Alter Egos in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Circumstance” and the Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau

“…This paper focuses on the role of the feline in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s short story “Circumstance” and three poems by Emily Dickinson (F529, F444, and F1064). …”
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“Only a Light Wreath of The New-Fallen Snow”?: Ecogothic Tropes and the Diffractive Gaze in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Snow-Image” by Paulina Ambroży

“…In the article I discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ecological imagination as problematized in his lesser-known short story “The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle” (1849). …”
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Savoir intime dans l’apprentissage de l’écriture by Sandra Cadiou

“…We observed four students during a sequence « write a short story with a surprising ending » in French class. …”
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(Un)homely Dwellings: The Usher House and the Collyer Mansion by Theodora Tsimpouki

“…Doctorow’s 2009 novel, Homer & Langley, through the lens of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher.” While there has been a recurring claim about the significant similarities of Doctorow’s work to some of the tales by Edgar Allan Poe, there has been no critical reading that draws the connection between this novel and Poe’s famous tale. …”
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