Authenticity and Its Discontent as Reflected on Heinrich Böll’s The Laugher by Ni Nyoman Sarmi, Kheista Sasi Kirana, Kusuma Wijaya, Rommel Utungga Pasopati

“…The Laugher is Heinrich Böll’s short story of someone whose job is to laugh in various platforms. …”
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Scrutinizing the representations of flood disaster imagery in Emile Zola’s work by Ferdinal Ferdinal, Oktavianus Oktavianus, Djusmalinar

“…This research aims to explore the use of flood imagery by Emile Zola in his short story “The Flood,” highlighting the main themes and narrative of the story. …”
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‘He crossed and re-crossed the way repeatedly’: Illegible Crossings in Poe’s ‘The Man of the Crowd’ by Estelle Murail

“…This article proposes to reread Poe’s short story ‘The Man of the Crowd’ through the prism of the Baudelairean word croisement or ‘crossing’. …”
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The Mustachioed Woman, or The Problem of Androgyny in Victoria Cross’ Six Chapters of a Man’s Life by Ana Raquel Rojas

“…Cross first published an excerpt from this novel in the Decadent journal The Yellow Book, and titled the short-story “Theodora, a Fragment,” which has been reprinted in Elaine Showalter’s anthology Daughters of Decadence. …”
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Madagascar, 29 mars 1947, « Tabataba ou parole des temps troubles » by Valérie MAGDELAINE-ANDRIANJAFITRIMO

“…Indeed he has devoted quite a few of his works—a short story, a novel, an essay, and a play—to the topic, which he has used to reflect on the concept of the notion of “mutidirectional memory”, first elaborated by Michael Rothberg. …”
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Ghostly (re)visions: Embodying the Indian Caribbean churile by Christopher L. Ballengee

“…Using four key examples — Vanessa Godden’s performance film Churile (2016), Sabiyha Rasheed’s song ‘Choorile’ (2020), Kevin Jared Hosein’s short story ‘Maiden of the Mud’ (2016) and Ryan Persadie’s drag persona Tifa Wine in his ongoing Coolieween project — I discuss how the churile becomes a potent symbol for confronting the legacies of indenture. …”
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The Role of New Orleans Parish Prison in Joyce Carol Oates’s “Aiding and Abetting” by Tanya TROMBLE

“…Though no Oates story exclusively uses New Orleans as setting, the city does play an important role in the short story “Aiding and Abetting” (collected in I Am No One You Know, 2004). …”
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Le jardin du présent intensément by Nicolas Fiévé, Florence Mercier, Frank Salama, Manuel Tardits

“…The literary form of the article is inspired by that of the short story In the Thicket by the Japanese author Akutagawa Ryūnosuke in which several protagonists tell the same story, each from their own point of view. …”
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Worsted, Weave, and Web: The Cultural Struggles of the Fictional Knitting-Woman by Kathy REES

“…In this article, Mrs Brown, the knitting protagonist of A. S. Byatt’s short story, “Art Work” (1994), provides a lens through which themes of inequality and injustice in social, political, racial, and sexual contexts are explored in relation to the “knitting-woman” as she appears in novels written between 1840 and 1940. …”
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Beyond Determinism: Geography of Jewishness in Nathan Englander’s “Sister Hills” and Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Filip Boratyn

“…I argue that while the generic framework of a realist short story and the Israeli setting of “Sister Hills” lead it to examine the essentialism of the Biblical discourse surrounding “the Holy Land,” Chabon’s novel, through its adoption of a more speculative approach, which involves moving the center of Jewish statehood to Alaska, is able to open up the discourse about Jewish territoriality to more postmodern contexts and introduce free will into the geography of Jewishness.…”
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Dum spiro spero? (Anna Starobiniec, Żywi) by Aleksandra Zywert

“… The subject of the analysis is the short story by Anna Starobiniec titled The alive (2005). …”
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Иллюзия иностранной речи в структуре текстов Михаила Зощенко by Jarosław Wierzbiński

“…The phenomenon of compilation of Russian and foreign-language forms [or quasi-foreign — taking into consideration the significant number of distortions] can be illustrated by the short story ‘История с переодеванием’. The interlocutors in the text, who in fact cannot speak any foreign language, pretend to use ‘foreign’ words and expressions, involving themselves in a specific verbal game. …”
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Good Work and Good Works: Work and the Postsecular in George Saunders’s CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by Brian Jansen, Hollie Adams

“…Drawing on what American short story writer and novelist George Saunders has described as the urge toward kindness in his work, as well as its myriad allusions to Christian symbology and religiosity, this paper explores the intersection of languages of labour or “work” and religious tensions in Saunders’ oeuvre. …”
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Rewriting the intersex body: On the opera adaptation of Herculine Barbin’s Memoirs by Gonzalo Iturregui-Gallardo

“…Barbin’s story has been adapted several times, including in a 19th-century German short story and in a 1985 French film. In addition, the translation of the memoirs has been analysed from queer perspectives (Rose, 2021) due to the protagonist’s gender undecidability. …”
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Reading and (not) seeing? by Sandra Saayman

“…Breyten Breytenbach, who is a poet, novelist, essay-writer and painter, very rarely evokes his own pictorial oeuvre in his texts. An exception is a short story entitled “Paris.” This article will study the manner in which the narrative is suspended due to the inclusion — or intrusion — of a furtive description of an existing etching. …”
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Cadrage, décadrage et recadrage dans Baa Baa Black Sheep : A Jungle Tale de David Malouf et Michael Berkeley by Jean-Philippe Heberlé

“…Premiered under the baton of Paul Daniel on July 3rd 1993 at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music, this opera is based on two texts by Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Books (1894-1895) and “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” from the short story collection Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories, first published in 1888. …”
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Identify the Message of Ursula Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk From Omelas though Its Thematic Structure by Putri Ayu Rezkiyana

“… The Ones Who Walk from Omelas is a science fiction short story written by Ursula Le Guin. The story is about the socio-cultural condition in a city named Omelas. …”
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Poétisation et déréalisation de la ville au XIXème siècle : les tropes d’une littérature hantée by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…De Quincey’s text represents a watershed, laying the foundations for the art of the city, as will also be the case with Poe’s short story some 20 years later. Both works will enduringly influence Victorian writers—such as Wilkie Collins, Stevenson, Arthur Machen, or Arthur Conan Doyle. …”
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The study of Postmodern Language Components in the Story "Passing again through the Same Streets" by Bijan Najdi by Abdollah Hasanzadeh mirali, Ghazaleh Heidari Abkenar

“…In the present study, we try to present both the postmodernism analysis on the short story "Passing again through the same streets" by Bijan Najdi, and also determine the rhetorical elements related to postmodernism and their relationship with Najdi's poetry. …”
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Faux et usage de faux : la forme de l’archive dans « The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee », de J. M. Coetzee by Odile Gannier

“…What is puzzling in this short story, integrated to The Dusklands is the status of the text: is the arch-father’s narrative, whose speech is openly racist, genuine? …”
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