Les Novelettes astrales (1912) ou l’utopie subversive de Paul Scheerbart by Yves Iehl

“…Yet, this eccentric writer has created an outstanding fantasy mode in his Astrale Novelletten (Astral Short Stories, 1912) which appeared as a very special form of science fiction at the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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FEMININE DEATH AS SACRIFICE IN THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL, DEAD MEN’S PATH, AND THE STORY OF AN HOUR by Wanda Andres Saputra, Asmanadia Izzatul Karimah, Alya Nur Halizah, Dinda Ayu Fitriani, Tera Sella Isyfiani, Muhammad Rizal

“…Based on Spradley's theory and analysis, we argue that the three short stories all have extremity and sacrifice; in the short story by Hans Christian Andersen, there is a mode or form of death called "being-towards-death." …”
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“What a Handsome Family We Are!”: Feral Children and Kin-Making in Abbie Farwell Brown’s The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts (1900) by Julia Helena Wilde

“…The book includes two short stories about feral children who grow up to become saints (“Saint Keneth of the Gulls” and “The Wolf-Mother of Saint Ailbe”). …”
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American rhapsodies revisited: figures de l'altérité et voix mêlées dans Music through the Floor (2005) d'Eric Puchner by Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud

“…The collection of short stories Music through the Floor, published in 2005, is Eric Puchner's first fictional work. …”
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THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT’S TWO FRIENDS AND ARTURO ARIAS’ TOWARD PATZUN by Kristiawan Indriyanto

“… This paper compares and contrasts two short stories, Guy De Maupassant’s Two Friends and Arturo Arias’ Toward Patzun. …”
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Narrative Environment of Malgudi: Space, Autonomy, and Belonging by Gouthaman K J, Nandini Pradeep J

“…The paper explores the interactions between space and social structures that affect the lives of the inhabitants of a narrative world; the effects of a narrative environment on the subjectivities and social lives of characters. R. K. Narayan's short stories reveal multifarious relations within space; socially produced, politically re-shaped, and inherently contested. …”
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« L’étrangeté vocalique » dans quelques nouvelles de Flannery O’Connor et de Barry Hannah by Claudia Desblaches

“…Our survey is reinforced by the observation of the strange voices of many characters in Flannery O’Connor’s and Barry Hannah’s short stories. All these symptoms of the “vocalic uncanny” tend to show that any vocal change has a metaphorical impact, thus encouraging the reader to discover hidden meanings in sounds, graphical errors or “strange and alien occurrences”. …”
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Narrative Strategies and Intermedial Devices in Gabriel Josipovici’s In the fertile Land by Mário Semião

“…This investigation focuses on the third of his collections of short stories, In the Fertile Land (1987). The motifs and narrative techniques in Josipovici’s work are wide-ranging and display a great variety of thematic concerns. …”
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Indigeneity and Resistance in Zubair Ahmad’s Grieving for Pigeons by Nayab Sadiq

“…Moreover, significantly, these short stories also showcase a postcolonial resistance. …”
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"[T]he rising silhouette of the city" : une poétique des choses urbaines dans "Coming, Aphrodite !" et "The Diamond Mine" de Willa Cather by Céline Manresa

“…By focusing on two short stories devoted to the representation of New York at the turn of the twentieth century—"Coming, Aphrodite!" …”
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Hardy, Galileo and the Art of Transgression by Nathalie Bantz-Gaszczak

“…It seems that for Hardy, eager to be more ‘sincere’ than what decorum and ‘the censorship of prudery’ permitted, short stories and poems were literary forms that allowed more elbow room than novels: ‘If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone’.…”
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Introduction au dossier Bordage by Claire Cornillon, Natacha Vas-Deyres

“…This issue aims at exploring novels and short stories that were for the moment less studied or proposing new approaches, such as transmedia or linguistics, in order to add to the already existing research on this author.…”
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Os fantasmas pornô de Santiago Nazarian e seus adolescentes bizarros by Aileen El-Kadi

“…This article analyses the book of short stories Pornofantasma (Record, 2011) by Santiago Nazarian. …”
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Мегаполис как источник страхов в перспективе массовой литературы (антология „Мифы мегаполиса”) by Joanna Radosz

“…The anthology Myths of Megapolis (Mify megapolisa), published in 2007, due to the variety of the presented short stories shows various perspectives of the metropolis’ life and the fears of its citizens. …”
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Историко-геопоэтическая позиция нарратора в цикле рассказов Ивана Шмелева „Сидя на берегу” by Dorota Horczak

“…The article is devoted to an analysis of the historical and geopoetic perspective on narration in the series of Ivan Shmelev’s short stories Sitting on the River Bank. In these works, the geographical area of France becomes the prism through which the narrator perceives and interprets the cultural space of Russia.…”
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Ipostaze narative ale persoanei a doua singular în proza lui Mircea Nedelciu by Onorica Tofan

“…The author analyses the use and functions of the 2nd person singular in the short stories and in the unfinished novel “Zodia scafandrului” written by Mircea Nedelciu. …”
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Mental State Inferences Abilities Contribution to Verbal Irony Comprehension in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment by G. Gaudreau, L. Monetta, J. Macoir, S. Poulin, R. Jr. Laforce, C. Hudon

“…Subjects were administered a task evaluating mentalizing by means of short stories. A verbal irony comprehension task, in which participants had to identify ironic or sincere statements within short stories, was also administered; the design of the task allowed uniform implication of mentalizing across the conditions. …”
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Policy and Culture: From Machiavelli’s Political Philosophy to Kipling’s Political Prophecies by K. M. Dolgov, E. I. Starikova

“…The article is concerned with interrelationship of policy and culture, in particular N.Machiavelli's political philosophy and its reflection in some short stories by R.Kipling, one of the most recognized representatives of the British imperial thought. …”
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