Les jeudis d’Émile Zola by Alain Pagès

“…A final section compares these Parisian Thursdays to the “Médan evenings” associated with the collection of short stories, “Les Soirées de Médan”, published in April 1880.…”
Get full text

Narradores da exclusão ou a infância pobre na literatura brasileira contemporânea by Georgina Martins

“…Its purpose is also deepens the related questions, concerned to the subject, in order to show the differences and similarities amongst the various forms of narratives and the comprehension of such representation.The material for analysis are the short stories of Antonio Carlos Viana, Marcelino Freire and Rubens Figueiredo, whose texts reflect the situation of precariousness that we will find a significant part of the contemporary childhood…”
Get full text

Thomas Hardy entre fiction et poésie by Jean-Charles Perquin

“…Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 and is still known today for the decades he devoted to the art of fiction and the numerous novels and short stories he wrote. But the novelist is far less known for the poetry he persistently composed. …”
Get full text

From Sensationalism to Sensation: Brian Evenson’s Affecting Texts by Nawelle Lechevalier-Bekadar

“…Brian Evenson’s work forcefully resists literary categorization, playfully mixing then deconstructing genres such as the Gothic, the western, post-apocalyptic fiction, magic realism to name but a few. Yet several short stories and novellas seem to strive towards a common fantasy: achieving sensation. …”
Get full text

Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar by Lois Marie Jaeck

“…In the three short stories to be examined, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar incorporate Pre-Columbian beliefs and customs into colonial and post-colonial Latin American reality. …”
Get full text

Quel(s) sens pour les structures du type  ?  (avec application à un corpus de nouvelles de Steven Millhauser) by Catherine DELESSE

“…Then the study focuses on the use of both structures in a corpus of short stories by Steven Millhauser who uses them in an interesting way.…”
Get full text

Settled by David Mann

“…It was written as part of a collection of short stories that seeks, through the lens of fiction, to provide an alternative record and critique of the South African art world. …”
Get full text

O que é literatura? Provocações metalinguísticasem narrativas de Luci Collin by Lúcia Osana Zolin

“…The current paper discusses the metafiction inthe short stories of Luci Collin. The theoretical interdisciplinary perspective isforegrounded on post-structuralist thought.…”
Get full text

Assimilation ou fidélité aux valeurs du Vieux Monde ? La nouvelle et sa représentation de l’immigration juive aux Etats-Unis by Crystel Pinçonnat

“…A lot of Yiddish or American short stories raise the issue: New-York’s Women by Lamed Shapiro, The Son Who Came from America by Isaac Bashevis Singer,The Jewbird by Bernard Malamud Eli, The Fanatic by Philip Roth, and The Loudest Voice by Grace Paley. …”
Get full text

The female character as reader in Alice Munro’s stories: “at the end of it all what has been accomplished?” by Christine LORRE

“…This article studies the female character as reader in a selection of Alice Munro’s short stories, focusing on how these characters are re-examined, over time, so that the reader perceives them differently, in the same way as the characters themselves perceive a change in their own development. …”
Get full text

From One Crisis to the Other: History and Literature in The Crisis from 1910 to the Early 1920s by Lamia Dzanouni, Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, Claire Parfait

“…We do not study literature per se and do not provide an analysis of the literary style, nor do we assess the literariness of the short stories and poems printed in the 1910s. Rather, we examine the place accorded literature in the Crisis and its role in relation to the rest of the magazine, from news commentary, political essays, and echoes of the African past, to illustrations and advertisements.…”
Get full text

The School of Hawthorne: New England Women Writers after the Civil War by Marek Wilczyński

“…Describing in their short stories and novels New England’s demographic, economic, and cultural decadence, they often used allegory and introduced fantastic elements, which arguably allows to read their works in a way proposed by Walter Benjamin in The Origin of German Tragic Drama.…”
Get full text

Challenges of Prose Fiction Writing in Uganda: A Case Study of Kanungu District in Western Uganda. by Kabagyenyi, Maurine

“…The study was guided by the following objectives; to identify the relevance of short stories in Uganda, and to identify the challenges faced by prose fiction writers in Uganda…”
Get full text

Tre racconti in Centopagine by Dario Pontuale

“…Focusing on the book of short stories Trois contes, published in 1980 by Calvino himself in the series “Centopagine”, that he himself created and directed, this study highlights not only the ascendance of Flaubert on Calvino, but also the analogies between Calvino’s texts and Flaubert’s book. …”
Get full text

A escrita comovida de João Anzanello Carrascoza by Miguel Conde

“…The reception to the short stories of João Anzanello Carrascoza, which have been described as borderline between sublime and kitsch, exemplifies that. …”
Get full text

Ricardo Guilherme Dicke e o processo de transculturação na l iteratura by Adriana Lins Precioso, louchabel Sarratchara de Fátima Falcão

“…To exemplify this proposal, we analyze excerpts of the short stories „Toada do Esquecido‟ (2006), „Sinfonia equestre‟ (2006), „A proximidade do mar‟ (2011), „O Velho Moço‟ (2011) and „A perseguição‟ (2011), by Ricardo Guilherme Dicke, writer from the state of Mato Grosso, who promotes the dialogue between regional and global issues by the transculturation bias.…”
Get full text

Ten et Tru sur Bourbon Street by Liliane KERJAN

“…The two friends know their nest by heart, its balconies and bars, each celebrating love, freedom and Mardi-Gras. Williams sets short stories and such plays as A Streetcar Named Desire, Suddenly Last Summer, Vieux Carré in different parts of the city, whereas Truman Capote plays with the souvenirs of its secret angels and hidden gardens.New Orleans is their poem.…”
Get full text

Vladimir Colin şi basmul militant (I) by Cătălin Sturza

“…This essay follows the evolution of Vladimir Colin between the two waypoints and reviews some of Colin’s key texts – from his early ideological and theoretical essays to the short stories and novels that can be seen, in spite of the numerous flaws that are related to the ideological nature of the texts, but also to their uneven aesthetical value, as refference points for the Romanian Fantastic and Fantasy literature.…”
Get full text

Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…It should now be acknowledged that he is also a master of the Gothic, whose synthesis of the beautiful and the horrific invests his fiction with a delayed but unforgettable urgency.After reviewing Pater's status in recent scholarship and defining ‘Gothic,’ ‘Dark Aesthete’ considers the kinds and instances of Gothic writing in his short stories, Marius the Epicurean, and unfinished novel Gaston de Latour (1889, revised text 1995). …”
Get full text

Le couple interactif texte / phrase dans l'histoire de la langue française by Sabine Lehmann

“…This study is devoted to the question of textual coherence in various types of texts in Middle French (didactic works, short stories). The goal is to highlight the text / sentence (global set) assembly and to show under which conditions the evolution of the linguistic system produces new textual structures. …”
Get full text