Être présente et absente simultanément : l’action furtive by Sophie Lapalu

“…In museums, what is presented is the mark of a past action. Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Purloined Letter, and the seminar that Jacques Lacan dedicated to it allow us to draw the structure of this type of artworks, always both present and absent simultaneously.…”
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Sobre a perda da grandiloquência na literatura hispano-americana pós-noventa: notas sobre a des-representação do exílio em Lemebel e Bolaño by Pablo Gasparini

“…Crónicas de sidario by Pedro Lemebel, and 2666 and the short story “El Ojo Silva” by Roberto Bolaño.…”
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MANTIK TARİHİNDEN BİR SAYFA: YAHYA B. ADÎ (893/4-974) by Ahmet Kayacık

“…This study contens, the short story of life him, his Works, especially in logic; and his activities in different fields of knowledge. …”
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Le gentleman kiplingien dans tous ses états : audaces de « The Man Who Would Be King » by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…This article deals with « The Man Who Would Be King », a short story by Rudyard Kipling which introduces English characters into exotic settings where their ability to prove bold and daring is of the essence. …”
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The Phonographic Author of Milton, Edison and Uzanne by Larisa Kocic-Zámbó

“…Drawing on nineteenth-century periodicals and books, I will be comparing Edison’s own vision of the phonograph in authoring books and the Victorian popular imagination elaboration on the same, especially in Uzanne’s short story ‘The End of Books’ (1894) while showing Milton’s own role in making such an idea of the phonographic author feasible.…”
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« Somnambulisme », ou l’après-coup de la métaphore by Marc Amfreville

“…This essay aims to show that “Somnambulism,” a short story by Charles Brockden Brown published in 1799 foreshadows several Freudian tenets that allow, in turn, to fully measure the symbolic purport of this fiction. …”
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Os convivas da morte no banquete das almas: presença de eguns em um conto de João Antônio by Gilberto Figueiredo Martins

“…Written literature has become a privileged space for performance and, conse- quently, for recording and fostering of values and practices of various groups and social segments. In the short story analyzed in this essay - "Eguns" - João Antônio (1937-1996), a writer from São Paulo, presents a narrator who describes in detail an unusual religious celebration held in Bahia, meant for the cult of ances- tors. …”
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Limites e intersecções do estético com o político no filme Janela indiscreta, de Alfred Hitchcock, e no conto "Sessão das quatro", de Roberto Drummond by Wanderlan da Silva Alves

“…We analyze the short-story “Sessão das quatro”, by Brazilian writer Roberto Drummond, and the movie Rear Window, by Alfred Hitchcock. …”
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Domestiquer l’Orient. La contre-histoire balzacienne de la domestication by Élisabeth Plas

“…While the relationship to animals is still seen a territory of naturalness, this article shows, from Balzac’s short story Une Passion dans le désert’s example, that the relationships between men and animals are as social and political as those between men. …”
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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

“…This article examines a noteworthy, if discreet, exception: the short story “Un pirate,” written in 1853 by Michel Séligny, a free man of color. …”
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Na sala de edição: “Mãe judia, 1964”, de Moacyr Scliar by Nicola Gavioli

“…This article explores how the short story “Jewish mother, 1964” by Moacyr Scliar, under the guise of a coming-of-age story and a monologue of a mentally ill patient, sheds light on violent practices that, without leaving visible marks on the body, have incurred serious and longstanding wounds within Brazilian society. …”
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Occupy Waikīkī: pushing the borders of land, sea and story-telling in Kristiana Kahakauwila’s This is Paradise (2013) by Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega

“…This essay explores Kahakauwila’s short story This is Paradise from the angle of post- and decolonial studies and environmental humanities, and presents it as an ecofeminist and counterhegemonic Oceanian identitarian narrative. …”
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Henry James’s Spectral Archaeology by Stefano Evangelista

“…This article examines the depiction of archaeology in Henry James’s short story “The Last of the Valerii” (1874). Looking, at the same time, back to Prosper Merimée’s use of the fantastic in “La Venus d’Ille” (1837) and forwards to Sigmund Freud’s parallel between archaeology and psychoanalysis in “The Aetiology of Hysteria” (1896), James sets up an intricate set of relations and metaphorical correspondences between stone and language, sculpture and literature, antiquity and modernity, aesthetics and psychology. …”
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To belong or not to belong : variations autour du mythe associatif chez Virginia Woolf by Stéphanie Ravez

“…This is especially the case of a 1920 short-story, ‘A Society’, which tells about a society of women rebelling against the patriarchal order. …”
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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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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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« 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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