Simulacre et modernité : l’illusion d’optique dans On the Western Circuit de Thomas Hardy by Catherine Lanone

“…This paper focuses on various visual devices which Thomas Hardy chooses to include in his short stories in order to question the Victorian cult of progress, such as photographs, the Crystal Palace or more unexpectedly the phenakistiscope, which clearly lies behind the obsessional description of the « steam circus » in the short story entitled On the Western Circuit. …”
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Cartographie du vide : les "non-lieux" de l’espace américain dans The Informers de Bret Easton Ellis by Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud

“…Published in 1994, The Informers is a collection of thirteen short stories which aim to explore the various facets of a certain Los Angeles social microcosm in the nineteen-eighties.The first-person narration, based on a deliberately minimalist paratactic structure which involves recurrent snatches of dialogue, moves through an endless succession of toponyms (Palm Springs, Melrose etc.) and cultural clichés (trendy places, music or clothing) which all seem to trap people and places within an imprisoning landscape—most aptly metaphorized by the Sunset Boulevard.Both huge and confined to the specific landmarks or "non-places" of an interlope society, this landscape provides an ambivalent area in which people are cast adrift, wandering like ghosts in some kind of existential nowhere described by Michel de Certeau as "un théâtre de passants".…”
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The Satirical Vision of Canadian/Scottish Songwriter, Poet, and Novelist Graeme Williamson by Victor Kennedy

“…This paper will analyse several of Williamson’s song lyrics, poems, short stories, and his novel, Strange Faith, to show how his writing presents a critical view of modern society.…”
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"Religion and Mythology : A Poetics of indianité in Francis Gilbert Ponaman’s La nuit du Swami" by Shweta Deshpande

“…La nuit du Swami (2004), a collection of short stories by the Guadeloupean writer Francis Gilbert Ponaman, echoes the history of Indian migration and the resulting Indo-Caribbean identity. …”
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Beyond the “Grammar” by Vesna Main

“…Many of the protagonists of his short stories and novels are artists or writers, suffering from the anxiety that is brought about by the compelling need to create and the accompanying awareness of the necessity of failure. …”
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“Love and Self-Love”: The Balance between Sympathy and Self-Respect in Louisa May Alcott’s Early Fiction by Asun López-Varela Azcárate

“…This paper explores one of the early short stories by Louisa May Alcott in order to offer an example of a problem that plagued women in 19th century America, wanting to thrive both in the domestic and in the public spheres. …”
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« Le plus passionnant et le plus original de tous les jeux » : les Treize de Georges Sim, par Détective (1929-1930) by Marie-Astrid Charlier

“…Between March 1929 and June 1930, at the request of his friend Joseph Kessel, Georges Simenon published three series of thirteen short stories in Détective, under the pseudonym Georges Sim. …”
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Un écrivain « entre deux rives » : le cas Jules Boissière by Hervé Casini

“…Except for "Propos d'un intoxiqué" and some yet published short stories from "Fumeurs d'opium", the man and his work still have to discover.Between 2014 and 2016, professor Jean-Yves Casanova publishes some pioneer articles for edition of the Centre d’Étude de la Littérature Occitane, La Revue Littéraire and Littératures.From these numerous lives and writings, Boissière uses two languages-French and Provençal- as means of an artistic production who finds mainly in Indochina a kind of Promised Land, on one hand in verse, on the other hand in prose.As a matter of fact, on the two sides of his special way, Jules Boissière must find again his well-deserved place : the one from a French writer, with occitanist tendency, who loves two languages and, during his Indochina stay , nurtures a highest literary career.…”
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DECONSTRUCTIVE HEGEMONY ON THE MARGINAL GENDER AND IDENTITY SEEN IN MAUGHAM’S “THE LOTUS EATER” AND HEAD’S “THE PRISONER WHO WORE GLASSES” by Didimus Estanto Turuk

“…This essay aims to examine the hegemony lies within the two short stories which are “The Lotus Eater” by W. Somerset Maugham and “The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses” by Bessie Head through Post-Colonial perspectives and accompanied by the gender perspectives. …”
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Critical Review of the Book «Comprehensive Study of Russian Texts» by Nahide Kalashi

“…The passages of this book are short stories from the book «Книга для чтения». In addition to the above, in order to better understand the texts, the authors have added parts to it. …”
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Kay Boyle et la revue transition (1927-1938) : « A new meaning to my life » by Céline MANSANTI

“…This paper focuses on the impact of American exile little magazine transition (Paris, 1927-1938) on Kay Boyle’s intellectual growth and career and, conversely, on Boyle’s contribution to transition’s modernism. transition played a key role in Boyle’s life and career: an exceptional publishing venue—she contributed twenty poems and short stories to the magazine—, transition was also invaluable for the support she found with Jolas, the new writings she discovered—especially those of the surrealists—and the encounters that boosted her professional life. …”
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Eine kurze Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Science Fiction by Hans Esselborn

“…This literature blossomed with science fiction novels, short stories and thin booklets up to the First World War and attained an international peak with Hans Dominik and the avant-gardist Alfred Döblin in the Weimar Republic. …”
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Traduire la xéno-encyclopédie en finnois et en français : une approche pragmatique by Martin Carayol

“…This article examines Finnish and French translations of the numerous xeno-encyclopedic terms (neologisms, neosemes and proper nouns) found in five short stories by Jack Vance and two cycles by Michael Moorcock, in order to categorise these translations on a pragmatic basis, according to the differential between the effect on the reader in the original language and the effect on the reader in translation. …”
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Gender and Generic Clashes in The Years Between (Compton Bennett, 1946) by Nicole Cloarec

“…Because of the enduring success of her novels and her short stories, Daphne Du Maurier is not immediately associated with the theatre except through her father. …”
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Les enjeux interprétatifs de la prédication averbale dans un corpus narratif : énoncés nominaux et représentation fictionnelle de processus énonciatifs et cognitifs by Bernard Combettes, Annie Kuyumcuyan

“…Autonomous verbless syntactic units are studied in a relatively homogeneous corpus, constituted by the short stories of Maigret’s investigations that G. Simenon wrote from 1930 till 1972. …”
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The Rise of the “We” Narrator in Modern American Fiction by Ruth Maxey

“…Yet an increasing number of American novelists and short story writers have turned to this formal device over the past 20 years and particularly since 9/11. …”
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The Visible Aspect of Things: Towards a Synchronic Reading of Donald Barthelme by Surya Bowyer

“…In questioning the significance of causality, this mode of reading has wider implications insofar as it challenges the typical view that the short story should be approached as a form that is driven by narrative.…”
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La science-fiction fantastique de Maurice Renard by Arthur B. Evans

“…., the "scientific- marvellous"), and offers a detailed discussion of Renard's many novels and short stories, which, often resembling a kind of cross-hybridization between Wells and Poe, can together perhaps best be labelled "fantastic sf."…”
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“If only you could see me now”: Autoportrait et théâtralité dans les lettres de Sylvia Plath à sa mère by Laure DE NERVAUX-GAVOTY

“…Sylvia Plath's work is haunted by the question of self-representation; her poems, her autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, her short stories, her diary, and her correspondence can be read as facets of a self-portrait diffracted through the different mirrors of these literary genres. …”
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Toi, cyborg ? L’hybridation prothétique dans la nouvelle de science-fiction by Dominique Kunz Westerhoff

“…The « members » of pre-published short stories enter into romanesque « bodies » that subsume them. …”
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