Incest, Lit(t)erally: How Joyce Censored The Wake by Stéphane Jousni

“…Censorship delayed the publication of Dubliners from 1907 to 1914 (Joyce was adamantly refusing to delete the adjective “bloody” in one of his short stories). Censorship put an abrupt end to the serialization of Ulysses that had started in The (American) Little Review in 1918. …”
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Representing Irishness in Words and Images ; Erskine Nicol’s Illustrations of Tales of Irish Life and Character by Amélie Dochy

“…We will show that, due to the random insertion of Nicol’s works in Hall’s book, the reader is assigned the task of associating the short stories and the paintings. We will also dwell on the mechanisms of humour in both the text and the paintings and examine how, by resorting to comedy verging on caricature, Nicol creates characters who were deemed as “typical” by the Victorian public while offering a subjective definition of Irish identity.…”
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“Soaring Towards the Sun”: The Icarus Complex in Daphne Du Maurier’s The Flight of the Falcon by Helena Habibi

“…Bird-men, compelled fatefully to soar sun-ward, haunt Daphne Du Maurier’s novels and short stories. Her incessant re-working of the myth of Icarus finds its climax in her later novel, The Flight of the Falcon (1965), in which Aldo Donati dons Daedalus-like wings, then, “like Icarus, […] fl[ies] too near the sun” before plummeting to his death. …”
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Tjieng Tjang Tjerries and other stories by Jolyn Phillips by Naledi Msimang

“… Tjieng, Tjang, Tjerries is a collection of thirteen (13) short stories set in Gansbaai, a working-class fishing town in the Western Cape, South Africa. …”
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Socialism in Bessie Head’s “The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses”: A Marxist Reading by F. Sandro Asshary

“…Authors frequently highlight solidarity in literary works, particularly in short stories, to increase the readers’ understanding of the unbalanced economic progress experienced by a certain social class. …”
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Building Bridges through Writing: An Interview with Rohini Bannerjee by Sara Casco-Solís

“…A scholar, translator and creative writer, Bannerjee’s primary research focuses on the literatures and cultures of the Francophone Indian Ocean. Her short stories and poetry—written in both French and English—explore themes of belonging, identity and body image. …”
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“I felt I’d come home”: Sylvia Plath and France by Julie IRIGARAY

“…This article will use a wide range of material to understand Sylvia Plath’s rich relationship with French culture, from her short stories to her articles for magazines, to her and Ted Hughes’s poems about France. …”
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Thesaurus Exemplorum Medii Aevi : une base de données collaborative sur les exempla médiévaux by Jean-Paul Rehr, Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu

“…Medieval sermons brim with tens of thousands of exempla, the “exemplary short stories” frequently used to convey belief and morals to the faithful. …”
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Conflicting Visions of War: Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling’s Evocation of the Boer War by Laïli Dor

“…Kipling also devoted several short stories to the subject, two of which (“A Sahib’s War” and “The Captive”, both published in Traffics and Discoveries in 1904) offer an interesting complement to his autobiographical account. …”
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L’ombre de la merveille. Le merveilleux scientifique au second degré de Maurice Renard by Emilie Pézard

“…Based on a study of Les Mains d’Orlac and many short-stories, many of them unknown, this paper aims at showing that these apparently contradictory approaches are in fact complementary. …”
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Reprises textuelles dans The Dew Breaker d’Edwidge Danticat by Corinne Duboin

“…Seven of the nine chapters were previously published as separate short stories and have been rearranged to form a novel. …”
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African Literature in Translation: Towards Adopting a Minor Translation Theory by Bethlehem Attfield

“…Building on a comparative literary analysis of two translated African short stories, this article examines whether culture-specific metaphors and symbolisms effectively enrich the texture of a translated text or detract the reader from following the narration. …”
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Dorothy Richardson’s Correspondence during the Second World War and the Development of Feminine Consciousness in Pilgrimage by Ivana TRAJANOSKA

“…As an unjustifiably marginalized forerunner of English modernism, Dorothy Richardson left behind her, apart from her 13-volume novel Pilgrimage, a few short stories and poems, a considerable amount of non-fictional writings including essays and over two thousand letters. …”
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Genesis of a Poetics of Silence by Enora Lessinger

“…In order to achieve this goal, this paper studies one of Ishiguro’s first published short stories, “A Strange and Sometimes Sadness” (1981), in which a first-person narrator evokes memories of her time in Nagasaki during World War II. …”
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Arhitecturi urbane în proza lui Mihai Eminescu by Roxana Patraş

“…As proven by early short-stories and sketches, the male characters inherit the impulse of upward mobility, which is specific for Realist prose. …”
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Negotiating “Local” Food: Eastern Part Indonesia Narratives and Perspectives by Firdhan Aria Wijaya, Theresia Pratiwi Elingsetyo Sanubari

“…Using creative methods such as podcasts, short stories, Instagram posts, and videos, we discovered that Java-centric food politics have distanced students from their local food heritage. …”
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Formation and creative manifestation of functional ensembles of intellectual agents based on live information in various spheres of life activity by Evgeny Bryndin

“…Neural networks with deep learning and reinforcement are able to compose poetry and music, draw paintings, and write short stories, as well as come up with scripts for films. …”
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Arhitecturi urbane în proza lui Mihai Eminescu by Roxana Patraș

“…As proven by early short-stories and sketches, the male characters inherit the impulse of upward mobility, which is specific for Realist prose. …”
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ACTIVITIES TO ANTICIPATE THE WEAKNESSES OF STUDENTS’ READING MATERIALS FROM INTERNET by Maria Eka Mulatsih

“…Students were free to choose their reading materials which consisted of two short stories and four novels for Prose class, three simplified novels and three original novels for Book Report class. …”
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How to be Modern: The Darantière Press and Anglo-American Writers in France by Fiona McMahon

“…Along with French translations of a range of English-language short stories (by Sherwood Anderson or Edgar Allan Poe), Darantière’s catalogue boasts over a dozen English-language volumes, including those by some of the key figures of anglophone literary modernism (Bryher, Robert McAlmon, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, H.D.). …”
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