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.…”
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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. …”
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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.…”
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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…”
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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. …”
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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.…”
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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.…”
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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.…”
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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.…”
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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. …”
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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.…”
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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. …”
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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). …”
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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. …”
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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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"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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« 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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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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