“Gente-grande”: denúncia da pequenez dos adultos by Juracy Assmann Saraiva, Ernani Mügge

“…Based on the idea that the literary text is the result of an author’s critical reflection on reality as well as a work of l anguage, activities that find their counterpart on the reader, this article analyses the representation process instituted in the short story “Gente - grande”, by Domingos Pellegrini. …”
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Villy Sørensen’s Hermeneutics of the Fall by Rasa Alė Petronytė

“…In this regard, the short story presents the Fall as a crucial element in the development of consciousness. …”
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Et si nous pouvions interviewer le boson de Higgs ? by Giulia Gaddi

“…This short story is followed by commentary entitled “Author’s note: How does one converse with a particle?”…”
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Écran magique et prégnance du hors champ : l’art du cadrage dans « Mrs Bathurst » de Kipling by Élodie Raimbault

“…The projection in the short story is in fact an apparition which turns people into ghosts or into fictional beings. …”
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An Cailín Ciúin : choix esthétiques et politiques du cinéma en gaélique by Valentine Lerouge

“…By analyzing the film through the lens of the short story it adapts, Claire Keegan’s Foster, the article aims at uncovering the echoes between adaptation and translation, as well as how the use of Gaelic contributes to the overall signification of the short story. …”
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The Reader in It: Henry James’s “Desperate Plagiarism” by Hivren Demir-Atay

“…This article suggests that James’s short story entitled “The Story in It” stages this situation through characters’ conversations about American and European literature. …”
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Seductive Snakes and Asexual Angels: Queer Undercurrents in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Desert Sands” by H.J.E. Champion

“…Harriet Prescott Spofford’s 1863 short story “Desert Sands” recounts, at first glance, the jealous rivalry between an artist’s two muses. …”
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Cerpen Hamasa An-Nujum Karya Najib Mahfudz: Kajian Sosiologi Sastra by Khoiru Syafa'atin Noviana

“…Hamasa an-Nujum is one of the short stories in his short story collection which was only published after he died. …”
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“Vó, a senhora é lésbica?” Pergunta à queima-roupa e respostas para a constituição de uma utopia by João Barreto da Fonseca, Renata Barreto da Fonseca

“…To invest in the theme, we will focus on the short story Vó, a senhora é lésbica? (Grandma, are you a lesbian?)…”
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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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Alienation in Families and the Breakdown in Children’s Educational Process: Ann Tyler’s Teenage Wasteland (1983) by Zennure Köseman

“…Therefore, this article will pursue a psychoanalytical consideration in the selected short story.…”
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Adieu, de Balzac : « Une absence au monde qui vient de se déclarer au cœur de l’histoire » by France Vernier

“…There is, however, a less known short story, Adieu, which subject displays an astonishingly modern preoccupation, quite unusual for the period, obliging the author to invent a strange new narrative device, which I believe Balzac borrowed from the then recently discovered psychiatric practice implemented by Esquirol. …”
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Reflexões sobre a escrita intersemiótica em “A antevéspera”, de Olney São Paulo by Claudio Cledson Novaes

“…In this paper we discuss the singular intersemiotic narrative in Olney São Paulo’sliterary style by analyzing his short story “A antevéspera”.…”
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Dawn Raffel–A Family Portrait by Monica Manolescu-Oancea

“…A tentative family portrait will be drawn through the study of the short story collection In the Year of Long Divsion (1994), with references to the novel Carrying the Body (2002).…”
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Poétiques de l’altérité : lecture croisée de J.-H. Rosny aîné et Stanley G. Weinbaum by François Laforge

“…At last, we will try to define the ideological backgrounds of those texts, which can be both read as utopias, a metaphysical one in Rosny’s novel and a political one in Weinbaum’s short story.…”
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Présence du végétal dans The Golden Apples de Eudora Welty by Jean-Marc Victor

“…This article proposes to examine Eudora Welty’s short story cycle The Golden Apples (1949) in the light of the links (both explicit and secret) between this peculiar narrative form and various questions pertaining to botany : classification, dissemination, proliferation, pollinization, among others.…”
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FEMININE DEATH AS SACRIFICE IN THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL, DEAD MEN’S PATH, AND THE STORY OF AN HOUR by Wanda Andres Saputra, Asmanadia Izzatul Karimah, Alya Nur Halizah, Dinda Ayu Fitriani, Tera Sella Isyfiani, Muhammad Rizal

“…Based on Spradley's theory and analysis, we argue that the three short stories all have extremity and sacrifice; in the short story by Hans Christian Andersen, there is a mode or form of death called "being-towards-death." …”
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Donald Barthelme’s “Report” and Michal Rovner’s Decoy series, or the Ongoing Art of Telling It Slant by Sandrine Dechaume

“…This article examines how two contemporary artists, American writer Donald Barthelme and Israeli filmmaker and photographer Michal Rovner use overexposure in order to denounce forms of televisual “brain damage.” In Barthelme’s short story, the emphasis is on excess and satire, whereas in Rovner’s Gulf War images, media representations of war are deconstructed through the use of overexposed and blurred imagery.…”
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L’offrande des pieds de cochon by Claude Meyer

“…Eventually, studying a short story by Maupassant (Saint-Antoine, 1883), it highlights how ethnocritique, integrated within the frame of discourse analysis, can unveil discursive activities, such as the mode of relation between reader and text, and, beyond, the efforts of positioning of the author in the literary field.…”
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Life-Writing, Subjectivity, Art: Keith Douglas in Egypt During the Second World War by Andrea RUMMEL

“…By looking at the several modes of Douglas’s war writing (autobiography, letters, poetry and the short story), it traces the evolution of the autobiographical into the poetical and outlines Douglas’s aesthetic strategies of turning (war) experience into art or, on a more general level, demonstrates how life-writing translates itself into poetry.…”
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