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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« 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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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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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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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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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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"Мысль" Леонида Андреева в контексте "Мыслей" Блеза Паскаля by Czesław Andruszko

“…The article describes Thought by Leonid Andreyev as a kind of contemporary artistic reflection of paradoxes descended from Thoughts by Blaise Pascal. The short story Thought by Leonid Andreyev is examined as a creative orientation of its author to Thoughts by Blaise Pascal. …”
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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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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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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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Políticas domésticas en arenas (trans)nacionales: Abigail Mejía sobre la invasión de Estados Unidos a la República Dominicana by Yamile Silva

“…This essay analyzes five texts — a short story and four essays — that contribute to the political debates happening during the U.S invasion in the Dominican Republic, and which were published in Spanish newspapers (La Vanguardia and Hojas Selectas) as well as the Dominican paper (La Conquista) between 1918 y 1921. …”
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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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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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La Fabrique des corps dans Balcony Stories de Grace King by Stéphanie DURRANS

“…We shall also see how King subverts established frames and undermines the disciplinary system of her own short story collection: in this panopticon of sorts, should we regard the balcony as another prison or as a surveillance tower? …”
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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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A Stiff Man-Child Walking: Derrida’s Economy of Secrecy and Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” by Michael Wainwright

“…While Faulkner scholars have focused on the ambivalent language and metaphors deployed in this short story, they have not formerly traced the manner in which “Barn Burning” incites a sense of deconstructive criticism, and have thereby failed to acknowledge Faulkner’s attendant authorial irresponsibility.  …”
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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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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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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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“Nothing could stop it, nothing”: The Burden of Postsouthern History in Barry Hannah’s “Uncle High Lonesome” by Clare Chadd

“…This paper considers Barry Hannah’s short story “Uncle High Lonesome” (1996) as a postsouthern reworking of the modernist “southern burden” paradigm. …”
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