Narrative Environment of Malgudi: Space, Autonomy, and Belonging by Gouthaman K J, Nandini Pradeep J

“…The paper explores the interactions between space and social structures that affect the lives of the inhabitants of a narrative world; the effects of a narrative environment on the subjectivities and social lives of characters. R. K. Narayan's short stories reveal multifarious relations within space; socially produced, politically re-shaped, and inherently contested. …”
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Mental State Inferences Abilities Contribution to Verbal Irony Comprehension in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment by G. Gaudreau, L. Monetta, J. Macoir, S. Poulin, R. Jr. Laforce, C. Hudon

“…Subjects were administered a task evaluating mentalizing by means of short stories. A verbal irony comprehension task, in which participants had to identify ironic or sincere statements within short stories, was also administered; the design of the task allowed uniform implication of mentalizing across the conditions. …”
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Indigeneity and Resistance in Zubair Ahmad’s Grieving for Pigeons by Nayab Sadiq

“…Moreover, significantly, these short stories also showcase a postcolonial resistance. …”
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Hardy, Galileo and the Art of Transgression by Nathalie Bantz-Gaszczak

“…It seems that for Hardy, eager to be more ‘sincere’ than what decorum and ‘the censorship of prudery’ permitted, short stories and poems were literary forms that allowed more elbow room than novels: ‘If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone’.…”
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Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar by Lois Marie Jaeck

“…In the three short stories to be examined, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar incorporate Pre-Columbian beliefs and customs into colonial and post-colonial Latin American reality. …”
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Policy and Culture: From Machiavelli’s Political Philosophy to Kipling’s Political Prophecies by K. M. Dolgov, E. I. Starikova

“…The article is concerned with interrelationship of policy and culture, in particular N.Machiavelli's political philosophy and its reflection in some short stories by R.Kipling, one of the most recognized representatives of the British imperial thought. …”
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Thomas Hardy entre fiction et poésie by Jean-Charles Perquin

“…Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 and is still known today for the decades he devoted to the art of fiction and the numerous novels and short stories he wrote. But the novelist is far less known for the poetry he persistently composed. …”
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From Sensationalism to Sensation: Brian Evenson’s Affecting Texts by Nawelle Lechevalier-Bekadar

“…Brian Evenson’s work forcefully resists literary categorization, playfully mixing then deconstructing genres such as the Gothic, the western, post-apocalyptic fiction, magic realism to name but a few. Yet several short stories and novellas seem to strive towards a common fantasy: achieving sensation. …”
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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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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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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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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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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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