Poésie/collage : Deux modalités du faire dans le champ de l’autre by Claudine Armand

“…Driven by the same desire to express an inner experience and to explore the complex relationship between the I and the others, the author has shifted from poetry and short story writing to engraving and collage. However, even when she worked essentially in graphic arts, she was never able to abandon her favorite mode of expression, verbal language. …”
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Apocalypse Now? Kate Atkinson Reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Barbara Weiden Boyd

“…Kate Atkinson’s short story collection, Not the End of the World (2002), has typically puzzled reviewers, unsure of its goals and hesitant about its success. …”
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« Inverser la plaisanterie afin de secouer le joug » ou comment vicier un stéréotype by Jacqueline Berben

“…An excellent example is the short story, “The Appropriation of Cultures,” in the collection Damned If IDo (2004). …”
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Specular Metamorphoses: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “The Ray of Displacement” by Asunción López-Varela

“…This paper focuses on Harriet Prescott Spofford’s short story “The Ray of Displacement” which appeared in The Metropolitan Magazine in October 1903. …”
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« Faire clair et vif avec des éléments complexes » by Cordula Reichart

“…In the novel Salammbô and the short story Hérodias, Flaubert turns to pre-Christian antiquity in order to present modernity its complexity, its entwinement in religious and historiographical discourses of power, in a « clair et vif » manner. …”
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Metafiction in Anton Chekhov’s "A Story Without an End" by Artur Sadecki

“…From this perspective, this short story can be seen as Chekhov’s commentary on his own writing, revealing the path of evolution he would take in the years that followed. …”
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Voir et être vu du sommet : le cas de Needles Lookout dans « Sitting on Top of the World » de T.C. Boyle by Caroline Roussel

“…Written in 1989, T.C. Boyle’s short story "Sitting on Top of the World"1 is a rewriting of the topos of the solitary mountain, which usually brings to mind a hermit-like style of life dedicated to the exploration of existential crises, and thus implying an ensuing spiritual quest, amidst the hardships of the wilderness. …”
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To belong or not to belong : variations autour du mythe associatif chez Virginia Woolf by Stéphanie Ravez

“…This is especially the case of a 1920 short-story, ‘A Society’, which tells about a society of women rebelling against the patriarchal order. …”
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L’univers sonore de Sredni Vashtar (Andrew Birkin, 1981) by Sophie Mantrant

“…This article explores the film’s soundscape to show how it participates in the construction of the oppositional system that underpins Saki’s short story. Carl Orff’s ‘O Fortuna’ is used as a symbolic signifier strictly associated with the world of the child, as opposed to the adult’s. …”
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Narrating Violation: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Circumstance” by Rita Bode

“…The several critical interpretations of Harriet Prescott Spofford’s short story, “Circumstance,” generally acknowledge the presence of sexual violation, but they also tend to de-center it, either glossing over it, or enlisting the nature and implications of the assault to serve other ends. …”
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Marsolaire d’Amira de la Rosa. La violence occultée by Mercedes Ortega González-Rubio

“…This article approaches gender-based violence in Caribbean Colombian literature, through the short story Marsolaire (1941), written by Amira de la Rosa. …”
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Simulacre et modernité : l’illusion d’optique dans On the Western Circuit de Thomas Hardy by Catherine Lanone

“…This paper focuses on various visual devices which Thomas Hardy chooses to include in his short stories in order to question the Victorian cult of progress, such as photographs, the Crystal Palace or more unexpectedly the phenakistiscope, which clearly lies behind the obsessional description of the « steam circus » in the short story entitled On the Western Circuit. …”
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The Satirical Vision of Canadian/Scottish Songwriter, Poet, and Novelist Graeme Williamson by Victor Kennedy

“…This paper will analyse several of Williamson’s song lyrics, poems, short stories, and his novel, Strange Faith, to show how his writing presents a critical view of modern society.…”
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“Love and Self-Love”: The Balance between Sympathy and Self-Respect in Louisa May Alcott’s Early Fiction by Asun López-Varela Azcárate

“…This paper explores one of the early short stories by Louisa May Alcott in order to offer an example of a problem that plagued women in 19th century America, wanting to thrive both in the domestic and in the public spheres. …”
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The Impact of Sexual Harassment on The Performance of Literature Students in Selected Secondary Schools in Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Kesande, Trust

“…The study was limited to writing a short story about the impact of sexual harassment on the performance of literature students in selected secondary schools of Kabale Municipality Kabale district.…”
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Floating Cities: Xi Xi, Magritte, and the Insouciance of Allegory by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

“… `Floating Cities: Xi Xi, Magritte, and the Insouciance of Allegory’ examines the ekphrastic relation of text and image in relation to the operations of analogy, the proportions of which have cracked, and allegory as an insouciant genre. Xi Xi’s short-story `Marvels of a Floating City’ is clearly linked to a reflection on Hong Kong’s hand-over from London to Beijing in 1997, but it also passes through that fixed date to ask how such an image-text might operate along different registers as we pass from Aristotle toward Benjamin and Deleuze. …”
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Clarissa Dalloway’s itinerary: narrative identity across texts by Monica LATHAM

“…This article sets out to examine the migration of Virginia Woolf’s character Clarissa Dalloway from its original score (The Voyage Out) to other autographic (the short story “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street” and the novel Mrs Dalloway) and allographic (Robin Lippincott’s Mr Dalloway and John Lanchester’s Mr Phillips) texts. …”
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Feline Alter Egos in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Circumstance” and the Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau

“…This paper focuses on the role of the feline in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s short story “Circumstance” and three poems by Emily Dickinson (F529, F444, and F1064). …”
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“Only a Light Wreath of The New-Fallen Snow”?: Ecogothic Tropes and the Diffractive Gaze in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Snow-Image” by Paulina Ambroży

“…In the article I discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ecological imagination as problematized in his lesser-known short story “The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle” (1849). …”
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Savoir intime dans l’apprentissage de l’écriture by Sandra Cadiou

“…We observed four students during a sequence « write a short story with a surprising ending » in French class. …”
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