The Rise of the “We” Narrator in Modern American Fiction by Ruth Maxey

“…Yet an increasing number of American novelists and short story writers have turned to this formal device over the past 20 years and particularly since 9/11. …”
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Écriture et trauma dans “The Giant Wistaria” : Quand Charlotte Perkins Gilman revisite le gothique by Paule Lévy

“…This article purports to highlight the relationship between text and trauma in Gilman’s, “The Giant Wistaria”, a short story based on one of the topoi of the gothic tradition: the haunted mansion.Gilman humorously introduces a “trouble in the genre”, turning her dark tale into a subversive version of the birth of the American nation. …”
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(Un)homely Dwellings: The Usher House and the Collyer Mansion by Theodora Tsimpouki

“…Doctorow’s 2009 novel, Homer & Langley, through the lens of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher.” While there has been a recurring claim about the significant similarities of Doctorow’s work to some of the tales by Edgar Allan Poe, there has been no critical reading that draws the connection between this novel and Poe’s famous tale. …”
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The Visible Aspect of Things: Towards a Synchronic Reading of Donald Barthelme by Surya Bowyer

“…In questioning the significance of causality, this mode of reading has wider implications insofar as it challenges the typical view that the short story should be approached as a form that is driven by narrative.…”
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‘He crossed and re-crossed the way repeatedly’: Illegible Crossings in Poe’s ‘The Man of the Crowd’ by Estelle Murail

“…This article proposes to reread Poe’s short story ‘The Man of the Crowd’ through the prism of the Baudelairean word croisement or ‘crossing’. …”
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The Mustachioed Woman, or The Problem of Androgyny in Victoria Cross’ Six Chapters of a Man’s Life by Ana Raquel Rojas

“…Cross first published an excerpt from this novel in the Decadent journal The Yellow Book, and titled the short-story “Theodora, a Fragment,” which has been reprinted in Elaine Showalter’s anthology Daughters of Decadence. …”
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Madagascar, 29 mars 1947, « Tabataba ou parole des temps troubles » by Valérie MAGDELAINE-ANDRIANJAFITRIMO

“…Indeed he has devoted quite a few of his works—a short story, a novel, an essay, and a play—to the topic, which he has used to reflect on the concept of the notion of “mutidirectional memory”, first elaborated by Michael Rothberg. …”
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Ghostly (re)visions: Embodying the Indian Caribbean churile by Christopher L. Ballengee

“…Using four key examples — Vanessa Godden’s performance film Churile (2016), Sabiyha Rasheed’s song ‘Choorile’ (2020), Kevin Jared Hosein’s short story ‘Maiden of the Mud’ (2016) and Ryan Persadie’s drag persona Tifa Wine in his ongoing Coolieween project — I discuss how the churile becomes a potent symbol for confronting the legacies of indenture. …”
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The Role of New Orleans Parish Prison in Joyce Carol Oates’s “Aiding and Abetting” by Tanya TROMBLE

“…Though no Oates story exclusively uses New Orleans as setting, the city does play an important role in the short story “Aiding and Abetting” (collected in I Am No One You Know, 2004). …”
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Kabalistyczna egzegeza opowiadania "Śmierć i busola" Jorge Luisa Borgesa by Jadwiga Clea Moreno-Szypowska

“…This article seeks to decipher Jorge Luis Borges’ short story Death and the Compass in a Kabbalistic spirit. …”
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Le jardin du présent intensément by Nicolas Fiévé, Florence Mercier, Frank Salama, Manuel Tardits

“…The literary form of the article is inspired by that of the short story In the Thicket by the Japanese author Akutagawa Ryūnosuke in which several protagonists tell the same story, each from their own point of view. …”
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Worsted, Weave, and Web: The Cultural Struggles of the Fictional Knitting-Woman by Kathy REES

“…In this article, Mrs Brown, the knitting protagonist of A. S. Byatt’s short story, “Art Work” (1994), provides a lens through which themes of inequality and injustice in social, political, racial, and sexual contexts are explored in relation to the “knitting-woman” as she appears in novels written between 1840 and 1940. …”
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Beyond Determinism: Geography of Jewishness in Nathan Englander’s “Sister Hills” and Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Filip Boratyn

“…I argue that while the generic framework of a realist short story and the Israeli setting of “Sister Hills” lead it to examine the essentialism of the Biblical discourse surrounding “the Holy Land,” Chabon’s novel, through its adoption of a more speculative approach, which involves moving the center of Jewish statehood to Alaska, is able to open up the discourse about Jewish territoriality to more postmodern contexts and introduce free will into the geography of Jewishness.…”
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Dum spiro spero? (Anna Starobiniec, Żywi) by Aleksandra Zywert

“… The subject of the analysis is the short story by Anna Starobiniec titled The alive (2005). …”
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Иллюзия иностранной речи в структуре текстов Михаила Зощенко by Jarosław Wierzbiński

“…The phenomenon of compilation of Russian and foreign-language forms [or quasi-foreign — taking into consideration the significant number of distortions] can be illustrated by the short story ‘История с переодеванием’. The interlocutors in the text, who in fact cannot speak any foreign language, pretend to use ‘foreign’ words and expressions, involving themselves in a specific verbal game. …”
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Scrutinizing the representations of flood disaster imagery in Emile Zola’s work by Ferdinal Ferdinal, Oktavianus Oktavianus, Djusmalinar

“…This research aims to explore the use of flood imagery by Emile Zola in his short story “The Flood,” highlighting the main themes and narrative of the story. …”
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Good Work and Good Works: Work and the Postsecular in George Saunders’s CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by Brian Jansen, Hollie Adams

“…Drawing on what American short story writer and novelist George Saunders has described as the urge toward kindness in his work, as well as its myriad allusions to Christian symbology and religiosity, this paper explores the intersection of languages of labour or “work” and religious tensions in Saunders’ oeuvre. …”
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Authenticity and Its Discontent as Reflected on Heinrich Böll’s The Laugher by Ni Nyoman Sarmi, Kheista Sasi Kirana, Kusuma Wijaya, Rommel Utungga Pasopati

“…The Laugher is Heinrich Böll’s short story of someone whose job is to laugh in various platforms. …”
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Rewriting the intersex body: On the opera adaptation of Herculine Barbin’s Memoirs by Gonzalo Iturregui-Gallardo

“…Barbin’s story has been adapted several times, including in a 19th-century German short story and in a 1985 French film. In addition, the translation of the memoirs has been analysed from queer perspectives (Rose, 2021) due to the protagonist’s gender undecidability. …”
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Reading and (not) seeing? by Sandra Saayman

“…Breyten Breytenbach, who is a poet, novelist, essay-writer and painter, very rarely evokes his own pictorial oeuvre in his texts. An exception is a short story entitled “Paris.” This article will study the manner in which the narrative is suspended due to the inclusion — or intrusion — of a furtive description of an existing etching. …”
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