Genesis of a Poetics of Silence by Enora Lessinger

“…In order to achieve this goal, this paper studies one of Ishiguro’s first published short stories, “A Strange and Sometimes Sadness” (1981), in which a first-person narrator evokes memories of her time in Nagasaki during World War II. …”
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Cadrage, décadrage et recadrage dans Baa Baa Black Sheep : A Jungle Tale de David Malouf et Michael Berkeley by Jean-Philippe Heberlé

“…Premiered under the baton of Paul Daniel on July 3rd 1993 at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music, this opera is based on two texts by Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Books (1894-1895) and “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” from the short story collection Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories, first published in 1888. …”
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Identify the Message of Ursula Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk From Omelas though Its Thematic Structure by Putri Ayu Rezkiyana

“… The Ones Who Walk from Omelas is a science fiction short story written by Ursula Le Guin. The story is about the socio-cultural condition in a city named Omelas. …”
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Poétisation et déréalisation de la ville au XIXème siècle : les tropes d’une littérature hantée by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…De Quincey’s text represents a watershed, laying the foundations for the art of the city, as will also be the case with Poe’s short story some 20 years later. Both works will enduringly influence Victorian writers—such as Wilkie Collins, Stevenson, Arthur Machen, or Arthur Conan Doyle. …”
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The study of Postmodern Language Components in the Story "Passing again through the Same Streets" by Bijan Najdi by Abdollah Hasanzadeh mirali, Ghazaleh Heidari Abkenar

“…In the present study, we try to present both the postmodernism analysis on the short story "Passing again through the same streets" by Bijan Najdi, and also determine the rhetorical elements related to postmodernism and their relationship with Najdi's poetry. …”
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Faux et usage de faux : la forme de l’archive dans « The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee », de J. M. Coetzee by Odile Gannier

“…What is puzzling in this short story, integrated to The Dusklands is the status of the text: is the arch-father’s narrative, whose speech is openly racist, genuine? …”
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Stylization of history in the works of N.V. Kukolnik by Alexandr V. Kubasov

“…Through the analysis of the short story Sergeant Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, or All as One , the embodiment of historical stylization in a work of art is revealed. …”
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A Gothic heterotopia: four Anglophone responses to Venice by John Thieme

“…It pursues this line of thinking in relation to four Anglophone representations of Venice: the recent film A Haunting in Venice (2023), directed by Kenneth Branagh and scripted by Michael Green, which is very loosely adapted from Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party (1969), and which subjects the whodunnit genre to a Gothic makeover, Daphne du Maurier’s short story ‘Don’t Look Now’ (1971) and Nicolas Roeg’s film adaptation (1973) of it, in which the Gothic particularly manifests itself in the form of psychic precognition, and Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island (2019), in which an ostensibly realistic novel is infiltrated by recurrent paranormal elements, several of which are occasioned by the ‘unnaturalness’ of climate change. …”
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DEIXIS FOUND IN KAMIO YOUKO’S HANA YORI DANGO IN ENGLISH VERSION by Mariska Febrianti

“…It is the popular literary works that teenager read besides novel and short story. The objectives of this research can be further detailed as the following; (1) To find kinds of deixis that are in Kamio Yuoko’s Hana Yori Dango. (2) To know the situation of deixis are in  Kamio Youko’s Hana Yori Dango. …”
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"[T]he rising silhouette of the city" : une poétique des choses urbaines dans "Coming, Aphrodite !" et "The Diamond Mine" de Willa Cather by Céline Manresa

“…By focusing on two short stories devoted to the representation of New York at the turn of the twentieth century—"Coming, Aphrodite!" …”
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Ethnomulticultural dimensions in Osing literature of Banyuwangi: An analysis of Samar Wulu and Lintrik by Akhmad Taufiq, Sukatman Sukatman, Budi Setyono

“…Through a qualitative-interpretative-anthropological method, this study examined data in the form of words, sentences, and paragraphs extracted from two short stories. The short stories under investigation included a short story entitled Samar Wulu (Dusk; the time when the Sun is about to set) by Andika Fitriyah and Lintrik (Love Spell) by Dyah Agustin Wulandari. …”
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‘I roll my cigarette, and cycle to my club’: Playing with Stereotypes and Subverting Anti-Feminism in New Woman Writers’ Contributions to Punch by Katy Birch

“…This article will focus on two pieces, published in Punch just over a decade apart, by women who were committed to the cause of women’s rights: Rosaline Masson’s poem ‘The Reason Why’ (1898) and Evelyn Sharp’s short story ‘The Wreck of “The Ark”’ (1909). The authors of both of these pieces poke fun at the stereotypes surrounding the New Woman without overtly criticising Punch for its frequent ridicule of this figure. …”
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With Collies Graven on His Heart: The Canine Projections of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934) by Peter Merchant

“…On a necessarily smaller scale, he then repeated the feat months later with his short story ‘The Black Poodle’. By writing in the novel about a boys’ school (though with a touch of magical mystery) and by centring the story on a dog (though with a distinct sting in the tail), he demonstrated how well attuned he was to the taste of the times. …”
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Machine Reading Comprehension for the Tamil Language With Translated SQuAD by Anton Vijeevaraj Ann Sinthusha, Eugene Y. A. Charles, Ruvan Weerasinghe

“…Additionally, it explores improving these models’ performance by fine-tuning them with English SQuAD, Tamil SQuAD, and a newly developed Tamil Short Story (TSS) dataset for MRC. Tamil’s agglutinative nature, which expresses grammatical information through suffixation, results in a high degree of word inflexion. …”
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Reading from the Guts: of Text and Disgust by Solveig Dunkel

“…Faulkner is expectedly not the only example of literature deemed “disgusting:” according to Chuck Palahniuk himself, seventy-three people have fainted during public readings of this short story “Guts.” Despite the writer’s obvious delight in describing in vivid detail the fainting spells he witnessed, this specific number is difficult to corroborate. …”
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Employing ICTS: Teaching & Learning through Literature Digital Reading (LDR) by Aba-Carina Pârlog

“…In the class material set, teachers may include a fable, a short story or just a fragment published by a classical author or a fragment created by themselves according to their instruction purpose. …”
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Les Novelettes astrales (1912) ou l’utopie subversive de Paul Scheerbart by Yves Iehl

“…Yet, this eccentric writer has created an outstanding fantasy mode in his Astrale Novelletten (Astral Short Stories, 1912) which appeared as a very special form of science fiction at the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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Challenges of Prose Fiction Writing in Uganda: A Case Study of Kanungu District in Western Uganda. by Kabagyenyi, Maurine

“…The study was guided by the following objectives; to identify the relevance of short stories in Uganda, and to identify the challenges faced by prose fiction writers in Uganda…”
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“What a Handsome Family We Are!”: Feral Children and Kin-Making in Abbie Farwell Brown’s The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts (1900) by Julia Helena Wilde

“…The book includes two short stories about feral children who grow up to become saints (“Saint Keneth of the Gulls” and “The Wolf-Mother of Saint Ailbe”). …”
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