Reading and (not) seeing? by Sandra Saayman

“…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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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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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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‘Queer Reverence’: Aubrey Beardsley’s Venus and Tannhäuser by Nicole Fluhr

“…During his short career, the writer and artist Aubrey Beardsley, who rose to prominence in the 1890s, cultivated a reputation for mannered excess that helped establish him as one of the aesthetes and decadents whose company he kept and whose works he illustrated. …”
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Un écrivain « entre deux rives » : le cas Jules Boissière by Hervé Casini

“…Jules Boissière (1863-1897) is paradoxically an underrated writer if not forgotten. Except for "Propos d'un intoxiqué" and some yet published short stories from "Fumeurs d'opium", the man and his work still have to discover.Between 2014 and 2016, professor Jean-Yves Casanova publishes some pioneer articles for edition of the Centre d’Étude de la Littérature Occitane, La Revue Littéraire and Littératures.From these numerous lives and writings, Boissière uses two languages-French and Provençal- as means of an artistic production who finds mainly in Indochina a kind of Promised Land, on one hand in verse, on the other hand in prose.As a matter of fact, on the two sides of his special way, Jules Boissière must find again his well-deserved place : the one from a French writer, with occitanist tendency, who loves two languages and, during his Indochina stay , nurtures a highest literary career.…”
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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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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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THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT’S TWO FRIENDS AND ARTURO ARIAS’ TOWARD PATZUN by Kristiawan Indriyanto

“…Although both writers foreground the savagery of war, the different cultural background, nationality, literary tradition cause differences in the way both writer narrate their short stories. …”
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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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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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Building Bridges through Writing: An Interview with Rohini Bannerjee by Sara Casco-Solís

“…Her short stories and poetry—written in both French and English—explore themes of belonging, identity and body image. …”
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Weimar Migrations: Katherine Anne Porter in Berlin by Joseph Kuhn

“…In the 1920s and the 1930s the Texas author Katherine Anne Porter lived out the life of a modernist expatriate, restlessly moving from one country to another, but it was a short trip to Weimar Berlin between September 1931 and January 1932 that had the strongest influence on her fiction. …”
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Constructing Identities: Amos Tutuola and the Ibadan Literary Elite in the wake of Nigerian Independence by Mackenzie Finley

“…They’re afraid to meet the ghosts from the dead” (emphasis in original).1 Amos Tutuola (1920–1997) was recognized globally for his perpetuation of Yoruba folklore tradition via novels and short stories written in unconventional English. …”
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Challenges of Prose Fiction Writing in Uganda: A Case Study of Kanungu District in Western Uganda. by Kabagyenyi, Maurine

“…The purpose of this study was to find out the challenges faced by prose fiction writers in Uganda. 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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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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