Eine natürliche Ordnung der Geschlechter? by Elisabeth Petereit

“…In Gottfried Keller’s novella cycle Das Sinngedicht, a naturalist and a cultivated lady argue about the right gender relationship and the foundations for a happy marriage. …”
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Transnational Relationships, US Feminism, and the Labor of Dark Foreign Men in the “New World” of Europe in Louisa May Alcott’s Diana and Persis by Leslie Hammer

“…This paper examines romantic relationships between U.S. and non-U.S. citizens in Diana and Persis, Louisa May Alcott’s 1879 sentimental novella set in Europe and based on May Alcott’s life. …”
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A impossibilidade de se dizer o indizível: reflexões sobre o duplo na novela “O unicórnio”, de Hilda Hilst by Willian André

“…This study aims at reflecting on the raise of the double in the novella “O unicórnio”, by Hilda Hilst, as an evidence of one’s impossibility to express what cannot be expressed. …”
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The Island in R. L. Stevenson’s The Beach of Falesá: Confluence(s) as Subversion by Julie Gay

“…Then, the article highlights the spatio-temporal duality of the island by highlighting its liminality, and the generic hybridity it leads to, as the novella oscillates between realism, romance and the fantastic, among others. …”
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Urban Spaces and Architecturally Defined Identity in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts by Wayne E. Arnold

“…Nathanael West’s 1933 novella, Miss Lonelyhearts, depicts a New York City that defines its inhabitants through the architectural structures enveloping them. …”
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“It Was a Brutal Land”: Exploring the Personal and the Political in Damon Galgut’s Small Circle of Beings (1988) by Marek Pawlicki

“…The discussion concentrates on the story “The Clay Ox” and the eponymous novella of the collection. It is argued that both the story and the novella convey a tension between the personal and the political by describing the subtleties of human relationships while at the same time showing that even this intensely private dimension of the characters’ existence is shaped by forces that affect the entire nation. …”
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„Podłe życie miałem”. "Puszczyk" Stefana Grabińskiego wobec modernistycznego dekadentyzmu by Aleksandra Lesińska

“…The article is an attempt to analyze Puszczyk [Tawny Owl], Stefan Grabiński’s first fantastic horror novella, thus introducing this little-known work into the study of pessimistic attitudes prevailing during Modernism, i.e. at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. …”
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Changing Medium: The Contemporary Reception of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in Two Graphic Novels by Nathalie Martinière

“…A number of contemporary authors/artists have chosen not to “write back” vehemently to what they find problematic in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, but to resort to a different medium and “rewrite” or adapt the novella as a graphic novel, as if the power of images could clarify the text for 21st-century readers. …”
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“Gestures of Air and Stone”: Translating Ethan Frome into Dance in Cathy Marston’s Snowblind by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau

“…When choreographer Cathy Marston sought to translate Ethan Frome into dance, it was the “elemental feel” of the novella that inspired her quest for finding ways of dancing “New Englandly,” to paraphrase Emily Dickinson, and to choreograph what literature feels like. …”
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Sino-noir of Serial Killers and Dismemberments by Sheng-mei Ma

“…In the 8-episode TV series, Why Try to Change Me Now, director Zhang Dalei adapts Shuang’s novella told from multiple perspectives into a tour de force in slow cinema, drawing from cinema verité with non-professional actors, natural lighting and sound, an almost stationary camera, and minimalist acting. …”
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Alcott’s Other Little Woman: Erotic Love and Victorian Childhood in “A Marble Woman: or, The Mysterious Model” by Etti Gordon Ginzburg

“…Thus underlined by desire rather than love, the novella plays on the Victorian eroticization of childhood.…”
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Historia e historización, ficción y metaficción en Los surcos del azar, de Paco Roca by Jacqueline Sabbah

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Lorsque Bellagamba réécrit Campanella : Temporalité et généricité à l’épreuve de l’Histoire by Marc Atallah

“…L'article analyse « La Cité du Soleil » d'Ugo Bellagamba pour en faire ressortir les procédés d'autoréflexivité et le rapport à la temporalité, afin de montrer que cette novella questionne, d’une part, les fonctions discursive et pragmatique de toute utopie et, d’autre part, les rapports s’établissant entre ce genre littéraire et ses avatars (en particulier la science-fiction).…”
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A meninice mentida e o futuro profanado:as narrativas de Valêncio Xavier by Fernanda Borges

“…Such artifacts are arranged inorder to compose an album in the novelMinha mãe morrendo e o menino mentidoand an obituary inMeu 7º dia: uma novella rébus. From a lied childhood to adesecrated funeral, Valêncio Xavier lights and reworks childhood memories anddesigns and mocks the inevitable future. …”
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De la caresse d’un rêve aux tortures d’un cauchemar : la lecture du testament par Utterson dans The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde de Robert Louis Stevenson by Samia OUNOUGHI

“…This article aims at orientating the real reader’s eye towards the reader in the text, for Stevenson’s novella is first and foremost a collection of texts the reception of which much depends on the reading of Jekyll’s will by J.G. …”
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À mourir de peur/rire : The Great God Pan d’Arthur Machen (1894) by Sophie Mantrant

“…The text seems intent on making the reader’s flesh creep, and yet many early reviewers stated that it failed to do so, some going as far as claiming that the novella made one shake with laughter rather than with dread. …”
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« The Encantadas » ou le décompte du temps en archipel by Michel Imbert

“…This article endeavors to unravel the various strands or strata of time in Herman Melville’s novella, “The Encantadas,” and uncover the manifold layers of the text and its intertextual interplay. …”
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Les autres pirates des Caraïbes : transtextualités transatlantiques chez Michel Séligny (1807-1867), écrivain créole de la Nouvelle-Orléans by Clint Bruce

“…Taking into account the ambiguous status of free gens de couleur, our study contextualizes and analyzes narrative strategies employed in the fictional representation of the exploits of slave-trading privateers in local history, to the effect of contesting their role in popular memory; such techniques include the appropriation, through rewriting, of a novella by French author Eugène Sue.…”
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‘Here gather daily those young eaglets of glory’: Robert Louis Stevenson, the Savile Club and the Suicide Club by Robert-Louis Abrahamson

“…Robert Louis Stevenson, one of these young men of promise, relished the social opportunities of the club, especially the company of fellow bohemians but was also aware of the limitations of the club, and its potential for complacency and false posturing. His novella ‘The Suicide Club’, depicting a club similar to the Savile, satirises the artificiality of the club, and of all such clubs, and of the superficial respectability of the members’ bohemian pretensions, which shelter the ‘gentlemen’ from a genuine and fulfilling engagement in the battlefield of life.…”
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Conceptual Metaphors in Visual Language The Graphic Novel City of Glass by Ilana Shiloh

“…Artists Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli have adapted Auster’s novella into a graphic novel and their version figures on the list of the best comic books in the 20th century. …”
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