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

“…This article seeks to analyse, through the example of R. L. Stevenson’s late novella entitled The Beach of Falesá, how the insular space allows for multiple forms of confluences, and to determine how subversive these confluences are, as well as how this spatial phenomenon affects the text and is conducive to the creation of a highly modern form of adventure. …”
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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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The Tipping Point? The Covid-19 Crisis, Critical Animal Studies and Academic Responsibility by Émilie DARDENNE

“…The Institute for Critical Animal Studies, founded in 2001 by American scholars Steve Best and Anthony J. Nocella II aims to “provide a space for the development of a critical approach to animal studies, one which perceives that relations between human and nonhuman animals are now at a point of crisis which implicates the planet as a whole” (Best, Nocella, Kahn, Gigliotti, Kemmerer). …”
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200 years of Darwin wasp research (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in Southern Lower Saxony (Germany) with an annotated checklist by Mike Kuschereitz

“….), Coleocentrus soleatus (Gravenhorst, 1829), Netelia contiguator Delrio, 1975, Netelia silvahercynia Theunert, 2021, Proclitus heterocerus (Thomson, 1888) and Tycherus acutus (Gravenhorst, 1829). …”
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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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Stability study of thymoquinone, carvacrol and thymol using HPLC-UV and LC-ESI-MS by Soliman Rabab M., Abdel Salam Randa A., Eid Basma G., Khayyat Ahdab, Neamatallah Thikryat, Mesbah Mostafa K., Hadad Ghada M.

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the stability of three major antioxidants of Nigella sativa: thymoquinone (TQ), carvacrol (CR) and thymol (THY), under different stress conditions using HPLC and LC-MS/MS. …”
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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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Prispevek k poznavanju flore Čateža pri Trebnjem (vzhodna osrednja Slovenija) by Tinka Bačič

“…Obravnavane so naslednje zanimivejše vrste: Geranium pyrenaicum, Nigella damascena, Coriandrum sativum, Lepidium virginicum, Spergularia salina, Euphorbia nutans in Euphorbia marginata. …”
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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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Anatomické ilustrace spisu Leonarda Ferdinanda Meisnera z Löwenberku by Marie Vymazalová

“…Meisner’s work was based on the lectures by a Prague physician and university teacher Joannes Antonio Cassinis de Bugella. The anatomical drawings are analysed in the context of other surviving drawings in Czech collections. …”
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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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