“But What about Me, and What I Felt?”: Morrissey’s List of the Lost as Queer Gothic by Brontë Schiltz

“…In one of the numerous negative reviews, Michael Hann described singer-songwriter Morrissey’s debut novella, List of the Lost (2015), as “an unpolished turd of a book, the stale excrement of Morrissey’s imagination,” yet from a queer perspective, it is pioneering. …”
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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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Degradation of Neonicotinoids and Caffeine from Surface Water by Photolysis by Alexandra Raschitor, Alberto Romero, Sandra Sanches, Vanessa J. Pereira, Joao G. Crespo, Javier Llanos

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Domestic violence against women in Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone by Zabihzadeh, Seyedehrobabeh, Hashim, Ruzy Suliza, Chua, Gabriel Clement Chen Wei

“…Furthermore, this paper is outlined based on three main forms of domestic violence, namely physical, sexual and emotional abuse, which are depicted in The Patience Stone through the novella’s female characters, notably the main protagonist.…”
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Gene Wolfe’s ‘The Fifth Head of Cerberus’ (1972), or an Uncanny Science Fiction Revision of Proust’s À la Recherche du temps perdu: Remembrance of Things Past, Remembering Oneself... by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…The question of memory constitutes the core of Gene Wolfe’s science fiction novella. The opening section can be read as a clear echo of the beginning of Du Côté de chez Swann. …”
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Spectral Economies in Graham Swift’s Mothering Sunday: A Romance by Katarzyna Więckowska

“…Referring to Jacques Derrida’s notions of haunting, inheritance, and time, I focus on the spectres of literary modernism and the First World War to explore the ways in which Swift’s novella questions the canonical representation of modernism and revises the conventional means of writing about the past, memory, and history. …”
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Stripping of identity: the experience of carnival dress in Pipá, by Leopoldo Alas, 'Clarín' by Gabriela Nava Estrada

“…In Pipá (1879), Leopoldo Alas ‘Clarín’ dresses the main character of the novella, a poor boy, with a carnivalesque costume. …”
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Returning to Haifa as Political Discourse and a Potent(ial) Source of Controversy by Sandra Singer

“…The power of change is thus signalled both by the plot and discourse of the novella.…”
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Novel·les a la classe de ciències : una nova mirada a les narratives de ficció by Isabel Pau Custodio

“…A més a més, es fa una proposta d’anàlisi en la que es consideren els aspectes científics, de naturalesa de la ciència i ètics subjacents a la novel·la. Aquesta anàlisi s’exemplifica a través de la novel·la La Balada del Funicular Miner. …”
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„See inimene oskab näha! Oskab kirjutada!”. Stalini preemia kui kirjanduselu nõukogustamise vahend Hans Leberechti näitel by Tõnu Tannberg

“…Stalin’s endorsement changed the fate of Leberecht as a Soviet writer – the novella was awarded the Stalin Prize and overnight he became one of the Estonian SSR’s most prestigious regime-friendly authors. …”
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An Old Mind in a New “Body” by Hanif Kureishi by Ayşe Demir

“…The novella is mainly based on the operation that transplant Adam’s brain into a brand new body. …”
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La Inexorabilidad de la tragedia humorística pirandelliana en el episodio I del film Tu ridi de los hermanos Taviani by Jose Alberto Chamorro Moreno

“… Profundos conocedores de la obra de Luigi Pirandello, los hermanos Taviani amplifican con su mirada cinematográfica y el añadido perfectamente entretejido de elementos de otros textos del autor, la poética pirandelliana presente en la novella Tu ridi, de la cual toman el título para su película, un filme impregnado del pesimismo existencial y la crítica a la hipocresía social propias de su cinematografía. …”
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“A FUGA PARA O EGIPTO” (THE ESCAPE TO EGYPT) : COLOUR PULSATION AND MEANING IN A (NEO)BAROQUE CONCERT by Maria Theresa Abelha Alves

“…<p>The present article consists of an intersemiotic analysis of Mário Cláudio’s novella<em> </em><em>A fuga para o Egipto</em>. This analysis is based on the following assumptions: 1) The writer has transformed Giambattista Tiepolo’s painting <em>The flight into Egypt </em>into words through the implementation of <em>ekphrasis</em>, which reproduces the <em>chiaroscuro</em> technique, the proportions, the geometry and the baroque themes which were used by the Venetian artist in his painting. 2) The novella establishes an analogy between itself and baroque music through the transformation of the aforementioned painting into a theme and by enabling each of its characters, who speak in monologues, to have a voice. …”
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How can a foundation be outlined for a successful serious game to increase reading engagement by Thomas Bjørner, Mads Strømberg Petersen, Niklas Lee Skjold Hansen, Gustav Jakobsen, Daniel Hendriksen

“…This study aims to support a mandatory reading of a novella for high school students by a serious game. …”
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Gendered Dance and Bodily Display for (Dis)empowerment as Represented in Novuyo Tshuma’s Shadows by Jairos Gonye

“…The novella enables a discussion of the agency of the stereotyped African sex worker – not only as a debased performer, but also a potentially empowered embodied being. …”
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Wreckage, War, Woman. Fragments of a Female Self in Zhang Ailing’s Love In a Fallen City (倾城之恋) by Di Muzio, Alessandra

“… This article examines wreckage and war as key elements in Zhang Ailing’s novella Qing cheng zhi lian 倾城之恋 (Love in a Fallen City) exploring the strategies used by the female protagonist to engage on a nüxing 女性 ‘feminist’-oriented spatial quest for independence in a male-centered world. …”
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When there is noise on Sherlock Holmes: mind wandering increases with perceptual processing difficulty during reading and listening by Lena Steindorf, Sebastian Pink, Jan Rummel, Jonathan Smallwood

“…Abstract We investigated whether increased perceptual processing difficulty during reading or listening to a Sherlock Holmes novella impacts mind wandering as well as text comprehension. …”
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Danza and the Signifying Process in Rosario Ferré’s Maldito amor by Stephanie Gates

“…Rosario Ferré’s 1986 novella Maldito amor takes its name from a famous Puerto Rican danza written toward the end of the 19th century by composer Juan Morel Campos, who had both African and Spanish heritage. …”
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Le disavventure della virt&ugrave;: Griselda e l&rsquo;enigma della mansuetudine (<em>Decameron</em>, X 10) by Carmelo Tramontana

“…La novella finale del Decameron presenta il caso di Griselda, pastora di umili origini che, presa in sposa dal marchese di Saluzzo Gualtieri, subisce da questi una lunga serie di vessazioni che vorrebbero saggiare le virtù della donna. …”
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Shaping the Soviet Mass Reader, Moulding Italian Literature by Sicari, Ilaria

“…The main object of this study is the analysis of the troubled publishing history of the anthology The Twentieth Century Italian Novella (Ital’yanskaya novella XX veka, 1969), which unfolded during a significant decade (1958-1968), at the turn between the Khrushchev era and the Brezhnev era and against the background of the crisis of the European left, when many European intellectuals changed their position toward Soviet policies. …”
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