Reading Illness from “The Dead Cold Light of Tomorrow”: Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider in the Times of COVID-19 by Rebeca Gualberto Valverde

“…Following the trend set by most critics of Porter, this article explores the intersections of memory and fiction in the novella, but shifting attention to our present-day response, assessed as a critical tool that provides renewed insight into the mysteries of Porter’s late-modernist text. …”
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De Kretser’s Retelling of a Ghost Love Story by Alejandra Moreno-Álvarez

“…At the same time, de Kretser offers in this dystopic novella a much-needed escape from binary definitions of inclusion/exclusion, offering palimpsests of the spaces that Frances inhabits—Melbourne, Sydney and Paris. …”
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A fantasia como recurso diante de um diagnóstico mortífero by Igor Francês, Alessandro Melo Bacchini, Junia de Vilhena

“…Freud began his journey towards the notion of fantasy in his work by following the steps of Gradiva, the woman who walks, a mythological figure originated in a novella. Henceforth, he realizes that literary narrative is capable of surfacing notions that are difficult to accept – with no need for argumentation or counterproof – such as the processes involved in the formation of dreams and delirium. …”
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Tra il folklore e la letteratura: i Rätsel di Friedrich Schiller per la Turandot di Carlo Gozzi by Simone Beta, Andrea Landolfi

“…L’analisi di uno degli indovinelli, che è presente anche nella novella persiana dalla quale Gozzi ha tratto la trama della sua commedia, permette di stabilire un collegamento tra quell’indovinello particolare e altri indovinelli simili testimoniati nella letteratura greca e nel folklore. …”
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Contract of loan and protection of debtors against usury in Serbian mediaeval law (regarding the influence of Byzantine law) by Šarkić Srđan

“…However, taking of interest became a need of economic life, so the Novella LXXXIII of Emperor Leo VI allowed the interest with a rate of 4%, and Basilika repeated the provisions of Justinian’s legislation. …”
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Théâtralité et narration : Le Bonheur dans le crime de Barbey d’Aurevilly by Kris Vassilev

“…If, thanks to its theatrical nature, the novella’s plot hints at more than it presumes to reveal through the succession of its events, it is that the narration appears to adopt as its objective the denunciation of realist fiction as ineffectual, while upholding the exemplary moral nature to which conforms the poetics of tragedy. …”
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Frommian Biophilic Ethics in Tolstoy’s The death of Ivan Ilyich by Ahad Mehrvand, Naser Karmatfar

“…This paper is the case study of Tolstoy’s novella The death of Ivan Ilyich (1886/2009) in light of Fromm’s insights as reflected in his later works. …”
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Danmei and/as Fanfiction: Translations, Variations, and the Digital Semiosphere by JSA Lowe

“…This paper offers a comparative reading of the following three such texts, which explore trauma recovery through the arc of romance: <i>Tianya Ke</i>, a danmei novel by Priest; <i>Notebook No. 6</i> by magdaliny, a novella-length piece of fanfiction based on Marvel characters; and orange_crushed’s <i>Strays</i>, a fanfiction based on the live-action drama that was, in turn, based on <i>Tianya Ke</i>. …”
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La búsqueda del lector híbrido como motivo implícito de la traducción pragmática. Caso de la novela Puppetde Margarita Cota-Cárdenas y su traducción al inglés by Iwona Kasperska

“…The article deals with a particular case of intra- and intertextual translation of a highly pragmatic nature, which can be seen in Puppet. A Chicano novella by Margarita Cota-Cárdenas. Composed mainly of fragments of conversations, monologues and personal letters, the novel reflects Spanish-English codeswi tching, as a characteristic feature of the speech of the Mexican American community in the USA. …”
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Romanticism, Realism and Translator’s Dilemmas in the World of Phantasy and Horror by Barbara Gawrońska Pettersson

“…The paper analyzes and compares strategies and techniques employed in translations of the German novella into Russian, the Russian one into German, and in Polish and English versions of both stories.…”
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Lírica trobadoresca amb filtres italians: Rigaut de Berbezilh en Curial e Güelfa by Abel Soler

“…El desconegut autor de Curial e Güelfa va saber compaginar el seu interés literari per la cultura clàssica amb un homenatge selectiu a la vella tradició lírica trobadoresca, «patrimonial» encara aleshores de l’estament cavalleresc. Ambientada la novel·la en el segle xiii, l’anònim recrea els tòpics de l’amor cortés, i elabora un argument que connecta episòdicament amb la Cançó de l’orifany de Rigaut de Berbezilh. …”
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People and Puppets and Puppet-People in the Play Uncle’s Dream by the Irkutsk Puppet Theatre “Aistenok” by Olga Yu. Yuryeva

“…The author analyzes the expressive means that allowed the director and actors to examine in depth Dostoevsky’s idea, vividly and remarkably represent the characters, offer an original interpretation that does not destroy the author’s concept, leveraging the dramatic intentions implied in the novella, thanks to the synthesis of acting and puppet theatre. …”
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Epitaphs to Empire: On Abe Kōbō and the (Un)Making of the Repatriation Narrative by Christina Yi

“…This article considers the discursive limits of the repatriation narrative by reading Abe Kōbō’s 1948 debut work Owarishi michi no shirube ni (The Signpost at the End of the Road) and 1957 novella Kemonotachi wa kokyō o mezasu (The Beasts Head for Home) in relation to Fujiwara Tei’s 1949 paradigmatic repatriation narrative Nagareru hoshi wa nagarete iru (The Shooting Stars are Alive), focusing in particular on the various literary and geopolitical displacements in all three texts. …”
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Renal and Urinary Tract Involvement in Fibrosclerosing or Fibroinflammatory Diseases: A Narrative Review by Giovanni Maria Rossi, Chiara Pala, Davide Gianfreda

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Intersecting Geographies/Intertextual Traces: Queered Desire and Imperilled Love in Michael Cunningham’s By Nightfall and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice by Gregory Graham-Smith

“…This article explores Michael Cunningham’s 2010 novel, By Nightfall along with its suggestive fragments of Thomas Mann’s novella Death in Venice (1912). In an examination of two beautiful young men, Tadzio in Death in Venice and Mizzy in By Nightfall, the article investigates the dialectic between (queered) desire and death/self-dissolution. …”
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Juegos dialògicos del discurso cervantino: la palabra de los clàsicos antiguos by Lìa Schwartz

“…In the imitatio of classical genres, Cervantes practices contaminatio with other models typical of his age – from pastoral to the Greek novel, from books of chivalry to Boccaccio's novella. The same method is applied to the construction of each genre's discourse, in which he combines expressions taken from his sources with rhetorical devices of his own creation. …”
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Fluxos literaris entre Itàlia i la Corona d’Aragó al Cinccents. Cinc exemples by Pep Valsalobre

“…De l’important i diversificat flux literari i cultural entre Itàlia i la Corona d’Aragó al Cinccents, aquest article posa l’atenció en dos àmbits concrets: les connexions italianes amb la nova espiritualitat de la primera meitat del segle (l’extraordinària difusió italiana de la novel·la Desitjós i la traducció al català de dues obres cabdals de la religiositat de l’època) i la recepció hispànica de dos fenòmens literaris de gran envergadura, els romanzi de Boiardo i Ariosto (i la prosa de Bembo), a València, i la literatura lepantina, al Principat. …”
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To forget and to recall. Reading the Proses by Pavel Vilikovský and Jan Balabán by Špela Sevšek Šramel

“…We reflect on the outlined subjects in the context of the proses of contemporary Czech and Slovak literature, Jan Balabín´s novel Zeptej se táty (Ask Your Dad, 2010) and two short proses by Pavel Vilikovský: novella Kôň na poschodí, slepec vo Vrábľoch (A Horse Upstairs, a Blind Man in Vráble, 1989) and short story Pán spomienok (The Master of Memories, 2005, in: Čarovný papagáj a iné gýče / A Magical Parrot and Other Kitsch).…”
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“This Girl Changed the Story of the World”: Queer Complications of Authority in KindaTV’s <i>Carmilla</i> by Drumlin N. M. Crape

“…This article investigates the intersection of adaptations of narrative content and form as exemplified in the KindaTV YouTube series <i>Carmilla</i> (2014–2016), a contemporary revisioning of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 vampire novella of the same name. By contextualizing Le Fanu’s text within the emerging medicalized discourse around so-called deviant sexualities and close reading the invocations of medical, legal, and narrative authority within <i>Carmilla</i>, I reveal an approach to authority which upholds hegemony. …”
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Behind the Veil: Gender and Apocalypse in George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil (1859) and Wilkie Collins’s The Two Destinies (1876) by Ryan Barnett

“…It is in the sense of the apocalypse as an 'unveiling' that, in a discussion of George Eliot's 1859 novella The Lifted Veil and Wilkie Collins's 1876 novel The Two Destinies, I will explore the links between the notion of apocalypse and the 'secret' of female sexuality. …”
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