John Barth's "Dunyazadiad": A Postmodern Reading of an Eastern Frame by Qassim Salman Sarhan, Marwa Ali Al-Shara

“…This paper is an attempt to explore the structure of the frame-tale inBarth's novella "Dunyazadiad", the first story in his collection,Chimera.  …”
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The religion of the landless by Smith, D

“…The conflict of Jeremiah and Hananiah, and the advice of Jeremiah in his 'letter', is seen as the conflict of new leaders in crisis. The 'Diaspora Novella' is compared to Messianic expectation and especially to Suffering Servant to show how folklore can reflect social conditions and serve a function as 'hero stories'. …”

翻译功能与译语文化 ：以目的论来探析新加坡式英语译版的《小王子》= Translation function and target language : a study on Singlish translation “The Leeter Tunku” from the perspective of skopos theory... by 林嘉欣 Lim, Jia Xin

“…This novella has gained so much popularity and controversy that it has seen a record high in its publication, translation and sales. …”
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Mõrtsukatöö Liiva järvel by Juhan Kreem

“…In 1866 the first literary adaptation of the massacre on Lake Liepāja emerged as a sentimental novella in Estonian, akin to the tales of Genevieve of Brabant and Robinson Crusoe popular among Estonian readers at the time. …”
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Time and Space, Subject and Memory. Katarína Kucbelová’s Malé veľké mesto [Little big city] by Viliam Nádaskay

“…The article offers an interpretation of Malé veľké mesto ([Little big city] 2008), the third book of poetry/long poem by the contemporary Slovak poet and writer Katarína Kucbelová (1979), the author of four books of poetry and a novella. From the point of view of poetics, Malé veľké mesto is a transitional text, a breaking point in the development of the author’s style. …”
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Per cacciar la malinconia delle femine: immaginazione e malattia d’amore nel Decameron di Boccaccio by Marilena Panarelli

“…The case of Lisa can be interpreted as an exemplum: a woman afflicted by the same sickness as Lisa could understand how to behave by means of reading of this novella. Moreover, this paper will demonstrate that a useful outline of Lisa’s symptomatology can be found in Dino del Garbo’s commentary on Guido Cavalcanti’s poem Donna me prega.…”
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Margaret Atwood’s Postcolonial and Postmodern Feminist Novels with Psychological and Mythic Influences: The Archetypal Analysis of the Novel Surfacing by Andrejka Obidič

“…For instance, her narrative The Penelopiad (2005) is a genre-hybrid novella in which she parodies the Grecian myth of the adventurer Odysseus and his faithful wife Penelope by subverting Homer’s serious epic poem into a witty satire. …”
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L'art militar al Tirant lo Blanc by Martí de Riquer

“…I encara que això no permet assegurar amb total certesa que Martorell s’hagi inspirat en Eiximenis, ens corrobora, una vegada més, que el Tirant lo Blanc és una novel·la fermament fonamentada en una realitat autèntica o, si es vol, que és un ver document d’una època.…”
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"Da fügte es der Himmel oder der Zufall". Religiöses Wissen bei Adalbert Stifter by Stocker, F

“…Whilst one chapter examines physico-theology as a distinctive, yet versatile category for the portrayal of nature in Stifter’s early and late work, an in-depth reading of his famous novella 'Abdias' focuses on the contemporary anti-Jewish discourse. …”

Reader and Writer: Poor Liza (1792) by Nikolay Karamzin and Notes from Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky by Elena M. Kudryavtseva

“…Erast dreams of an idyll and “invents” his future life with Liza according to the laws of the genre, while the peasant woman, unlike the reading hero, understands that dreams cannot be realized. In Dostoevsky’s novella the situation is more complicated. Following literary models, the Underground Man creates two stories in an idyllic and anti-idyllic key, in order to manipulate the soul of another person and to affirm himself. …”
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Espelhos didáticos e de entretenimento? A receção e a função do conto na literatura moral, catequética e hagiográfica em Portugal no século XVII by Paula Almeida Mendes

“… Género cultivado, por meio do registo escrito, desde a Idade Média – de que é exemplo o Horto do Esposo –, mas largamente difundido através de uma ancestral circulação oral, o conto conhece, em Portugal, um muito significativo sucesso, com a edição dos Contos e Histórias de proveito e exemplo (1575), de Gonçalo Fernandes Trancoso, que, como é sabido, reflete, em boa medida, a receção e a influência da “novella” de matriz italiana, sobretudo de Boccaccio ou Bandello. …”
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FRANZ KAFKA’S METAPLOT MINIATURES by Ольга Наумовна Турышева (Olga N. Turysheva)

“…Another difference is that in novels and novellas this technique – the adaptation of the precedent motif and plot – forms a different modal orientation, a tragic one. …”
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Reception of History in the Poem of D. Tumanny (N. N. Panov) The House in Sverdlovsk (1926) by Yulia Sergeevna Podlubnova

“…Characteristic of the lyrical epic poem of Pushkin’s time and a completely outdated Byronic hero makes a pilgrimage to the Ipatiev House and is immediately replaced by pictures of Sverdlovsk being built (which becomes another hero of the poem). The features of a novella are combined with the optics of a travelogue essay, and Pushkin’s abundant intertext (the epigraph, allusions, and specific stylistic devices including the usage of the octave and referring to The House in Kolomna, Eugene Onegin, The Stone Guest, and The Fountain of Bakhchisarai) is only the upper layer of a deeper poetic adherence to Pushkin’s tradition. …”
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THE JUNGIAN ARCHETYPES AND THE CONFLICT WITH THE DOUBLE SELF IN “THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE” by Elena-Daniela SANDU

“…The current paper analyzes Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from a psychoanalytical perspective. …”
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TRANSFORMATION OF A FAIRY TALE MODEL IN THE A. PLATONOV’S STORY JULY THUNDERSTORM

“…Walker (as an intertextual reference to A. P. Chekhov’s novella The Steppe) and N. Vlasova (within the context of children’s literature). …”
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Two versions of the medieval model of the “symphony” of church-state relations by Georgy Bezhanidze

“…is found in two of the most important collections of Byzantine law: novellas and the Eisagoge, where it takes on diff erent meanings. …”
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以心理分析和性别研究论张爱玲的《茉莉香片》= Discussion on Eileen Chang’s Mo Li Xiang Pian with psychology analysis and gender studies by 黄毓施 Ng, Yu Shi

“…This thesis paper will discuss the different characters in this novella, mainly on the male character, Nie Chuan Qing. …”
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Rhetoric in 1 Esdras 3:1–5:6 (the story of the three bodyguards): integration of Greek and Jewish features by Kwak, US

“…Further, I highlight the relationship of the Story to other Jewish literature of the Second Temple period, including the Jewish novella and the court tale (e.g., Greek Esther).</p> <p>Through multi-layered rhetorical analyses, I demonstrate that all the speeches in the story contain rhetorical features that have been influenced by Greek culture (e.g., Greek rhetoric) as well as derived from the Hebrew Bible and/or the Septuagint. …”

After antiquity: Joseph and Aseneth in manuscript transmission. A case study for engaging with what came after the original version of Jewish Pseudepigrapha. by Wright, J

“…<p>The story of <em>Joseph and Aseneth</em> expands a few verses from the book of Genesis into a novella- length work. In recent years, the story has attracted considerable scholarly attention. …”

Elu nagu algebra. Alide Erteli elu ja looming by Taimi Grauberg

“…At the beginning of her creative career, Ertel published her works primarily in the print media. 1910 saw the publication of her debut novella Rooste (“Rust”), which depicted the residents and conditions of a local poorhouse. …”
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