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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
wiley   +1 more source

Somerset Maugham's Failings

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Allan Hepburn
wiley   +1 more source

IN PURSUIT OF THE HOFFMANNESQUE

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article seeks to elucidate the term ‘Hoffmannesque’ — the eponymous adjective that refers to E. T. A. Hoffmann — through recourse to Hoffmann's own use of ‘esque’ words: arabesque, grotesque, burlesque, picturesque. By investigating the characteristics of ‘esque’ formulations and tracing their recurrence through Hoffmann's texts, I argue ...
Polly Dickson
wiley   +1 more source

Half-Heard Voices of the Primal Zone; Sleep and Waking in a Poem by Cao Shuying

open access: yes, 2017
Initially touching artifacts and sculpture from ancient Greece, and the risk of misreading thought or emotion cross-culturally, this essay draws briefly on Wordsworth’s testimony that poetic process arises first in a primally sensual and pre-verbal zone.
O’CONNELL, George, SHI, Diana
core  

The Last Line

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Beci Carver
wiley   +1 more source

RELATIONAL AMBIVALENCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITY: RE‐READING FREUD'S RAT MAN

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a close reading of Freud's 1909 case study ‘Bemerkungen über einen Fall von Zwangsneurose’ (‘Rat Man’). I build on Andrew Webber's observation that both psychoanalytic case studies and the literary genre of the novella use the exceptional case to confirm the norm.
Marie Kolkenbrock
wiley   +1 more source

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