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

German 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

The prose of the subject - Marja Młynkowa and Měrka Mětowa

Opera slavica, 2013
The contribution deals with literuture of Lusatian Sorbs, its development, personalities and problems. The problems of Slavic minority culture within the Germanic cultural context in the course of its development have been connected with a variety of ...
Viera Žemberová
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The emigrant prose of S.D. Dovlatov in the context of American ‘new journalism’ of the 1980s

RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
The focus of research attention is concentrated on the features of the American ‘new journalism’ of the 1960s-80s, and the influence of its narrative and stylistic techniques on the prose and journalism of S.D.
Evgeniya Yu. Poselenova, Victoriya S. Monsh   +1 more
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Literary Journalism on Trial: Janet Malcolm, Criminal Character and the Legacy of New Journalism

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Jess Cotton
wiley   +1 more source

ROBERT WALSER'S ‘BLEISTIFTWEG’: POETICS OF ATTENTION AS CRAFT

German Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Robert Walser's entry into what he called his ‘Bleistiftgebiet’ in the early 1920s, when in response to a profound crisis as a writer he began to produce manuscripts in minuscule size, the so‐called ‘Mikrogramme’ (microscripts). Intertwining the analysis of the short prose form with Walser's reflections on the short‐lived
Anne Fuchs
wiley   +1 more source

Russia in contemporary Russian prose

Opera slavica, 2016
Many young and experienced storytellers entering a modern contemporary Russian prose of the new century thematise today's Russia and life in it. In the author's strategy concerning the view of the present day Russia prevails the distance from the ...
Viera Žemberová
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Illicit [PDF]

, 2017
Prose by Chelsea ...
Yedinak, Chelsea
core   +1 more source

The Last Line

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Beci Carver
wiley   +1 more source

IN PURSUIT OF THE HOFFMANNESQUE

German 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

Filozofovanie o živote a smrti v (slovenskej) próze 20. storočia (stratégia ideí, stratégia autorov)

Opera slavica, 2013
The author of the article focuses on writer's workshop, that opens its own subject between life and death. Preliminary materials are used in the article.
Viera Žemberová
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