...Morgan Day Frank Abstract Longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, the novella appears to occupy a clear formal niche. However, novellas have posed problems for even the most basic taxonomies of literary criticism and publishing. Though the novella is defined by its length, length alone...

...Jacob Soule Abstract Georges Perec's short experimental novella An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris documents, with inert fascination, everything that passes through the busy Parisian square of Place Saint-Sulpice over the course of several days, from pedestrians to the continuous stream...

.... To look at this aesthetic and political shift, I offer a comparative reading of Yeshayahu Koren's 1967 novella, Funeral at Noon , and Adam Sanderson's 2014 cinematic adaptation of that novella. Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 world literature globalization peripheral literature Israeli...

... doubling of Jekyll and Hyde than the numbing insistence of a modest signifier (the word something ) that measures this novella's—and the Victorian novel's—resistance to the human. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 There’s Something about Hyde Jules Law It would seem to go without saying...

..., but it remains understudied. I turn to Wright's Depression-era story, originally published in Uncle Tom's Children: Four Novellas , because he explores a similar question regarding the 1927 Mississippi Flood, which many consider the precursor to Hurricane Katrina. Wright's story not only clues readers...

... developments such as the emergence of the concept of the "death of the author But what are we tomake of the fact that Conrad's somewhat glib allu- sion to his proxy's potential unemployment occurs in the preface to a novella so fundamentally-and darkly-preoccupied with the themes of work...

... of the literary generation rejected Agnon as a literary father, Hendel did not merely engage with his fiction but also anchored her own fiction in it. To illustrate the point, Merin probes Hendel's novella “Eliezer's Widow” and the novel Street of Steps in relation to Agnon's short fiction. Let me linger...

... in Europe, North America, and sub-Saharan Africa” (71). While this question is outside the objectives that The Nation Writ Small sets out to achieve, Andrade's mention of the various curricula in which Bâ's novella is given a central position reveals an intricate history of textual reception and promotion...

... Beckett in his willingness to pare down and rework his postwar writings. In the finest chapter of an exceptionally illuminating, not to say moving book, Stonebridge very convincingly gives a new priority to three of the four novellas written between February and December 1946, immediately after Beckett's...

... Heart of Darkness as the “haunted ground” or “scene of a crime or prophecy” that the later postcolonial novels of Achebe, Naipaul, and Dabydeen recast (55). Rather than taking Conrad’s novella as an originary narrative to which postcolonial ones must “write back,” Cooppan shows that these novels...

... of the Japanese Novel ALAN TANSMAN This essay concerns three of modern Japan’s most famous literary works—a novella and two novels—and one propaganda tract, all written with pedagogical intent and all traditionally read that way. Each crafted a sense of what it means to be a human being open to or closed...

..., perhaps, the kind of narrative closure he could not achieve in that unfinished novel. I would like to turn in conclusion to the final novella published in Zweig's lifetime, in which he would combine the empathizing subject and the object of empathy in one single character, thus presenting...

..., the realism of which he had been so skeptical, in fact tells us more about his next major work than about the one he was describing to Colvin. “The Beach of Falesá” was in many respects a trial run for the longer fiction The Ebb-Tide. The novella is more elaborate and more violent, and it got Stevenson...

... such a process of decentering and un-knowing to occur. The first of these is Dambudzo Marechera's 1978 novella, The House of Hunger . Though recent years have seen a resurgence of scholarly attention paid to the novella, for decades after publication, The House of Hunger remained relatively neglected, in part...

... the issue of the Congo but also brought the story of the "novel of purpose" to its dramatic conclusion. In light of Claybaugh's work, it would be easy to argue that Conrad's novella stages the collapse of the institution of realism (as well as the emergence of proto-modernist impersonality...

... of the autonomous subject of liberal individualism and the scrambling of hallowed codes of Englishness (the rural, the local) into a cognitive remapping of a metropolis made by the “elsewhere” of its former colonies. Smith's “nimble localism,” in White Teeth , the novella The Embassy of Cambodia , and NW...

... for the shift to literary hermeneutics in the chapters that follow. Also, there are occasional stumbles in the readings of these literary texts; for example, Marlow recounts his meeting with Kurtz in the third section of the novella, not the second as Lewis maintains and though Conrad's narrator admires...

..., while London spent several years there during the next decade. Of their resultant writings, critical attention has largely focused on Stevenson, especially the short stories published in Island Nights' Entertainments (1893) and his novella The Ebb-Tide (1894), although interest is being directed...

... so, Cerasulo argues that writing for Hollywood did not kill the creativity of authors when they became scriptwriters: Dorothy Parker found success, most famously with A Star is Born, Fitzgerald wrote the underrated Pat Hobby ­stories, Natha- nael West penned his novellas Miss Lonelyhearts...

... of Mass Democracy looks forward to “the public after polling” by reference to Henry James's novella, The Papers (1903), and the rise, starting with Gallup, of statistical analysis to understand politics and consumer behavior, for, in essence, the argument of the book is future-oriented from the start...