Joyce Carol Oates’s “Slow”: Sudden Detective Fiction?
Joyce Carol Oates’s fictional project, which considers literature to be both a realm for the exploration of unconscious impulses and a crucial element of lived experience, has led her to focus on...
View ArticleThe Revenge of the Invisible Woman in Joyce Carol Oates’s “Assassin”
The protagonist of Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “Assassin” is an aging, physically unattractive woman who suffers from no longer being seen by men and takes advantage of her invisibility to seek...
View ArticleTennessee Noir, or William Gay’s “The Paperhanger”
William Gay’s “The Paperhanger,” which was first published in the February 2000 issue of Harper’s Magazine, was then included in the 2002 collection of short stories entitled I Hate to See That...
View ArticlePrequels and Preludes: The Short Story and the Detective Novel Series
Although the detective short story was both popular and remunerative in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from the Golden Age onwards, most widely read authors of the genre have...
View ArticleTextual Tectonics in “The Man Who Died” by D. H. Lawrence
This article studies how D. H. Lawrence’s rewriting of the story of Christ’s resurrection operates along the textual fault-lines between the Bible and the novella “The Man Who Died” (1929), also known...
View ArticleA Failed Moses, or the Will to Power through Confession: The Significance of...
This article aims to present the different aspects of the (grand)father-son relationship in William Faulkner’s “The Bear” and “Barn Burning.” In “The Bear,” although the grandfather, Old Carothers, is...
View ArticleRereading Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” as a Tale of Jim Crow America
Scholars have commonly placed Jackson’s fiction in the New England Gothic tradition. Her famous short story “The Lottery” is a case in point: universally seen as set in New England, it is often...
View ArticleThe Photography of Short Stories: Thoughts on Space and Duration
This essay reflects on short storytelling in light of photographic theory, and considers whether the duration of short stories can be more fully understood in relation to photography. While...
View ArticleSurfing’s Early Short Stories by Mark Twain and Jack London: Autofictional...
This contribution aims to examine the auto-fictional short stories that potentially lay the origins of a long tradition of short fiction in the increasingly recognized genre of surf literature. While...
View ArticleContributors’ notes
Isabelle Boof-Vermesse is an associate professor at University of Lille, where she teaches American literature. She specializes in genre literature, with a focus on detective fiction and speculative...
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