Short Stories, Knowledge and the Supernatural Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant
This book proposes a comparative approach to the supernatural short stories of Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant. It offers an alternative to predominantly novel-centric and Anglo-centric perspectives on literary pre-modernism by investigating a transnational and multilingual conne...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Mapping the Transatlantic Supernatural Story
- 2 Machado de Assis and the Doors of Fiction
- 3 Henry James, from Ghost Stories to Ghost Texts
- 4 Guy de Maupassant: Doubt, Dogma, and the Dead
- 5 Conclusion: The Metaliterary Supernatural Story