Presentation
Founded in 1983, the Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE) is a biannual journal entirely devoted to the short story and to short forms of writing. Under French-American direction (Belmont University, Nashville and the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les patrimoines en lettres et langues [CIRPaLL] of Angers, France), it has an editorial team of international specialists who select articles according to the “double-blind review” principle with the aim of encouraging the broadest possible spectrum of analytical literary approaches. There are three types of issue devoted to general questions, themes or individual authors.
Latest issue
77 | Autumn 2021
Double Issue: Special Section and Varia
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Foreword [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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Special Section
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Introduction [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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Humble Short Fiction
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Scraps of Paper: First World War Short Fiction and the Ephemeral [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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Writing Chronic Illness in Short Fiction: An Exploration in Practice and Reflection [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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The “Little Things”: An Exploration of the Use of Gesture in J. D. Salinger’s Nine Stories [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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Humbling Form
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“Partly in Prose”: Woolf’s humble Cutbush [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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The Short Story and the Novel: Some Reflections on the Self and the Other [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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Malcolm Lowry’s Humble Hypotyposes in Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961) [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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Social Invisibilities
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“Some Issue of Little Consequence”: Mina Loy’s Neglected Short Stories [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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Radclyffe Hall’s Short Fiction: A Humble Ethics of the Flawed [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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“Let Them Call It Jazz” by Jean Rhys: From Precarious to Ordinary Life [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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From the Humble to the Relational
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Organic Connections and Creatures of Compost: When Humility Reframes the Ambition of Short Fiction [Full text will be published on December 2023]Reading Ali Smith’s “The Beholder” (2015) and Daisy Johnson’s “Starver” (2016)
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Edwidge Danticat Writes the Refugee: “Children of the Sea,” “Caroline’s Wedding,” “Without Inspection” [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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General Section
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Stephen Crane : image fixe, image-mouvement [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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Reviving the Spirit of Edgar Allan Poe: The Hy“poe”text in Three Stories by Willa Cather [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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“After all . . . useless”: Utilitarianism and Aestheticism in Alice Munro’s “Dance of the Happy Shades” [Full text will be published on December 2023]
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