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 de recherches inter-langues, Université d’Angers), 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.
Latest issue
56 | Spring 2011
Special issue: The Image and the Short Story in English
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
Linda Collinge-Germain, Lauric Guillaud and Laurent Lepaludier
ORDERING INFORMATION
The issue can be ordered by contacting catherine.dupuy@univ-angers.fr at the Presses Universitaires d'Angers. It will be online in June 2013.
CONTENTS
Linda COLLINGE-GERMAIN
Foreword
Liliane LOUVEL
“A Skilful Artist has Constructed a Tale” “Is the short story a good instance of ‘word/image’? Towards intermedial criticism”
Shannon WELLS-LASSAGNE
“Disjected Snapshots”: Photography in the Short Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
Ailsa COX
“Sight Unseen” – The Visual and Cinematic in “Ivy Gripped the Steps”
Michelle RYAN-SAUTOUR
Intermediality and the Cinematographic Image in Angela Carter’s “John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore” (1988)
Karima THOMAS
The Urge for Intermediality and Creative Reading in Angela Carter’s “Impressions: the Wrightsman Magdalene
Martine HENNARD DUTHEIL de la ROCHÈRE
The Interplay of Text and Image, from Angela Carter’s The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (1977) to The Bloody Chamber (1979)
Peter GIBIAN
The Image and its Discontents: Hawthorne, Poe, and the Double Bind of ‘Iconoclash’
Claude MAISONNAT
The Ineluctable Modalities of the Visible in Daniel Corkery’s “The Stones”: Eye, Gaze and Voice
Lhorine FRANÇOIS
The image, the inexpressible and the shapeless in two short stories by Elizabeth Bishop
M’hamed BENSEMMANE
Conrad’s Picture of Irony in “An Outpost of Progress”
Xavier LACHAZETTE
Images and the Colonial Experience in W. Somerset Maugham’s The Casuarina Tree (1926)