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From: CLCWeb[(essay date March 2003) In the following essay, Lusk and Roeske outline the autobiographical undertones of "Lettre d'un fou" and both versions of "Le Horla," discussing the hallucinatory madness of the tales as a...
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From: Esquisses/Ébauches: Projects and Pre-Texts in Nineteenth-Century French Culture[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Donaldson-Evans maintains that Maupassant's repeated revisions of his narratives can be traced to the author's "nearly obsessive preoccupation with completion."] The pairing...
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From: Hemingway Review[(essay date spring 1994) In the following essay, Jobst and Williamson probe the use of humor and religious symbolism in "La maison Tellier" and Ernest Hemingway's "The Light of the World."] There was no sense in...
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From: Dalhousie French Studies[(essay date summer 2000) In the following essay, Stadt asserts that "Les Tombales" "reveals itself to be a metacritical tale whose principal theses are misinterpretation and narrative autonomy."] By the time Guy de...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 42, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIn several of Guy de Maupassant's short stories, juries acquit defendants who have admitted to committing heinous crimes in the heat of passion--infanticides, parricides, and other domestic homicides. How do we explain...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 41, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThis article looks at four short stories published by Guy de Maupassant after his first trip to Algeria: "Allouma," "Marroca," "Mohammed-fripouille," and "Un soir." Through an analysis of the representations made of the...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines episodes from three novels by Guy de Maupassant, Notre Coeur (1890), Bel-Ami (1885), and Pierre et Jean (1888), and analyses how mantelpieces and ornaments become a privileged topos for the...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNarrative framing is an important technique in Guy de Maupassant's fiction. For example, as Angela S. Moger discusses, Maupassant frequently employs a physician as tale-teller--in such stories as "La Rempailleuse" and...
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From: American Literature[(essay date 1938) In the following essay, Leeb focuses on the connections between American short-story author Henry Cuyler Bunner’s collection Made in France (1893) and the short fiction of Maupassant, whose stories...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 21. )The protagonist of Guy de Maupassant's "Boule de Suif" learns that virtuous acts do not always reap rewards. In fact, her altruism or self-sacrifice jeopardizes, rather than improves, her own life. Boule de Suif is a...
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From: Journal of Narrative Technique[(essay date spring 1990) In the following essay, Stivale explores the role and function of narrative desire in "La Petite Roque."] A widower overcome by a maddening passion that results in the rape and murder of an...
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From: The Forum[(essay date 1908) In the following review of Inquiries and Opinions, Phelps offers some minor reservations about Matthews's literary judgments, but, on the whole, enthusiastically endorses them.] Among American...
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From: L'Esprit Créateur[(essay date fall 2003) In the following essay, Hadlock characterizes the narrator's insanity in "Le Horla" as a mode of storytelling that represents the illusion of male primacy in modern society.] Guy de Maupassant's...
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From: Francisco Ayala[(essay date 1977) In the following excerpt, Irizarry offers detailed analyses of individual works in three collections of Ayala's short fiction. The critic describes the main thematic concerns of the volumes--Los...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFew subjects seem to have intrigued Guy de Maupassant as much as monsters. His short stories are replete with deformed and disfigured beings whose presence conditions the trajectory of the narrative as well as the...
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From: Australian Journal of French Studies[(essay date September-December 2002) In the following essay, Hadlock declares that in Qui sait? "Maupassant [discovers that] it is the male self which has disappeared as a precondition of patriarchal meaning; and that...
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From: French Forum[(essay date winter 2002) In the following essay, Hadlock discusses the function of the monster in "La Mère aux monsters."] Few subjects seem to have intrigued Guy de Maupassant as much as monsters. His short stories...
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From: The International Dictionary of Theatre, Vol. 1: PlaysAny comedy where the young hero destroys his life's work and then himself, where the heroine is abandoned pregnant and unhinged, while the survivors bask on in their own egotism, must be considered highly innovatory....
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From: Forum for Modern Language Studies[(essay date October 1988) In the following essay, Killick considers the influence of Gustave Flaubert on Guy de Maupassant through a comparison of two stories that share similar elements of plot and theme.] Flaubert's...
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From: W. Somerset Maugham: A Study of the Short Fiction[(essay date 1993) In the following excerpt, Archer traces Maugham's early development as a short story writer and elucidates thematic and stylistic elements of his fiction.] Looking back on his long career at age 70,...