Achebe, Chinua 113, 117, 137, 138, 140, 163
Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke 4, 31, 33, 74, 87, 119, 173–174, 192–193, 196
Brigands, The (Chūtō) 111, 124
Faith of Wei Cheng, The (Bisei no shin) 193
Tangerines, The (Mikan) 31–32, 175, 192
Withered Fields (Kareno shō) 33, 56, 192
Bakhtin, Mikhail 39, 78, 118, 138, 165, 183
bestial imagery (comparisons between humans and animals) 90, 108, 109, 111, 121, 142, 145, 177
Booth, Wayne C. 122, 123, 132, 143, 155
character types 8, 26, 56, 57, 59, 65, 69, 73, 74, 90, 105, 106, 109, 119, 124, 136, 142, 168, 189
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 4, 5, 7, 14, 16, 22, 36, 44, 45, 47, 52, 57, 58, 60, 85, 88, 98, 119, 127, 146, 163, 174, 175, 180, 194
Big Volodya and Little Volodya (Volodya bolshoy i Volodya malenkii) 36
Boring Story, A (Skuchnaya istoriia) 22
Death of a Civil Servant, The (Smert’ chinovnika) 119–120
Grasshopper, The (Poprigunia) 47
In Exile (V ssylke) 104
Lady with Lapdog (Dama s sobachkoi) 6, 52–53, 60–62, 194
Misery (Toska) 45
Peasants (Muzhiki) 146, 161, 163, 164, 180
class 46, 90, 95, 97, 99, 120, 123, 135, 144
Conrad, Joseph 87
cycles and sequences of short stories 6, 64–65, 66, 151, 195
dialect 9, 119, 134, 140, 143–147, 157, 178
dialogue 137–152, 185, 194–195
Dostoevsky, Fyodor 9, 30, 165, 166, 183–186
Brothers karamazov, The (Brat’ya Karamazovy) 166, 184
Double, The (Dvoinik) 184, 185
Idiot, The (Idiot) 166, 184, 185
Meek One, The (Krotkaya) 185
Eikhenbaum, Boris 28, 59, 172–173
emotion 9, 20, 24, 33, 38, 41, 45, 54, 66, 79, 103, 104, 125, 165–182, 191
ending with a twist 43–54, 189
exoticism 7, 58, 83–100, 102–103, 107–108, 112, 119, 122, 134–135, 148, 150, 172, 179, 180, 183, 188, 192, 195
fantastic, the 24–26, 49–50, 51, 66, 87–88, 118, 125, 136, 158–159, 160, 188, 190–191
Faulkner, William 66
Flaubert, Gustave 56, 62, 111–112, 142, 143
Saint Julien the Hospitalier (Saint Julien l’Hospitalier) 56
foreign terms in short stories 89, 138, 147–151
Genette, Gérard 77, 78–79, 139, 154–155, 156
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 14, 16, 19
Gogol, Nikolai 74, 119, 172–173, 174
The Overcoat (Shinel’) 172–173
Hanson, Clare 4, 5, 70, 75, 117, 187
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 3, 4, 61, 75, 79, 186
Hills, Rust 26
Hoffmann, E. T. A. 74
intellectual journals 7, 8, 58, 91–92. See also newspapers and periodicals
irony 35, 36, 47, 48, 99, 117, 122, 124, 134, 139, 143, 155, 156
James, Henry 4, 6, 38, 57, 66, 71, 78, 85, 87, 88, 92, 96, 101, 103, 104, 132, 148, 161, 162, 170
Ambassadors, The 40
Aspern Papers, The 70
At Isella 105
Beast in the Jungle, The 32, 67
Figure in the Carpet, The 6, 19, 58
Fordham Castle 133
Great Good Place, The 132
International Episode,An 103, 172
London Life, A 106
Madame de Mauves 105
Miss Gunton of Poughkeepsie 170
Private Life, The 132
Théodolinde/Rose-Agathe 105, 147
Travelling Companions 104
Turn of the Screw, The 49, 98, 159
Wings of the Dove, The 71
Japanese script, European words quoted within 148–150
Joyce, James 4, 5, 49, 62, 74, 88, 93–95, 157, 192
Dubliners 66–67, 93, 95, 98–99, 118
Ulysses 157
Kataev, Vladimir 37, 128, 129, 130
Kipling, Rudyard 7, 57, 87, 92
Plain Tales From the Hills 64, 92
Leskov, Nikolai 5
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Ledi Makbet mtsesnkogo uezda) 56
Luperini, Romano 59–60, 78, 142, 143
Maupassant, Guy de 4, 6, 7, 8, 44, 58, 74, 86, 87, 88, 91, 97, 99, 101, 110, 111, 118, 120, 124, 134, 186, 191
Adventure in Paris, An (Une Aventure parisienne) 122
Apple Turnovers/The Old Man (Les Douillons/Le Vieux) 177
Ball of Fat (Boule de suif) 69–70
Christening, The (Le Baptême) 181
Confession, The (La Confession) 38
Corsican Bandit, The (Un bandit corse) 102
Enthusiast, An (Le Rosier de Mme Husson) 62
Family Affair, A (En famille) 120, 123
Life, A (Une vie) 186
Miss Harriet 124
My Uncle Jules (Mon Oncle Jules) 97, 162, 166
Necklace, The (La Parure) 46
Odd Feast, An (Le Réveillon) 143
On the River (Sur lEau) 24, 50, 66
Strange Fancy, A (La Rempailleuse) 126
True Story, A (Un drame vrai) 38
Yvette/Yveline Samoris 188
May, Charles E. 3, 5, 52, 53, 118
Bartleby, The Scrivener 156
modern short stories (short fiction) 4, 9, 44, 55, 64, 118, 127, 186, 187
monologism 9, 118, 165, 173, 183, 186, 188, 196
Mori, Ōgai 4, 6, 35, 56, 87, 110, 118
The Dancing Girl (Maihime) 35, 110
narrator, the 9, 29, 47, 62, 66, 70, 71, 98, 103, 106, 109, 121, 125–127, 130, 138, 153, 165, 169, 185
Naturalism 5, 7, 13–14, 58, 83, 85, 92, 118
Verism (Italian Naturalist Movement) 13, 16
nature (beauty of) 25, 50, 103, 104, 107, 112, 130, 169
newspapers and periodicals 7, 8, 44, 58, 75, 84, 88, 99, 101, 109, 131, 134, 136, 157, 181
Gaulois, Le 50, 86, 88, 91, 95, 97, 117, 122, 126, 136, 179
Gil Blas 86, 88, 97, 99, 120, 123, 126, 127, 136, 145, 146
New Yorker 91
Nuova rivista 92
Progrès, Le 7
Revue hebdomadaire, La 96
Vsemirnaya Illustratsiya 91, 104
Zhizn’ 92
novel, the 26, 40, 55, 60, 61, 63, 71, 76, 78, 102, 109, 140, 153, 165, 170, 183, 186, 195
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) 28–29, 47, 74
paroxysm 6, 9, 13–26, 27, 32, 38, 45, 46, 50, 53, 63, 67, 73, 121, 129, 146, 169, 173, 175, 189, 191, 192
peasants, representation of 8, 16, 58, 88, 90, 91, 100, 110, 112, 121, 132, 134, 140, 143, 161, 163, 177, 179–181
Pirandello, Luigi 4, 5, 6, 85, 88, 118, 121, 124, 141, 192, 194, 196
Sicilian Limetrees (Lumie di Sicilia) 124
War (Quando si comprende) 194
Poe, Edgar Allan 14, 44, 74, 79
point of view 50, 90, 106, 140, 154, 160, 185, 186, 187, 190
“Sirius point of view” 160, 179
political awareness 88, 92, 129, 179
polyphony 9, 118, 137, 143, 165–166, 168, 183–186, 196. See also Bakhtin, Mikhail
postcolonial theory 103, 117, 151, 163, 180. See Said, Edward W.
preconstructed material 8, 55, 56, 73
progress, nineteenth-century belief in 7, 9, 180, 181, 191, 194
provincial characters 8, 58, 61, 88–91, 97, 120, 122, 124, 126, 133, 173–174
reader, the 5, 7, 15, 21, 25, 29, 44, 46, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 60, 64, 65, 74, 76, 77, 83, 86, 87, 90, 91, 92–93, 98, 101, 103, 106, 109, 111, 153
reflector, the 9, 153, 165, 170, 176
retroreading 47
Rohrberger, Mary 3, 5, 118, 187
Said, Edward W. 103
Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail 5
satire 66, 91, 96, 118–119, 127, 129, 159, 165, 189, 194
Schnitzler, Arthur 157–158, 163
speech (direct and indirect) 9, 137–144, 178–179
Stevenson, Robert Louis 27, 83, 87
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 8, 27–28, 32, 58, 70
Swift, Jonathan 160
Gullivers Travels 159
symmetry 5, 28, 31, 35, 167, 185
Tolstoy, Leo 15, 25, 160, 163, 175
Anna Karenina 67
tolstye zhurnaly (Russian ‘thick journals’) 7, 91. See also newspapers and periodicals
Verga, Giovanni 5, 7, 14, 23, 58, 74, 86, 88, 89, 91, 99, 110, 138, 140–143, 162, 181, 192. See also Verism
Gramignas Mistress (L’Amante di Gramigna) 15–20, 29, 31, 53, 58, 139, 141
Life in the Fields (Vita dei campi) 86, 141
Pentolaccia 90
The House by the Medlar Tree (I Malavoglia) 41, 140, 141, 142–143, 195
Verism. See Naturalism
Voloshinov, Valentin 138–140, 143
Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) 160
women, representation of 99, 104, 107, 118, 122, 124, 126, 186