Thesis (PH. D.)--University of Chicago, 1916. / Published also without thesis note. Bibliography: p. 111-120. Digital version of print reproduction also available on the Internet. Also issued online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1916. / Published also without thesis note. Bibliography: p. 111-120.

Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät--Bonn--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 1989.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Université de Paris III, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 492-510) and indexes.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1916. / Published also without thesis note. Bibliography: p. 111-120.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1916. / Published also without thesis note. Text made available in compliance with Section 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976. Includes bibliographical references. Online version of print reproduction.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1916. / Published also without thesis note. Includes bibliographical references. Issued also in an online version.

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The result of formal and thematic research undertaken by the author in the1880s, Maupassant's Le Horla (1887), owing to its originality, became a fantastic literature classic. Constituted from the recycling of several passages of independent texts among which La Lettre d'un fou (1885) and Le Horla published in 1886, the tale, built by recoveries and variations, offers a completely relevant exploratory way for genetic research. By studying the differences between the Horla manuscript (1887) and short stories which present themselves as genesis elements of the text, we will perform the genetic rise of the famous text in order to refine our knowledge of Maupassant's thematic and stylistic evolution as well as clarifying the poetics of his fantastic.

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