The thesis begins with an introductory chapter that helps to define and locate the point of view from which the novella is told. The introduction also cites modern authors who influenced the tone, structure, and content of the novella. Thirteen chapters and an epilogue follow the introduction. Every third or fourth chapter is written as a vignette. The vignettes function as interchapters with the intention of giving contrast and balance to the main plot chapters.

The thesis consists of a novella and five short stories, all narrated from the perspective of a mute diasporic narrator who chronicles several returns to a nameless Caribbean village. Against a rich intertextual backdrop, these texts predominantly explore issues of mutism, the relationship between language and a sense of place, intricacies of translation, and the orality-literacy spectrum. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (MFA)--Florida Atlantic University, 2021. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

This thesis includes an original science-fiction novella entitled "The Hunted" and accompanying commentary which illustrates how anthropological fiction can use characterization, setting, and conflict to build effective inter-subjective models.

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A work of creative fiction in novella form, this dissertation follows the first-person travails of Mitch Zeller, a 26-year-old gay man who is faced with an unexpected choice. The dissertation opens with a preface which examines the form of the novella and the content of this particular work.

O presente trabalho, cujo enfoque central é a figura feminina nas novelas Die Marquise von O (1808) e Die heilige Cäcilie und die Gewahlt der Musik (1810) do escritor alemão Heinrich von Kleist, procura identificar de que maneira as personagens femininas configuram-se como elementos subversivos dentro das narrativas, principalmente no que se refere ao aspecto estrutural. Nossa principal hipótese de interpretação é a de que a personagem feminina, em ambas as novelas, configura um elemento de subversão em diferentes camadas da narrativa: elas configuram desde a subversão ao papel atribuído a mulher na época até a própria estrutura narrativa, uma vez que levam as novelas a suas respectivas peripécias. / This dissertation aims to analyse the feminine figures in the novellas Die Marquise von O (1808) and Heilige Cäcilie und die Gewalt der Musik (1810) from German author Heinrich von Kleist and seeks to identify in which ways the feminine characters represent subversive elements in the narratives, mainly to what concerns the structural aspect. Our main hypothesis of interpretation is that the feminine character, in both novellas, configures subversion in different narrative layers: they configure not only subversion to the role assigned to women at the time but also to the narrative structure itself, as they lead the novellas to their respective turning points.

Ce travail vise à tracer l’évolution de la question des « erreurs » de Boccace, du XVIe siècle jusqu’à nos jours, selon différentes approches : historique, ecdotique, linguistique et stylistique. Le travail se compose d’un premier chapitre divisé en trois sous-parties. Les deux premières sont consacrées à la perception du modèle de Boccace pendant les querelles linguistiques du XVIe siècle. La troisième vise à réfléchir sur la façon dont les lettrés de l’époque ont associé la définition d’ « erreurs » à la syntaxe du Décaméron.Nous nous attarderons sur les commentaires de Ruscelli, Borghini, Salviati et Beni. Le deuxième chapitre porte sur la tradition manuscrite du Décaméron et sur les propositions ecdotiques les plus récentes émises par les philologues modernes. Le troisième chapitre est entièrement consacré à la description des phénomènes de répétition de « che », du « che » suivi d’un infinitif, de la parahypotaxe et de la coordination entre subordonnées aux modes personnels et impersonnels, selon une approche comparative en italien ancien et ancien français. Le dernier chapitre se propose de réfléchir sur la présence (et l’absence) de ces constructions syntaxiques dans le Décaméron, afin de comprendre les choix de Boccace écrivain, selon les contextes d’élocution et les niveaux diégétiques des nouvelles. / The present work aims to describe the evolution of Boccaccio’s “mistakes” from 16th century on through the use of different approaches (namely historical, ecdotic, linguistic, and stylistic). The dissertation starts with a chapter divided in three sections: the first two sections deal with the perception of Boccaccio’s model in the linguistic controversy characterizing the 16th century. The third section analyses how the syntax of the Decameron came to be considered incorrect by scholars of the time.I will concentrate on the commentaries by Ruscelli, Borghini, Salviati and Beni. The second chapter is about the manuscript tradition of the Decameron and on the most recent ecdotic theories formulated by modern philologists on the issue. In the third chapter I focus on such linguistic phenomena as the repetition of “che”, para-hypotaxis, “che” followed by the infinitive, and the coordination between dependent clauses with both finite and nonfinite verbs. In this part of my dissertation, I make use of a comparative method, bringing together Old Italian and Old French. In the last chapter I intend to reflect on the presence (and absence) of these linguistic phenomena in the Decameron, in order to understand Boccaccio’s writing choices, and taking into account other elements such as elocution and the different diegetic levels acting in the novellas.

This thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and analytical. The first part aims to provide basic findings about adventure fiction, i.e. general characteristic, brief historical account and individual genres. Then an overview of Zeyer's shorter adventure proses, which will be analysed further on, follows. The next chapter examines to what extent and in what way adventurousness was becoming a part of metalanguage about Zeyer's work. The last theoretical segment provides an overview of period reception of Zeyer's shorter adventure proses discussed in the second chapter. The analytical part tries to answer the question how is adventurousness in Zeyer's work formed. The last chapter consists of a treatise about adventurousness in Svatý Xaverius by Jakub Arbes, a piece of literature of analogical nature.

O presente trabalho, cujo enfoque central é a figura feminina nas novelas Die Marquise von O (1808) e Die heilige Cäcilie und die Gewahlt der Musik (1810) do escritor alemão Heinrich von Kleist, procura identificar de que maneira as personagens femininas configuram-se como elementos subversivos dentro das narrativas, principalmente no que se refere ao aspecto estrutural. Nossa principal hipótese de interpretação é a de que a personagem feminina, em ambas as novelas, configura um elemento de subversão em diferentes camadas da narrativa: elas configuram desde a subversão ao papel atribuído a mulher na época até a própria estrutura narrativa, uma vez que levam as novelas a suas respectivas peripécias. / This dissertation aims to analyse the feminine figures in the novellas Die Marquise von O (1808) and Heilige Cäcilie und die Gewalt der Musik (1810) from German author Heinrich von Kleist and seeks to identify in which ways the feminine characters represent subversive elements in the narratives, mainly to what concerns the structural aspect. Our main hypothesis of interpretation is that the feminine character, in both novellas, configures subversion in different narrative layers: they configure not only subversion to the role assigned to women at the time but also to the narrative structure itself, as they lead the novellas to their respective turning points.

Keywords: regional literature, legends, autobiographical prose literature, fiction, short stories, novellas, literary creation, aesthetics of nature Abstract: The subject of this thesis is a life and writing of the Gustav Leutelt, one of the lesser known German writing authors of Bohemia from the turn of the 20th century. Special attention is paid on describing the Jizera Mountains that play a pivotal role in his creation. The first chapter formulates the subject matter and establishes the goals of the thesis. The second chapter takes a brief look at the Leutelt's life and his writing. The third chapter covers introduction of specific works from three main areas of his art, which were fictional prose, legends and natural works. The final chapter summarizes the results and insights of the thesis.