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Short Stories For Students

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The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of SSFS. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN SSFS, VOLUME 7, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Imago, v. 27, Summer, 1970. Copyright 1970 by The Association for Applied Psychoanalysis, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—American Literature, v. XXXIV, May, 1962. Copyright © 1962, renewed 1990 Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced with permission.—Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, v. 28, July, 1997 for ‘‘Spaces of Translation: Bharati Mukherjee’s ’The Management of Grief’’’ by Deborah Bowen. Copyright © 1997 The Board of Governors, The University of Calgary. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—The CEA Critic, v. 56, Winter, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by the College English Association, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—English Language Notes, v. XXVIII, September 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Interpretations: A Journal of Idea, Analysis, and Criticism, v. 15, Fall, 1983. Reproduced by permission.— Journal of Modern Literature, v. 13, March, 1986. © Temple University, 1986. Reproduced by permission.—The Langston Hughes Review, v. XII, 1993. Copyright, 1993 by The Langston Hughes Society. Reproduced by permission.—The Markham Review, v. 8, Spring, 1979. © Wagner College 1979. Reproduced by permission.—Mark Twain Journal, v. XVI, Summer, 1972. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 34, Spring, 1988. Copyright © 1988 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—Nineteenth- Century Fiction, v. 24, September, 1969 for ‘‘The Minister’s Black Veil’’ by W. B. Carnochan. Copyright © 1969 by The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Papers on Language & Literature, v. 23, Winter, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by The Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Reproduced by permission.— Studies in American Fiction, v. l6, Autumn, 1988. Copyright © 1988 Northeastern University. ReproA duced by permission.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. III, Spring, 1966; v. IV, October 1966 - July 1967; v. VI, Fall, 1969; v. VIII, Fall, 1971; v. XI, Spring, 1974; v. XII, Spring, 1975; v. 24, Spring, 1987; v. 29, Summer, 1992. Copyright 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1987, 1992 by Newberry College. All reproduced by permission.—World Literature Today, v. 68, Summer, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reproduced by permission.

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Arnold, Marilyn. From Willa Cather’s Short Fiction. Ohio University Press, 1984. © Copyright 1984 by Marilyn Arnold. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Cohen, Philip K. From The Moral Vision of Oscar Wilde. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1978. © 1978 by Philip Kent Cohen. Reproduced by permission.— Driessen, F. C. From ‘‘Gogol as a Short- Story Writer: A Study of His Technique of Composition’’ in Slavistic Printings and Reprintings. Edited by C. H. Van Schooneveld, translated by Ian F. Finlany. Mouton & Co., Publishers. Reproduced by permission of Mouton de Gruyter, a Division of Walter de Gruyter & Co.—Gaar, Alice Carol. From ‘‘The Human as Machine Analog: The Big Daddy of Interchangeable Parts in the Fiction of Robert A. Heinlein’’ in Robert A. Heinlein. Edited by Joseph D. Olander and Martin Harry Greenberg. Taplinger Publishing Company, 1978. Copyright © 1978 by Joseph D. Olander and Martin Harry Greenberg. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Hargrove, Nancy D. From Women Writers of the Contemporary South. Edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw. University Press of Mississippi, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by The Southern Quarterly. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Hedrick, Joan D. From Solitary Comrade: Jack London and His Work. University of North Carolina Press, 1982. © 1982 The University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Used by permission of the publisher.—McClintock, James I. From White Logic: Jack London’s Short Stories. Wolf House Books, 1975. Copyright © 1975 by James I. McClintock. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Panshin, Alexei. From Heinlein in Dimension: A Critical Analysis. Advent: Publishers, 1968. Copyright © 1968, by Alexei Panshin. All rights reserved. Excerpted from pages 33-36 by permission of the author.—Peace, R. A. From‘‘Gogol: ‘The Greatcoat’’’ in The Voice of a Giant: Essays on Seven Russian Prose Classics. Edited by Roger Cockerell and David Richards. University of Exeter, 1985. © 1985 Department of Russian University of Exeter. Reproduced by permission.— Proffer, Carl R. From ‘‘Practical Criticism for Students’’ in From Karamzin to Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories. Edited by Elizabeth Trahan. Indiana University Press, 1969. Copyright © 1982 by Ardis. Reproduced by permission of the Literary Estate of Carl R. Proffer.— Ragen, Brian Abel. From A Wreck on the Road to Damascus: Innocence, Guilt, & Conversion in Flannery O’Connor. Loyola University Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Loyola University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Skaggs, Merrill M. From Willa Cather: Family, Community, and History (The BYU Symposium). Edited by John J. Murphy with Linda Hunter Adams and Paul Rawlins. Brigham Young University Humanities Publications Center, 1990. Copyright © 1990, Brigham Young University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.

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A canary yellow Daffodil with an orange center, photograph by Kelly A. Quin. Copyright © Kelly A. Quin. Reproduced by permission of the photographer.—An aerial view of the Ancient Amphitheatre Flavis or Colosseum, Rome, Italy, March, 1980, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Bambara, Toni Cade, photograph by Sandra L. Swans, March 30, 1977. Reproduced by permission.—Barn and windmill, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Bates, H. E., photograph. Mark Gerson Photography. Reproduced by permission.—Berriault, Gina (May 17, 1997), photograph by Ken Cedeno. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—‘‘ Canterville Ghost,’’ movie still. The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Cather, Willa, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Church in winter, lithograph by F. Gleason. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Gogol, Nikoai, illustration. Corbis- Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Hawthorne, Nathaniel, photograph. The Library of Congress— Heinlein, Robert, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Hughes, Langston, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Kafka, Franz, photograph. AP/ Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.— King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Chicago, 1923, photograph. Archive Photos/Frank Driggs Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Kincaid, Jamaica, photograph by Jerry Bauer. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—London, Jack, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Mukherjee, Bharati, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—O’Connor, Flannery, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Old church, c. 1900, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.— Poe, Virginia, wife of Edgar Allen Poe, only known portrait, Enoch Pratt Free Library, photograph. AP/ Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.— Robot submersible SCARAB retrieved Air India flight 182’s cockpit voice recorder from 6,700 feet of water under the Atlantic, Cork, Ireland, July 10, 1985, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—The Apollo Theater on 125th Street in the Harlem section of New York City, March, 1971, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—‘‘The Overcoat,’’ movie still. The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.— Twain, Mark, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Two customers entering ‘‘Tops’’ Diner, 1952, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Two young boys sitting on a wooden fence, boy on the right is holding a rifle while the other boy points, photograph. Lambert/Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—View of aging wine in underground cellar, Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—View of Antigua, photograph by Max Hunn. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.— Wharton, Edith, 1905, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Wilde, Oscar, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Yukon Trail, photograph. UPI/Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.

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