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Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, v. LIV, April, 1977. Copyright ©1977 Liverpool University Press. Reproduced by permission.—College Literature, v. 23, October, 1996. Copyright ©1996 by West Chester University. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Comparative Literature Studies, v. 21, Winter, 1984. Copyright ©1984 by The Pennsylvania State University. Reproduced by permission of The Pennsylvania State University Press.— Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, v. XXXI, Fall, 1989. Copyright 1989 by 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 — Delta, May, 1982 for "A Different Responsibili¬ty: Form and Technique in G. Paley's 'A Conversation with My Father''' by Nicholas Peter Humy. Reproduced by permission of the author.—English Language Notes, v. XXX, December, 1992. ©copyrighted 1992, Regents of the University of Colorado. Reproduced by permission.—The Explicator, v. XXIV, September, 1965; v. 45, Winter, 1987; v. 45, Winter, 1987; v. 51, Spring, 1993. Copyright 1965,1987,1989,1993 by Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. All reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.— Indian Journal of American Studies, v. 4, June & December, 1974. Copyright ©1974 by American Studies Research Centre. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Black Studies, v. 8, March, 1978. Copyright ©1978 by Sage Publications, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Sage Publications, Inc.—The Journal of Narrative Technique, v. 15, Winter, 1985 for "Covert Plot in Isak Dinesen's 'Sorrow-Acre'" by David H. Richter. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.— Journal of the Short Story in English, Autumn, 1989. ©Universite d'Angers, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Kentucky Romance Quarterly, v. 30, 1983. Copyright ©1983 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permis¬sion of the Helen D wight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—literature and Psychology, v. XXXX, 1994. ©Morton Kaplan 1994. Reproduced by permission.— MELUS, v. 19, Spring, 1994; v. 21, Summer 1996. Copyright, MELUS, The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1994, 1996. Both reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 35, Winter, 1989 The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the Johns Hopkins University Press.—Negro American Literature Forum, v. 4, July, 1970 for ''The Identity of 'The Man Who Lived Underground'" by Shirley Meyer. Copyright ©1970 by the author. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Partisan Review, v. XLVHL 1981 for "Mrs. Hegel-Shtein's Tears" by Marianne DeKoven. Copyright ©1981 by Partisan Review. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Shenandoah, v. XXXII, 1981 for an interview with Grace Paley by Joan Lidoff. Copyright 1981 by Washington and Lee University. Reproduced from Shenandoah with the permission of the Editor, The Literary Estate of Joan Lidoff, and Grace Paley.— The Southern Literary Journal, v. 18, Spring, 1986. Copyright 1986 by the Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Literary Review, v. 21, Spring, 1989. Copyright 1989 by the Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reproduced by permission.— Studies in Short Fiction, v. 3, Summer, 1966; v. 17, Fall, 1980; v. 20, Spring-Summer, 1983; v. 25, Summer, 1988; v. 29, Winter, 1992; v. 30, Spring, 1993. Copyright 1966, 1980, 1983, 1988, 1992, 1993 by Newberry College. All reproduced by permission.—Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v 25, 1998 for "I Just Don't Understand It': Teaching Margaret Atwood's 'Rape Fantasies'" by Lisa Tyler. Copyright ©1998 by the National Council of Teachers of English. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Wormen's Studies, v. 12,1986. Copyright ©1986 Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Inc. Reproduced by permission.

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Balogun, F. Odun. From Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story: An Introduction to a Literature in Search of Critics. Greenwood Press, 1991. Copyright ©1991 by F. Odun Balogun. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—Berger, Alan R. From Crisis and Covenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction. State University of New York Press, 1985. ©1985 State University of New York Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission State University of New York Press.— Bergonzi, Bernard. From The Early H. G. Wells: A Study of the Scientific Romances. Manchester University Press, 1961. ©1961 Bernard Bergonzi. Reproduced by permission of The Peters Fraser & Dunlop Group Limited on behalf of Bernard Bergonzi —Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren. From Understanding Fiction. Edited by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren. Second edition. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1959. Copyright 1959, renewed 1987, by Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. All rights reserved. Adapted by permission of Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ.—Buckley, Jerome Hamilton. From The Triumph of Time: A Study of Victorian Concepts of Time, History, Progress, and Decadence. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1966. Copyright ©1966 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reproduced by permission of the publishers.—Fetterley, Judith. From Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Context. Edited by Elizabeth A. Flynn and Patrocinio P. Schweickart. The John Hopkins University Press, 1986. ©1986 The John Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—Greiner, Donald J. From The Other John Updike: Poems, Short Stories, Prose, Play. Ohio University Press, 1981. Copyright ©1981 by Ohio University Press. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Hammond, J. R. Fromjff. G. Wells and the Short Story. St. Martin's Press, 1992. Copyright ©J. R. Hammond 1992. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Macrmllan Press Ltd. In North America with permission of St. Martin's Press, Incorporated.—Haynes, Roslynn D. From H. G. Wells: Discoverer of the Future: The Influence of Science on His Thought. New York University Press, 1980. ©R. D. Haynes 1980. Reproduced by permission.—Innes, C. L. From Chinua Achebe. Cambridge University Press, 1990. ©Cambridge University Press 1990. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Jacobsen, Sally A. From Approaches to Teaching Atwood'sThe Handmaid's Tale and Other Works. The Modern Language Association of America, 1996. ©1996 by The Modern Language Association of America. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Johannesson, Eric O. From The World of lsak Dinesen. University of Washington Press, ©copyright 1961 by the University of Washington Press. Renewed 1989 by Eric O. Johannesson. Reroduced by permission.—Molesworth, Charles. From Donald Barthelme's Fiction: The Ironist Saved from Drowning. University of Missouri Press, 1982. Copyright ©1982 by The Curators of the University of Missouri. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the University of Missouri Press.—Oriard, Michael. From Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Culture. Cambridge University Press, 1991 ©Cambridge University Press 1991. Reproduced with permission of the publisher and the author.— Shih, Shu mei. From "Exile and Intertextuality in Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men'' in Studies in Comparative Literature: The Literature of Emigration and Exile. Edited by James Whitlark and Wendell Aycock. Texas Tech University Press, 1992. Copyright ©1992 Texas Tech University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Thompson, Lee Briscoe. From "Minuets and Madness: Margaret Atwood's Dancing Girls" for The Art of Margaret Atwood: Essays in Criticism. Edited by Arnold E. Davidson and Cathy N. Davidson. Anansi, 1981. Copyright ©1981, House of Anansi Press Limited. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Timmerman, John H. From The Dramatic Landscape of Steinbeck's Short Stories. University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. Copyright ©1990 by the University of Oklahoma Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission — Trachtenberg, Stanley. From Understanding Donald Barthelme. University of South Carolina Press, 1990. Copyright ©University of South Carolina 1990. Reproduced by permission.

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