The Man to Send Rainclouds

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Ball State University Forum, v. XXIII, Winter, 1982. © 1982 Ball State University. Reproduced by permission.—English Language Notes, v. 20, May-June, 1983. © copyrighted 1983, Regents of the University of Colorado. Reproduced by permission.—Essays in Literature, v. XV, Fall, 1988. Copyright 1988 by Western Illinois University. Reproduced by permission.—The George Eliot Fellowship Review, 1991. Reproduced by permission.— George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies, v. 18-19, September, 1991; v. 24-25, 1993. Both reproduced by permission.—Journal of the Southwest, v. 30, Autumn, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by the Arizona Board of Regents. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Linguistics in Literature, v. 2, 1977. Reproduced by permission.— MELUS: Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, v. 5, Winter, 1978. Copyright, MELUS, The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1978. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 22, Summer, 1976. Copyright © 1976 by Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN 47907. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University.—The New York Times Book Review, March 1, 1959. Copyright © 1959 by The New York Times Company. Reproduced by permission.—South Atlantic Bulletin, v. 38, 1973. Copyright © 1973 by South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Reproduced by permission.—The Southern Literary Journal, v. XXI, Spring, 1989; v. XXII, Fall 1989. Copyright 1989 by the Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both reproduced by permission.—Studies in American Fiction, v. 15, 1987. Copyright © 1987 Northeastern University. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. VI, Winter, 1969; v. VII, Spring, 1970; v. 10, Winter, 1973; v. 18, Summer, 1981; v. 19, Winter, 1982; v. 20, SpringSummer, 1983; v. 20, Fall, 1983; v. 22, Summer, 1985; v. 25, 1988; v. 29, Spring, 1992; v. 30, 1993. Copyright 1969, 1970, 1973,1981,1982,1983,1985,1988,1992,1993 by Newberry College. All reproduced by permission.— Studies in the Humanities, v. 3, 1972. Reproduced by permission.—The University of Mississippi Studies in English, v. 1, 1980. Copyright © 1980 The University of Mississippi. Reproduced by permission.

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Daly, Brenda O. From '‘‘How Do We [Not] Become These People Who Victimize Us?': Anxious Authorship in the Early Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates'' in Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women. Edited by Carol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney. State University of New York Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by the State University of New York. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the State University of New York Press.—George, Albert J. From Short Fiction in France 1800-1850. Syracuse University Press, 1964. Copyright© 1964 by Syracuse University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gilbert, Elliot L. From The Good Kipling: Studies in the Short Story. Ohio University Press, 1970. Copyright© 1970 by Elliot L. Gilbert. Reproduced by permission of the Literary Estate of Elliot L. Gilbert.—Hamblen, Abigail Ann. From The New England Art of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. The Green Knight Press, 1966. © 1966. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Hanson, Clare, and Andrew Gurr. From Katherine Mansfield. St. Martin's Press, 1981. Copyright © Clare Hanson and Andrew Gurr 1981. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Macmillan Press Ltd. In North America with permission of St. Martin's Press, Incorporated.—Lodge, David. From ‘‘'Mrs. Bathurst': Indeterminacy in Motion’’ in Kipling Considered. Edited by Phillip Mallett. Macmillan Press, Ltd., 1989. © Phillip Mallett 1989. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Macmillan Press Ltd.—Martin, Jay. From Harvests of Change: American Literature 1865-1914. Prentice-Hall, 1967. Copyright © 1967 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Morris, Gregory L. From A World of Order and Light: The Fiction of John Gardner. University of Georgia Press, 1984. Copyright 1984 by University of Georgia Press, Athens. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Rait, A. W. From Prosper Merimee. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970. © 1970 A. W. Rait. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Richman, Sidney. From Bernard Malamud and the Critics. Edited by Leslie A. Field and Joyce W. Field. New York University Press, 1979. Copyright © 1979 by New York University. Reproduced by permission.— Ryan, Maureen. From ‘‘Stopping Places: Bobbie Ann Mason's Short Stories’’ in 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.— Seyersted, Per. From Leslie Marmon Silko. Boise State University, 1980. Copyright 1980 by the Boise State University Western Writers Series. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Ward, Bruce K. From Dostoyevsky's Critique of the West: The Quest for the Early Paradise. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Winther, Per. From The Art of John Gardner: Introduction and Exploration. State University of New York Press, 1992. (c) 1992 State University of New York. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the State University of New York Press.

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A farm plow, April 1981, photograph. CORBIS/ Gunter Marx. Reproduced by permission. Aerial view of a forest in South Africa, photograph by Marco Polo. Phototake. Reproduced by permission.—Aiken, Conrad, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Alden, Priscilla, in the garden, sewing, illustration. Rare Books.—Blood transfusion, 1882, drawing by Dr. Roussel. The Library of Congress.— Blue spruce tree, covered with snow, photograph by James Lee Sikkema. Reproduced by permission.— Bridges over water in Prague, Czech Republic, photograph by Ryan Wrocklage. Mira Bossowska. Reproduced by permissions.—Dostoevski, Fyodor Mikhailovich, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Eliot, George (veil on back of hair), drawing. The Library of Congress.—English ambulance driver (standing next to truck), c. 1918, Italy, photograph. UPI/Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Engraving by Fritz Eichenberg. From Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, by Edgar Allan Poe. Random House, 1944. Copyright, 1944, by Random House, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Formal garden design, photograph by Frederik Lewis. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.— Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Freud, Sigmund (sitting, holding cigar), photograph. The Library of Congress.— From a jacket of Hoboes: Wandering in America, 1870-1940, by Richard Wormser. Walker and Company, 1994. Jacket photograph courtesy of The Library of Congress. Reproduced by permission.—Gardner, John (smoking pipe), photograph by Lutfi Ozkok. Reproduced by permission.—Hemingway, Ernest, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—High rise buildings downtown (and water tower), Detroit, Michigan, photograph by Robert J. Huffman. Field Mark Publications. Reproduced by permission.—Illustration from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. By Washington Irving. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Irving, Washington (dark coat and tie, cleft chin), painting. The Library of Congress.— Malamud, Bernard, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Man and woman of Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, photograph by Ben Wittick. National Archives and Records Administration.—Mansfield, Katherine, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Map of Italy, line drawing by Bill Bourne. Bourne Graphics. The Gale Group.— Mason, Bobbie Ann, photograph by Jerry Bauer. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Merimee, Prosper, portrait. The Library of Congress.—Oates, Joyce Carol (seated at table, leafing through book), 1991, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Porter, Katherine Ann (facing front, arms up in front, wearing a fuzzy dark V-necked top), 1940, photograph by George Platt Lynes. NYWTS/The Library of Congress.— Silko, Leslie Marmon (wearing black shirt, parrot pin), photograph by Robyn McDaniels. © Robyn McDaniels. Reproduced by permission.—Villa, Francisco "Pancho," Zapata, Emiliano (sitting together, surrounded by large group), Mexico City, Mexico, ca. 1916, photograph by Agustin Cassola. Archive Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Warren, Robert Penn, photograph. The Library of Congress.

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