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COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN SSFS, VOLUME 2, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Literature, v. XXXV, January v 1964. Copyright © 1964 Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced with permission.—The Baker Street Journal, n. s. v. 29, September, 1969 for "Sherlock Holmes: Victorian Archetype" by Gordon L. Iseminger. © copyright 1969 by The Baker Street Irregulars. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The CEA Critic, v. XXIX, March, 1967. Copyright © 1967 by the College English Association, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Classical and Modern Literature, v. 10, Summer, 1990. © 1990 CML, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—College English, v. 27, December, 1965 for Faulkner's Poetic Prose: Style and Meaning in "The Bear' " by Richard Lehan. Copyright © 1965 by the National Council of Teachers of English. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—College Literature, v. VII, Spring, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by West Chester University. Reproduced by permission.—Commonweal, v. CXII, September 20,1985. Copyright © 1985 Commonweal Foundation. Reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.—Critical Inquiry, v. 1, September, 1974 for "Artist's on Criticism of Their Art: 'Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead?"'by Eudora Welty. Copyright © 1974 by The University of Chicago. Copyright © 1974 Eudora Welty. Reproduced by permission of Russell & Volkening as agents for the author. British Commonwealth text rights by Little Brown & Company (UK) Ltd.—English Journal, v. 62, April, 1973 for '"A Worn Path': Immortality of Stereotype" by Dan Donlan. Copyright © 1973 by the National Council of Teachers of English. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—English Language Notes, v. XXVI, December, 1991. Copyright © 1991, Regents of the University of Colorado. Reproduced by permission.— The Expttcator, v. 43, Fall, 1984 for "Bierce's 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'" by George Cheatham and Judy Cheatham. Copyright 1984 by Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced by permission of the authors./ v. 45, Fall, 1986; v. 51, Winter, 1993. Copyright 1986, 1993 by the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Both reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—The Markham Review, n.ll, Winter, 1982. © Wagner College 1982. Reproduced by permission.—The Missouri Review, v. 16,1993. Copyright© 1991 by The Curators of the University of Missouri. Reprinted by permission of the publisher and the American Audio Prose Library, Inc. Copyright © 1992 by The American Audio Prose Library, Inc. This is a print version of an interview which is available on audio cassette. For a free catalog write AAPL, P.O. Box 842, Columbia, MO 65205 or call (800) 447-2275.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 36, Spring, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Re produced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—Negro American Literature Forum, v. 8, Fall, 1974 for "James Baldwin's Sonny Blues: A Message in Music" by Suzy Berstein Goldman. Copyright © Indiana State University 1974. Reproduced with the permission of Black American Literature Forum and the author.—The New York Times Book Review, April 28, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by The New York Times Com pany. Reproduced by permission.—The Sewanee Review, v. LXXI, 1963. © 1963, renewed 1991 by The University of the South. Reproduced with the permission of the editor of The Sewanee Review and the author.—Southern Humanities Review, v. VTI, Summer, 1973. Copyright 1973 by Auburn Univer sity. Reproduced by permission.—The Southern Review, Louisiana State University, v. 21, July, 1985 for ' 'Patches: Quilts and Community in Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' " by Houston A. Baker, Jr. and Charlotte Pierce-Baker. Copyright, 1985, by the author. Reproduced by permission of the au thors.—Studies in American Fiction, v. 18, Spring, 1990. Copyright © 1990 Northeastern University. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Short Fic tion, v. V, Fall, 1967; v. VI, Fall, 1969; v. 20, Spring-Summer, 1983; v. 23, Summer, 1986; v. 24, Fall, 1987; v. 27, Fall, 1990; v. 30, Summer, 1993. Copyright 1967, 1969, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1993 by Newberry College. All reproduced by permission. / v. U, Fall, 1964. Copyright 1964, renewed 1992 by Newberry College. Reproduced by permission.—The University of Mississippi Studies in English, n.s. v. DC, 1991. Copyright © 1991 The University of Mississippi. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN SSFS, VOLUME 2, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Blansfield, Karen Charmaine. From Cheap Rooms and Restless Hearts: A Study of Formula in the Urban Tales of William Sydney Porter. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Bowling Green State University Popular Press. Reproduced by permission.-— Carroll, David.—Ewell, Barbara C. From Kate Chopin. Ungar, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by The Ungar Publishing Company. Reproduced by permission.—Garson, Helen S. From Truman Capote. Ungar, 1980. Copyright© 1980 by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission.— Gordimer, Nadine. From Selected Stories. J. Cape, 1975; The Viking Press, 1976. Copyright 1952, © 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1975 by Nadine Gordimer. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission by Nadine Gordimer. In North America and the Philippines by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. In the British Commonwealth by Random House UK Limited.—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 Administration (Basingstoke) Ltd. In North America with the permission of St. Martin's Press, Incorporated.—Kazin, Alfred. From Contemporaries. Little, Brown and Company, 1962. Copyright © 1962 by Alfred Kazin. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Nance, William L. From The Worlds of Truman Capote. Stein and Day, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by William L. Nance. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of Stein and Day Publishers.—Papke, Mary E. From Verging on the Abyss: The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton, Contribution to Women's Studies, No. 119. Greenwood Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Mary E. Papke. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.— Perluck, Herbert A, From " 'The Bear': An Unro-mantic Reading," in Religious Perspectives in Faulkner's Fiction: Yoknapatawpha and Beyond. Edited by J. Robert Barth, S. J. University of Notre Dame Press, 1972. Copyright © 1972 by University of Notre Dame Press; Notre Dame, IN 46556. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Siegel, Paul N. From "Gimpel and the Archetype of the Wise Fool," in The Achievement of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Edited by Marcia Allentuck. Southern Illinois University Press, 1969. Copyright © 1969, Southern Illinois University Press. All rights reserved, Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN SSFS, VOLUME 2, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

An illustration by Beth Peck in A Christmas Memory. By Truman Capote. Knopf, 1986. Illustrations copyright © 1989 by Beth Peck. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. From the cover of A Good Man Is Hard to Find. By Flannery O'Connor. New American Library, 1956. Copyright © 1956 by Flannery O'Connor. Used by permission of Dutton Signet, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. Engraving by Fritz Eichenberg. From Tales of Edgar Allan foe. By Edgar Allan Poe. Random House, 1944. Copyright, 1944, by Random House, Inc. Reproduced by permission. Al Jolson's memorial shrine, photograph. UPI/Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, 1961, movie still. The Kobal Collection Reproduced by permission. Apollo Theater, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. Baldwin, James, photograph. The Granger Collection, New York. Reproduced by permission. Bierce, Ambrose, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. Brooks, Clive, in his role as Sherlock Holmes, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. Capote, Truman, photograph by Carl Van Vechten. The Library of Congress. Cather, Willa, photograph by Carl Van Vechten. The Library of Congress. Cheever, John, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission. Chopin, Kate, photograph. Missouri Historical Society. Reproduced by permission. New Orleans courtyard, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. O.Henry's Full House, movie still. 20th Century Fox. Courtesy of the Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission. Doyle, Arthur Conan, photograph. UPI/Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. The Rocking-Horse Winner, movie still. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.

Faulkner, William, photograph by Carl Van Vechten. The Library of Congress. Gordimer, Nadine, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission. Hempel, Amy, photograph. © Thomas Victor 1986. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the estate of Thomas Victor. Henry, O., photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission. Jacobs, W. W., painting. The Granger Collection, New York. Reproduced by permission. The Swimmer, movie still. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. Lawrence, D. H., photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission. LeGuin, Ursula K, photograph. UPI/Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. Mansfield, Katherine, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. Mano Tribe Mask, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. The Monkey's Paw, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. The Nightmare, painting. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. O'Connor, Flannery, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. Owens, Catherine Dale, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. Porter, Katherine Anne, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission. The House of Usher, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. Singer, Isaac Bashevis, photograph, Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. Waldorf-Astoria, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission. Walker, Alice, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission. Welty, Eudora, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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