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Volume 77

Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers

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Preface

S
hort Story Criticism (SSC) presents significant criticism of the world’s greatest short-story writers and provides supplementary biographical and bibliographical materials to guide the interested reader to a greater understanding of the authors of short fiction. This series was developed in response to suggestions from librarians serving high school, college, and public library patrons, who had noted a considerable number of requests for critical material on short-story writers. Although major short-story writers are covered in such Thomson Gale series as Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC), Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC), and Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (LC), librarians perceived the need for a series devoted solely to writers of the short-story genre.

Scope of the Series

SSC is designed to serve as an introduction to major short-story writers of all eras and nationalities. Since these authors have inspired a great deal of relevant critical material, SSC is necessarily selective, and the editors have chosen the most important published criticism to aid readers and students in their research.

Approximately eight to ten authors are included in each volume, and each entry presents a historical survey of the critical response to that author’s work. The length of an entry is intended to reflect the amount of critical attention the author has received from critics writing in English and from foreign critics in translation. Every attempt has been made to identify and include the most significant essays on each author’s work. In order to provide these important critical pieces, the editors sometimes reprint essays that have appeared elsewhere in Thomson Gale’s Literary Criticism Series. Such duplication, however, never exceeds twenty percent of an SSC volume.

Organization of the Book

An SSC entry consists of the following elements:

  • © The Author Heading cites the name under which the author most commonly wrote, followed by birth and death dates. Also located here are any name variations under which an author wrote, including transliterated forms for authors whose native languages use nonroman alphabets. If the author wrote consistently under a pseudonym, the pseudonym will be listed in the author heading and the author’s actual name given in parentheses on the first line of the biographical and critical introduction. Uncertain birth or death dates are indicated by question marks. Singlework entries are preceded by the title of the work and its date of publication.
  • © The Introduction contains background information that introduces the reader to the author and the critical debates surrounding his or her work.
  • © A Portrait of the Author is included when available.
  • © The list of Principal Works is ordered chronologically by date of first publication and lists the most important works by the author. The first section comprises short-story collections, novellas, and novella collections. The second section gives information on other major works by the author. For foreign authors, the editors have provided original foreign-language publication information and have selected what are considered the best and most complete English-language editions of their works.
  • © Reprinted Criticism is arranged chronologically in each entry to provide a useful perspective on changes in critical evaluation over time. All short-story, novella, and collection titles by the author featured in the entry are printed in boldface type. The critic’s name and the date of composition or publication of the critical work are given at the

    • Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London. Edited by Donald Pizer. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Copyright © Cambridge University Presses, 1995. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press.—Cohen, Philip K. From The Moral Vision of Oscar Wilde. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1978. Copyright © 1978 by Philip Kent Cohen. Reproduced by permission.—Conder, John J. From Naturalism in American Fiction: The Classic Phase. University Press of Kentucky, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by The University Press of Kentucky. Reproduced by permission.—Cropper, Corry

    L. From “Fictional Documentary: The Other as France in Mérimée’s ‘Les Mormons’,” in The Documentary Impulse in French Literature. Edited by Buford Norman. Editions Rodopi, 2001. Copyright © 2001 Editions Rodopi B.V. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ditsky, John. From “‘Your Own Mind Coming Out in the Garden’: Steinbeck’s Elusive Women,” in John Steinbeck: The Years of Greatness, 1936-1939. Edited by Tetsumaro Hayashi. University of Alabama Press, 1993. Copyright © University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Dryden, Linda. From The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles: Stevenson, Wilde and Wells. Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Linda Dryden. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ericksen, Donald H. From Oscar Wilde. Twayne Publishers, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by G. K. Hall & Co. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Etheridge, Chuck. From “Raising Cain: Steinbeck’s The Red Pony and the Reversal of Biblical Myth,” in The Betrayal of the Brotherhood in the Work of John Steinbeck: Cain Sign. Edited by Michael J. Meyer. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 Edwin Mellen Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—French, Warren. From John Steinbeck’s Fiction Revisited. Twayne Publishers, 1994. Copyright © 1994 Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Gammel, Irene. From Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove. University of Calgary Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 Irene Gammel. Reproduced by permission.—Gillespie, Michael Patrick. From “(S)he Was Too Scrupulous Always: Edna O’Brien and the Comic Tradition,” in The Comic Tradition in Irish Women Writers. Edited by Theresa O’Connor. University Press of Florida, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida. Reproduced with the permission of the University Press of Florida.—Hakutani, Yoshinobu. From Young Dreiser: A Critical Study. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980. Reproduced by permission.—Hochman, Barbara. From The Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller. University of Missouri Press, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by the Curators of the University of Missouri. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the University of Missouri Press.—Horan, Patrick M. From The Importance of Being Paradoxical: Maternal Presence in the Works of Oscar Wilde. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 Associated University Presses. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Howard, June. From Form and History in American Literary Naturalism. University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by the University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Jotcham, Nicholas. From the “Introduction,” in Prosper Mérimée: Carmen and Other Stories. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Nicholas Jotcham. Oxford University Press, 1989. Translation and all editorial material copyright Nicholas Jotcham 1989. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.—Mann, Susan Garland. From “The Pastures of Heaven: Agrarianism and The Emergent Middle Class,” in The Betrayal of the Brotherhood in the Work of John Steinbeck: Cain Sign. Edited by Michael J. Meyer. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 Edwin Mellen Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Meyer, Michael J. From “Finding a New Jerusalem: The Edenic Myth in John Steinbeck,” in Literature and The Bible. Edited by David Bevan. Editions Rodopi, 1993. Copyright © 1993 Editions Rodopi B.V. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mortimer, Armine Kotin. From “Secrets of Literature, Resistance to Meaning,” in Confrontations: Politics and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century France. Edited by Kathyn M. Grossman, Michael E. Lane, Bénédicte Monicat, and Willa Z. Silverman. Editions Rodopi, 2001. Copyright © 2001 Editions Rodopi B.V. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Pearce, Sandra Manoogian. From “Snow Through the Ages: Echoes of ‘The Dead’ in O’Brien, Lavin, and O’Faolain,” in Joyce Through the Ages: A Nonlinear View. Edited by Michael Patrick Gillespie. University Press of Florida, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida. Reproduced by permission of the University Press of Florida.—Shaw, Patrick W. From “Steinbeck’s The Red Pony (1945),” in A New Study Guide to Steinbeck’s Major Works, with Critical Explications. Edited by Tetsumaro Hayaski. Scarecrow Press, Inc, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Tetsumaro Hayashi. Reproduced by permission.—Simmonds, Roy. From A Biographical and Critical Introduction of John Steinbeck. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 Roy Simmonds. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Spilka, Mark. From Eight Lessons in Love: A Domestic Violence Reader. University Of Missouri, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by The Curators of the University of Missouri. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the University of Missouri Press.—Wilcox, Earl J. From Critical Essays on Jack London. G. K. Hall & Co., 1983. Copyright by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the Gale Group.—Yeats, W. B. From “Oscar Wilde’s Last Book,” in Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats. Collected and edited by John P. Frayne. Columbia University Press, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by John P. Frayne and Michael Yates. Reproduced by permission.

    PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN SSC, VOLUME 77, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

    Dog sled in Alaska, May 28, 1897, photograph. Copyright © Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—General view of the Third Avenue Line El train tracks, looking north up the Bowery from Grand Street, in New York City, 1891, photograph.

    AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Mérimée, Prosper, portrait. The Library of Congress.—O’Brien, Edna, photograph by Jerry Bauer. Copyright © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Steinbeck, John, photograph. National Archives and Records Administration.—Wilde, Oscar, photograph. The Library of Congress.

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