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Volume 64

Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers

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Acknowledgments

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 SSC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN SSC, VOLUME 64, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, v. 22, June 1995. © Canadian Comparative Literature Association. Reproduced by permission.—The Comparatist, v. 18, May 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Dalhousie French Studies, v. 51, summer, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Esprit Createur, v. 39, summer, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, v. 35, 1989 for “Re-Reading ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter’: Giovanni and the Seduction of the Transcendental Reader” by John Downton Hazlett. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.— Essays in Criticism, v. 51, April 2001 for “Beckett and the Joycean Short Story” by Adrian Hunter. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—French Forum, v. 27, winter, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by French Forum, Publishers, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—James Joyce Quarterly, v. 29, winter, 1992; v. 31, winter, 1994; v. 35, summer, 1998. Copyright, 1992, 1994, 1998 by the University of Tulsa. All reproduced by permission.—Journal of Narrative Technique,

v. 20, spring, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of the Short Story in English, spring 2001; autumn, 2001. © Universite d’Angers, 2001. Both reproduced by permission.—Literature/Film Quarterly, v. 21, January 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Salisbury State College. Reproduced by permission.—New Hibernia Review, v. 5, winter, 2001 for “Old Sleepy Hollow Calls over the World: Washington Irving and Joyce’s ‘The Dead’” by Jack Morgan. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Nineteenth-Century French Studies, v. 24, fall-winter, 1995-1996. © 1995 by Nineteenth-Century French Studies. Reproduced by permission.—Note on Modern Irish Literature, v. 12, 2000. Reproduced by permission.— Romance Language Annual, v. 8, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—The Romanic Review, v. 85, November 1994 for “The Delusory Denouement and Other Strategies in Maupassant’s Fantastic Tales” by Ruth A. Hottell. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 23, spring, 1986. Copyright 1986 by Studies in Short Fiction, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Symposium, v. 50, spring, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—The Yale Journal of Criticism, v. 15, spring, 2002. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN SSC, VOLUME 64, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Buell, Lawrence. From New England Literary Culture: From Revolution through Renaissance. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Charnon-Deutsch, Lou. From Death and the Doctor: Three Nineteenth-Century Spanish Tales. Translated by Robert M. Fedorchek. Bucknell University Press, 1997. English translation copyright © 1997 by Robert M. Fedorchek. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Combs, Colleen J. From Women in the Short Stories of Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. The Edwin Mellen Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Colleen J. Combs. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Current-Garcia, Eugene. From The American Short Story before 1850: A Critical History. Twayne, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by G.K. Hall & Company. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—DeCoster, Cyrus C. From “The Nail” and Other Stories, by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. Translated by Robert M. Fedorchek. Bucknell University Press, 1997. English translation copyright © 1997 by Robert M. Fedorchek. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—DeCoster, Cyrus. From Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. Twayne Publishers, 1979. Copyright © 1979 by G.K. Hall & Co. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Jay, Gregory S. From “Poe: Writing and the Unconscious,” in The American Renaissance: New Dimensions. Edited by Harry R. Garvin and Peter C. Caraﬁol. Bucknell University Press, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Associated University Presses, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lee, A. Robert. From “Voices Off and On: Melville’s Piazza and Other Stories,” in The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story. Edited by A. Robert Lee. London: Vision Press, 1985. © 1985 by Vision Press Ltd. Reproduced by permission.—Lin, Paul. From “Standing in the Empire: Drinking, Masculinity, and Modernity in ‘Counterparts,’” in Masculinities in Joyce: Postcolonial Construc

tions. Edited by Christine van Boheemen-Saaf and Colleen Lamos. Rodopi, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Lloyd, David. From “Counterparts: Dubliners, Masculinity, and Temperance Nationalism,” in Future Crossings: Literature between Philosophy and Cultural Studies. Edited by Krzysztof Ziarek and Seamus Deane. Northwestern University Press, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Miller, Stephen. From The Nun and Other Stories, by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. Translated by Robert M. Fedorchek. Bucknell University Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Robert M. Fedorchek. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mills, Bruce. From “Literary Excellence and Social Reform: Lydia Maria Child’s Ultraisms for the 1840s,” in American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Julie Brown. Garland, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Julie Brown. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books, Inc., and the author.—Mortimer, Armine Kotin. From “Second Stories,” in Short Story: Theory at a Crossroads. Edited by Susan Lohafer and Jo Ellyn Clarey. Louisiana State University, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Norris, Margot. From “Masculinity Games in ‘After the Race,’” in Masculinities in Joyce: Postcolonial Constructions. Edited by Christine van Boheemen-Saaf and Colleen Lamos. Rodopi, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—O’Brien, Edward J. The Advance of the American Short Story. Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1923.—Prince, Gerald. From “‘Le Horla,’ Sex, and Colonization,” in Alteratives. Edited by Warren Motte and Gerald Prince. French Forum Publishers, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by French Forum, Publishers, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Reynolds, David S. From “Black Cats and Delirium Tremens: Temperance and the American Renaissance,” in The Serpent in the Cup: Temperance in American Literature. Edited by David S. Reynolds and Debra J. Rosenthal. University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by The University of Massachusetts Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Siebers, Tobin. From “Hawthorne’s Appeal and Romanticism,” in The American Renaissance: New Dimensions. Edited by Harry R. Garvin and Peter C. Caraﬁol. Bucknell University Press, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Associated University Presses, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Steele, Jeffrey. From The Representation of the Self in the American Renaissance. Copyright © 1987 by The University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Tallack, Douglas. From The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story: Language, Form and Ideology. Routledge, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Douglas Tallack. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.

PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN SSC, VOLUME 64, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Joyce, James, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Maupassant, Guy de, photograph.

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