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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 60, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:
Antioch Review, v. 47, Fall 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Booklist, v. 90, February 1, 1994; v. 94, October 15, 1997;
v. 98, May 1, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Boston Globe, November 30, 1997. Reproduced by permission.— Christian Science Monitor, March 8, 1994. Copyright © 1994 The Christian Science Monitor. Reproduced by permission. www.csmonitor.com.—College Literature, v. 26, Spring 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Contemporary Literature, v. 40, Spring 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Critical Survey, v. 5, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Critique, v. 33, Spring 1992. Reproduced by permission.—English Journal, v. 83, November 1994 for A review of “Platte River,” by James LeMonds. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Explicator, v. 57, Summer 1999; v. 59, Fall 2000. Reproduced by permission.—The French Review, v. 65, February 1992; v. 71, April 1998. Reproduced by permission.—The German Quarterly, v. 72, Spring 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Germanic Notes and Reviews, v. 27, Fall 1996; v. 32, Fall 2001. Reproduced by permission.—The Germanic Review, v. 75, Spring 2000. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, v. 51, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of the Short Story in English, v. 32, Spring 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Kirkus Reviews, September 15, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Library Journal, v. 116, November 1, 1991 for a review of “Storming the Reality Studio: A Case Book of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction,” by Larry McCaffery./v. 127, June 1, 2002 for a review of “The Hermit’s Story, by Rick Bass.” Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Literature and Psychology, v. 40, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times, June 27, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, March 13, 1994 for “Floating Down the River,” by Christopher Tilghman. Reproduced by permission of the author./January 18, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 43, Fall 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Studies, v. 30, Spring 2000 for “Of Walls and the Window: Charting Textual Markers in Flaubert’s ‘Legende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier,’” by Leonard Marsh. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Mosaic, v. 23, Spring 1990. Reproduced by permission.—New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, v. 12, Winter, 1989 for “Reclaiming the Frontier: New Writings from the West,” by Christopher Merrill. Reproduced by permission of the author.—New Leader, v. 72, February 6, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—New York Book Review, January 18, 1987 for a review of “Mirrorshades,” by Gerald Jonas. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Newsday, June 19, 1995. Copyright © 1995 Newsday, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Nineteenth-Century French Studies, v. 21, Fall/Winter 1992-1993; v. 24, Fall/Winter 1995-1996. Reproduced by permission.—North American Review, v. 274, September 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Poetics Today, v. 14, 1993. Copyright ©1993, Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, Tel Aviv University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Publishers Weekly, v. 242, May 1995; v. 242, June 26, 1995; v. 244, September 15, 1997; v. 249, May 27, 2002. Reproduced by permission.—Religion and Literature, v. 25, Spring 1993. Reproduced by permission of the University of Notre Dame.—Renascence, v. 53, Winter 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Seattle Times, July 5, 2002. Copyright ©2002 Seattle Times Company. Reproduced by permission.—Sewanee Review, v. 102, Fall 1994. Copyright 1994 by the University of the South. Reproduced by permission of the editor.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 33, Summer 1996; v. 34, Spring 1997. Reproduced by permission.— SubStance, v. 85, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Thomas Hardy Journal, v. 7, February 1991 for “Hardy and the Law,” by Penelope Pether./v. 14, May 1998 for “‘How I Mismated Myself for Love of You!’ The Biologization of Romance in Hardy’s ‘A Group of Noble Dames,’” by Angelique Richardson. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Washington Post Book World, March 26, 1989 for “Stories With a Sense of Place,” by Meredith Sue Willis. Reproduced by permission of the author.
COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN SSC, VOLUME 60, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:
Bass, Rick with Bonnie Lyons and Bill Oliver. From Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers. Edited by Bonnie Lyons and Bill Oliver. University of Illinois Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by the Board of Trustees of the Univer
sity of Illinois. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the University of Illinois Press.—Bass, Rick with K. C. Johnson. From Delicious Imaginations: Conversations with Contemporary Writers. Edited by Sarah Griffiths and Kevin J. Kehrwald. Purdue University Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Purdue Research Foundation. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Beck, Evelyn Torton. From Approaches to Teaching Kafka’s Short Fiction. Edited by Richard T. Gray. The Modern Language Association of America, 1995. Copyright ©1995 by The Modern Language Association of America. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Brinkmeyer, Robert H. From Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West. University of Georgia Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by the University of Georgia Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Eilitta, Leena. From Approaches to Personal Identity in Kafka’s Short Fiction: Freud, Darwin, Kierkegaard. Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Academia Scientiarum Fennica. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Erickson, Karen L. From Modernity and Revolution in Late Nineteenth-Century France. Edited by Barbara T. Cooper and Mary Donaldson-Evans. University of Delaware Press, 1992. Copyright ©1992 by Associated University Presses, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hughes, Kenneth. From Approaches to Teaching Kafka’s Short Fiction. Edited by Richard T. Gray. The Modern Language Association of America, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by The Modern Language Association of America. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Kauvar, Elaine M. From Cynthia Ozick’s Fiction: Tradition and Invention. Indiana University Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Elaine M. Kauvar. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Kremer,
S. Lillian. From Violence, Silence, and Anger: Women’s Writing as Transgression. Edited by Deirdre Lashgari. University Press of Virginia, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by the Rector and visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Maddox, Tom. From Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction. Edited by Larry McCaffery. Duke University Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—McCaffery, Larry. From Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction. Edited by Larry McCaffery. Duke University Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Sterling, Bruce. From Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. Edited by Bruce Sterling. Ace Books, 1986. Copyright ©1986 by Bruce Sterling. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wirth-Nesher, Hana. From Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature. Edited by Werner Sollors. New York University Press, 1998. Copyright ©1998 by New York University. Al rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wright, T. R. From Hardy and the Erotic. Macmillan, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by T. R. Wright. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Palgrave Macmillan.
PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN SSC, VOLUME 60, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:
Conover, Ted, Cynthia Ozick, and Judy Jordan, photograph by Louis Lanzano. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Flaubert, Gustave, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Hardy, Thomas, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Kafka, Franz, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Scene from Blade Runner, photograph. © Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Webb, Lanny, illustrator. From a cover of Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative. Edited by George Slusser and Tom Shippey. University of Georgia Press, 1992. © 1992 by the University of Georgia Press. Reproduced by permission.
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