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Volume 59
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 59, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:
American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, v. 23, Winter 1991; v. 29, Spring 1997. Reproduced by permission.—American Literature, v. 69, September 1997. Copyright © 1997, Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Booklist, December 15, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Boston Globe, April 11, 1991; August 8, 1993; October 4, 1993; February 28, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Christian Century, v. 110, November 17, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Christian Science Monitor, August 27, 1993 for “Three Tales of What Happens ‘Afterward,’” by Merle Rubin. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Commonweal, v. 121, February 25, 1994. Reproduced by permission.— Cross Currents, v. 37, Summer/Fall 1987. Reproduced by permission.—French Forum, v. 15, May 1990; v. 19, January 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Georgia Review, v. 46, Summer 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Guardian, January 25, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Hudson Review, v. 47, Spring 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Independent, February 6, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Kirkus Reviews, November 1, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Library Journal, v. 116, February 15, 1991 for a review of A Model World, by Michael Chabon, by David W. Henderson./v. 124, January 1999 for a review of Werewolves in Their Youth, by Michael Chabon, by Joanna M. Burkardt. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 12, 1987; August 29, 1993; May 2, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times, June 9, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—MELUS, v. 22, Fall 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Melville Society Extracts, March 1996 for “Melville’s Séraphita: Billy Budd, Sailor,” by John S. Haydock. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 29, Autumn 1983. Reproduced by permission.—The Modern Language Review, v. 86, January 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Narrative, v. 6, May 1998. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman and Society, v. 7, January 28, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—New York, February 15, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Newsday, April 8, 1991. Copyright © 1991 Newsday, Inc. Reproduced by permission./August 8, 1993 for “To Have and Have Not,” by Francine Prose. Copyright © 1993 by Francine Prose. Reproduced by permission of Denise Shannon Literary Agency.—Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory, v. 17, January 1994 for “Absolute Fetishism: Genius and Identification in Balzac’s “‘Unknown Masterpiece,’” by Adam Bresnick. Reproduced by permission of Edinburgh University Press.—Publishers Weekly, v. 238, February 1, 1991; November 23, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Romance Quarterly, v. 37, November 1990. Reproduced by permission.—The Romantic Review, v. 88, May 1997. Copyright © 1997 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Reproduced by permission.—School Library Journal, v. 38, March 1992. Reproduced by permission.— Seattle Times, August 22, 1993; February 7, 1999. Copyright © 1993, 1999 Seattle Times Company. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 32, Winter 1995; v. 34, Summer 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Sunday Times, August 30, 1987. Copyright © Alistair MacCurtain/News International Newspapers Limited, London; May 19, 1991. Copyright © 1991 News International Newspapers Limited, London; January 16, 1994. Copyright © Peter Kemp/News International Newspapers Limited, London. All reproduced by permission.—Symposium, v. 45, Spring 1991; v. 51, Spring 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Times, January 27, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Times Literary Supplement, July 17, 1987; April 26, 1991; February 4, 1994; March 5, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Toronto Star, September 18, 1993 for “Are Religious Writers, Artists Handicapped by Faith?” by Michael Higgins./September 18, 1993 for “The Obsessive Nature of Love,” by Richard Teleky. Both reproduced by permission of the authors.—Washington Post Book World, April 7, 1991. Copyright © 1991, The Washington Post. Reproduced by permission./April 4, 1999 for “Bourgeois Blues,” by James Hynes. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Washington Times, April 29, 1991. Reproduced by permission.— World Literature Today, v. 69, Winter 1995. Reproduced by permission.
COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN SSC, VOLUME 59, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:
Bennett, Alma. From Mary Gordon. Twayne, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Gale.—Brownworth, Victoria A. From Out for Blood: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Women.
Edited by Victoria A. Brownworth. Third Side Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Third Side Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Floyd, Janet. From Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition. Edited by Karen L. Kilcup. University of Iowa Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by University of Iowa Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Geherin, David. From The American Private Eye: The Image in Fiction. Ungar, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hillerman, Tony. From The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. Edited by Tony Hillerman. Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Introduction copyright © 2000 by Tony Hillerman. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Horsley, Lee. From The Noir Thriller. Palgrave, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Lee Horsley. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—King, Laurie R. and Lawrence W. Raphael. From Criminal Kabbalah: An Intriguing Anthology of Jewish Mystery and Detective Fiction. Edited by Lawrence W. Raphael. Jewish Lights Publishing, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Lawrence W. Raphael. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Jewish Lights Publishing, P.O. Box 237, Woodstock, VT 05091.— Knight, Stephen. From The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory. Edited by Glenn W. Most and William W. Stowe. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Palgrave Macmillan.—Mitchell, Lee. From Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West. Edited by Michael Kowalewski. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Muller, Marcia and Bill Pronzini. From Detective Duos. Oxford University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Nava, Michael. From Finale. Edited by Michael Nava. Alyson Publications, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Michael Nava. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Panek, LeRoy Lad. From An Introduction to the Detective Story. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Bowling Green State University Popular Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Priestman, Martin. From Crime Fiction: From Poe to the Present. Northcote House, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Martin Priestman. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Queen, Ellery. From The Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Howard Haycraft. Simon and Schuster, 1946. Copyright © 1946 by Howard Haycraft. Copyright Renewed 1969 by Ellery Queen. Reproduced here with the permission of the Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee Literary Property Trusts and their agent, JackTime, 3 Erold Court, Allendale, NJ 07401, USA.—Sayers, Dorothy L. From The Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Howard Haycraft. Simon and Schuster, 1946. Copyright © 1946 by Howard Haycraft. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Scharnhorst, Gary. From Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West. University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by University of Oklahoma Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Scharnhorst, Gary. From American Realism and the Canon. Edited by Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. University of Delaware Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Associated University Presses. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Smith, Erin A. From Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines. Temple University Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Temple University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Stein, Gertrude. From How Writing Is Written. Edited by Robert Barlett Haas. Black Sparrow Press, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by Estate of Gertrude Stein. Preface and Notes Copyright © 1974 by Robert Barnett Hans. Reproduced by permission of the Estate of Gertrude Stein.—Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth. From Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism. Edited by Patricia Merivale and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.
PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN SSC, VOLUME 59, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:
Chabon, Michael, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Gordon, Mary, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Harte, Bret, engraving. The Library of Congress.—Old mystery magazines, ca. 1978, photograph by Ted Streshinsky. Corbis/Ted Streshinsky. Reproduced by permission.—Silhouetted sleuth, smoking a pipe, looking through a magnifying glass, photograph. © H. Armstrong Robert/Corbis.Reproduced by permission.
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