Short Story Criticism

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Volume 75

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

    • ern Gothic: A Reader. Edited by Victor Sage and Allan Lloyd Smith. Manchester University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Manchester University Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Beegel, Susan F. From “‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’: Fitzgerald’s Jazz Elegy for Little Women,” in New Essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Neglected Stories. Edited by Jackson R. Bryer. University of Missouri, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by The Curators of the University of Missouri. Reproduced by permission.—Bieder, Maryellen. From “Gender and Language: The Womanly Woman and Manly Writing,” in Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain. Edited by Lou Charnon-Deutsch and Jo Labanyi. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by several contributors. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.—Bruccoli, Matthew. From “Introduction” to Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by University of South Carolina. Reproduced by permission.—Bucker, Park. From “‘Each Time in a New Disguise’: The Author as a Commercial Magazinist,” in F. Scott Fitzgerald: Centenary Exhibition, September 24, 1896-September 24, 1996. University of South Carolina Press for the Thomas Cooper Library, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by University of South Carolina Press. Reproduced by permission.— Davies, Catherine. From “‘Venus impera’? Women and Power in Femeninas and Epitalamio,” in Ramon Maria del Valle-Inclan: Questions of Gender. Edited by Carol Maier and Roberta L. Salper. Edited by Carol Maier and Roberta L. Salper. Associated University Presses, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Associated University Presses, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Goren, Lilly J. From “A Man of Will,” in Seers and Judges: American Literature as Political Philosophy. Edited by Christine Dunn Henderson. Lexington Books, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Lexington Books. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.—Hagopian, John V. From “A Reader’s Moral Dissent from Lionel Trilling’s ‘Of This Time, Of That Place’,” in American Literature in Belgium. Edited by Gilbert Debusscher. Rodopi, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam. Reproduced by permission.—Hansen, Frantz Leander. From “Karen Blixen’s Works,” in The Aristocratic Universe of Karen Blixen: Destiny and the Denial of Fate. Translated by Gaye Kynoch. Sussex Academic Press, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Frantz Leander Hansen. Reproduced by permission.— Hays, Peter L. From “Philippe, ‘Count of Darkness,’ and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Feminist?,” in New Essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Neglected Stories. Edited by Jackson R. Bryer. University of Missouri Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by The Curators of the University of Missouri. Reproduced by permission.—Kyndrup, Morten. From “The Vertigo of Staging: Authority and Narration in Isak Dinesen’s ‘The Roads Round Pisa,’” in Isak Dinesen: Critical Views. Edited by Olga Anastasia Pelensky. Ohio University Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Ohio University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Mangum, Bryant. From “Fitzgerald and Literary Economics,” in A Fortune Yet: Money in the Art of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Stories. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Bryant Mangum. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books, Inc., and the author.—Mangum, Bryant. From “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald,” in The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edited by Ruth Prigozy. Cambridge University Press, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.—Pattison, Walter T. From Emilia Pardo Bazan. Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1971. Copyright © 1971 by Twayne Publishers, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Prigozy, Ruth. From “Un Unsentimental Education: ‘The Rubber Check’,” in New Essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Neglected Stories. Edited by Jackson R. Bryer. University of Missouri Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by The Curators of the University of Missouri. Reproduced by permission.—Ramos-Gasón, Antonio. From “Spanish Literature as a Historiographic Invention: The Case of the Generation of 1898,” in The Crisis of Institutionalized Literature in Spain. Edited by Wlad Godzich and Nicholas Spadaccini. Translated by Carrie Legus with the assistance of Gwendolyn Barnes, Jane E. Gregg, James V. Romano and Jason K. Wood. The Prisma Institute, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by The Prisma Institute, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the University of Minnesota Press.—Rosengarten, Frank. From The Writings of the Young Marcel Proust (1885-1900): An Ideological Critique. Peter Lang, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Shattuck, Roger. From Foreword: “Proust’s Own Sound,” in The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust. Edited and translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Cooper Square Press, 2001. Copyright © Foreword 2001 by Roger Shattuck. Copyright © Translation 2001 by Joachim Neugroschel. Copyright © Translator’s Preface 2001 by Joachim Neugroschel. Copyright © This edition 2001 by Joachim Neugroschel. Reproduced by permission of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.—Shaw, Donald L. From The Generation of 1898 in Spain. Ernest Benn Ltd., 1975. Copyright © 1975 by Donald L. Shaw. Reproduced by permission of A & C Black Publishers, Ltd.—Stambaugh, Sara. From “Misogyny,” in The Witch and the Goddess in the Stories of Isak Dinesen: A Feminist Reading. UMI Research Press, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Sara Stambaugh. Reproduced by permission of the Literary Estate of the author.—Stoddart, Helen. From “Isak Dinesen and the Fiction of Gothic Gravity,” in Modern Gothic: A Reader. Edited by Victor Sage and Allan Lloyd Smith. Manchester University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Manchester University Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Tolliver, Joyce. From “Introduction” to Torn Lace and Other Stories, by Emilia Pardo Bazan. Edited and translated by Maria Christina Urruela. The Modern Language Association of America, 1996. Copyright © translation and introduction 1996 by The Modern Language Association of America. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the Modern Language Association of America.—Washington, Ida H. From “Isak Dinesen and Dorothy Canfield: the Importance of a Helping Hand,” in Continental, Latin-American and Francophone Women Writers: Selected Papers from the Wichita State University Conference on Foreign Literature, 1984-1985. Edited by Eunice Myers and Ginette Adamson. University Press of America, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by University Press of America, Inc. Reproduced by permission.

    PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN SSC, VOLUME 75, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

    Dinesen, Isak, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Proust, Marcel, photograph. International Portrait Gallery. Reproduced by permission.—Trilling, Lionel, photograph. Archive Photos. Reproduced by permission.— Wreckage of the Spanish warship “Reina Mercedes” at Santiago harbor, during the Spanish-American War, photograph. The Library of Congress.

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