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Volume 79

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

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    COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN SSC, VOLUME 79, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

    Bates, Milton J. From The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling. University of California Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission.—Benzel, Kathryn N. From “Woolf’s Early Experimentation with Consciousness: ‘Kew Gardens,’ Typescript to Publication, 1917-1919,” in Virginia Woolf: Turning the Centuries. Edited by Ann Ardis and Bonnie Kime Scott. Pace University Press, 2000. Copyright

  • © 2000 by Pace University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Blackmer, Corinne E. From “Lesbian Modernism in the Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein,” in Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings. Edited by Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer. New York University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by New York University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Cash, Erin E. Campbell. From “Locating Community in Contemporary Southern Fiction: A Cultural Analysis of Robert Olen Butler’s A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,”in Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana. Edited by Suzanne Disheroon Green and Lisa Abney. Greenwood Press, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Suzanne Disheroon Green and Lisa Abney. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—Charney, Mark J. From Barry Hannah. Twayne Publishers, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the Gale Group.—de Gay, Jane. From “An Unfinished Story: The Freshwater Drafts of ‘The Searchlight,’” in Virginia Woolf: Turning the Centuries. Edited by Ann Ardis and Bonnie Kime Scott. Pace University Press, 2000. Copyright
  • © 2000 by Pace University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Gilman, Jr., Owen W. From Vietnam and the Southern Imagination. University Press of Mississippi, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by the University Press of Mississippi. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hannah, James. From Tobias Wolfe: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne Publishers, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Twayne Publishers. Reproduced by permission of the Gale Group.—Henry, Holly. From “Maps, Globes, and ‘Solid Objects,’” in Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Copyright © Holly Henry 2003. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of Cambridge University Press.—Kaplan, Steven. From Understanding Tim O’Brien. University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 University of South Carolina Press. Reproduced by permission.— Kurtz, Marilyn. From Virginia Woolf: Reflections and Reverberations. Peter Lang, 1990. Copyright © Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York 1990. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Newman, Herta. From Virginia Woolf and Mrs. Brown: Toward a Realism of Uncertainty. Copyright © 1996 by Herta Newman. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books, Inc.— O’Meally, Robert G. From The Craft of Ralph Ellison. Harvard University Press, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Rosenfeld, Natania. From Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf. Princeton University Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Princeton University Press, 2001 paperback edition. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Princeton University Press.—Schor, Edith. From Visible Ellison: A Study of Ralph Ellison’s Fiction. Greenwood Press, 1993. Copyright © 1980 by Edith Schor. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—Tremper, Ellen. From “Who Lived at Alfoxton?”: Virginia Woolf and English Romanticism. Bucknell University Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 Associated University Presses, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.
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    Air assault during Operation Oregon, U.S. soldiers exiting helicopter, photograph. U.S. Department of Defense.—Ellison, Ralph, photograph. Archive Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Woolf, Virginia, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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