Short Story Criticism

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Volume 63

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 63, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Book, January 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Book World—The Washington Post, v. 25, September 3, 1995 for “More Dreamy Dreams,” by D.R. MacDonald./v. 27, February 16, 1997 for a review of “The Courts of Love,” by Hart Williams. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Booklist, v. 91, April 1, 1995; v. 94, August 1998; v. 97, September 15, 2000; v. 98, May 15, 2002. Reproduced by permission.—CLA Journal, v. 43, June 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Dickensian, v. 95, Summer 1999 for “Dickens’s Aesthetic of the Short Story,” by Philip V. Allingham. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Forum for Modern Language Studies, v. 24, October 1988 for “Family Likeness in Flaubert and Maupassant: ‘La Legende de Saint Julien L’Hospitalier’ and ‘Le Donneur d’Eau Benite,’” by Rachel Killick. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—The Hemingway Review, v. 15, Fall 1995; v. 16, Fall 1996; v. 17, Spring 1998; v. 20, Fall 2000; v. 21, Fall 2001; v. 22, Fall 2002. Reproduced by permission.—Kirkus Reviews,

v. 70, May 15, 2002. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 17, 1985; July 30, 1995; October 13, 1996; November 8, 1998; April 2, 2000; December 24, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Mississippi Quarterly, v. 55, Winter 2001-2002. Reproduced by permission.—Mosaic, v. 32, March 1999. Reproduced by permission.—New Republic, v. 193, December 9, 1985. Reproduced by permission.—Nineteenth-Century Fiction, v. 31, June 1976 for “Trollope as a Short Story Writer,” by Donald D. Stone. Copyright © 1976 by The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—North American Review, v. 270, December 1985. Reproduced by permission.—Notes on Mississippi Writers, v. 24, July 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Papers on Language and Literature, v. 36, Spring 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Slavic and East European Journal, v. 28, Summer 1984. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 33, Winter 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Times Literary Supplement, July 30, 1982; March 20, 1987; October 20, 1995; November 15, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Twentieth Century Literature, v. 42, Winter 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Virginia Quarterly Review, v. 73, Autumn 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Women’s Review of Books, v. 18, April 2001 for “Guilty Pleasures,” by Susan Millar Williams. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Yearbook of English Studies, v. 31, 2001. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN SSC, VOLUME 63, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Bauer, Margaret Donovan. From The Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist. University Press of Florida, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida. 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 of Gale.—Hannah, James. From Tobias Wolff: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Gale.— Hocks, Richard A. From Henry James: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by G.K. Hall & Co. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Gale.—Hook, Andrew. From The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story. Edited by A. Robert Lee. Vision and Barnes and Noble, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Vision Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publishers and the author.—Johnson, Ronald L. From Anton Chekhov: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Gale.—Kagan-Kans, Eva. From The Russian Short Story: A Critical History. Edited by Charles A. Moser. Twayne, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by G.K. Hall & Co. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Gale.—Smith, Joan and Tobias Wolff, “Speaking into the Unknown,” http://archive.salon.com/dec96/interview961216.html. Published by Salon.com, December 1996. Reprinted with permission.—Woodruff, Jay and Tobias Wolff. From A Piece of Work: Five

PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN SSC, VOLUME 63, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Gilchrist, Ellen, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Hemingway, Ernest, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Wolff, Tobias, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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