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Volume 74

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 74, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

    al-Naja, Abu al-Ma’ati. From “The Short Story Collection, Vision at Fault,” in Critical Perspectives on Yusuf Idris. Edited by Roger Allen. Copyright © 1994 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Allen, Roger. From an Introduction to In the Eye of the Beholder: Tales of Egyptian Life from the Writings of Yusuf Idris. Edited by Roger Allen. Bibliotheca Islamica, 1978. Copyright © 1978 Bibliotheca Islamica, Inc. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Cochran, Robert. From Samuel Beckett: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne Publishers, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Twayne Publishers. Reproduced by permission of the Gale Group.—Fletcher, John. From “Joyce, Beckett, and the Short Story in Ireland,” in Re: Joyce’n Beckett. Edited by Phyllis Carey and Ed Jewinski. Fordham University Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Fordham University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gontarski, S. E. From an Introduction (“Unabandoned Works: Samuel Beckett’s Short Prose,”) to Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose, 19291989. Edited by S. E. Gontarski. Grove Press, 1995. Introduction Copyright © 1995 by S. E. Gontarski. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Harrington, John P. From “Beckett, Joyce, and Irish Writing: The Example of Beckett’s ‘Dubliners’ Story,” in Re: Joyce’n Beckett. Edited by Phyllis Carey and Ed Jewinski. Fordham University Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Fordham University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Heberle, Mark A. From A Trauma Artist: Tim O’Brien and the Fiction of Vietnam. University of Iowa Press, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by the University of Iowa Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Kurpershoek, P. M. From The Short Stories of Yusuf Idris. E. J. Brill, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by E. J. Brill. All rights reserved. Reproduced by courtesy of Brill Academic Publishers.—Mikhail, Mona. From “Love and Sex: A Study of the Short Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz and Yusuf Idris,” in Images of Arab Women: Fact and Fiction. Adapted and Translated by G. Asfor. Three Continents Press Inc., 1979. Copyright © 1979 by Mona Mikhail. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Somekh, Sasson. From “Structure of Silence: A Reading in Yûsuf Idrîs’s ‘Bayt min Lahm’ (‘House of Flesh’),” in Writer, Culture, Text: Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. Edited by Ami Elad. York Press, Ltd., 1993. Copyright © 1993 by York Press, Ltd. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Vandervlist, Harry. From “Nothing Doing: The Repudiation of Action in Beckett’s More Pricks than Kicks,” in Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality. Edited by Daniel Fischlin. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Reproduced by kind permission from Kluwer Academic Publishers and the author.—Wise, Renate. From “Subverting Holy Scriptures: The Short Stories of Yûsuf Idrîs,” in The Postcolonial Crescent: Islam’s Impact on Contemporary Literature. Edited by John C. Hawley. Peter Lang, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

    PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN SSC, VOLUME 74, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

    Beckett, Samuel, photograph. Copyright © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Title page from The Things They Carried, written by Tim O’Brien. Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.