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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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    tion in Selected Stories by W. W. Jacobs. Edited by Hugh Greene. The Bodley Head, 1975. Copyright © 1975 by The Bodley Head. Reproduced by permission of Random House Group Ltd.—Gunn, James. From Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction. Prentice-Hall, 1975. Copyright © 1975 by James Gunn. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Hassler, Donald M. From Isaac Asimov. Starmont House, Inc., 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Starmont House, Inc. Reproduced by permission of author.—Huntington, John. From Rationalizing Genius: Ideological Strategies in the Classic American Science Fiction Short Story. Rutgers University Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Rutgers, The State University. Reproduced by permission of Rutgers, The State University.—Knight, Damon. From In Search of Wonder: Essays on Modern Science Fiction. Advent Publishers, 1967. Copyright © 1967 by Damon Knight. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and literary estate of the author.—McCollum, Laurie. From “Ritual Sacrifice in ‘The Woman Who Rode Away’: A Girardian Reading,” in D. H. Lawrence: New Worlds. Edited by Keith Cushman and Earl G. Ingersoll. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp. Reproduced by permission of Associated University Press.—Michelucci, Stefania. From Space and Place in the Works of D. H. Lawrence. Translated by Jill Franks. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Stefania Michelucci. Reproduced by permission.—Mogen, David. From Ray Bradbury. Twayne Publishers, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by

    G. K. Hall & Co. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Parrinder, Patrick. From Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching. Methuen, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by Patrick Parrinder. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Rabkin, Eric S. From Arthur C. Clarke. Starmont House, 1979. Copyright © 1979 by Starmont House. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Robillard, Douglas. From Voices for the Future: Volume Three. Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by Bowling Green University Popular Press. Reproduced by permission.— Touponce, William F. From Isaac Asimov. Twayne Publishers, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by G. K. Hall & Co. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Wain, John. From “A Jest in Season: Notes on S. J. Perelman, with a Digression on W.

    W. Jacobs,” in S. J. Perelman: Critical Essays. Edited by Steven H. Gale. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Steven H. Gale. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books, Inc. and the literary estate of the author.

    PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN SSC, VOLUME 73, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

    Jacobs, W(illiam) W(ymark), photograph. Copyright © Bettmann/Corbis.—Lawrence, D. H., photograph. AP/Wide World Photos.— Smith, Will, on the set of the movie I, Robot, photograph. Copyright © Digital Domain/20th Century Fox/Bureau

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