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American Literary Realism, v. XII, autumn, 1979; v. XIV, autumn, 1981; v. XV, autumn, 1982. Copyright © 1979, 1981, 1982 by the Department of English, The University of Texas at Arlington. All reproduced by permission.—American Literature, v. 50, November, 1978; v. 55, March, 1983. Copyright © 1978, 1983 by Duke University Press. Reproduced by permission. / v. 34, November, 1962. Copyright © 1962, renewed 1999 by Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced by permission.—The Antioch Review, v. 52, summer, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by the Antioch Review Inc. Reproduced by permission of the Editors.—Book World—The Washington Post, February 17, 1994 for “Riches in the Doctor’s Bag” by Peter D. Kramer. Copyright © 1994 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. Reproduced by permission of the author. / January 20, 1988 Copyright © 1988, Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. Reproduced by permission.—The Boston Globe, February 27, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Globe Newspaper Company. Reproduced by permission.—The CEA Critic, v. XXX, April, 1968. Copyright © 1968 by the College English Association, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Christian Scholars Review, v. XVI, 1987. Reproduced by permission.—College Literature, v.18, February, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by West Chester University. Reproduced by permission.—The Explicator, v. 34, February, 1976; v. 57, spring, 1999. Copyright © 1976, 1999 by Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Both reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—Foundation, no. 65, 1995 for “The Time Traveller’s Utopian Books and His Reading of the Future” by Stephen Derry. Reproduced by permission of the author.— The Georgia Review, v. XXVI, fall, 1972. Copyright © 1972 by the University of Georgia. Reproduced by permission.— The International Fiction Review, v. 16, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by International Fiction Association. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Modern Literature, v. 11, July, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by Temple University. Reproduced by permission.—The Journal of Narrative Technique, v. 9, spring, 1979. Copyright © 1979 by The Journal of Narrative Technique. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of the Short Story in English, spring, 1990; autumn, 1999; autumn, 2000. Copyright © 1990, 1999, 2000 by Presses de l’Universite d’Angers. All reproduced by permission.—Kirkus Reviews,

v. 41, December 15, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by The Kirkus Service, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Kirkus Reviews and Kirkus Associates, L.P.—The Midwest Quarterly, v. IV, October, 1962. Copyright © 1962 by The Midwest Quarterly. Reproduced by permission.—The New Leader, v. 71, March 21, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by the American Labor Conference on International Affairs, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 17, 1971-1972. Copyright © 1972 by Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN 47907. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University.—Modern Jewish Studies, v. 11, 1999 for “Ancient Acts of Love and Betrayal: Ethan Canin’s ‘Batorsag and Szerelem’” by Victoria Aarons. Copyright © 1999 by Joseph C. Landis. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—NDQ: North Dakota Quarterly, v. 56, winter, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by The University of North Dakota. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman & Society, v. 7, March 4, 1994. Copyright © 1994 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Reproduced by permission.— Pequod, v. 32, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Publishers Weekly, v. 232, December 18, 1987; December 25, 1987; v. 240, November 22, 1993. Copyright © 1987 by Reed Publishing USA. All reproduced from Publishers Weekly, published by the Bowker Magazine Group of Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Publishing USA., by permission.— Research in African Literatures, v. 13, spring, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by the University of Texas Press. Reproduced by permission.—Research Studies, v. 43, March, 1975 for “Impressionism in ‘The Open Boat’ and ‘A Man and Some Others’” by James Nagel. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1973 for “The Narrative Method of ‘The Open Boat’” by James Nagel. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Rhetoric Review, v. 10, spring, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Rhetoric Review. Reproduced by permission.—The Seattle Times, March 6, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by The Seattle Times Company. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 21, winter 1990; v. 27, winter, 1990; v. 30, winter, 1993; v. 31, summer, 1994; v. 31, fall, 1994; v. 32, winter, 1995; v. 35, fall, 1998 copyright ©

1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998 by Studies in Short Fiction. All reproduced by permission. / v. 35, fall, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Newberry College. Reproduced by permission.—Studia Romanica et Anglica, v. XXXV, 1990 for “Joyce Carol Oates’s Remaking of Classic Stories” by Visnja Sepcic. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Wall Street Journal, March 22, 1994 for “Doctor, Author, Hunk All Rolled into One” by Joanne Kaufman. Copyright © 1994 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of the author. / February 16, 1988. Copyright © 1988 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of The Wall Street Journal.—The Washington Times, March 13, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by News World Communications, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The Wellsian, no. 14, summer, 1991; no. 19, 1995. Copyright © 1991, 1995 The H. G. Wells Society. Both reproduced by permission. / no. 21, 1998; no. 22, 1999. Copyright © 1998, 1999 by the Wellsian. Both reproduced by permission. / v. 17, winter, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—The Writer, v. 113, May, 2000 for “A Conversation with Ethan Canin” by Lewis Burke Frumkes. Copyright © 2000 by The Writer, Inc. Reproduced by permission of the author.

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Birkerts, Sven. From American Energies. William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Sven Birkerts. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Cady, Edwin H. From Stephen Crane. Twayne Publishers, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by G. K. Hall & Co. Reproduced by permission of the Gale Group.—Cunningham, Frank R. From “The Enclosure of Identity in the Earlier Stories” in American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space. Edited by Mickey Pearlman. The University Press of Kentucky, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by The University Press of Kentucky. Reproduced by permission.—Dorfel, Hanspeter. From “Images of Germany and the Germans in Some of Joyce Carol Oates’ Short Stories” in Germany and German Thought in American Literature. Edited by Peter Freese. Verlag Die Blaue Eule, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Verlag Die Blaue Eule. Reproduced by permission.—Hagemann, E. R. From “Stephen Crane” in Transition: Centenary Essays. Edited by Joseph Katz. Northern Illinois University Press, 1972. Copyright © 1972 by Northern Illinois Press. Reproduced by permission.—McPhillips, Robert. From “The Novellas of Joyce Carol Oates” in Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction. Edited by Greg Johnson. Twayne Publishers, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Twayne Publishers. Reproduced by permission of the Gale Group.—Rozga, Margaret. From “Joyce Carol Oates: Reimagining the Masters, or, a Woman’s Pace Is in Her Own Fiction” in American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Julie Brown. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Julie Brown. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books, Inc. and the author.—Saalmann, Dieter. From “A Deconstructive Approach to the Berlin Wall: Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘Berlin Stories’” in The Berlin Wall: Representation and Perspectives. Edited by Ernst Schurer, Manfred Keune, and Philip Jenkins. Peter Lang, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Solomon, Eric. From Stephen Crane: From Parody to Realism. Harvard University Press, 1966. Copyright © 1966 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reproduced by permission.—Trachtenberg, Stanley. From “Desire, Hypocrisy, and Ambition in Academe: Joyce Carol Oates’s Hungry Ghosts” in The American Writer and the University. Edited by Ben Siegel. University of Delaware Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Associated University Presses, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Wolford, Chester L. From The Anger of Stephen Crane: Fiction and the Epic Tradition. University of Nebraska Press, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by the University of Nebraska Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Zviniatskovsky, Vladimir. From “Two Ladies with Two Dogs and Two Gentlemen (Joyce Carol Oates and Chekhov)” translated by J. Douglas Clayton, in Chekhov Then and Now: The Reception of Chekhov in World Culture. Edited by J. Douglas Clayton. Peter Lang, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. Reproduced by permission.

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Canin, Ethan, photograph. Copyright © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Crane, Stephen, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Oates, Joyce Carol, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Quackenbush, Robert M., illustrator. From a copy of a woodcut in “The Open Boat and Three Other Stories.” Franklin Watts, 1968. Reproduced by permission of Robert M. Quackenbush.—Wells, H. G., photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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