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Volume 69

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 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 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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    mission of the Columbia University Press, 61 W. 62nd St., New York, NY 10023.—Byrne, Deirdre. From “Truth and Story: History in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Short Fiction and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” in Future Females: New Voice and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism. Edited by Marleen S. Barr. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Rowman and Littlefield. Reproduced by permission of Littlefield and Rowman Publishers Inc.—Firchow, Peter Edgerly. From Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The University Press of Kentucky, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by The University Press of Kentucky. Reproduced by permission.— Harkins, William E. From “The Philosophical Stories of Jurij Oleša,” in Orbis Scriptus. Edited by Dmitrij Tschizewskij. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1966. Copyright © 1966 by Wilhelm Fink Verlag KG. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Ingdahl, Kazimiera. From A Graveyard of Themes: The Genesis of Three Key Works by Iurii Olesha. Almqvist & Wiksell, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Kazimiera Ingdahl. Reproduced by permission.—Ingdahl, Kazmiera. From “The Life/ Death Dichotomy in Jurij Olesa’s Short Story ‘Liompa,’” in Studies in 20th Century Russian Prose. Edited by Nils Åke Nilsson. Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Stockholm Studies in Russian Literature. Copyright by permission.—Menhennet, Alan. From an Introduction to The Bachura Scandal, and Other Stories and Sketches. Edited by Jaroslav Hasek. Copyright © 1991 by Alan Menhennet. Reproduced by permission.—Miller, J. Hillis. From “Heart of Darkness Revisited,” in Conrad Revisited: Essays for the Eighties. Edited by Ross C. Murfin. The University of Alabama Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by The University of Alabama Press. Reproduced by permission.—Ogede, Ode S. From “Phantoms Mistaken for a Human Face: Race and the Construction of the African Woman’s Identity in Joseph’s Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,” in The Foreign Woman in British Literature: Exotics, Aliens, and Outsiders. Edited by Marilyn Demarest Button and Toni Reed. Greenwood Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Marilyn Demarest Button and Toni Reed. Reproduced by permission.—Parrott, Cecil. From Jaroslav Hasek: A Study of Svejk and the Short Stories. Cambridge University Press, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Cambridge University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Reid, Suzanne Elizabeth. From Presenting Ursula Le Guin. Twayne Publishers, 1997. © Twayne Publishers, New York, NY. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Turner, David G. From Unamuno’s Webs of Fatality. Tamesis Books, 1974. Copyright © by Tamesis Books. Reproduced by permission.—Watts, Cedric. From “Heart of Darkness,” in The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad. Edited by J. H. Stape. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Cambridge University Press. Reproduced by permission.

    PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN SSC, VOLUME 69, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

    “The Congo,” detail from painting by Fritz Klingelhofer. From a cover of The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad. J. M. Dent, 1996. Reproduced by permission of Christie’s Images, London.—Conrad, Joseph, 1904, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Conrad, Joseph, photograph. The Library of Congress.— Le Guin, Ursula, photograph by Lisa Kroeber. Reproduced by permission of Ursula Le Guin.—Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de, photograph. The Library of Congress.

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