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Critical Survey of Short Fiction, 2d Rev. Ed.
Table of Contents


Publisher's Note, vii
Contributors to the Second Revised Edition, ix
Complete List of Authors, xvii

A
Abbott, Lee K., 1
Achebe, Chinua, 4
Adams, Alice, 9
Addison, Joseph, 14
Agee, James, 19
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 22
Aichinger, Ilse, 28
Aiken, Conrad, 32
Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 37
Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de, 41
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 46
Aleichem, Sholom, 50
Alexie, Sherman, 55
Algren, Nelson, 58
Allen, Woody, 62
Allende, Isabel, 67
Andersen, Hans Christian, 70
Anderson, Sherwood, 76
Angelou, Maya, 83
Apple, Max, 86
Arreola, Juan José, 89
Asimov, Isaac, 95
Asturias, Miguel Ángel, 102
Atwood, Margaret, 108
Auchincloss, Louis, 116
Austen, Jane, 123

B
Babel, Isaac, 128
Baldwin, James, 135
Ballard, J. G., 141
Balzac, Honoré de, 147
Bambara, Toni Cade, 152
Bank, Melissa, 156
Banks, Russell, 160
Baraka, Amiri, 165
Barnes, Julian, 169
Barrett, Andrea, 173
Barth, John, 176
Barthelme, Donald, 182
Barthelme, Frederick, 190
Bass, Rick, 194
Bates, H. E., 197
Bausch, Richard, 203
Baxter, Charles, 207
Beattie, Ann, 210
Beckett, Samuel, 218
Beerbohm, Max, 225
Bell, Madison Smartt, 230
Bellow, Saul, 233
Bender, Aimee, 239
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 242
Berriault, Gina, 248
Betts, Doris, 252
Bierce, Ambrose, 257
Blackwood, Algernon, 262
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 266
Böll, Heinrich, 272
Bombal, María Luisa, 278
Bontemps, Arna, 281
Borges, Jorge Luis, 285
Borowski, Tadeusz, 295
Bowen, Elizabeth, 300
Bowles, Jane, 306
Bowles, Paul, 311
Boyle, Kay, 317
Boyle, T. Coraghessan, 325
Bradbury, Ray, 331
Brautigan, Richard, 341
Brecht, Bertolt, 348
Brodkey, Harold, 354
Brown, Larry, 360
Broyard, Bliss, 363
Buck, Pearl S., 366
Bunin, Ivan, 372
Butler, Robert Olen, 377
Buzzati, Dino, 381
Byatt, A. S., 387
Byers, Michael, 390

C
Cable, George Washington, 394
Cain, James M., 400
Caldwell, Erskine, 404
Calisher, Hortense, 409
Callaghan, Morley, 415
Calvino, Italo, 423
Camus, Albert, 429
Canin, Ethan, 434
Čapek, Karel, 437
Capote, Truman, 441
Card, Orson Scott, 446
Carey, Peter, 451
Carleton, William, 455
Carpentier, Alejo, 460
Carr, John Dickson, 464
Carter, Angela, 469
Carver, Raymond, 472
Cassill, R. V., 481
Cather, Willa, 485
Cervantes, Miguel de, 491
Chabon, Michael, 499
Chandler, Raymond, 505
Chang, Lan Samantha, 511
Chappell, Fred, 514
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 518
Cheever, John, 532
Chekhov, Anton, 540
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 549
Chesterton, G. K., 556
Chopin, Kate, 562
Chrétien de Troyes, 567
Christie, Agatha, 572
Cisneros, Sandra, 579
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 585
Clarke, Arthur C., 590
Colette, 597
Collier, John, 605
Congreve, William, 611
Connell, Evan S., Jr. , 614
Conrad, Joseph, 620
Conroy, Frank, 628
Coover, Robert, 632
Coppard, A. E., 638
Cortázar, Julio, 644
Cozzens, James Gould, 649
Crane, Stephen, 654

D
Dahl, Roald, 664
Dante, 670
Daudet, Alphonse, 676
Davenport, Guy, 681
Davies, Peter Ho, 691
Davies, Rhys, 694
Dazai, Osamu, 699
de la Mare, Walter, 704
Delany, Samuel R., 709
Derleth, August, 714
Dick, Philip K., 719
Dickens, Charles, 725
Diderot, Denis, 731
Dinesen, Isak, 737
Disch, Thomas M., 745
Dixon, Stephen, 749
Doerr, Harriet, 752
Donoso, José, 756
Dostoevski, Fyodor, 760
Douglas, Ellen, 766
Dovlatov, Sergei, 769
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 775
Dreiser, Theodore, 783
Dubus, Andre, 789
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 793
Dunsany, Lord, 797
Dybek, Stuart, 803

E
Edgeworth, Maria, 807
Eliot, George, 816
Elkin, Stanley, 820
Elliott, George P., 825
Ellison, Harlan, 831
Ellison, Ralph, 837
Endō, Shūsaku, 841
Erdrich, Louise, 847

F
Farrell, James T., 851
Faulkner, William, 856
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 864
Flaubert, Gustave, 872
Ford, Richard, 880
Forster, E. M., 886
Fowles, John, 891
France, Anatole, 897
Franklin, Benjamin, 903
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins, 908
Friedman, Bruce Jay, 914
Friel, Brian, 920
Fuentes, Carlos, 924

G
Gaines, Ernest J., 930
Gaitskill, Mary, 936
Gallant, Mavis, 939
Galsworthy, John, 945
García Márquez, Gabriel, 950
Gardner, John, 956
Garland, Hamlin, 963
Garrett, George, 969
Gass, William H., 975
Gates, David, 980
Gautier, Théophile, 984
Gautreux, Tim, 988
Gilchrist, Ellen, 991
Gilliatt, Penelope, 997
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1003
Glasgow, Ellen, 1007
Godwin, Gail, 1013
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1016
Gogol, Nikolai, 1022
Gold, Herbert, 1030
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1033
Gordimer, Nadine, 1039
Gordon, Caroline, 1046
Gordon, Mary, 1052
Gorky, Maxim, 1055
Goyen, William, 1060
Grau, Shirley Ann, 1065
Greenberg, Joanne, 1069
Greene, Graham, 1074
Greene, Robert, 1081
Grimm, The Brothers, 1086
Guimarães Rosa, João, 1092

H
Hale, Nancy, 1096
Hall, Lawrence Sargent, 1101
Hammett, Dashiell, 1104
Hannah, Barry, 1108
Hardy, Thomas, 1112
Harjo, Joy, 1118
Harris, Joel Chandler, 1121
Harrison, Jim, 1127
Harte, Bret, 1133
Hawkesworth, John, 1139
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1143
Head, Bessie, 1152
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1156
Heinlein, Robert A., 1159
Helprin, Mark, 1164
Hemingway, Ernest, 1172
Hempel, Amy, 1180
Henry, O., 1183
Hesse, Hermann, 1187
Highsmith, Patricia, 1193
Hildesheimer, Wolfgang, 1201
Himes, Chester, 1204
Hoch, Edward D., 1210
Hoffmann, E. T. A., 1216
Homer, 1222
Hospital, Janette Turner, 1228
Houston, Pam, 1231
Howells, William Dean, 1234
Hughes, Langston, 1238
Humphrey, William, 1243
Hurston, Zora Neale, 1249
Huxley, Aldous, 1255

I
Ihara Saikaku, 1261
Irving, Washington, 1268

J
Jackson, Shirley, 1274
Jacobs, W. W., 1279
James, Henry, 1283
James, M. R., 1291
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1296
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1302
Johnson, Charles, 1306
Johnson, Denis, 1310
Johnson, Samuel, 1314
Joyce, James, 1319

K
Kafka, Franz, 1328
Kaplan, David Michael, 1336
Kavan, Anna, 1339
Kawabata, Yasunari, 1344
Keillor, Garrison, 1350
Kiely, Benedict, 1356
Kincaid, Jamaica, 1362
King, Stephen, 1368
Kingsolver, Barbara, 1374
Kingston, Maxine Hong, 1378
Kinsella, W. P., 1382
Kipling, Rudyard, 1388
Kiš, Danilo, 1397
Kleist, Heinrich von, 1400
Knowles, John, 1406
Kundera, Milan, 1412

L
Lagerkvist, Pär, 1420
Lahiri, Jhumpa, 1424
Landolfi, Tommaso, 1427
Lardner, Ring, 1434
Laurence, Margaret, 1438
Lavin, Mary, 1443
Lawrence, D. H., 1449
Lawson, Henry, 1458
Leavitt, David, 1463
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1469
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1476
Lem, Stanisław, 1481
Leskov, Nikolai, 1488
Lessing, Doris, 1494
Lewis, Wyndham, 1501
L'Heureux, John, 1509
Lind, Jakov, 1513
Lispector, Clarice, 1517
London, Jack, 1522
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 1527
Lordan, Beth, 1531
Lovecraft, H. P., 1535
Lu Xun, 1541

M
McCarthy, Mary, 1551
McCullers, Carson, 1556
McEwan, Ian, 1562
McGahern, John, 1566
Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria, 1569
Machen, Arthur, 1574
McKnight, Reginald, 1577
McPherson, James Alan, 1581
Mahfouz, Naguib, 1586
Major, Clarence, 1591
Malamud, Bernard, 1595
Malory, Sir Thomas, 1603
Mann, Thomas, 1607
Mansfield, Katherine, 1617
Marie de France, 1625
Mars-Jones, Adam, 1630
Marshall, Paule, 1634
Mason, Bobbie Ann, 1639
Maugham, W. Somerset, 1645
Maupassant, Guy de, 1652
Meckel, Christoph, 1659
Melville, Herman, 1664
Mérimée, Prosper, 1671
Michaels, Leonard, 1675
Miller, Sue, 1679
Millhauser, Steven, 1682
Minot, Susan, 1686
Mishima, Yukio, 1690
Moore, George, 1695
Moore, Lorrie, 1699
Moravia, Alberto, 1702
Morris, Wright, 1710
Mphahlele, Ezekiel, 1717
Mukherjee, Bharati, 1721
Munro, Alice, 1730

N
Nabokov, Vladimir, 1738
Nahman of Bratslav, Rabbi, 1745
Narayan, R. K., 1750
Nerval, Gérard de, 1756
Nin, Anaïs, 1760
Norris, Frank, 1765

O
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1771
O'Brien, Edna, 1780
O'Brien, Fitz-James, 1786
O'Brien, Tim, 1790
O'Connor, Flannery, 1794
O'Connor, Frank, 1802
Ōe, Kenzaburō, 1809
O'Faoláin, Seán, 1816
Offutt, Chris, 1822
O'Flaherty, Liam, 1826
O'Hara, John, 1832
Okri, Ben, 1838
Olsen, Tillie, 1843
Onetti, Juan Carlos, 1849
Ovid, 1852
Oz, Amos, 1860
Ozick, Cynthia, 1865

P
Paley, Grace, 1872
Pardo Bazán, Emilia, 1878
Parker, Dorothy, 1883
Pasternak, Boris, 1887
Pavese, Cesare, 1893
Perabo, Susan, 1898
Perelman, S. J., 1901
Peretz, Isaac Leib, 1906
Petronius, 1911
Petry, Ann, 1916
Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1923
Pirandello, Luigi, 1927
Plath, Sylvia, 1933
Plomer, William, 1937
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1940
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1949
Powers, J. F., 1957
Price, Reynolds, 1961
Pritchett, V. S., 1968
Prose, Francine, 1977
Proulx, E. Annie, 1980
Pu Songling, 1984
Purdy, James, 1990
Pushkin, Alexander, 1997
Pynchon, Thomas, 2004

Q
Queen, Ellery, 2011
Quiroga, Horacio, 2017

R
Rasputin, Valentin, 2023
Reid, Elwood, 2027
Rhys, Jean, 2031
Richler, Mordecai, 2036
Rivera, Tomás, 2041
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 2045
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 2049
Robison, Mary, 2052
Roth, Philip, 2059
Rulfo, Juan, 2064
Rushdie, Salman, 2068

S
Saki, 2072
Salinger, J. D., 2076
Sansom, William, 2084
Saroyan, William, 2090
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 2095
Sayles, John, 2102
Schulz, Bruno, 2106
Schwartz, Delmore, 2112
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon, 2117
Scott, Sir Walter, 2120
Shalamov, Varlam, 2126
Shaw, Irwin, 2131
Silko, Leslie Marmon, 2135
Sillitoe, Alan, 2142
Simms, William Gilmore, 2147
Simpson, Mona, 2153
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 2157
Sinyavsky, Andrei, 2165
Slavin, Julia, 2171
Smiley, Jane, 2174
Smith, Lee, 2182
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 2187
Sontag, Susan, 2193
Spark, Muriel, 2196
Spencer, Elizabeth, 2202
Stafford, Jean, 2208
Steele, Richard, 2213
Steele, Wilbur Daniel, 2217
Stegner, Wallace, 2220
Stein, Gertrude, 2225
Steinbeck, John, 2233
Stern, Richard G., 2239
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 2245
Stockton, Frank R., 2250
Stone, Robert, 2254
Stuart, Jesse, 2258
Sturgeon, Theodore, 2264
Svevo, Italo, 2269
Swift, Graham, 2272

T
Tallent, Elizabeth, 2276
Tan, Amy, 2279
Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō, 2283
Targan, Barry, 2288
Taylor, Elizabeth, 2291
Taylor, Peter, 2294
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 2300
Thomas, Dylan, 2306
Thurber, James, 2312
Tilghman, Christopher, 2317
Tolstaya, Tatyana, 2320
Tolstoy, Leo, 2326
Toomer, Jean, 2335
Trevor, William, 2340
Tuohy, Frank, 2347
Turgenev, Ivan, 2352
Twain, Mark, 2359
Tyler, Anne, 2365

U
Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de, 2371
Updike, John, 2375

V
Valenzuela, Luisa, 2386
Vanderhaeghe, Guy, 2390
Verga, Giovanni, 2393
Vergil, 2398
Viramontes, Helena María, 2403
Vizenor, Gerald, 2406
Voltaire, 2410
Vonnegut, Kurt, 2416

W
Wain, John, 2424
Walker, Alice, 2428
Walser, Robert, 2437
Wang Anyi, 2443
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 2449
Warren, Robert Penn, 2456
Weidman, Jerome, 2462
Welch, Denton, 2466
Weldon, Fay, 2472
Wells, H. G., 2476
Welty, Eudora, 2482
Wescott, Glenway, 2490
West, Jessamyn, 2495
Wharton, Edith, 2500
White, E. B., 2506
Wideman, John Edgar, 2509
Wiggins, Marianne, 2516
Williams, Joy, 2520
Williams, Tennessee, 2524
Williams, William Carlos, 2530
Wilson, Angus, 2535
Woiwode, Larry, 2538
Wolfe, Thomas, 2544
Wolff, Tobias, 2549
Woolf, Virginia, 2554
Wright, Richard, 2560

X

Y
Yeats, William Butler, 2566

Z
Zamyatin, Yevgeny, 2572
Zhang Jie, 2578
Zola, Émile, 2584
Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 2589

Volume 7
Complete List of Authors, ci

Theory of Short Fiction
Theory of Short Fiction, 2599
The Detective Story, 2613
The Fable Tradition, 2625
The Science-Fiction Story, 2632
The Supernatural Story, 2643

History of Short Fiction
Short Fiction in Antiquity, 2657
The Saga and Tháttr, 2669
The Early Middle Ages, 2680
The Medieval Romance, 2691
The Renaissance Novelle, 2700
The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 2708
The Eighteenth Century, 2726
The Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1840, 2736
The Late Nineteenth Century: 1840-1880, 2752
The Turn of the Twentieth Century: 1880-1920, 2786
The Mid-Twentieth Century: 1920-1960, 2803
The Late Twentieth Century: 1960-2000, 2826

Short Fiction Around the World
African Short Fiction, 2845
African American Short Fiction, 2857
Asian American Short Fiction, 2871
Australia and New Zealand Short Fiction, 2888
Canadian Short Fiction, 2898
Chinese Short Fiction, 2908
Irish Short Fiction, 2914
Japanese Short Fiction, 2928
Latin American Short Fiction, 2936
Latino Short Fiction, 2949
Native American Short Fiction, 2960
South Asian Short Fiction, 2972

Research Tools
Major Awards, 2981
The Best American Short Stories, 2983
The O. Henry Awards, 1919-2000, 3015
Short-Fiction Chronology, 3044
Terms and Techniques, 3056
Bibliography, 3069

Geographical Index, CLIX
Category Index, CLXV
Subject Index, CLXXXIII


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