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This is a useful compendium of reviews of classic short stories, stories that are a staple of introductory literature courses in high school and college classrooms. From Ann Beattie to Eudora Welty, and including Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Joyce, Melville, Poe, and others, the stories are presented through their commentaries in scholarly journals and contemporary periodicals. The volume is introduced by its editors, who present an extended glossary of some of the traditional and current critical approaches to narrative, such as thematic, formalist, psychoanalytic, archetypal, Marxist, structuralist, feminist, deconstruction, reader-response, new historicist, multicultural, and postmodern. The reviews that make up the volume are correlated to these critical synopses, and together provide a helpful aid for teachers and students. Recommended for general and college libraries. B. Harlow; University of Texas at Austin