Critical contexts. The short story cycle in American fiction / Jennifer J. Smith ; The mystery of existence: the American short story in criticism and theory / Nicholas Birns ; Postcolonial literature post-Proulx : how a border-crossing short story writer reconditions the category / Hannah Jocelyn ; The metafiction of Tim O'Brien and Richard Russo / Stacy Esch
Critical readings. Knowledge and power in Henry James' "In the Cage" / Linda Simon ; "The Blue Hotel" and Stephen Crane's American violence / Marc Dziak ; "A Study in Pain" : musical variations and Ernest Hemingway's "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" / Nicole J. Camastra ; Famine in the cabin : reading the hungry in Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children / McKinley E. Melton ; "The Country in the Woman" : "voice" in a "new" story by Zora Neale Hurston and the revival of formalist criticism / Robert C. Evans ; The "vanishing American" : remembering Weldon Kees' short fiction / Ola Madhour ; Girls in search of a viable identity in Eudora Welty's The golden apples / Imola Bulgozdi ; Identity and globalization in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Unaccustomed Earth" / Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis ; Sherman Alexie's defiant brand of humor in Blasphemy / Tara E. Friedman ; Reading short short stories, seriously / Randall Brown.