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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewedby Dolores MacKenna. Dublin: New Island Books, 1999; Chester Springs, Pennsylvania: Dufour Editions, 1999. 250 pages. $18.95 paper. As William Trevor's long and lustrous writing career moves into its final stages...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedStudents of Elizabeth Bowen's short fiction may want to turn directly to chapter 8 of How Will the Heart Endure, for only in that chapter does Heather Bryant Jordan take a sustained look at Bowen's short stories. Not...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedReaders of Paulson's book might begin with the author's interview with Trevor in Part 2: The Writer. The interview offers a fascinating illustration of the intractability of art in the face of insistent criticism. At...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDepartures by Jennifer C. Cornell. Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. 174 pages. $22.50. Departures, for which Jennifer C. Cornell won the 1994 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, contains a dozen...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFRANK O'CONNOR: NEW PERSPECTIVES edited by Robert C. Evans and Richard Harp. West Cornwall, Connecticut: Locust Hill Press, 1998. 470 pages. $48. Frank O'Connor: New Perspectives is a miscellany of chronology,...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFrom its inception at the turn of the century, the modern Irish short story has been continuously distinguished by a master - a preeminent writer whose work embodies the Irish spirit and reflects the highest literary...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWALKING THE DOG AND OTHER STORIES by Bernard MacLaverty. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. 198 pages. $20. Bernard MacLaverty's fourth collection of stories begins not with a short story but with this vignette:...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTHE COMPOSITE NOVEL: THE SHORT STORY CYCLE IN TRANSITION by Maggie Dunn and Ann Morris. Twayne's Studies in Literary Themes and Genres. New York: Twayne, 1995. xxxi + 192 pages. $23.95 cloth; $14.95 paper. Dunn and...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewedby Ena May. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1998; Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, 1999. 159 pages. $14.95 paper. Dublin actress, playwright and director Ena May has, in this work of fiction, turned her considerable...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBoth the life and the literary career of the Irish writer Sean O'Faolain span the greater part of the twentieth century. Born in 1900, O'Faolain wrote his first stories in the 1920s and published his Collected Stories...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewededited by Michael Steinman. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994. xvi + 406 pages. $45 cloth; $17.50 paper. A Frank O'Connor Reader is a sampler of the great Irish writer's works. It contains 17 stories, four of...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJohn McGahern is an Irish anomaly. The critical view says that, Joyce excepted, Irish writers of fiction - O'Faolain, O'Connor, Lavin, Trevor, Edna O'Brien and others - are writers of short stories who also write...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFrom this late twentieth-century vantage point, it is clear that the Irish are second to none in the art of the modern short story. Recent collected editions of the stories of Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, Elizabeth...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn 1920, in the middle of Ireland's armed rebellion against English rule, Daniel Corkery published The Hounds of Banba, a collection of short stories treating the rebellion. Corkery, an ardent Irish nationalist, wrote...