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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedGerald Vizenor, suggests Louis Owens, is both the most traditional and the least traditional of the Native American authors writing today (Owens, "Ecstatic" 143). An enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa tribe from...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn 1984 several poets and scholars gathered to celebrate the work of Mary Butts, a writer firmly rooted within the same literary tradition that produced the work of her modernist contemporaries. Born in 1890, a...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHistory, our prevailing attitude goes (and this is the particularly cynical view), is for people who choose to live in the past and who have enough time on their hands to study irrelevant, arcane events. Even American...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIt is with sadness that we inform our readers of the death on 23 July 1999 of Dr. William Harwood Peden, professor emeritus of English at the University of Missouri. Dr. Peden was the last surviving member of this...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAlthough Mary Austin has generally come to be perceived as a writer who, as Patrick Murphy summarizes, "gives primacy to nature as a dynamic interactive system in which people can participate if they follow the lead of...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed1 Poor Fitzgerald--forever ensconced in the halls of academe as a writer's version of Oz's Scarecrow: "If he only had a brain." This critical estimate, established by Edmund Wilson in 1922 (27-35), persists today...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSherwood Anderson idealizes Kate Swift as "a tiny goddess on a pedestal" (160) (1) yet seemingly discards her once she has served her purpose. Critics tend to conclude that Anderson fails his female characters; Marilyn...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCritic Andrew Levy points out the importance of the indoors for Wharton: "Indoor metaphors were a leitmotif in her letters, essays, and fiction, and her books on garden architecture and home decor were among her most...