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Jackson, Shirley
The Lottery
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Chopin, Kate
Regret
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Chopin, Kate
Desiree’s Baby
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins The Yellow Wallpaper
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Rowlandson, Mary
Captivity Narrative of Mary Rowlandson
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Melville, Herman
Bartleby the Scrivener
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Melville, Herman
Benito Cereno
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Crane, Stephen
The Open Boat
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Saroyan, William
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
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Steinbeck, John
The Chrysanthemums
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Walker, Alice
Everyday Use
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Walker, Alice
To Hell with Dying
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Walker, Alice
Roselily
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Updike, John
A&P
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Twain, Mark
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County
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Twain, Mark
The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
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Poe, Edgar Allan
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Shirley Jackson
1. Cleveland, Carol. "Shirley Jackson." And Then There Were Nine ... More Women of Mystery. Ed. Jane S.
Bakerman Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1985. 199-219. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary
Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz and Cathy Falk. Vol. 60. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. Literature Resource
Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
2. GRIFFIN, AMY A. "Jackson's THE LOTTERY." The Explicator. (Vol. 58). .1 (Fall 1999): p44. Literature
Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
3. Hicks, Jennifer. "Overview of 'The Lottery'." Short Stories for Students. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Literature
Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
4. Hrebik, Dale. "Shirley Jackson." American Short-Story Writers Since World War II: Third Series. Ed.
Patrick Meanor and Richard E. Lee. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 234. Detroit: Gale Group,
2001. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
5. Meyers, Diana Tietjens. "The Unnatural Lottery: Character and Moral Luck." Signs. (Vol. 24). .1 (Autumn
1998): p273. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
6. Nebeker, Helen E. "'The Lottery': Symbolic Tour de Force." American Literature. 46.1 (Mar. 1974): 100107. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Christopher Giroux and Brigham Narins. Vol. 87.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
7. Oehlschlaeger, Fritz. "The Stoning of Mistress Hutchinson: Meaning and Context in 'The Lottery'."
Essays in Literature. 15.2 (Fall 1988): 259-265. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz
and Cathy Falk. Vol. 60. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles
Public Library.
8. Schaub, Danielle. "Shirley Jackson's Use of Symbols in 'The Lottery.'." Journal of the Short Story in
English. 14 (Spring 1990): 79-86. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Thomas J.
Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 187. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Literature Resource Center. Gale.
Los Angeles Public Library.
9. Wagner-Martin, Linda. "The Lottery: Overview." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson.
Detroit: St. James Press, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
Kate Chopin
1. Erickson, Jon. "Fairytale Features in Kate Chopin's 'Désirée's Baby,'." Modes of Narrative: Approaches
to American, Canadian and British Fiction. Ed. Reingard M. Nischik and Barbara Korte Konigshausen &
Neumann, 1990. 57-64. Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Jennifer Smith. Vol. 13. Detroit: Gale
Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
2. Foy, Roslyn Reso. "Chopin's 'Désirée's Baby'." The Explicator. 49.4 (Summer 1991): 222-223. Rpt. in
Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center.
Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
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3. Inge, Tonette Bond and William E. Grant. "Katherine Chopin." American Short-Story Writers, 18801910. Ed. Bobby Ellen Kimbel and William E. Grant. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 78. Detroit:
Gale Research, 1989. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
4. Korb, Rena. "Critical Essay on "Désirée's Baby"." Short Stories for Students. Ed. Jennifer Smith. Vol. 13.
Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
5. McCullough, Kate. "Kate Chopin and (Stretching) the Limits of Local Color Fiction." Regions of Identity:
The Construction of America in Women's Fiction, 1885-1914. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press,
1999. 185-226. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Janet Witalec. Vol. 127. Detroit: Gale,
2002. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
6. Miner, Madonne M. "Désirée's Baby: Overview." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson.
Detroit: St. James Press, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
7. Toth, Emily. "Kate Chopin and Literary Convention: 'Désirée's Baby,'." in Southern Studies. 20.2
(Summer 1981): 201-208. Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Jennifer Smith. Vol. 13. Detroit: Gale
Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
8. Toth, Emily. "Kate Chopin's New Orleans Years." New Orleans Review. 15.1 (Spring 1988): 53-60. Rpt.
in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center.
Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
9. Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. "Kate Chopin and the fiction of limits: "Desiree's Baby"." The Southern Literary
Journal. (Vol. 10). .2 (Spring 1978): p123. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1. Feldstein, Richard. "Reader, Text, and Ambiguous Referentiality in 'The Yellow Wall-Paper.'." The
Captive Imagination: A Casebook on "The Yellow Wallpaper". Ed. Catherine Golden. New York: Feminist
Press, 1992. 307-318. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 201. Detroit: Gale, 2008.
Literature Resource Center.
2. Purinton, Marjean D. "Reading Marital Relationships: The Wallpaper in A Room of One's Own." The
Pedagogical Wallpaper: Teaching Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper,". Ed. Jeffrey
Andrew Weinstock. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. 94-111. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena O.
Krstovic. Vol. 139. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Literature Resource Center.
3. Knight, Denise D. "'I am getting angry enough to do something desperate': The Question of
Female 'Madness.'." "The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition.
Ed. Shawn St. Jean. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. 73-87. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary
Criticism. Vol. 201. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center.
4. Montgomerie, Anne. "'The Yellow Wall Paper.'." Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper": A
Sourcebook and Critical Edition. Ed. Catherine J. New York: Routledge, 2004. 82. Rpt. in TwentiethCentury Literary Criticism. Vol. 201. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center.
5. Hume, Beverly A. "Managing Madness in Gilman's 'The Yellow Wall-Paper.'." Studies in American
Fiction 30.1 (Spring 2002): 3-20. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow.
Vol. 228. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Literature Resource Center.
6. Newberry, Frederick. "Male Doctors and Female Illness in American Women's Fiction, 1850-1900."
Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930. Ed. Monika M.
Elbert. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000. 143-157. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Criticism. Ed. Marie C. Toft and Russel Whitaker. Vol. 139. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource
Center.
7. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'?" Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The
Yellow Wall-Paper": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition. Ed. Catherine J. Golden. New York: Routledge,
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2004. 45-47. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 201. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature
Resource Center.
8. Hume, Beverly A. "Managing madness in Gilman's 'The Yellow Wall-Paper'." Studies in American Fiction
30.1 (2002): 3+. Literature Resource Center.
Mary Rowlandson
1. Boswell, Parley Ann. "Mary White Rowlandson Remembers Captivity: A Mother's Anguish, a Woman's
Voice." Women's Life-Writing: Finding Voice/Building Community. Ed. Linda S. Coleman. Bowling Green
State University Popular Press, 1997. 109-118. Rpt. in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Ed.
Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 66. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Literature Resource
Center.
2. Lang, Amy Schrager. "Mary Rowlandson." American Women Prose Writers to 1820. Ed. Carla Mulford,
Angela Vietto, and Amy E. Winans. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol.
200. Literature Resource Center.
3. Neuwirth, Steven. "Her Master's Voice: Gender, Speech, and Gendered Speech in the Narrative of the
Captivity of Mary White Rowlandson." Sex and Sexuality in Early America. Ed. Merril D. Smith. New
York University Press, 1998. 55-86. Rpt. in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Ed. Thomas J.
Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 66. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center.
4. Newman, Andrew. "Captive on the literacy frontier: Mary Rowlandson, James Smith, and Charles
Johnson." Early American Literature 38.1 (2003): 31+. Literature Resource Center.
5. VanDerBeets, Richard. "Mary Rowlandson." American Colonial Writers, 1606-1734. Ed. Emory Elliott.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1984. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 24. Literature Resource Center.
6. Wesley, Marilyn C. "Moving targets: the travel text in 'A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.'." Essays in Literature 23.1 (1996): 42+. Literature Resource Center.
Herman Melville
1. Coviello, Peter. "The American in charity: "Benito Cereno" and gothic anti-sentimentality." Studies in
American Fiction. (Vol. 30). .2 (Autumn 2002): p155. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles
Public Library.
2. Davis, Todd F. "The Narrator's Dilemma in "Bartleby the Scrivener": The Excellently Illustrated Restatement of a Problem." Studies in Short Fiction. (Vol. 34). .2 (Spring 1997): p183. Literature Resource
Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
3. Elliott, Mark. "An overview of 'Bartleby the Scrivener." Short Stories for Students. Detroit: Gale, 2002.
Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
4. Giles, Todd. "Melville's Bartleby, The Scrivener." The Explicator. (Vol. 65). .2 (Winter 2007): p88.
Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
5. Goldleaf, Steven. "Bartleby, The Scrivener: Overview." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle
Watson. Detroit: St. James Press, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
6. Gupta, R. K. "'Bartleby': Melville's Critique of Reason." Indian Journal of American Studies. 4.1-2 (
1974): 66-71. Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Kathleen Wilson. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 1998.
Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
7. Manheim, Dan. "Melville's Benito Cereno." The Explicator. (Vol. 63). .3 (Spring 2005): p151. Literature
Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
8. Martin, Terry J. "The idea of nature in "Benito Cereno."." Studies in Short Fiction. (Vol. 30). .2 (Spring
1993): p161. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
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9. Meyer, Joseph Matthew. "Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener." The Explicator. (Vol. 64). .2 (Winter
2006): p84. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
10. Reiss, Benjamin D. "Madness and mastery in Melville's "Benito Cereno." (Herman Melville)." Criticism.
(Vol. 38). .1 (Winter 1996): p115. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
11. Rohrberger, Mary. "Benito Cereno: Overview." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson.
Detroit: St. James Press, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
12. Wenke, John. "Herman Melville." Antebellum Writers in New York: Second Series. Ed. Kent P.
Ljungquist. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 250. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. Literature Resource
Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
13. Wilson, Robert Andrew. "Sympathy for the lawyer: a source for "Bartleby" and nineteenth-century
prison reform." ANQ. (Vol. 21). .4 (Fall 2008): p24. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public
Library.
Stephen Crane
1. "The Open Boat." Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature
Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
2. Bender, Bert. "The Nature and Significance of 'Experience' in 'The Open Boat'." The Journal of Narrative
Technique. 9.2 (Spring 1979): 70-80. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70.
Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
3. Berryman, Ralph Ross John and Allen Tate. "Stephen Crane: The Open Boat." The Arts of Reading. New
York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1960. 254-288. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano.
Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
4. Ditsky, John. "The Music in 'The Open Boat'." NDQ: North Dakota Quarterly. 56.1 (Winter 1988): 119130. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature
Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
5. Eye, Stefanie Bates. "Fact, Not Fiction: Questioning Our Assumptions about Crane's 'The Open Boat'."
Studies in Short Fiction. 35.1 (Fall 1998): 65-76. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol.
70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
6. Frederick, John T. "The Fifth Man in 'The Open Boat'." The CEA Critic. 30.7 (Apr. 1968): 1. Rpt. in Short
Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale.
Los Angeles Public Library.
7. Frus, Phyllis. "Two Tales 'Intended to Be after the Fact': 'Stephen Crane's Own Story' and 'The Open
Boat.'." Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy. Ed. Chris Anderson Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press, 1989. 125-151. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 129.
Detroit: Gale, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
8. Knapp, Bettina L. "Tales of Adventure." Stephen Crane. Ungar Publishing Company, 1987. 145-162. Rpt.
in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Kathleen Wilson and Marie Lazzari. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1998.
Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
9. Marcus, Mordecai. "The Three-Fold View of Nature in 'The Open Boat'." Philological Quarterly. 61.2
(Apr. 1962): 511-515. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004.
Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
10. Metress, Christopher. "From Indifference to Anxiety: Knowledge and the Reader in 'The Open Boat.'."
Studies in Short Fiction. 28.1 (Winter 1991): 47-53. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Janet Witalec. Vol.
56. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
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11. Metzger, Charles R. "Realistic Devices in Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat'." The Midwest Quarterly. 4.1
(Oct. 1962): 47-54. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004.
Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
12. Meyers, Robert. "Crane's 'The Open Boat'." The Explicator. 21.8 (Apr. 1963): 60. Rpt. in Short Story
Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los
Angeles Public Library.
13. Monteiro, George. "Text and Picture in 'The Open Boat'." Journal of Modern Literature. 11.2 (July
1984): 307-311. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004.
Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
14. Monteiro, George. "The Logic Beneath 'The Open Boat'." The Georgia Review. 25.3 (Fall 1972): 326335. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature
Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
15. Nagel, James. "The Narrative Method of 'The Open Boat'." Revue Des Langues Vivantes. ( 1973): 409417. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature
Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
16. Nagel, James. "The Open Boat: Overview." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson.
Detroit: St. James Press, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
17. Schirmer, Gregory A. "Becoming Interpreters: The Importance of Tone in Crane's 'The Open Boat'."
American Literary Realism. 15.2 (Autumn 1982): 221-231. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph
Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
18. Spofford, William K. "Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat'." American Literary Realism. 12.2 (Autumn
1979): 316-321. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004.
Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
19. Stappenbeck, Herb. "Crane's 'The Open Boat'." The Explicator. 34.1 (Feb. 1976): 41. Rpt. in Short Story
Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los
Angeles Public Library.
William Saroyan
1. Keeler, Greg. "William Saroyan." American Short-Story Writers, 1910-1945: First Series. Ed. Bobby Ellen
Kimbel. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 86. Literature Resource
Center.
2. Sharma, J. N. "William Saroyan: Overview." Reference Guide to American Literature. Ed. Jim Kamp. 3rd
ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994. Literature Resource Center.
3. Waldmeir, John C. "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze: Overview." Reference Guide to Short
Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994. Literature Resource Center.
John Steinbeck
1. Bily, Cynthia. "The Chrysanthemums." Short Stories for Students. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Literature
Resource Center.
2. Busch, Christopher S. "Longing for the Lost Frontier: Steinbeck's Vision of Cultural Decline in 'The White
Quail' and 'The Chrysanthemums'." Steinbeck Quarterly 26.3 & 4 (Summer-Fall 1993): 81-90. Rpt. in
Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 77. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literature Resource Center.
3. Ditsky, John. "A Kind of Play: Dramatic Elements in Steinbeck's 'The Chrysanthemums'." Wascana
Review 21.1 (Spring 1986): 62-72. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Anja Barnard and Anna SheetsNesbitt. Vol. 37. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. Literature Resource Center.
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4. Higdon, David Leon. "The Chrysanthemums: Overview." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle
Watson. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994. Literature Resource Center.
5. Hughes, Robert S., Jr. "Steinbeck, the Short Story Writer." Steinbeck's Short Stories in The Long Valley:
Essays in Criticism. Ed. Tetsumaro Hayashi. Muncie, Ind.: Ball State University Steinbeck Monograph
Series, 1991. 78-89. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 135. Detroit: Gale, 2010.
Literature Resource Center.
6. Palmerino, Gregory J. "Steinbeck's 'The Chrysanthemums'." The Explicator 62.3 (2004): 164+. Literature
Resource Center.
7. Sullivan, Ernest W., II. "The Cur in 'The Chrysanthemums'." Studies in Short Fiction 16.3 (Summer 1979):
215-217. Rpt. in Literature Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Literature Resource Center.
Alice Walker
1. Andrews, Carol M. "Hyphenated Identity in "Good Country People" and "Everyday Use"." Shenandoah.
(Vol. 60). .1-2 (Spring-Fall 2010): p133. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
2. Brent, Liz. "Critical Essay on "Roselily"." Short Stories for Students. Ed. Jennifer Smith. Vol. 11. Detroit:
Gale Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
3. Farrell, Susan. "Fight vs. Flight: a re-evaluation of Dee in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"." Studies in
Short Fiction. (Vol. 35). .2 (Spring 1998): p179. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public
Library.
4. Farrell, Susan. "Fight vs. Flight: A Re-Evaluation of Dee in Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use.'." Studies in
Short Fiction. 35.2 (Spring 1998): 179-186. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 97.
Detroit: Gale, 2007. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
5. Gruesser, John. "Walker's 'Everyday Use.'." Explicator. 61.3 (Spring 2003): 183-185. Rpt. in Short Story
Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 97. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los
Angeles Public Library.
6. Hoel, Helga. "Personal Names and Heritage: Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use.'." American Studies in
Scandinavia. 31.1 ( 1999): 34-42. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 97. Detroit:
Gale, 2007. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
7. Hollister, Michael. "Tradition in Alice Walker's 'To Hell with Dying.'." Studies in Short Fiction. 26.1
(Winter 1989): 90-94. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 97. Detroit: Gale, 2007.
Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
8. Hubbard, Dolan. "Society and Self in Alice Walker's In Love and Trouble." American Women Short Story
Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Julie Brown New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. 209233. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 97. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Literature
Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
9. Korb, Rena. "Critical Essay on "Roselily"." Short Stories for Students. Ed. Jennifer Smith. Vol. 11.
Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
10. Piedmont-Marton, Elisabeth. "An overview of “Everyday Use”." Short Stories for Students. Detroit:
Gale, 2002. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
11. Snyder, Phillip A. "To Hell with Dying: Overview." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson.
Detroit: St. James Press, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
12. Tate, Claudia C. ""Everyday Use" by Alice Walker." African American Review. (Vol. 30). .2 (Summer
1996): p308. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
13. Whitsitt, Sam. "In Spite of It All: A Reading of Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"." African American Review.
(Vol. 34). .3 (Fall 2000): p443. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
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John Updike
1. Blodgett, Harriet. "Updike's A&P." The Explicator. (Vol. 61). .4 (Summer 2003): p236. Literature
Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
2. Ferriss, Lucy. "Uncle Charles repairs to the A&P: changes in voice in the recent American short story."
Narrative. (Vol. 16). .2 (May 2008): p178. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
3. Kellner, Bruce. "A&P: Overview." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson. Detroit: St.
James Press, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
4. Porter, M. Gilbert. "John Updike's 'A & P': The Establishment and an Emersonian Cashier." English
Journal. 61.(Nov. 1972): 1155-1158. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Anna J. Sheets. Vol. 27. Detroit:
Gale Research, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
Mark Twain
1. Tritt, Michael. "Twain's 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' and Stowe's Oldtown Folks." Explicator.
62.1 (Fall 2003): 19-21. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J.
Trudeau. Vol. 87. Detroit: Gale, 2006. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
2. Tritt, Michael. "Twain's 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' and Stowe's Oldtown Folks." Explicator.
62.1 (Fall 2003): 19-21. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J.
Trudeau. Vol. 87. Detroit: Gale, 2006. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
3. "An overview of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”." Short Stories for Students.
Detroit: Gale, 2002. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
4. Rosenblum, Joseph. "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: Overview." Reference Guide to
Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson. Detroit: St. James Press, Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los
Angeles Public Library.
5. "The Emergence of the Short Story in the Nineteenth Century." Nineteenth-Century Literature
Criticism. Ed. Russel Whitaker. Vol. 140. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los
Angeles Public Library.
6. Gribben, Alan. "Samuel Langhorne Clemens." American Short-Story Writers Before 1880. Ed. Bobby
Ellen Kimbel and William E. Grant. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 74. Detroit: Gale Research,
1988. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
7. "Overview: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"." Short Stories for Students. Ed.
Kathleen Wilson. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public
Library.
8. "Overview: “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”." Characters in 19th-Century
Literature. Ed. Kelly King Howes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los
Angeles Public Library.
9. "Overview: “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”." Literature and Its Times: Profiles of
300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them. Joyce Moss and George
Wilson. Vol. 2: Civil Wars to Frontier Societies (1800-1880s). Detroit: Gale, 1997. Literature Resource
Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library.
Edgar Allan Poe
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GALE Guide to Conducting Literary Research is located at
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/term_paper/index.htm.
Internet Public Library Literary. Criticism Pathfinder is located at http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/.
Literature and its times : profiles of 300 notable literary works and the historical events that influenced
them. Detroit: Gale, c1997. (available in GHCHS library -reference)
Magill's survey of American literature. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp, c1991-c1994. (available in
GHCHS library -reference)
Modern American literature. Detroit: St. James Press, c1999. (available in GHCHS library -reference)
Poetry for students : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied poetry.. Farmington
Hills, MI: Gale Group/Thomson Learning, 2002. (available in GHCHS library -reference)
Short stories for students : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories.
Detroit: Gale, c1997. (available in GHCHS library -reference)
Literary Analysis Custom Search Engine is located on the library blog at www.vlcspear.blogspot.com. Look
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Academic of American Poets: Searchable database of American poets including articles and biographical
information.
American Poems.com: Full text and biographical essays for many American poets. Includes a comments
blog for each poem with comments from previous readers. Site does have ads so press the back key or
click on skip ad to get rid of pop ups
American Verse Project - Organization for the acquisition, creation and maintenance of electronic texts.
Includes a bibliography and a mission statement.
Anthology of Poetry - Includes about 650 poems by 117 great poets organized in alphabetical order by
poet. Primarily British poets with some American poets as well.
Bibliomania Poetry Archive - An archive of public domain poetry texts including the works of Blake, Rupert
Brooke and Oscar Wilde. Requires JavaScript.
British Poetry 1780-1910 - A hypertext archive of scholarly editions from the Electronic Text Center,
University of Virginia.
Canadian Poetry Archive - Selected poems from over 100 early Canadian poets in both English and French.
Categorized Poetry by Pros - Collection of mostly humorous but sometimes sentimental poetry by authors
such as Housman, Herrick, Cope, and Chesterton, sorted by categories such as Advice, Animals, Death, and
War.
Classic Poetry Treasure Chest - Search thousands of poems by title, first line, or poet. Full texts, extracts,
and forums.
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CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse - Searchable archive of online texts from a wide range of recognized
poets, both historical and contemporary.
The Compendium - Personal collection of classic and contemporary poems, indexed by both author and
title.
Contemporary American Poetry Archive - Archive of out-of-print collections of contemporary American
poetry, indexed alphabetically by poet name.
Digital Poets Society - Large searchable collection of classic poetry including Blake, Eliot, Shakespeare and
Wilde. Includes related links.
Dream Wine - Ongoing anthology with traditional and translated works from poets such as William Carlos
Williams and A.A. Milne.
eMule.com: Poetry Archives - Educational resource dedicated to researching poetry. Includes an online
archive of poetry by numerous recognized poets.
EveryPoet.com - Archive of World Poetry - Classic poetry from around the world. Mostly British and
American.
Internet Poetry Archive - Collection of poems by six contemporary poets: Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney,
Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker and Yusef Komunyakaa.
LionHeart - Searchable collection of love poems spanning four centuries of literature. Also indexed by poet
name.
Our Favorite Poems - Eclectic personal selection of public domain texts of poems from a wide range of
authors.
Plagiarist.com Poetry Archive - Personal collection of favourite works by poets including Leonard Cohen,
T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg.
Poem of the Week - Archive of past offerings indexed by poet, first line, title and occasion. Includes
submission guidelines and related links.
The Poem Tree - Traditional and contemporary metered poetry, with critical essays and links.
Poems, Short Stories, Quotes - A small collection of poems, short stories, and quotes.
Poetic Miscellany - Includes selections by Shakespeare, Keats and Tennyson in addition to a personal
poetry archive and related links.
Poetry - Collection of assorted poems indexed by author, title, first line and keywords.
Poetry 180 - A poem a day provided by the Library of Congress, one for each of the 180 days of a typical
American high school year.
Poetry Archive - Directory-structured database of famous poetry, both written in English and translated.
Poetry In Translation - An electronic archive of browsable and downloadable English translations of major
European and Chinese Classical poets. Also offers original works by A.S. Kline.
The Poetry Place - Personal archive of poems from poets including Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling and
Emily Dickinson. Includes pictures and artwork.
Poetry X » Poems - Large poetry archive featuring classic and contemporary poems along with
commentary and analysis.
Poetry.com.au - Archive of classic poetry, including original poetic works by independent writers. Includes
links to related resources.
Poetry Foundation: Search for poetry by theme or name of poet. Archive is added to consistently with new
21st century poets. Choose the articles link to go to essays on specific poets and poems.
Representative Poetry Online - Collection of poetry, edited by members of the Department of English at
the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present. Indexed by poet, title and first line. If you are looking
for a specific theme or subject, use keyword search to find an appropriate poem.
Short Story & Poetry
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A Small Anthology of Poems - Wide variety of poems that are annotated and/or introduced with
commentary and author biographical information.
35. World Wide School: Literature-Poetry - Collection of rare and popular works including "Ballad of Reading
Gaol", by Oscar Wilde and "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll. ETexts are organized by the title of
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NOTE: THIS IS A PARTIAL LIST. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF SITES DEVOTED TO SPECIFIC
POETS. USE THE LITERARY ANALYSIS SEARCH ENGINE ON THE BLOG TO FIND SITES
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