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This essay analyzes the treatment by the character of Charlie Marlow of the Western women in the short story "Heart of Darkness," by Joseph Conrad. It describes the attitude of Marlow toward women and those of the sepulchral city who believe the universe to be rational and safe. It also shows the important role of women in the psychological and ontological survival of Marlow, in affording him a sanctuary for his mind as well as refuge from the chaos and indifference of the universe.

The article provides a guide for reading the lyric narrative experiments in Virginia Woolf's short story "Moments of Being: Slater's Pins Have No Points," which is said to capture her fondness for Johannes Bach's fugue. It proposes a dialectic relationship of love between theme and content in the story. It examines two parallel structures in the narrative progression, and how the mimetic and synthetic dimensions work together to enlist readers in the lyric narrative.

Focuses on the spiritual side of the book 'Brightness Falls,' by Mary Butts. Literary tradition of the author; Ability of the author to write in the short story form; Production of modernist contemporaries.

Analyzes the short story 'A Jury of Her Peers,' by Susan Glaspell. Plot of the story; Details of the main characters; Writing style of Glaspell.

Looks into the works of short story writer Sherwood Anderson. Importance of female characters in the story; Sexual desire of the female character; Lack of maturity in the story.

Comments on the plot of the short stories 'The Lady's Maid's Bell' and 'All Souls,' by Edith Wharton. Importance of interior spaces for Wharton; Concept of the stories of Wharton on critical scrutiny; Economic system of the fiction of Wharton.

Analyzes the short story 'The Lesson of the Master,' by Henry James. Writing style used by James in the story; Plot of the story; Details on the characters of the story.

Analyzes the short story 'The Guest,' by Albert Camus. Plot of the story; Characteristics of the story's main character; Views of some critics on the story.

Analyzes the short story 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek,' by Ambrose Bierce. Information on the main character of the story; Focus of the short story; Writing style of Bierce.

Analyzes the short story 'The Bucket Rider,' by Franz Kafka. Writing style of Kafka; Characteristics of the story's main character; Plot of the story.

Focuses on the tale of Nathaniel Hawthorne identified in the short story 'Young Goodman Brown: Hawthorne's Devil in Manuscript,' by James L. Williamson. Substantial distance maintained by the speaker from all the characters; Diabolical figures met by the character of Goodman Brown in his journey; Connection between the speaker and the traveler with the twisted staff.

Explores the metaphorical level in the short story 'The Sun and the Rain' included in the book 'Of Time and the River,' by Thomas Wolfe. Identification of the author with the common man during the 1930s; Focus of the characters on the earthly qualities of the faces of older peasants; Similarity of the peasants on a character of the book 'The Web of the Earth.'

Presents a bibliography of short story explication. 'Dream Sequence,' James Agee; 'Certain Winds From the South,' by Ama Ata Aidoo; 'All the Blood Within Me,' by Kingsley Amis.

Focuses on the ambiguous tone of the short story 'The Destructors' by Graham Greene. Diabolical feat of satanic delinquents; Consistency of the traditional conservative view of history; Consideration of the agent of divine retribution and redemption.

An essay is presented which explores short story criticism. The author notes the appreciation of the American novel and poetry, but states that little critical attention is given to the short story as a literary form. He addresses the influence of writer Edgar Allan Poe's reviews of short stories, as well as the simplification of the short story and emphasis on the alternative definition of prescription and stereotypes. He argues against the connotations of the terms "short" and "story."

Focuses on the crucial difference between the standard form of the tale and the short story. Accounts on the extensive refashioning of the original material; Changes in the order of the basic plot sequence; Expression of the naive view of miracles and salvation.

Interviews poet Joyce Carol Oates. Information about the poet; Views on the styles of writing a short fiction; Remarks of Oates regarding the works of the other poets.

Examines the definition of a theme in Doris Lessing's short fiction. List of the short stories; Emphasis on false dichotomies and divisions; Description of the characters with maintaining self-control.

Examines the meaning of 'chevyssaunce' in the short story 'Shipman's Tale,' by Geoffrey Chaucer. Discussion about the General Prologue portrait of the Merchant; Emphasis on the wife's triumphant recovery in the scene; Inquiry about the merchant's transaction of 'chevyssaunce' in Flanders.

Examines the flaws in the short story 'Babylon Revisited,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Revelation of a monumental editorial error from the prints; Identification of the particular error in an early part of the story; Provisions of the corrected prints.

Examines the descriptive views in the short story 'In Another County,' by Ernest Hemingway. Changes in the author's views from an American soldier to the Italian major midway; Domination of the author in the title allusion to The Jew of Malta; Elaboration of motif images concerned with looking and windows.

Provides several criticisms in the short story 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find,' by Flannery O'Connor. Reasons for choosing the route in family travels as a theme of the story; Description about the Atlanta family; Identification about O'Connor's materialistic and humanistic thoughts.

Provides various interpretations in the short story 'The Turn of the Screw,' by Henry James. Arguments about the governess as a neurotic case of repression; Observation about the atmospheric condition surrounding hallucinations of the story; Assessment on the use of light and sound act of the characters.

Examines the context of motherhood in the short story 'I Stand Here Ironing,' by Tillie Olsen. Description of motherhood as a literary metaphor and experience; Views about the way a mother reconstruct her daughter's past behavior; Realism of the mother's selfhood in the story.

Examines the literary views in the short story 'The Lightning-Rod Man,' by Herman Melville. Interpretations in the strange tale of the lightning-rod salesman; Characterization of the story as a humorous tale and a confrontation between Good and Evil; Analysis on the structure of the tale.

Examines the establishment of Arnold Conrad's first short story 'The Idiots.' Description of the revisions done by Conrad in the story; Intentions of Conrad for releasing the story in the periodical; Assessment about the plot of the story.

Provides critical assessment on the short story 'For Esmé-with Love and Squalor,' by J.D. Salinger. Aspects of love and squalor in the story; Influence of expression in gaining emotional stability; Centrality in human relationship.

Interprets the symbolic repression and sublimation in the short story 'Fedora,' by Kate Chopin. Characterization of Fedora in the story; Depiction of Fedora's buried life through direct narration; Insights of the story.

Evaluates the earthy and magical themes in the short story 'The Magic Barrel,' by Bernard Malamud. Use of contradictory elements in the analogy; Magical and physical characteristics of the character Salzman; Artistic depiction of Pan in the story.

Examines the influence of the short story 'Young Goodman Brown,' on 'Devil in Manuscript,' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Comments of Hawthorne on the vocation of authorship; Presentation on the restraints of decency in the story; Consideration of social and literary conventions to attract popular reading audience.

Explores the criticisms in the short story 'Four Summers,' by Joyce Carol Oates. Combination of women, city and community themes in the story; Depiction of characters having an urban life; Consideration of the story as another version of the American Gothic.

Focuses on the presentation of Biblical and Christian myth in the short story 'That Evening Sun,' by William Faulkner. Emphasis of the story on the loss, change and end of things; Presentation of Quentin as an imperfect reflector and impressionistic recorder of events; Comparison of the story with 'the Sound and the Fury.'

Assesses the artistry of conclusion and criticisms in the short story 'Fire and Cloud,' by Richard Wright. Lack of intrinsic artistic qualities of form which validate a work of art; Depiction of whites and blacks in the ending of the story; Violation in the artistic unity of the original plan.

Presents a stylistic analysis of the short story 'The Vane Sisters,' by Nabokov. Plot and characters of the story; Impact of the work on readers.

Discusses the failure of scholars to consider Shirley Jackson's fictional techniques in short story 'Seven Types of Ambiguity,' such as a possible ruse in the story and the subtle ambiguity based on the ruse and suggested by the story's title. Review of a selection of commentaries on the work; Stylistic analysis of the story; Plot and characters of the story; Impact of the work on readers.

Proposes a different use for the frame section of James' short story 'The Turn of the Screw,' that has been treated as a sort of prolongation of the story. Stylistic analysis of the work; Plot and characters of the story; Features of the frame section.

Presents a stylistic analysis of Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?,' a story of seduction and where spatial limitations are of crucial concern. Plot and characters of the story; Impact of the work on readers.

Discusses how Mark Twain's short story 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' puzzled critics over the problem of reconciling Twain's moralism and determinism. Review of a selection of commentaries on the work; Details on how the story was created; Stylistic analysis of the work; Comparison of the story with the book 'Paradise Lost.'

Discusses the contributions of William Carleton and George Moore to the Anglo-Irish short story. Similarities between Carleton's 'Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry' and Moore's 'The Untilled Field'; Indications that prove Moore read Carleton's works; Sources of Moore for the stories in 'The Untilled Field.'

Discusses the limited number of criticisms published about J.D. Salinger's short story 'The Laughing Man.' Review of a selection of commentaries on the story; Stylistic analysis of the work; Plot and characters of the story; Impact of the story on readers.

Focuses on the marks of apprenticeship in the short story 'A Tragedy of Error,' by Henry James. Criticisms on the actual execution of the adulterous love affair; Accounts on the propensity for violence; Possession of a primitive sense of dignity and fairness.

Focuses on the element of violence evident in the stories of writer Flannery O'Connor. Occurrence of moments of violence or death on or near the last pages; Shift in the use of shock tactics to create an awareness in her audience; Assumption that the readers did not hold the same Christian beliefs as the author have.

Discusses the use of mythic material in the short story 'Livvie,' by Eudora Welty. Association of youth and uniqueness with the character of Persephone; Significance of the picture of a baby for the main character Livvie; Struggle between life and self, or nature and art depicted in the story.

Discusses the important elements in the short stories 'Death in the Woods,' and 'The Egg,' by Sherwood Anderson. Impact of the clumsiness of perspective on the narrator of the first story; Association of ambition with the egg in the second fiction; Symbolism of the egg for the narrator.

Focuses on the mythic aspect of the story 'Christmas Jenny' included in the book 'A New England Nun,' by Mary Wilkins Freeman. Conclusion of the story with a Christmas dinner presided over by the main character; Various sources for the characterization; Use of the biological theories of social Darwinism by the feminist characters.

Discusses the thematic foundation of the short stories written by author José Donoso. Treatment of the writer on certain themes and character types; Prevalence of certain characteristics throughout his prose fiction; Themes of the short stories 'China', 'Santelices' and 'La puerta cerrada.'

Analyzes the style of writer Wilbur Daniel Steele in writing the short story 'Never Anything That Fades….' Appreciation of critics on the deeper meanings found in the mythical patterns of the fiction; Symbolism and myth content of the story; Description on the personality of the characters.

Focuses on the portrayal of a solitary individual in the literary characters of the tales by Flannery O'Connor. Comparison between the characters created by O'Connor and the American gothic characters; Description on the attitudes of the characters in the story 'Wise Blood;' Interpretation on various characters of the story written by O'Connor.

Criticizes the content and literary meaning of the short story 'Assembly Line,' written by B. Traven. Narrative description on the characters of the story; Comparison between the literary works of Traven and Hemingway; Recognition of the short fiction as a fantasy and modern fairy tale depiction.

Comments on the short story 'Entropy' written by Thomas Pynchon. List of stories to influence the context of 'Entropy'; Similarity of the perspectives used in the story 'La Celestina' and 'Entropy'; Structure of 'Entropy'.