Tales We Tell

BARBARA LOUNSBERRY is Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar at the University of Northern Iowa. Her books include The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction (Greenwood, 1990), The Writer in You (1992), and Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Literature of Reality (1996), edited with Gay Talese.SUSAN LOHAFER is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. Her books include Coming to Terms with the Short Story (1983) and the coedited volume Short Story Theory at a Crossroads (1989). She has published short stories of her own and was the first elected president of the Society for the Study of the Short Story.MARY ROHRBERGER is Professor of English in Residence at the University of New Orleans. She is the author or editor of a dozen books in the area of prose fiction, the majority on the short story. She is the founder and editor of the journal Short Story and the founder and Executive Director of the biannual International Conference on the Short Story in English.STEPHEN PETT is Associate Professor of English at Iowa State University. He is the author of Sirens (1990), a novel, and Pulpit of Bones (1984), a book of poems. His short stories have been published in a number of journals, cited in Best American Short Stories, and have been honored with numerous awards. He is the editor of Flyway, a literary review.R.C. FEDDERSEN is a doctoral candidate in literature at Oklahoma State University. He has long had special interest in the short story and has worked as Assistant Editor of Short Story as well as Assistant Coordinator for both the second and third International Conferences on the Short Story in English. His publications include an interview with W. P. Kinsella.

• Introduction by Susan Lohafer A Novel Perspective: "It's a Short Story" by John Barth Form and the Short Story How Minimal Is Minimalism? by Ewing Campbell Social Critique and Story Technique in the Fiction of Raymond Carver by Hilary Siebert Picturing Ann Beattie by Susan Jaret McKinstry The One and the Many: Canadian Short Story Cycles by Gerald Lynch History and Place The Origins and Art of the Short Story by Joyce Carol Oates They All Laughed When I Sat Down to Write: Chaucer, Jokes, and the Short Story by Barry Sanders Southern Women Reconstruct the South: Limit as Aesthetic in the Short Story by Barbra C. Ewell The Place of (and Place in) the Anglophone African Short Story by Roger Berger Generic Variations on a Colonial topos by Ian Reid Roles and Genres Breaking Down the Boundaries: "A Conversation with Leslie Marmon Silko" Poe's Legacy: The Story Writer as Editor and Critic by Ann Charters "Stories with Real Names": Narrative Journalism and History by Gay Talese Story in the Narrative Essay by Mary Swander Hemingway's "Indian Camp": Story into Film by H. R. Stoneback An Unfilmable Conclusion: Joyce Carol Oates at the Movies by Brenda O. Daly Cognition and the Short Story Storying in Hyperspace: "Linkages" by Robert Coover HyperStory: Teaching Short Fiction with Computers by Charles May Interdisciplinary Thoughts on Cognitive Science by Susan Lohafer A Map of Psychological Approaches to Story Memory by Steven R. Yussen Short Story Structure and Affect: Evidence from Cognitive Psychology by William F. Brewer "Story Liking" and Moral Resolution by Paul E. Jose Deixis in Short Fiction: The Contribution of Deictic Shift Theory to Reader Experience of Literary Fiction by Erwin M. Segal The Future of the Short Story Telling It Again: "Ruminating with W. P. Kinsella" The Way We Write Now: The Reality of AIDS in Contemporary Short Fiction by Sharon Oard Warner The Future of the Short Story: A Tentative Approach by Claire Larriere Where Do We Go From Here?: The Future of the Short Story by Mary Rohrberger Speaking of Writing: "Spies With Music" by Barry Hannah Bibliography Contributors Index