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A Novel Perspective - "It's a Short Story", John Barth. Part 1 Form andthe Short Story: How Minimal is Minimalism?, Ewing Campbell; Social Critiqueand Story Technique in the Fiction of Raymond Carver, Hilary Siebert;Picturing Ann Beattie, Susan Jaret McKinstry; The One and the Many - CanadianShort Story Cycles, Gerald Lynch. Part 2 History and Place: The Origins andArt of the Short Story, Joyce Carol Oates; They All Laughed When I Sat Downto Write - Chaucer, Jokes and the Short Story, Barry Sanders; Southern WomenReconstruct the South - Limit as Aesthetic in the Short Story, Barbra C.Ewell; The Place of (and Place In) the Anglophone African Short Story, RogerBerger; Generic Variations on a Colonial Topos, Ian Reid. Part 3 Roles andGenres: Breaking Down the Boundaries - "A Conversation with Leslie MarmonSilko"; Poe's Legacy - the Story Writer as Editor and Critic, Ann Charters;"Stories with Real Names" - Narrative Journalism and History, Gay Talese;Story in the Narrative Essay, Mary Swander; Hemingway's "Indian Camp" - Storyinto Film, H.R. Stoneback; An Unfilmable Conclusion - Joyce Carol Oates atthe Movies, Brenda O. Daly. Part 4 Cognition and the Short Story: TeachingShort Fiction with Computers, Charles May; Interdisciplinary Thoughts onCognitive Science, Susan Lohafer; A Map of Psychological Approaches to StoryMemory, Steven R. Yussen; Short Story Structure and Affect - Evidence fromCognitive Psychology, William F. Brewer; "Story Liking" and Moral Resolution,Paul E. Jose; Deixis in Short Fiction - the Contribution of Deictic ShiftTheory to Reader Experience of Literary Fiction, Erwin M. Segal. Part 5 TheFuture of the Short Story: Telling It Again - "Ruminating with W.P.Kinsella"; The Way We Write Now - the Reality of AIDS in Contemporary ShortFiction, Sharon Oard Warner; The Future of the Short Story - a TentativeApproach, Claire Larriere; Where Do We Go From Here? - the Future of theShort Story, Mary Rohrberger; Speaking of Writing - "Spies With Music", BarryHannah.