General Foreword JSSE 66
Résumé
This issue (n° 66) of the Journal of the Short Story in English is a double-volume featuring a general section as well as a special section devoted to studies of the Affect and the Short Story and Cycle, the latter under the guest editorship of Paul Ardoin and Fiona McWilliam. We thank them as well as Robert Luscher, specialist of the short-story sequence and guest consultant for this special section, for their active involvement in contributing to research on the short story in English.
Contents of the general section:
Donna White: Is There a Doctor in the House? Rudyard Kipling’s Private Message to Arthur Conan Doyle in “The House Surgeon”
Daniela Janes: Liminality and the Epiphanic Spectrum in Joyce’s Dubliners and Mistry’s Tales from Firozsha Baag
Thomas O’Grady: The Geography of the Imagination: Benedict Kiely’s Dubliners
Timothy K. Nixon: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race in Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “Tony’s Wife”
Brian Jansen: “Betch you’ bootsh!”: Jewish Humour, Jewish Identity, and Yiddish Literary Traditions in Abraham Cahan’s Yekl
Yair Solan: Housebreakers and Peeping Toms: Voyeurism in John Cheever’s Early Suburban Stories