Critical survey of short fiction

v. 1. Lee K. Abbott - Morley Callaghan v. 2. Italo Calvino - Louise Erdrich v. 3. James T. Farrell - W.W. Jacobs v. 4. Henry James - Ezekiel Mphahlele v. 5. Bharati Mukherjee - Mona Simpson v. 6. Isaac Bashevis Singer Mikhail Zoshchenko

v. 7. Theory of short fiction

The detective story

The fable tradition

The science-fiction story

The supernatural story

Short fiction in antiquity

The saga and thattr

The early middle ages

The medieval romance

The renaissance novelle

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

The eighteenth century

The early nineteenth century:1800-1840

The late nineteenth century: 1840-1880

The turn of the twentieth century:1880-1920

The mid-twentieth century: 1920-1960

The late twentieth century:1960-2000

African short fiction

African American short fiction

Asian American short fiction

Australian and New Zealand short fiction

Canadian short fiction

Chinese short fiction

Irish short fiction

Japanese short fiction

Latin American short fiction

Latino short fiction

Native American short fiction

South Asian short fiction.