xii, 179 pages ; 24 cm, This book is a series of studies in the modern British and American short story that trace in the scholarship of the last 20 years a consensual core of interpreted meaning in several well-known short stories, Includes bibliographical references, James Joyce : Gabriel and the women of "The Dead" -- D.H. Lawrence : the secrets of "The Rocking-Horse Winner" -- Katherine Mansfield : Mansfield's "Fly" and the vulnerable boss -- Katherine Anne Porter : the contentment of Maria Concepcion -- William Faulkner : praise and learning in the short version of "The Bear" -- Ernest Hemingway : Nick's "Big Two-Hearted River" -- Flannery O'Connor : Pride and prejudice in "The Artificial Nigger" -- Eudora Welty : "Powerhouse" and the mystery of art