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Preface

N
amed “one of the twenty-five most distinguished reference titles published during the past twenty-five years” by Reference Quarterly, the Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) series provides readers with critical commentary and general information on more than 2,000 authors now living or who died after December 31, 1999. Volumes published from 1973 through 1999 include authors who died after December 31, 1959. Previous to the publication of the first volume of CLC in 1973, there was no ongoing digest monitoring scholarly and popular sources of critical opinion and explication of modern literature. CLC, therefore, has fulfilled an essential need, particularly since the complexity and variety of contemporary literature makes the function of criticism especially important to today’s reader.

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Authors are selected for inclusion for a variety of reasons, among them the publication or dramatic production of a critically acclaimed new work, the reception of a major literary award, revival of interest in past writings, or the adaptation of a literary work to film or television.

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Each CLC volume contains individual essays and reviews taken from hundreds of book review periodicals, general magazines, scholarly journals, monographs, and books. Entries include critical evaluations spanning from the beginning of an author’s career to the most current commentary. Interviews, feature articles, and other published writings that offer insight into the author’s works are also presented. Students, teachers, librarians, and researchers will find that the general critical and biographical material in CLC provides them with vital information required to write a term paper, analyze a poem, or lead a book discussion group. In addition, complete biographical citations note the original source and all of the information necessary for a term paper footnote or bibliography.

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  • © The Author Heading cites the name under which the author most commonly wrote, followed by birth and death dates. Also located here are any name variations under which an author wrote, including transliterated forms for authors whose native languages use nonroman alphabets. If the author wrote consistently under a pseudonym, the pseudonym will be listed in the author heading and the author’s actual name given in parenthesis on the first line of the biographical and critical information. Uncertain birth or death dates are indicated by question marks. Singlework entries are preceded by a heading that consists of the most common form of the title in English translation (if applicable) and the original date of composition.
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    • sion.—New Criterion, v. 21, September 2002. Copyright © 2002 by The Foundation for Cultural Review. Reproduced by permission.—The New Leader, v. 64, February 9, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by The American Labor Conference on International Affairs, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The New Republic, v. 181, November 10, 1979; v. 184, January 24, 1981; v. 196, June 8, 1987; v. 224, April 30, 2001. Copyright © 1979, 1981, 1987, 2001 by The New Republic, Inc. All reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New York Review of Books, v. 30, December 22, 1983; v. 36, March 16, 1989; v. 47, December 21, 2000. Copyright © 1983, 1989, 2000 by NYREV, Inc. All reprinted with permission from The New York Review of Books.—Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature, v. 40, winter, 2004. Copyright © 2004 by The Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Reproduced by permission.—The Progressive, v. 38, September 1, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by The Progressive, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The Progressive, 409 East Main Street, Madison, WI 53703, www.progressive.org.— Publishers Weekly, v. 250, June 23, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Reed Publishing USA.. Reproduced from Publishers Weekly, published by the Bowker Magazine Group of Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Publishing USA., by permission.—Quadrant, v. 39, November, 1995 for “A Good Man to Have Around” by George Thomas; v. 47, January-February, 2003 for “Bungling on Side in America” by George Thomas. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Reason, v. 23, March 1, 1992. Copyright 1992 by Reason Foundation, 3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90034, www.reason.com. Reproduced by permission.—Renaissance Quarterly, v. 42, spring, 1989; v. 50, spring, 1997. Both reproduced by permission.—Revue Française D’Études Américaines, March, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—The Sewanee Review, v. 98, winter, 1990; v. 105, summer, 1997. Copyright © 1990, 1997 by The University of the South. Both reproduced with permission of the editor.—The Southern Literary Journal, v. 24, fall, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission.—The Southern Quarterly,v.30, summer, 1992; v. 37, spring-summer, 1999. Copyright © 1992, 1999 by the University of Southern Mississippi. Both reproduced by permission.—Spectator, October 18, 1975; April 12, 1975; v. 252, January 14, 1984; v. 259, November 7, 1987; v. 280, March 7, 1998. Copyright © 1975, 1984, 1987, 1998 by The Spectator. Reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Times Literary Supplement, June 15, 1984; April 27, 1989; October 13, 1989; v. 38, April 20, 2001; October 25, 2002. Copyright © 1984, 1989, 2001, 2002 by The Times Supplements Limited. All reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—The Virginia Quarterly Review, v. 64, spring, 1988. Copyright 1988, by The Virginia Quarterly Review, The University of Virginia. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—The Washington Post Book World, v. 207, June 30, 1974 for “Most Detestable of All Permitted Things” by Sonya Rudikoff. Copyright © 1974, Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. Reproduced by permission of the literary estate of Sonya Rudikoff./v. 13, October 9, 1983 for a review of “The Middle of My Tether” by Robert Sherrill. © 1983, Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. Reproduced by permission of the author./v. 19, January 29, 1989; v. 25, July 23, 1995. Copyright © 1989, 1995 The Washington Post. Both reproduced by permission.—Western American Literature, v. 30, summer, 1995; v. 33, spring, 1998. Copyright © 1995, 1998 by The Western Literature Association. Reproduced by permission.— William and Mary Quarterly, v. 54, July 1997. Copyright, 1997, by the Institute of Early American History and Culture. Reproduced by permission.—The World & I, v. 17, October 2002. Copyright 2002 News World Communications, Inc. Reproduced by permission.

    COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 204, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

    Hassan, Ihab. From Rumors of Change: Essays of Five Decades. University of Alabama Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 The University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Holland, Patrick and Graham Huggan. From Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing. University of Michigan Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by the University of Michigan. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lyons, Paul. From Multiculturalism and Representation. College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawaii and the East-West Center, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Plevin, Arlene. From “Women ‘Writing’ Nature: Exploring Contemporary Travelers and the Idea of Home,” in Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook. Edited by Patrick D. Murphy. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Patrick D. Murphy. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books, Inc. and the author.—Sharp, Joanne P. From “Writing Over the Map of Provence: The Touristic Therapy of A Year in Provence,” in Writes of Passage: Reading Travel Writing. Edited by James Duncan and Derek Gregory. Routledge, 1999. Selection © 1999 the editors, individual chapters © the contributors. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, the author, and editor.—Smith, Sidonie. From Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women’s Travel Writing. University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Spurgeon, Sara. From Cormac McCarthy: New Directions. University of New Mexico Press, 2002. © 2002 by the University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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    Davis, Natalie Zemon. Courtesy of Prof. Natalie Zemon Davis.—Epstein, Joseph, photograph. Copyright © 1999 Matthew Gilson.

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