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Contemporary Literary Criticism

Criticism of the Works of Today’s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers

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Arizona Quarterly, v. 45, Autumn, 1989 for “Kissing Becky: Masculine Fears and Misogynist Moments in Science Fiction Films” by Thomas B. Byers. Copyright © 1989 by Arizona Board of Regents. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Australian Literary Studies, v. 18, October, 1997 for “A Tale of Two Countries: Jack Maggs and Peter Carey’s Fiction” by Anthony J. Hassall; v. 19, October, 1999 for “‘Years Later’: Temporality and Closure in Peter Carey’s Novels” by Christer Larsson. Copyright 1997, 1999 by University of Queensland Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Booklist, v. 92, June 1, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the American Library Association. Reproduced by permission.—Camera Obscura, no. 15, Fall, 1986; no. 27, September, 1991. Copyright © 1986, 1991 by Camera Obscura. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Chicago Tribune, September 27, 1987 for “Life and Lust in Academia” by John Espey. Copyright © 1987 by Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission the Literary Estate of the author.—Christian Science Monitor, v. 93, January 18, 2001. Copyright 2001 by The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission from The Christian Science Monitor.—Cineaste, v. 17, 1989; v. 17, 1990. Copyright © 1989, 1990 by Cinema Guild. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.—Commonweal, v. 116, May 5, 1989; v. 118, September 13, 1991; v. 119, November 20, 1992. Copyright © 1989, 1991, 1992 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.—Extrapolation, v. 33, Fall, 1992; v. 34, 1993 © 1992, 1993 by The Kent State University Press. Reproduced by permission.— German Quarterly, v. 41, March, 1969; v. 44, January, 1971. Copyright © 1969, 1971 by the American Association of Teachers of German. Reproduced by permission.—The Germanic Review, v. 69, Spring, 1994 for “Copying Kafka’s Signature: Martin Walser’s Die Verteidigung der Kindheit” by Alexander Mathäs. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Kirkus Reviews, v. 71, September 1, 2003. Copyright 2003 by The Kirkus Service, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Kirkus Reviews, and Kirkus Associates, L.P.—Literature/Film Quarterly, v. 18, 1990. Copyright © Copyright 1990 by Salisbury State College. Reproduced by permission.—London Review of Books, v. 19, October 16, 1997; v. 23, February 8, 2001. Copyright 1997, 2001 by London Review of Books Ltd. Appears here by permission of The London Review of Books.—Los Angeles Times, May 5, 2000; September 12, 2003. Copyright, 2000, 2003 by the Los Angeles Times. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of Tribune Media Services.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, January 27, 1985; January 1, 1989; May 30, 1993; February 1, 1998. Copyright, 1985, 1989, 1993, 1998 Los Angeles Times. Reproduced by permission.—Maclean’s, v. 114, March 26, 2001 for “Dialogue with a Desperado” by John Bemrose. Copyright 2001 by Maclean Hunter Canadian Publishing Ltd. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Meanjin, v. 56, September-December, 1997 for “The Unexamined Life” by Peter Carey and Romona Koval. Copyright 1997 by Meanjin Company Ltd. Reproduced by permission of Ramona Koval and ICM on behalf of Peter Carey./v. 60, September, 2001 for “The True History of the Kelly Gang at Last!” by Andreas Gaile. Copyright 2001 by Meanjin Company Ltd. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Modern Drama, v. 34, March, 1991. Copyright © 1991 University of Toronto, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Review, v. 92, October, 1997. Copyright 1997 by Modern Humanities Research Association. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Mosaic, v. 35, December 2002. Copyright 2002 by Mosaic. Reproduced by permission.—The New Leader, v. 77, November 7, 1994; v. 80, April 7, 1997; v. 80, September 22, 1997; v. 81, February 23, 1998. © 1994, 1997, 1998 by The American Labor Conference on International Affairs, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—New Literary History, v. 20, Autumn, 1988. © 1988 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—The New Republic, v. 197, December 28, 1987; v. 218, April 20, 1998. Copyright © 1987, 1998 by The New Republic, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New Statesman, v. 115, March 11, 1988; v. 130, January 8, 2001; v. 131, February 11, 2002;

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    Balakian, Jan. From “Wendy Wasserstein: A Feminist Voice from the Seventies to the Present,” in The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights. Edited by Brenda Murphy. Cambridge University Press, 1999. Copyright © Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission of Cambridge University Press.—Bullivant, Keith. From “Working Heroes in the Novels of Martin Walser,” in New Critical Perspectives on Martin Walser. Edited by Frank Pilipp. Camden House, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Camden House, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Chirico, Miriam M. From “Female Laughter and Comic Possibilities: Uncommon Women and Others,”in Modern Dramatists: A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights. Edited by Kimball King. Routledge, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Kimball King. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Demetz, Peter. From After the Fires: Recent Writing in the Germanies, Austria, and Switzerland. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Desser, David. From “The New Eve: The Influence of Paradise Lost and Frankenstein on Blade Runner,”in Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” and Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?© Edited by Judith B. Kerman. Bowling Green State University Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Bowling Green State University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Dowden, Steve. From “A German Pragmatist: Martin Walser’s Literary Essays,” in New Critical Perspectives on Martin Walser. Edited by Frank Pilipp. Camden House, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Camden House, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Gray, W. Russel. From “Entropy, Energy, Empathy: Blade Runner and Detective Fiction,” in Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” and Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?© Edited by Judith B. Kerman. Bowling Green State University Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Bowling Green State University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Hoffmeister, Donna L. From “Fantasies of Individualism: Work Reality in Seelenarbeit,”in Martin Walser: International Perspectives. Edited by Jurgen E. Schlunk and Armand E. Singer. Peter Lang, 1987. Copyright © Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1987. Reproduced by permission.—Koepke, Wulf. From “The Reestablishment of the German Class Society: Ehen in Phillippsburg and Halbzeit,”in New Critical Perspectives on Martin Walser. Edited by Frank Pilipp. Camden House, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Camden House, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Pilipp, Frank. From The Novels of Martin Walser: A Critical Introduction. Camden House, 1991. Copyright © 1991 Camden House, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Waine, Anthony. From “Martin Walser,” in The Modern German Novel. Edited by Keith Bullivant. Berg Publishers, 1987. Copyright © by Keith Bullivant and Berg Publishers Limited 1987. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wasserstein, Wendy. In an interview in The Playwright’s Art. Edited by Jackson R. Bryer. Rutgers University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Rutgers, The State University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Rutgers, The State University.—Whitfield, Stephen J. From “Wendy Wasserstein and the Crisis of (Jewish) Identity,” in Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers. Edited by Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel. University of Delaware Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Associated University Presses, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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