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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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    • Copyright © 2002 by Reed Publishing USA. Both reproduced from Publishers Weekly, published by the Bowker Magazine Group of Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Publishing USA., by permission.—Queen’s Quarterly, v. 109, summer, 2002 for “How Goodness Is” by Kate Sterns. Copyright © 2002 by Kate Sterns. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Slavic and East European Journal, v. 34, autumn, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by AATSEEL of the U.S., Inc. Reproduced by permission.—South Atlantic Review, v. 67, spring, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Reproduced by permission.—Spectator, v. 284, February 12, 2000; v. 285, September 2, 2000; v. 286, March 3, 2001; v. 288, May 4, 2002; v. 292, June 21, 2003. Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 by the Spectator. All reproduced by permission of the Spectator.—Times Literary Supplement, no. 5056. February 25, 2000; no. 5085, September 15, 2000; no. 5170, May 3, 2002; no. 5186, August 23, 2002; no. 5201, December 6, 2002; no. 5229, June 20, 2003. Copyright © 2000, 2002, 2003 by The Times Supplements Limited. All reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—Toronto Star, July 19, 2003. Copyright © 2003 Toronto Star. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Torstar Syndication Services.—Virginia Quarterly Review, v. 78, autumn, 2002. Copyright, 2002, by the Virginia Quarterly Review, The University of Virginia. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Washington Post, July 18, 2003 for “Carol Shields, Acclaimed Novelist, Dies” by Claudia Levy. Copyright © 2003, Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. Reproduced by permission./May 21, 2000 for “Between Rhapsody and Lamentation” by Abby Frucht. Copyright © 2000, Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Women’s Review of Books, v. 20, October, 2002 for “Weaving a Spell” by Margaret Randall. Copyright © 2002. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—World and I, v. 18, March, 2003. Copyright © 2003 News World Communications, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—World Literature Today,

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    Apter, T. E. From Fantasy Literature: An Approach to Reality. Indiana University Press, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by T. E. Apter. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.—Armitt, Lucie. From “The Grotesque Utopia: Joanna Russ, Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, Jane Palmer and Monique Wittig.” In Contemporary Women’s Fiction and the Fantastic. Macmillan, 2000. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.—Cummins, Elizabeth. From Understanding Ursula K. LeGuin. University of South Carolina Press, 1990. Copyright © University of South Carolina 1990. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—D’Haen, Theo L. From “Magical Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers,” in Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community. Edited by Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris. Duke University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press, Durham, NC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.—Harger-Grinling, Virginia, and Tony Chadwick. From “Djinn by Alain Robbe-Grillet: Or the Architecture of the Fantastic,” in Reflections on the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Edited by Michael R. Collings. Greenwood Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Michael R. Collings. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.— Kolmar, Wendy K. From “‘Dialectics of Connectedness’: Supernatural Elements in Novels by Bambara, Cisneros, Grahn, and Erdrich,” in Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women. Edited by Lynette Carpenter and Wendy K. Kolmar. University of Tennessee Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by The University of Tennessee Press/Knoxville. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The University of Tennessee Press.— McCaffery, Larry. From “Form, Formula, and Fantasy: Generative Structures in Contemporary Fiction,” in Bridges to Fantasy. Edited by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, and Robert Scholes. Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Southern Illinois University Press.—Olivares, Julian. From “Entering The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros),” in Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays. Edited by John R. Maitino and David R. Peck. University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Olsen, Lance. From Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy. Greenwood Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Lance Olsen. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—Schwartz, Richard Alan. From “The Fantastic in Contemporary Fiction,” in The Scope of the Fantastic-Theory, Technique, Major Authors: Selected Essays from the First International Conference in the Fantastic in Literature and Film. Edited by Robert A. Collins and Howard D. Pierce. Greenwood Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by The Thomas Burnett Swann Fund. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—Smith, Jennifer. From Anne Rice: A Critical Companion. Greenwood Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Jennifer Smith. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.— Spivack, Charlotte. From Merlin’s Daughters: Contemporary Women Writers of Fantasy. Greenwood Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Charlotte Spivack. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—de Valdes, Maria Elena. From “The Critical Reception of Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street,” in Gender, Self, and Society: Proceedings of the IV International Conference on the Hispanic Cultures of the United States. Edited by Renate von Bardeleben. Peter Lang, 1993. Copyright © Verlag Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 1993. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Walker, Nancy A. From Feminist Alternatives: Irony and Fantasy in the Contemporary Novel by Women. University Press of Mississippi, 1990. Copyright © 1990, by the University Press of Mississippi. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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    Cisneros, Sandra, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Sebold, Alice, standing in Central Park, photograph by Jim Cooper. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Shields, Carol Ann, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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