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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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Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of CLC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 155, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Americas Review, v. 16, Fall-Winter, 1988; v. 20, Spring, 1992. Arte Publico Press 1988, 1992 University of Houston. Both reproduced by permission.—Arizona Quarterly, v. 53, Spring, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by the Regents of the University of Arizona. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—The Armchair Detective, v. 26, Summer, 1993 for “Thriller,” by Eva Schegulla. Copyright © 1993 by The Armchair Detective. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Belles Lettres, v. 9, Fall, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Biography, v. 19, Spring, 1996. Reproduced by permission.— Chicago Review, v. 40, Winter, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Chicago Review. Reproduced by permission.—Chicago Tribune Books, November, 1993 for “Essays and a Novel from French Storyteller J. M. G. Le Clezio,” by Thomas McGonigle. © 1993 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Christian Science Monitor, v. 74, March, 1982; v. 85, December, 1992. © 1982, 1992 The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. Both reproduced by permission from The Christian Science Monitor.—CLA Journal, v. 20, December, 1976. Copyright, 1976 by The College Language Association. Used by permission of The College Language Association.— Clues: A Journal of Detection, v. 21, Fall-Winter, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—College Literature, v. 22, October, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by West Chester University. Reproduced by permission.—Commonweal, v. cxx, March, 1993. Copyright © 1993 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.— Contemporary Literature, v. 34, Fall, 1993. Copyright © 1993 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Cross Currents, v. 45, Spring, 1995. Copyright 1995 by Cross Currents Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The Elemental Passion for Place in the Ontopoiesis of Life, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Entertainment Weekly, January, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—French Review, March, 1994. Copyright 1994 by the American Association of Teachers of French. Reproduced by permission.—International Fiction Review, 1997. © copyright 1997 International Fiction Association. Reproduced by permission.—Judaism: A Quarterly Journal, v. 39, Summer, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by the American Jewish Congress. Reproduced by permission.—Kirkus Reviews, v. 65, July, 1997. Copyright © 1997 The Kirkus Service, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Mag Title and Kirkus Associates, L.P.—Life: The Human Quest for an Ideal, 1996. Reproduced by permission with kind permission from Kluwer Academic Publishers.—London Observer, October, 1995 for “Killers on the Loose,” by Jonathan Coe. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, February, 1990 September, 1992; September, 1994. Copyright, 1990, 1992, 1994 Los Angeles Times. All reproduced by permission.— MELUS, v. 11, Winter, 1984; v. 20, Fall, 1995; v. 23, Spring, 1998; v. 26, Summer, 2001. Copyright, MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1984, 1988, 1995, 1998, 2001. All reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 43, Winter, 1997. Copyright © 1997 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—New Statesman & Society, v. 8, October 13, 1995. © 1995 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Reproduced by permission.—New York Times Magazine, July, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by The New York Times Company. Reproduced by permission.—Partisan Review, v. 65, Winter, 1998 for “Fiction Chronicle,” by Millicent Bell. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and author.—PMLA, v. 113, January, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by the Modern Language Association of America. Reproduced by permission of the Modern Language Association of America.—Reason, v. 26, August/September, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer, 1991. Copyright, 1991, by John O’Brien. Reproduced by permission.—Salmagundi, Spring-Summer, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Skidmore College. Reproduced by permission.—Signs, v. 11, Summer, 1986. Copyright © 1986by The University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission.—Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v. 74, Fall-Winter, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—South Atlantic Bulletin, v. xli, May, 1976. Reproduced by permission.— Spectator, v. 274, March, 1995; v. 278, March, 1997. © 1995, 1997 by The Spectator. Reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 14, 1974. Copyright 1974 by Newberry College. Reproduced by permission.—

Texas Studies in Literature and Language, v. 40, Winter, 1998 for “Anti-Pastoral and Guilty Vision in Richard Rodriguez’s Days of Obligation,” by Paige Schilt; v. 40, Winter, 1998 for “Word Made Flesh: Richard Rodriguez’s Late Victorians as Nativity Story,” by Norma Tilden. Both reproduced by permission of the author.—Times Literary Supplement, February, 1993; May, 1996. © The Times Supplements Limited 1993. Reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—Washington Post Book World, v. 24, September, 1994 for “Death and Its Details,” by Dinitia Smith; v. 25, August, 1995 for “Mysteries,” by Maureen Corrigan; v. 27, July, 1997 for “Mysteries,” by Paul Skenazy. All reproduced by permission of the authors.—Women’s Review of Books, July, 1991 for “Living Dangerously,” by Joan Hamerman Robbins. Reproduced by permission of the author.—World Literature Today, Winter, 1983; Winter, 1986; Spring, 1992; Summer, 1993; Fall, 1996; Autumn, 1997. Copyright 1992, 1996, 1997 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 155, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Alarcón, Norma. From The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions. University of Minnesota Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by University of Minnesota Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Cohen, Sarah Blacher. From Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing. Wayne State University Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Wayne State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Cohen, Sarah Blacher. From Cynthia Ozick’s Comic Art: From Levity to Liturgy. Indiana University Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hagen, Lyman B. From Heart of a Woman, Mind of a Writer, and Soul of a Poet: A Critical Analysis of the Writings of Maya Angelou. University Press of America, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by University Press of America. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Imbert, Jean-Phillippe. From Exiles and Migrants: Crossing Thresholds in European Culture and Society, 1997. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Klingenstein, Susanne. From Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers. University of Delaware Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by University of Delaware Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Loos, Pamela. From Overcoming Adversity: Maya Angelou. Chelsea House Publishers, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Chelsea House Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Marquez, Antonio C. From Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays. University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—McPherson, Dolly A. From Order Out of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou. Peter Lang, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Peter Lang. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Moore, Opal. From Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints. The Scarecrow Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by The Scarecrow Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Oxenhandler, Neal. From Symbolism and Modern Literature: Studies in Honor of Wallace Fowlie. Duke University Press, 1978. Copyright © 1978, by Duke University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Strandberg, Victor. From Greek Mind/Jewish Soul: The Conflicted Art of Cynthia Ozick. University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by University of Wisconsin Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN CLC, VOLUME 155, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Angelou, Maya, photograph by Chuck Burton. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Conover, Ted, Cynthia Ozick, and Judy Jordan at the National Book Critics Circle Awards, photograph by Louis Lanzano. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Cornwell, Patricia D., photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Le Clezio, J. M. G., photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Rodriguez, Richard, photograph by Roger Ressmeyer. CORBIS. Reproduced by permission.

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