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Volume 128

Contemporary Literary Criticism

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

Jeffrey W. Hunter

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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.

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v. 22, December, 1996 for “Dieting and Damnation: Anne Rice’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’” by Sandra Tomc. © Association of Canadian University Teachers of English 1996. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.— English Studies, Netherlands, v. 64, June, 1983. © 1983 by Swets & Zeitlinger B. V. Reproduced by permission.—Essays in Literature, v. 17, Spring, 1990. Copyright 1990 by Western Illinois University. Reproduced by permission.—Extrapolation, v. 37, Winter, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by The Kent State University Press. Reproduced by permission.—The French Review, v. 70, December, 1996. Copyright 1996 by the American Association of Teachers of French. Reproduced by permission.—The Hudson Review, v. XL, Summer, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by The Hudson Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Iowa Review, v. 3, Summer, 1972 for “Robert Bly Alive in Darkness” by Anthony Libby. Copyright © 1972 by The University of Iowa. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Komparatistische Hefte, v. 8, 1983 for “Buchi Emecheta: The Shaping of a Self” by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Los Angeles Times, December 29, 1985. Copyright, 1985, Los Angeles Times. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, December 19, 1982; August 12, 1984; November 6, 1988; November 18, 1990; October 25, 1992; November 6, 1994. Copyright, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, Los Angeles Times. All reproduced by permission.— The Massachusetts Review, v. XVIII, Spring, 1977. © 1977. Reproduced from The Massachusetts Review, The Massachusetts Review, Inc. by permission.—The Modern Language Review, v. 89, January, 1994 for “Absurdist Estrangement and the Subversion of Narrativity in ‘La Plage’” by Yoseph Milman. © Modern Humanities Association 1994. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Mosaic, v. 25, Summer, 1992. © Mosaic 1992. Acknowledgment of previous publication

is herewith made.— The Nation, New York, September 9, 1991; May 6, 1996. © 1991, 1996 The Nation magazine/ The Nation Company, Inc. Both reproduced by permission.—The New Criterion, v. 5, December, 1986 for “The Poetry of Robert Bly” by Robert Richman. Copyright © 1986 by The Foundation for Cultural Review. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The New Republic, February 28, 1981; April 29, 1985; December 14, 1987; December 18, 1989; December 24, 1994; December 26, 1994; September 16-23, 1996; February 9, 1998. © 1981, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1994, 1996, 1998 by The New Republic, Inc. All reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New Statesman & Society, November 4, 1988; September 1, 1989. © 1988, 1989 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Both reproduced by permission.—The New York Review of Books, May 3, 1979; March 19, 1981; December 22, 1994. Copyright © 1979, 1981, 1994 Nyrev, Inc. All reproduced with permission from The New York Review of Books.—The New York Times, March 20, 1985; March 5, 1988; June 19, 1996. Copyright © 1985, 1988, 1996 by The New York Times Company. Reproduced by permission.—The New York Times Book Review, June 24, 1979; September 20, 1981; April 22, 1984; May 25, 1986; November 27, 1988; June 11, 1989; October 15, 1989; April 29, 1990; November 4, 1990; December 9, 1990; January 27, 1991; April 28, 1991; December 22, 1991; October 24, 1993; August 11, 1996; March 8, 1998. Copyright © 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1998 by The New York Times Company. All reproduced by permission./ April 19, 1987 for “Women at Bay” by Rachel Billington. Copyright © 1987 by The New York Times Company. Reproduced by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated./ May 10, 1987 for “Women at War” by Hilma Wolitzer; August 8, 1993 for “Love Has Its Consequences” by Alison Lurie; March 20, 1994 for “The Three of Them” by Patricia Volk. Copyright © 1987, 1993, 1994 by The New York Times Company. All reproduced by permission of the authors.—Novel: A Forum on Fiction, v. 1, Fall, 1967. Copyright NOVEL Corp. © 1967. Reproduced with permission.— Partisan Review, v. LV, 1988 for “Robert Bly” by Askold Melnyczuk. Copyright © 1988 by Partisan Review. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Poetry, v. CXLVII, December, 1985 for a review of “My Mother’s Body” by Sandra M. Gilbert. © 1985 by the Modern Poetry Association. Reproduced by permission of the Editor of Poetry and the author.—Polish Perspectives, v. XXIV, 1981 for “The ‘Inner Theatre’ of Karol Wojtyla” by Boleslaw Taborski. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Publications of the Missouri Philological Association, v. 10, 1985. Reproduced by permission.—Religious Studies, V. 31, June, 1995 for “Intrinsic Evil, Truth, and Authority” by John O’Neill. Reproduced with the permission of Cambridge University Press and the author.—Rolling Stone, July 13-27, 1995. © 1995 by Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Science-Fiction Studies, v. 21, November, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by SFS Publications. Reproduced by permission.—Symposium, v. XXX, Winter, 1976. Copyright © 1976 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.—The Southern Humanities Review, v. XXVII, Spring, 1993. Copyright 1993 by Auburn University. Reproduced by permission.—Thought, v. 67, March, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Fordham University Press. Reproduced by permission of Fordham University Press, New York.—The Times Literary Supplement, April 4, 1980; October 7, 1994; November 11, 1994. © The Times Supplements Limited 1980, 1994. All reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—Women’s Review of Books, v. II, May, 1985 for “A Daughter of Nigeria” by Marilyn Richardson/ v. XIV, February, 1997 for “Les Ms.” by Elayne Rapping/ v. XV, July, 1998 for “Pigment of the Imagination” by E. M. Broner. Copyright © 1985, 1997, 1998. All rights reserved. All reproduced by permission of the authors.—Women’s Studies, v. 20, March, 1992. © Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Inc. 1992. Reproduced by permission.—World Literature Today, v. 68, Summer, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reproduced by permission.—Yale French Studies, v. 41, 1969 for “Games and Game Structures in Robbe-Grillet” by Bruce Morrisette. Copyright © Yale French Studies 1969. Reproduced by permission.

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Chadwick, Tony and Virginia Harger-Grinling. From “Alain Robbe-Grillet and the Fantastic” in State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film. Edited by Nicholas Ruddick. Greenwood Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Nicholas Ruddick. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—Emecheta, Buchi. From “Feminism with a Small ‘f’!” in Criticism and Ideology: Second African Writers’ Conference. Edited by Kirsten Holst Petersen. Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1988. © Nordiska afrikaninstitutet, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—Gelder, Ken. From Reading the Vampire. Routledge, 1994. © 1994 Ken Gelder. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Hansen, Elaine Tuttle. From “Marge Piercy: The Double Narrative Structure of Small Changes” in Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies. Edited by Catherine Rainwater and William J. Scheick. University Press of Kentucky, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by The University Press of Kentucky. Reproduced by permission.—Hicks, Jack. From In the Singer’s Temple: Prose Fictions of Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey, and Kosinski. University of North Carolina Press, 1981. © 1981 The University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher.—Kolawole, Mary E. Modupe. From Womanism and African Consciousness. African World Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 Mare E. Modupe

Kolawole. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Kwitny, Jonathan. From “Neither Capitalist Nor Marxist: Karol Wojtyla’s Social Ethics” in Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II. Henry Holt and Co., 1997. Reproduced by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC. In the British Commonwealth by permission of the Ellen Levine Literary Agency, Inc.—Ladenson, Joyce R. From “Political Themes and Personal Preoccupations in Marge Piercy’s Novels” in Ways of Knowing: Essays on Marge Piercy. Edited by Sue Walker and Eugenie Hamner. Negative Capability Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 Negative Capability Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Loflin, Christine. From African Horizons: The Landscapes of African Fiction. Greenwood Press, 1998. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—Mahon, John W. From “Mary Gordon: The Struggle With Love” in American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space. Edited by Mickey Pearlman. University Press of Kentucky, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by The University Press of Kentucky. Reproduced by permission.—Moramarco, Fred and William Sullivan. From Containing Multitudes: Poetry in the United States Since 1950. Twayne, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved.—Peters, Robert. From “News from Bly’s Universe” in Robert Bly: When Sleepers Awake. Edited by Joyce Peseroff. University of Michigan Press, 1984. © 1984. Reproduced by permission.—Robbe-Grillet, Alain. From “Alain Robbe-Grillet” in Three Decades of the French New Novel. Edited by Lois Oppenheim. Translated by Lois Oppenheim and Evelyne Costa de Beauregard. University of Illinois Press, 1986. © 1986 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Reproduced by permission.—Rybalka, Michel. From “Alain Robbe-Grillet: At Play with Criticism” in Three Decades of the French New Novel. Edited by Lois Oppenheim. Translated by Lois Oppenheim and Evelyne Costa de Beauregard. University of Illinois Press, 1986. © 1986 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Reproduced by permission.—Szanto, George H. From Narrative Consciousness: Structure and Perception in the Fiction of Kafka, Beckett, and Robbe-Grillet. University of Texas Press, 1972. © 1972 by George

H. Szanto. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Umeh, Marie Linton. From “Reintegration With the Lost Self: A Study of Buchi Emecheta’s Double Yoke” in Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature. Edited by Carole Boyce Davies & Anne Adams Graves. African World Press, Inc., 1986. Reproduced by permission.—Walker, Sue. From “Marge Piercy: An Overview (31 March 1936-)” in Ways of Knowing: Essays on Marge Piercy. Edited by Sue Walker and Eugenie Hamner. Negative Capability Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 Negative Capability Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wilt, Judith. From Abortion, Choice, and Contemporary Fiction: The Armageddon of the Maternal Instinct. University of Chicago Press, 1990. © 1990 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and author.

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