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Volume 132

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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American Book Review, v. 18, September-October, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—American Literature, v. 59, October, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced by permission.—The Antioch Review, v. 40, Fall, 1982; v. 53, Summer, 1995. Copyright © 1982, 1995 by the Antioch Review Inc. All reproduced by permission of the Editors.—Art History, v. 14, December, 1991. Reproduced by permission of Blackwell Publishers.— Artforum, v. 35, February, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Belles Lettres, v. 8, Spring, 1983; Summer, 1990. Both reproduced by permission.—The Bloomsbury Review, v. 13, September/October, 1993 in a review of Alberta by Liz Caile. Copyright © by Owaissa Communications Company, Inc. 1993. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Books in Canada, v. xviii, April, 1989 for a review of “The Lovely Treachery of Words” by George Bowering; v. xxii, February, 1993 for a review of “The Puppeteer” by Douglas Glover; v. xxiv, November, 1995 for a review of “A Likely Story: The Writing Life” by Tim Bowling. © 1989, 1993, 1995. All reproduced by permission of the authors.—British Journal of Aesthetics, v. 31, April, 1991 in a review of The Ideology of the Aeshetics by Colin Lyas. Reproduced by permission.—The Canadian Forum, v. lxv, March, 1986 for “Perspectives from Abroad” by Geert Lernout; v. lxxii, July/August, 1993 for “Pulling Strings” by David Wylynko . Copyright © 1986, 1993. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission by the author.—Canadian Literature, n. 128, Spring, 1991 for “The Post-Colonial As Deconstruction: Land & Language in Kroetsch’s ‘Badlands’” by Dorothy Seaton; n. 128, Spring, 1991 for “What Kroetsch Said: The Problem of Meaning and Language in What the ‘Crow Said’” by Kathleen Wall; n. 136, Spring, 1993 for “Heideggerian Elements in Robert Kroetsch’s ‘Seed Catalogue’” by Douglas Reimer; n. 141, Summer, 1994 for “Framing the American Abroad: A Comparative Study of Robert Kroetsch’s ‘Gone Indian’ and Janet Frame’s ‘The Carpathians’” by John Clement Ball; n. 146, Autumn, 1995 for “Pizza, Pizza” by Laurie Ricou; n. 149, Summer, 1996 for “Cyberwriting and the Borders of Identity: ‘What in a Name’ in Kroetsch’s ‘The Puppeteer’ and Mistry’s ‘Such a Long Journey?’” by David Williams; n. 156, Spring, 1998 for “Talking Writing” by David Creelman. All reproduced by permission of the authors.—Chicago Tribune, January 1, 1993. © 1993 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—The Christian Science Monitor, March 6, 1995. © 1995 The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission from The Christian Science Monitor.—Comparative Literature, v. 46, Fall, 1994 in a review of Ideology: An Introduction, by Christopher Norris. © copyright 1994 by University of Oregon. Reproduced by permission of Comparative Literature.— Contemporary Literature, v. 25, Winter, 1984; v. xxix, Summer, 1988; v. xxx, Fall, 1989; v. xxxii, Winter, 1991. Copyright © 1984, 1988, 1989, 1991. The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. All reproduced by permission.—Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, v. xxx, Fall, 1988; v. xxxi, Fall, 1989. Copyright © 1988, 1989 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Both reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—Dissent,

v. 42, Summer, 1995 for “Noam on the Range” by Richard Wolin. © 1995, by Dissent Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by permission of the publisher and the author.—Essays on Canadian Writing, v. 35, Winter, 1987; v. 39, Fall, 1989. © 1987, 1989 Essays on Canadian Writing Ltd. Both reproduced by permission.—The Humanist, v. 50, November-December, 1990. Copyright 1990 by the American Humanist Association. Reproduced by permission.—The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, v. 49, Summer, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by The American Society for Aesthetics. Reproduced by permission.—The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, v. xxviii, 1993; v. xxix, 1994. Reproduced with the kind permission of Bowker-Saur.—Journal of English and Germanic Philology, v. lxvi, July, 1967. © 1967 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Reproduced by permission.—Kenyon Review, v. 9, Summer, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Kenyon College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The University of Georgia Press.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, February 7, 1988; March 19, 1995; February 15, 1998. Copyright, 1988, 1995, 1998 Los Angeles Times. All reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 25, Winter, 1979-80; v. 30, Summer, 1984; v. 35, Summer, 1989. © 1979-80, 1984, 1989. All reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—Modern

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R. Slavitt; March 9, 1997 for “In the Heart of the Heart of the Text” by Maureen Howard; November 1, 1998 for “Wrestling with God” by James Wood. Copyright © 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 by The New York Times Company. All reproduced by permission of the author.—Notes & Queries, v. 43, March, 1996 in a review of Ideology and The Dematerialisation of Karl Marx: Literature and Marxist Theory for Andrew R. Cooper. Reproduced by permission.—Novel: A Forum in Fiction, v. 29, Winter, 1996. Copyright NOVEL Corp. © 1996. Reproduced with permission.—Philosophy of Science, v. 56, September, 1984. Reproduced by permission.—Philosophy of the Social Sciences, v. 24, March, 1994. © 1994 Sage Publications, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Poetry, v. clxx, June, 1997 for a review of The Crack in Everything by John Taylor. © 1997 by the Modern Poetry Association. Reproduced by permission of the Editor of Poetry and the author.—Prairie Schooner, v. 58, Spring, 1984. © 1984 by University of Nebraska Press. Reproduced from Prairie Schooner by permission of the University of Nebraska Press.—The Progressive,

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Barsky, Robert F. From Noam Chomsky: A Life in Dissent. ECW Press, 1997. © 1997 ECW Press. Reproduced by permission of The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.—Caramello, Charles. From Silverless Mirrors: Book, Self & Postmodern American Fiction. University Presses of Florida, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the University Press of Florida.—Jones, Manina. From “Rooting the Borrowed Word: Appropriation and Voice in Kroetsch’s ‘Seed Catalogue’” in Inside the Poem: Essays and Poems in Honour of Donald Stephens. Edited by W. H. New. Oxford University Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by © holder. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.—Kuester, Martin. From “Kroetsch’s Fragments: Approaching the Narrative Structure of His Novels” in Postmodern Fiction in Canada. Edited by Theo D’haen and Hans Bertens. Rodopi, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Theime, John. From Multiple Voices: Recent Canadian Fiction. Edited by Jeanne Delbacre. Dangaroo Press, 1989. Reproduced by permission.

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Chomsky, Noam A., photograph. UPI/Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Gass, William, photograph by Miriam Berkley. © Miriam Berkley. Reproduced by permission.—Ostriker, Alicia, photograph by J. P. Ostriker. Courtesy Alicia Ostriker.—Thomas, Donald Michael, photograph by Mark Gerson. Reproduced by permission of Mark Gerson Photography.