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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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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 158, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

The Advocate, 24 January, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—American Historical Review, v. 75, June, 1970; v. 91, June, 1986; v. 92, June, 1987; v. 93, February, 1988; v. 94, February, 1989; v. 96, February, 1991; v. 100, June, 1995; v. 104, April, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—American Quarterly, v. 43, June, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—American Scholar, v. 67, Spring, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Nina Auerbach. Reproduced by permission.—Atlantic Monthly, v. 271, February, 1993 for “A British Original,” by Pamela Petro. Reproduced by permission of the author./v. 278, July, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Black Issues Book Review, v. 2, September-October, 2000. Reproduced by permission.— Canadian Forum, v. lxxiii, September, 1994 for “Island Pastoral,” by Ronald Rompkey. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Chicago Tribune Books, April 10, 1988 for “Sigmund Freud: Was He Enlightenment Incarnate of an Artist of the Trompe L’Oeil?” by Eugene Kennedy./January 12, 1992 for “A Desperate Perceptiveness,” by Frederick Busch./June 9, 1996 for “Passage to America: E. Annie Proulx’s Audacious Look at the Lives of Immigrants and an Accordion,” by Bharati Mukherjee . Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Christian Century, v. 113, September 25, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by The Christian Century Foundation. Reproduced by permission.—Christian Science Monitor, 26 February, 1996 for “The True Nature of Art and the Audience It Needs,” by Merle Rubin./June 3, 1999 for “Cowboy Country,” by Merle Rubin.. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Clinical Social Work Journal, v. 18, Spring, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Commentary, v. 65, March, 1978 for “Modernism, the Germans & the Jews,” by Robert Alter./v. 85, March, 1988 for “Hymn to Freud,” by Wilfred McClay./v. 105, June, 1998 for a review of The Bourgeois Experience, Volume V: Pleasure Wars, by Diana Schaub. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors./v. 77, June, 1984. Reproduced by permission.—Commonweal, v.cxviii, June 1, 1991; v. cxxvii, 11 August, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Contemporary Literature, v . xxxvii, Summer, 1996; v. xxxviii, Fall, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Contemporary Sociology, v. 17, May, 1988 for “Becoming Sigmund Freud,” by Howard L. Kaye. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, v. 40, Fall, 1998; v. 40, Spring, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Economist, v. 354, 19 February, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. Reproduced by permission.—English Historical Review, v. 103, April, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—English Journal, v. 86, December, 1997; v. 90, September, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Feminist Review, Autumn, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Georgia Review, v. liv, Summer, 2000. Reproduced by permission.— The Historian, v. 57, Autumn, 1995; v. 59, Winter, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—History and Theory, v. 16, October, 1977. Reproduced by permission.—History Today, v. 34, August, 1984; v. 37, January, 1987; v. 49, June, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—History, v. 73, February, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—Hudson Review, v. 41, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by The Hudson Review. Reproduced by permission.—The Humanist, v. 49, May-June, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Independent, 22 January, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Interdisciplinary History, v. 18, Summer, 1987; v. 18, Winter, 1988. Copyright © 1987, 1988 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Jewish Studies, v. 51, Autumn, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Modern History, v. 63, September, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Social History, v. 30, Winter, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Judaism, v. 38, Winter, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—London Review of Books, 24 September, 1992; 7 July, 1994; February 9, 1995; 7 September, 2000; v. 22, 21 September, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times, 26 June, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, February 26, 1984; May 8, 1988; 21 February, 1993; July 18, 1993; November 7, 1993; 23 April, 1995; April 30, 1995; 31 March, 1996; June 23, 1996; 13 April, 1997; August 1, 1999; 7 May, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Maclean’s, July 29, 1996 for “The Incredible Journey,” John Bemrose. Reproduced by permission of the author./April 25, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Michigan Quarterly Review, v. 28, Spring, 1989 for “Psychoanalytic Biography: Lost Objects and Subversive Effects,” by Steven Weiland./v. xl, Winter, 2001 for “Losing Our Place: A Review Essay,” by Michael Kowalewski. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Modern Judaism, v. 20, February,

2000 for a review of My German Question, by Johan Ahr. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.— Mosaic, v. 33, September, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—The Nation, New York, 12 February, 1996; June 24, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—National Review, v. xlv, November 15, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—New England Journal of Medicine, v. 319, September 29, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—New Leader, February 17, 1969; v. 60, January 17, 1977; v. 61, June 5, 1978; v. 61, March 5, 1984; v. 18, November 30, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—New Republic, v. 160, January 4, 1969; v. 162, June 20, 1970; v. 177, November 26, 1977; v. 190, February 6, 1984; May 30, 1994; October 7, 1996; 7 April, 1997; v. 223, 24 July, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman, v. 77, June 6, 1969; v. 79, April 24, 1970; v. 95, May 19, 1978; October 18, 1996; 10 January, 1997; v. 128, October 18, 1999; v. 129, January 24, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman and Society, 18 September, 1992; v. 7, April 22, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—New York Review of Books, v. 7, January 12, 1967; v. 13, December 18, 1969;v. 31, February 2, 1984; v. 33, November 20, 1986; v. 35, August 18, 1988; 4 March, 1993; v. xli, January 13, 1994; v. xlii, November 30, 1995; v. xlv, August 13, 1998; v. xlvii, March 23, 2000; May 11, 2000; v. xlvii, 28 February, 2001. Copyright ©1967, 1969,1984, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001 by NYREV, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—North American Review, v. 274, March, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Observer, 16 January, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—The Paris Review, v. 39, Winter, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by The Paris Review. Reproduced by permission of Russell & Volkening as agents for The Paris Review.—Partisan Review, v. 56, Summer, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Political Quarterly, v. 70, July-September, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Political Studies, v. 47, September, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—The Progressive, v. 63, September, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Publishers Weekly, 20 March, 1995; June 3, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Review of Contemporary Fiction, v. 13, Fall, 1993; v. xvii, Fall, 1997; v. xix, Summer, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Review of Politics, v. 62, Spring, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Salmagundi, Winter, 1997; v. 126127, Spring-Summer, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May, 2000; 13 June, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Sewanee Review, v. 107, Summer, 1999. Reproduced by permission of the editor.—Society, v. 36, July-August, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Transaction Publishers. Reproduced by permission.—Spectator, v. 222, May 23, 1969; January 13, 1967; May 2, 1970; v. 256, March 8, 1986; v. 256, June 14, 1986; 19 September, 1992; December 4, 1993; 25 June, 1994; March 25, 1995; October 12, 1996; 4 January, 1997; v. 278, May 17, 1997; v. 280, June 20, 1998; 29 January, 2000; 9 September, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, v. 13, Fall, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Victorian Studies, v. 40, Autumn, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Washington Post Book World, August 1, 1993 for “Harbors of the Heart,” by Sandra Scofield./21 May, 2000 for “London Calling,” by Esther Iverem. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors./June 16, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by The Washington Post. Reproduced by permission.—Wilson Quarterly, v. 22, Autumn, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Women’s Review of Books, v. x, May, 1993 for “At Her Wit’s End,” by Valerie Miner./v. xiii, September, 1996 for “Play It Again, Annie,” by J.

Z. Grover./v. 18, October, 2000 for “The Empire Strikes Back,” by Kathleen O’Grady. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—World & I, v. 15, September, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—World Literature Today, v. 69, Spring, 1995; v. 74, Spring, 2000. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 158, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Doan, Laura. From “Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Postmodern,” in The Lesbian Postmodern. Columbia University, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Columbia University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gilmore, Leigh. From “Without Names: An Anatomy of Absence in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body,”in The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony. Cornell University Press, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Cornell University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Harris, Andrea L. From “A Feminist Ethics of Love: Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body,”in Other Sexes: Rewriting Difference from Woolf to Winterson. State University of New York Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by State University of New York Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Rood, Karen

L. From “Understanding Annie Proulx,” in Understanding Annie Proulx. University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by University of South Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN CLC, VOLUME 158, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Gay, Peter, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Proulx, Annie, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Smith, Zadie, photograph. © McPherson Colin/Corbis Sygma. Reproduced by Corbis Corporation.—Winterson, Jeanette, photograph. © Mike Laye/Corbis. Reproduced by Corbis Corporation.

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