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The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the 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 188, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Journal of Sociology, v. 97, May, 1992 for “Review of Looking Awry,” by Edith Kurzweil. Copyright © 1992 by The University of Chicago. Reprinted by permission of the author.—American Scholar, v. 63, Summer, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by the author.—Artforum International, v. 31, March, 1993. Copyright © 1993, by Artforum International Magazine, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Canadian Literature, n. 147, winter, 1995 for “Reading Awry” by Doug Aoki. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Chicago Review, v. 44, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Chicago Review. Reproduced by permission.—Chicago Tribune Books, July 23, 1995 for “Mary Karr Recounts Her Tough East Texas Childhood” by Scott Donaldson. Copyright © 1995 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Christian Century, v. 118, August 1, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Christian Science Monitor, v. 92, October 12, 2000; v. 93, July 19, 2001. Copyright © 2000, 2001, The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. Both reproduced by permission from The Christian Science Monitor.—Cinema Journal, v. 34, summer, 1995 for “‘Not Exactly a Knight’: Arthurian Narrative and Recuperative Politics in the Indiana Jones Trilogy” by Susan Aronstein. Copyright © 1995 by Cinema Journal. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—College Literature, v. 27, spring, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by West Chester University. Reproduced by permission.—Commentary,

v. 103, June, 1997 for “Doing Daddy Down” by Elizabeth Powers; v. 105, February, 1998 for “Amistad and the Abuse of History” by Gary Rosen; v. 106, October, 1998 for “Spielberg at War” by Christopher Caldwell. Copyright © 1997, 1998 by Commentary. All reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Commonweal, v. 111, June 15, 1984; v. 115, January 15, 1988; v. 119, January 31, 1992; v. 120, August 13, 1993; v. 125, September 11, 1998; v. 127, November 3, 2000; v. 128, August 17, 2001. Copyright © 1984, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2001 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. All reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.—English Journal, v. 86, September, 1997 for “Growing up in America” by M. Joy Gorence. Copyright © 1997 by the National Council of Teachers of English. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Extrapolation, v. 32, fall, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by The Kent State University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Film Comment, v. 25, July-August, 1989 for “Keeping up with the Joneses” by Armond White; v. 28, May-June, 1992 for “The Panning of Steven Spielberg: Chapter One of a Critical Cliffhanger” by Henry Sheehan; v. 28, July-August, 1992 for “Spielberg II” by Henry Sheehan; v. 30, March, 1994 for “Toward a Theory of Spielberg History” by Armond White; v. 37, July-August, 2001 for “Movie of the Moment: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence,” by Paul Arthur. Copyright © 1989, 1992, 1994, 2001 by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. All reproduced by permission of the respective authors./v. 38, July-August, 2002. Copyright © 2002, by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Used by permission of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.—Film Quarterly, v. 47, fall, 1993 for “Review of Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock),” by Paul Thomas; v. 53, fall, 1999 for “Saving Private Ryan” by Karen Jaehne. Copyright © 1993, 1999 by the Regents of the University of California. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Georgia Review, v. 52, winter, 1998; v. 55, spring, 2001. Copyright © 1998, 2001 by the University of Georgia. Both reproduced by permission.—Hudson Review, v. 51, winter, 1999. Copyright © 1999, by Hudson Review. Reproduced by permission.—Kirkus Reviews, v. 71, May 1, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by The Kirkus Service, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Kirkus Reviews and Kirkus Associates, L.P.—Lancet, v. 357, January 20, 2001. Copyright © 2001. Reproduced by permission of Elsevier Science Publisher.—Linqua Franca, v. 8, October, 1998, for “Enjoy Your Žižek” by Robert S. Boynton. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Literature and Theology, v. 16, for “Review of The Ticklish Subject,” by Matthew Bullimore. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Literature/Film Quarterly, v. 24, January, 1996; v. 29, October, 2001. Copyright © 1996, 2001 Salisbury State College. Both reproduced by permission.—London Review of Books, v. 15, July 8, 1993; v. 17, August 3, 1995; v. 20, October 19, 1995; v. 22, July 20, 2000. Copyright © 1993, 1995, 2000 by LRB Ltd. All appear here by permission of the London Review of Books.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 16, 1995; August 26, 2001. Copyright © 1995, 2001 by Los Angeles Times Book Review. Both reproduced by permission.—National Review, v. 50, September 1, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by National Review, Inc, 215 Lexington Avenue. New York, NY 10016. Reproduced by permission.—New Leader, v. 77, February 14, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by the American Labor Conference on International Affairs, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—New Literary History, v. 29, winter, 1998; v. 32, winter, 2001. Copyright © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Both reproduced by permission.—New Republic, v. 194, January 27, 1986; v. 200, June 19, 1989; v. 210, January 24, 1994; v. 217, December 22, 1997; v. 227, July 22, 2002. Copyright © 1986, 1989, 1994, 1997, 2002 by The New Republic, Inc. All reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New Statesman, v. 112, July 11, 1986; v. 10, January 10, 1997; v. 126, July 18, 1997; v. 127, September 11, 1998; v. 128, May 24, 1999; v. 130, June 25, 2001; v. 131, July 8, 2002; v. 131, September 9, 2002; v. 132, February 3, 2003. Copyright © 1986, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd & contributors. All reproduced by permission.—New Statesman and Society, v. 3, March 30, 1990; v. 5, April 10, 1992; v. 6, February 19, 1993; v. 6, July 16, 1993; v. 7, February 11, 1994; v. 7, February 18, 1994; v. 8, May 26, 1995; v. 8, October 20, 1995. Copyright © 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, by Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Ltd. All reproduced by permission.—New York Review of Books, v. 47, November 2, 2000; v. 48, August 9, 2001; v. 49, August 15, 2002. Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002 Nyrev, Inc. All reproduced with permission from The New York Review of Books.—Observer, November 24, 2002. Copyright © Observer. Reproduced by permission of The Observer Limited, London.—Parnassus, v. 24, 2000 for “This Personal Maze Is Not the Prize” by Eric Murphy Selinger. Copyright © 2000 Poetry in Review Foundation, NY. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Poetry, v. 173, February, 1999 for “Review of Viper Rum,” by Leslie Ullman. Copyright © 1999 by the Modern Poetry Association. Reproduced by permission of the editor of Poetry and the author.—Publishers Weekly, v. 247, October 2, 2000; v. 248, July 23, 2001. Copyright © 2000, 2001 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.—Quarterly Journal of Speech, v. 71, May, 1985 for “E.T. as Rhetorical Transcendence” by Janice Hocker Rushing. Copyright © 1985 by the Speech Communication Association. Used by permission of Speech Communication Association and the author.—Review of Contemporary Fiction, v. 19, fall, 1999. Copyright © 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Science-Fiction Studies, v. 11, July, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by SFS Publications. Reproduced by permission.—Sight and Sound, v. 57, spring, 1988; v. 8, March, 1998; v. 11, September, 2001; v. 11, October, 2001; v. 13, February, 2003. Copyright © 1988, 1998, 2001, 2003 by the British Film Institute. All reproduced by permission.—Signs, v. 21, autumn, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission.—South Atlantic Quarterly, v. 97, spring, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Used by permission.—Southern Humanities Review, v. 34, winter, 2000 for “Review of Viper Rum by Mary Karr,” by Susan Churchill. Copyright © 2000 by Auburn University. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Southern Review, v. 33, winter, 1997 for “Mary Karr, Mary Karr, Mary Karr” by William Harmon. Copyright © 1997, by the author. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Spectator, v. 271, July 17, 1993; v. 275, November 4, 1995; v. 278, January 18, 1997; v. 279, July 19, 1997; v. 279, December 13, 1997; v. 282, May 29, 1999; v. 286, June 30, 2001; v. 287, September 29, 2001. Copyright © 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001 by The Spectator. All reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Style, v. 34, spring, 2000 for “Psychoanalysis and Presuppositions” by Gustavo Guerra. Copyright © Style, 2000. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Theoria, n. 98, December, 2001; n. 99, June, 2002; n. 101, June, 2003. All reproduced by permission.—Tikkun, v. 4, September-October, 1989. Copyright © 1989 Institute for Labor and Mental Health. Reproduced by permission of Tikkun: A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture & Society.— Times Literary Supplement, n. 4592, April 5, 1991; n. 4692, March 5, 1993; n. 4742, February 18, 1994; n. 4743, February 25, 1994; n. 4806, May 12, 1995; n. 4981, September 18, 1998; n. 5048, December 31, 1999; n. 5051, January 21, 2000; n. 5133, August 17, 2001; n. 5136, September 7, 2001. Copyright © The Times Supplements Limited 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001. All reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—Women’s Review of Books, v. 18, December, 2000 for “Hungry for More” by Alix Kates Shulman; v. 18, July, 2001 for “School of Wales” by Pamela Petro. Copyright © 2000, 2001, by Women’s Review of Books. 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COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 188, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Dunnigan, Sarah M. From “A. L. Kennedy’s Longer Fiction: Articulate Grace,” in Contemporary Scottish Women Writers. Edited by Aileen Christianson and Alison Lumsden. Edinburgh University Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by the contributors. Reproduced by permission.—Karr, Mary. From Viper Rum. New Directions, 1994. Copyright © 1994, by Mary Karr. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lumsden, Alison. From “Scottish Women’s Short Stories: Repositories of Life Swiftly Apprehended,” in Contemporary Scottish Women Writers. Edited by Aileen Christianson and Alison Lumsden. Edinburgh University Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by the contributors. Reproduced by permission.—Mott, Donald R., and Cheryl McAllister Saunders. From Steven Spielberg. Twayne Publishers, 1986. Copyright © Twayne Publishers. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN CLC, VOLUME 188, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Karr, Mary, photograph. Copyright © Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Corbis Saba. Reproduced by permission.—Kennedy, A. L., photograph Copyright © Brian Tarr. Reproduced by permission of A. L. Kennedy.—Dreamworks executives and cofounders Steven Spielberg (left), Jeffrey Katzenberg (center), and David Geffen (right), at screening of The Prince of Egypt, Los Angeles, California, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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