Kunitz, Stanley (Vol. 148) - Copyright Page

Kunitz, Stanley (Vol. 148) - Copyright Page

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Volume 148

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COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 148, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Historical Review, v. 80, October, 1975 for a review of “Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe” by Michael Ermarth; v. 93, October, 1988 for a review of “The Content of the Form”: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation by Dominick Lacapra. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—American Journal of Psychiatry, v. 149, December, 1992 for a review of A Dream of Mind: Poems by Robert Michels. Copyright © 1992, the American Psychiatric Association. Reprinted by permission of the publisher and the author.—The Bloomsbury Review, September-October, 1993 for an interview with Rudolfo A. Anaya by Ray Gonzalez. Copyright © by Owaissa Communications Company, Inc. 1998. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Canadian Historical Review, v. LVI, 1975. © University of Toronto Press 1975. Reproduced by permission of the University of Toronto Press Incorporated.—Chicago Tribune Books, December 31, 1995 for “The Poems of Stanley Kunitz Confront ‘The Great Simplicities’” by A.V. Christie. Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Chicago Tribune, December 22, 1985 for “Stanley Kunitz Shares Next-to-Last Poems, Essays with Readers” by James Idema. © 1985 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Christian Science Monitor, v. 60, September 6, 1968; v. 61, February 24, 1969 for “Alan Sillitoe–the Novelist as a Poet” by Victor Howes. © 1969 by Victor Howes; v. 63, October 7, 1971 for a review of “A Start in Life” by Victor Howes. © 1971 by Victor Howes; v. 69, August 4, 1977; March 6, 1987; August 10, 2000. © 1968, 1977, 1987, 2000 The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission from The Christian Science Monitor and respective author.—CLIO, v. 29, Winter, 2000. © 2000 by Purdue Research Foundation. Reproduced by permission of the author.—College Literature, v. 27, Fall, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by West Chester University. Reproduced by permission. –Comment, v. CXXXVI, September, 1980 for “The Ineluctable Signature of Stanley Kunitz” by Peter Stitt. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Comparative Literature, v. XXX, Spring, 1978. © copyright 1978 by University of Oregon.— Contemporary Literature, v. XV, Winter, 1974; v. XXIX, Summer, 1988; v. XXXIII, Summer, 1992. © 1974, 1988, 1992 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Reproduced by permission of The University of Wisconsin Press.—Encounter, v. LIV, April, 1980 for “On American Poetry” by Alan Brownjohn. © 1980 by Alan Brownjohn. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Film Quarterly, v. 11, 1983 for “The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner and Chariots of Fire” by Sophia B. Blaydes and Philip Bordinat. © 1983 by The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission of the authors.—Stitt, Peter, “A Variegation of Styles: Inductive, Deductive, and Linguistic,” in The Georgia Review, v. XXXVII, Winter, 1983, pp. 894-905; Kitchen, Judith “Skating on Paper,” in The Georgia Review,

v. XLVII, Fall, 1993, pp. 578-95; “The Ladybug and the Universe” in The Georgia Review, v. L, Summer, 1996. Copyright, 1993, 1996 by the University of Georgia. Reproduced by permission. Copyright, 1983, by the University of Georgia. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Gettysburg Review, v. 5, Spring, 1992. Reproduced by permission.— History and Theory, v. XXVII, October, 1980; v. XIX, December, 1980; v. 32, October, 1993; v. 36, December, 1997; v. 37, May, 1998; v. 39, October, 2000. Copyright © 1980, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2000 by Wesleyan University. Reproduced by permission of Blackwell Publishers.—The Hudson Review, v. XXXVII, Spring, 1984; v. XLVIII, Summer, 1995. Copyright © 1984, 1995 by The Hudson Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—International Studies in Philosophy, v. XXIV, Spring, 1992 for “Fiction and History: A Common Core?” by L. B.Cebik. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Journal of American Studies, v. 23, April, 1989. © Cambridge University Press 1989. Reproduced with the permission of Cambridge University Press and the author.—Journal of Contemporary History, v. 31, January, 1996 for “Searching for an Audience: The Historical Profession in the Media Age–A Comment on Arthur Marwick and Hayden White” by Wulf Kansteiner; for “Narrative History as a Way of Life” by Geoffrey Roberts; for “History and Metahistory: Marwick Versus White” by Beverley Southgate. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Journal of Modern History, v. 72, September, 2000 for a review of “Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect” by Allan Megill. Copyright © 2000 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Journal of Modern Literature,

v. XX, Summer, 1996. © Foundation for Modern Literature, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Latin American Literary Review, v. V, Spring-Summer, 1977. Reproduced by permission.—The Literary Review, v. 24, Spring, 1981 for “Stanley Kunitz and the Transubstantial Word” by Cynthia A. Davis. Reproduced by permission of the author.—London Review of Books, September 7, 1987 for “Hayden White and History” by Stephen Bann. Appears here by permission of the London Review of Books and the author.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 21, 1982; March 20, 1988; August 30, 1992. Copyright, 1982, 1988, 1992, Los Angeles Times. Reproduced by permission.—MELUS, v. 24, Summer, 1999. Copyright, MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Michigan Quarterly Review, v. XXXVI, Fall, 1997. Copyright © The University of Michigan, 1997. All rights reserved. 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Reproduced by permission of the author.—The New England Review, v. 17, Spring, 1995 for an interview with C. K. Williams and Keith S. Norris. Copyright © 1995 by Middlebury College. Reproduced by permission of the authors.—The New Leader, October 9-23, 1995. © 1995 by The American Labor Conference on International Affairs, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The New Republic, August 17-24, 1992; September 18, 2000. © 1992, 2000 The New Republic, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New Statesman & Society, November 2, 1979; December 4, 1992; v. 8, July 21, 1995; v. 127, January 30, 1998. © 1979, 1992, 1995, 1998 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited.—The New York Review of Books, November 22, 1979; March 26, 1987. Copyright © 1979, 1987 Nyrev, Inc. Reproduced with permission from The New York Review of Books. Reproduced by permission.—Novel, v. 22, Winter, 1989. Copyright NOVEL Corp. © 1989. Reproduced with permission.—Observer, London, November 6, 1983. Reproduced by permission of The Observer Limited, London.—Parnassus, v. 16, 1990 for “The Disparates Fuse” by Sherod Santos; v. 20, 1995; v. 31, 1996 for “To Turn Again” by David Yezzi. Copyright © 1990, 1995, 1996 Poetry in Review Foundation, NY. Volume 1996 reproduced by permission of the publisher. Reproduced by respective authors.—Partisan Review, v. LII, Summer, 1985 for “The Prosaic Principle” by David Lehman; v. LVIII, Summer, 1991 for “Poetic Voices” by Michael Collier. Copyright © 1985, 1991 by Partisan Review. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Poetics Today, v. 12, Fall, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics. Reproduced by permission of Duke University Today.—Poetry, v. CLIV, April, 1989 for “Masks and Passions,” by J. D. McClatchey; v. CLXIII, December, 1993 for “Masters of Transience,” by Ben Howard; v. CLXIX, February, 1997 for “Passing Through: The Later Poems New and Selected,” by John Taylor; v. CLXX, May, 1997 for “The Big Poem,” by Bruce Murphy. © 1989, 1993, 1997 by the Modern Poetry Association. Reproduced by permission of the Editor of Poetry and the respective authors.—Prairie Schooner, v. 68, Winter, 1994. © 1994 by University of Nebraska Press. Reproduced from Prairie Schooner by permission of the University of Nebraska Press.—Publishers Weekly, v. 241, March 21, 1994; v. 242, June 5, 1995. Copyright 1994, 1995 by Reed Publishing USA. Reproduced from Publishers Weekly, published by the Bowker Magazine Group of Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Publishing USA., by permission.—Review of Contemporary Fiction, v. 12, Fall, 1992. Copyright, 1992, by John O’Brien. Reproduced by permission.—Salmagundi, ns. 114 & 115, Spring-Summer, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Skidmore College. Reproduced by permission.—The Sewanee Review, v. 83, July, 1975 for “Ereshon and Eros: The Short Stories Again” by Walter Sullivan; v. XCVI,[00a0]Winter, 1988 for “The Wild Braid of Creation” by Calvin Bedient. Copyright © 1975, 1988 by The University of the South. Reproduced with permission of the editor.—Rothschild, Joyce, in an interview with Alan Sillitoe in Southern Humanities Review, v. 20, Spring, 1986, pp. 127-40; Engebretsen, Terry, in a review of The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, in Southern Humanities Review,

v. XXIII, Fall, 1989, pp. 377-79. Copyright 1986, 1989 by Auburn University. Reproduced by permission.—Stand Magazine, v. 35, Winter, 1993 for “Recent Poetry” by John Saunders. Copyright © 1993 by the author. Reproduced by permission.—Times Literary Supplement, n. 3577, September 17, 1970; n. 3795, November 29, 1974; n. 4546, May 18, 1990; February 12, 1993; n. 4767, August 12, 1994; n. 4820, August 18, 1995; December 8, 1995; October 3, 1997; October 16, 1998; March 10, 2000. © The Times Supplements Limited 1970, 1974, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000. Reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—The Times Educational Supplement, July 7, 1995. © The Times Supplements Limited 1995. Reproduced from The Times Educational Supplement by permission.— University of Toronto Quarterly, v. 58, Summer, 1989. © University of Toronto Press 1989. Reproduced by permission of University of Toronto Press Incorporated.—The Virginia Quarterly Review, v. 45, Summer, 1969; v. 55, Summer, 1979. Copyright, 1969, 1979 by The Virginia Quarterly Review, The University of Virginia. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—The Washington Post, May 12, 1987; July 29, 2000. © 1987, 2000 Washington Post Book World Service/ Washington Post Writers Group. Reproduced by permission.—World Literature Today, v. 53, Summer, 1979; v. 56, Spring, 1982; v. 62, Summer, 1988; v. 63, Autumn, 1988; v. 63, Winter, 1989; v. 65, Spring, 1991; v. 67, Spring, 1993; v.68,

Winter, 1994; v.69, Summer; 1995; v. 70, Autumn, 1996; v. 71, Autumn, 1997. Copyright 1979, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reproduced by permission.—The Yale Review, v. 77, March, 1988; v. 87, October, 1999. Copyright 1988, 1999 by Yale University. Reproduced by permission of the editors.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 148, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Craig, David. From “The Roots of Sillitoe’s Fiction,” in The British Working-Class Novel in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Jeremy Hawthorn. Edward Arnold, 1984. © Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., 1984. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Crawford, John. From This Is About Vision: Interviews with Southwestern Writers. William Balassi, John F. Crawford, Annie O. Eysturoy, eds. University of New Mexico Press, 1990. © 1990 by the University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Daniels, Stephen and Simon Rycroft. From “Mapping the Modern City: Alan Sillitoe’s Nottingham Novels,” in The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1900. Edited by K. D. M. Snell. Cambridge University Press, 1998. © Cambridge University Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the authors.—Hutchings, William. From “Proletarian Byronism: Alan Sillitoe and the Romantic Tradition,” in English Romanticism and Modern Fiction: A Collection of Essays. Edited by Allan Chavkin. AMS Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by AMS Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lee, A. Robert. From “Ethnic Renaissance: Rudolfo Anaya, Louise Erdrich and Maxine Hong Kingston,” in The New American Writing: Essays on American Literature Since 1970. Edited by Graham Clarke. Vision Press, 1990. © 1990 by Vision Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lee, Robert A. From “‘Chicanismo’ as Memory: The Fictions of Rudolfo Anaya, Nash Candelaria, Sandra Cisneros, and Ron Arias,” in Memory and Cultural Politics: New Approaches to American Ethnic Literatures. Amrijit Singh, Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., Robert E. Hogan, eds. Northeastern University Press, 1996. Copyright 1996 by Northeastern University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Marquez, Antonio. From “The Achievement of Rudolfo A. Anaya,” in The Magic of Words: Rudolfo A. Anaya and His Writings. Edited by Paul Vassallo. University of New Mexico Press, 1982. © 1982 by the University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mitchell, Susan. From “A Visit to the Poet’s Studio,” in Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz. Edited by Stanley Moss. The Sheep Meadow Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Stanley Kunitz. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Moramarco, Fred, and William Sullivan. From Containing Multitudes: Poetry in the United States since 1950. Twayne Publishers, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Moyers, Bill. From The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets. Edited by James Haba. Doubleday, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Public Affairs Television, Inc., and David Grubin Productions, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Olmos, Margarite Fernandez. From Rudolfo A. Anaya: A Critical Companion. Greenwood Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Margarite Fernandez Olmos. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.— Orr, Gregory. From Stanley Kunitz: An Introduction to the Poetry. Columbia University Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 Columbia University Press, New York. All rights reserved. Republished with permission of the Columbia University Press, 562 W. 113th St., New York, NY 10025.—Ryan, Michael. From “Life between Cylla and Charybdis,” in Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz. Edited by Stanley Moss. The Sheep Meadow Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Stanley Kunitz. Reproduced by permission of the author.

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Anaya, Rudolfo, photograph by Cynthia Farah. Reproduced by permission.—Kunitz, Stanley, photograph by Jerry Bauer. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Sillitoe, Alan, photograph. Reproduced by permission.—Williams, C. K., photograph. Reproduced by permission.

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