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Judis; June 9, 1991 for “Out with the Old, in with the New” by David Caute; July 10, 1994 for “When the Earth Moved” by Jonathan Yardley; April 8, 1997 for “Taking Care of Mother” by David Nicholson; March 15, 1998 for “The Theater of Liberty” by Jonathan Yardley; September 20, 1998 for “When Love Goes Wrong” by John Derbyshire. © 1979, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1998 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. All reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Boundary 2, v. 18, Summer, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press. Reproduced by permission.— Chasqui, v. XIII, February-May, 1984; v. XVIII, May, 1989. 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CIII, October, 1988 for a review of “Saving and Spending: The Working Class Economy in Britain, 1870-1939” by Avner Offer. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and author.—Hispanofila, September, 1983; v. 33. September, 1989. Both reproduced by permission.—History, v. 76, February, 1991; v. 81, July, 1996. © The Historical Association 1991, 1996. Both reproduced by permission.—Journal of American Culture, v. 12, Fall, 1989; v. 13, Summer, 1990; v. 14, Fall, 1991. Copyright © 1989, 1990, 1991 by Ray B. Browne. All rights reserved. All reproduced by permission.—Journal of Popular Culture, v. 28, Winter, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Spanish Studies, v. 8, Spring & Fall, 1980 for “Absurdist Techniques in the Short Story of Juan Jose Arreola” by Read G. Gilgen. Reprinted by permission of the publisher and the author.—Latin American Theatre Review, Spring, 1975. Copyright 1975 by the Center of Latin American Studies, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, U.S.A. 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Copyright, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Los Angeles Times. All reproduced by permission.—The Mathematical Intelligencer, v. 11, Summer, 1989; v. 11, Winter, 1989. © 1989 Springer-Verlag. Both reproduced by permission.— Modern Age, v. 33, Fall, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 43, Spring, 1997. Copyright © 1997 for the Purdue Research Foundation by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—National Review, v. XXXII, January 25, 1980; v. XXXIX, August 14, 1987; v. XLI, April 21, 1989; v. XLIII, June 24, 1991; v. XLVIII, July 15, 1996; v. L, March 9, 1998. Copyright © 1980, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998 by National Review, Inc., 215 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016. All reproduced by permission.—Nature, November 26, 1992 for “From Thought to Expression” by S. S. Schweber. Copyright 1992 Macmillan Magazines Ltd. 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v. 19, Fall, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Publishers Weekly, v. 239, July 6, 1992; v. 244, March 31, 1997; v. 245, December 7, 1998; v. 246, August 30, 1999. Copyright 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999 by Reed Publishing USA. All 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. XVI, Spring, 1996; v. XVII, Fall, 1997; v. XVIII, Summer, 1998. Copyright, 1996, 1997, 1998, by John O’Brien. Reproduced by permission.—The Romanic Review, v. 85, May, 1994. © 1994 by The Trustees of Columbia University. Reproduced by permission.—Saturday Night, v. 112, December, 1997-January, 1998 for a review of “The Ice Storm” by Frank Moher. Copyright © 1998 by Saturday Night. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Saturday Review, New York, v. XLVII, August 1, 1964. © 1964 Saturday Review Magazine, © 1979 General Media International, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Humanities Review, v. XXIV, Winter, 1990. Copyright 1990 by Auburn University. Reproduced by permission.—The Spectator, London, May 21, 1977; March 25, 1978; March 28, 1987; October 8, 1988; May 6, 1989; September 21, 1991; October 31, 1992; September 4, 1993; January 28, 1995; March 30, 1996; April 12, 1997; December 20-27, 1997; January 2, 1999; August 28, 1999. © 1977, 1978, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 by The Spectator. All reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Theatre Journal, December, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—The Times Literary Supplement, n. 3915, March 25, 1977; n. 4064, February 20, 1981; n. 4359, October 17, 1986; n. 4438, April 22-28, 1988; n. 4451, July 22-28, 1988; n. 4495, May 26-June 1, 1989; n. 4613, August 30, 1991; n. 4614, September 6, 1991; n. 4719, September 10, 1993; n. 4758, June 3, 1994; n. 4766, August 5, 1994; n. 4791, January 27, 1995; n. 4864, June 21, 1996; n. 4868, July 19, 1996; n. 4891, December 27, 1996; n. 4906, April 11, 1997; n. 4938, November 21, 1997; n. 4952, February 27, 1998; n. 5043, November 26, 1999; n. 5091, October 27, 2000; n. 5098, December 15, 2000. © The Times Supplements Limited 1977, 1981, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000. Reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—Toronto Star, February 4, 2001. Copyright © 2001 Toronto Star. Reproduced by permission.—Variety, February 4, 1991; October 9, 1995; May 13, 1996. All reproduced by permission.—World Literature Today, v. 54, Spring, 1980; v. 55, Summer, 1981; v. 64, Autumn, 1990. Copyright 1980, 1981, 1990 by the University of Oklahoma Press. All reproduced by permission.
Clowes, Edith W. From Russian Experimental Fiction: Resisting Ideology After Utopia. Princeton University Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Princeton University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Hosking, Geoffrey. From Beyond Socialist Realism: Soviet Fiction since “Ivan Denisovich.” Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1980. Copyright © 1980 by Geoffrey Hosking. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Larson, Ross. From Fantasy and Imagination in the Mexican Narrative. Arizona State University, 1977. Reproduced by permission.—Schade, George D. From an introduction to Confabulario and Other Inventions, by Juan Jose Arreola. Translated by George D. Schade. University of Texas Press, 1964. Reproduced by permission.—Schwartz, Kessel. From A New History of Spanish American Fiction, Vol. II. University of Miami Press, 1971. Reproduced by permission.—Washburn, Yulan M. From Juan Jose Arreola. Twayne Publishers, 1983. Reproduced by permission.
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