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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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America, v. 170, April 30, 1994. Copyright 1994 America Press, Inc. Reproduced by permission of America Press, Inc., 106 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019. http://www.americamagazine.org.—American Historical Review, v. 92, February, 1987. Reproduced by permission.—American Literature, v. 64, Spring, 1992; Reproduced by permission.—American Theatre, v. 14, July-August, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Bookforum, Spring, 1998. © Bookforum 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Canadian Literature, n. 135, Winter, 1992 for “Installations,” by Neil B. Bishop. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Chicago Tribune, December 20, 1992. © 1992 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Commonweal, v. lxiii, February 14, 1986; December 6, 1991; v. 24, May 8, 1998. Copyright © 1986, 1991, 1998 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. All reproduced by permission.—Contemporary Review, v. 266, June, 1995. Reproduced by the permission of Contemporary Review Ltd.—Contemporary Theatre, v. 8, 1998. © 1998 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) NV. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd. http://www.tandf.co.uk/ journals.—Criticism, v. xx, Spring, 1978. Copyright, 1978, Wayne State University Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Critique, v. xxxv, Summer, 1994; v. 42, Spring, 2001. Copyright © 1994, 2001 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.—Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies,

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v. 25, Spring-Summer, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Times Literary Supplement, July 21-27, 1989; November 2, 1990; November 15, 1991; September 3, 1993; September 30, 1994; May 16, 1997; September 12, 1997; September 4, 1998; August 10, 2001. © The Times Supplements Limited 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2001. All reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, v. 12, Spring, 1993. © 1993, The University of Tulsa. Reproduced by permission.—Women’s Review of Books, v. ix, November, 1991 for “The Anatomy of Culture,” by Florence Boos; v. 18, July, 2001 for “Unparalleled Lives,” by Brenda Wineapple. Both reproduced by permission of the authors.—Women’s Studies, v. 13, 1987. © Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. Reproduced by permission.—Women’s Studies International Forum, v. 14, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—World Literature in Review, v. 70, Autumn, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—World Literature Today, v. 52, Winter, 1978; v. 70, Autumn, 1996; v. 72, Autumn, 1998; v. 75, Spring, 2001; v. 76, Winter, 2002. Copyright 1978, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002 by the University of Oklahoma Press. All reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 169, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Brossard, Nicole. From The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy. Edited by Charles Bernstein. Roof, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Charles Bernstein. Reproduced by permission.—Brossard, Nicole, and Beverley Daurio. From The Power to Bend Spoons: Interviews with Canadian Novelists. Edited by Beverley Daurio. The Mercury Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Beverley Daurio. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Brossard, Nicole with Janice Williamson. From Sounding Differences: Conversations with Seventeen Canadian Women Writers. University of Toronto Press, 1993. © University of Toronto Press 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Gould, Karen. From Writing in the Feminine: Feminism and Experimental Writing in Quebec. Southern Illinois University Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Knutson, Susan. From Narrative in the Feminine: Daphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000. © 2000 Wilfrid Laurier University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wilson, Ann. From Modern Dramatists: A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights. Edited by Kimball King. Routledge, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Kimball King. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission publisher and the author.

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