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Contemporary Literary Criticism

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Belles Lettres, v. 9, Spring, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Biography, v. 25, Winter, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—The Christian Science Monitor, December 10, 1986; August 3, 1988. © 1986, 1988 The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission from The Christian Science Monitor.—Comparative Literature Studies, v. 32, 1995; v. 37, Winter, 2000. Copyright 1995, 2000 by The Pennsylvania State University. Reproduced by permission of The Pennsylvania State University Press.—Critique, v. 38, Spring, 1997. Copyright © 1997 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—Explicator, v. 55, Fall, 1996. Copyright © 1996 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—Forum for Modern Language Studies, v. 37, July, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—French Review, v. 61, October, 1987; v. 66, May, 1993;

  • v. 73, May, 2000. Copyright 1987, 1993, 2000 by the American Association of Teachers of French. Reproduced by permission.—The German Quarterly, v. 63, Summer-Fall, 1990; v. 65, Spring, 1992; v. 67, Spring, 1994. Copyright © 1990, 1992, 1994 by the American Association of Teachers of German. Reproduced by permission.—The Germanic Review, v. 75, Fall, 2000 for “Narcissism and Creativity in the Postmodern Era: The Case of Patrick Süskind’s Das Parfum” by Jeffrey Adams. Reproduced by permission of the author and Heldref Publications.—The Humanist, v. 53, March-April 1993 for “Ngugi wa Thiong’o and the Politics of Language” by Theodore Pelton. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Kirkus Reviews, v. 71, November 15, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Kirkus Associated L.P. Reproduced by permission.— Literary Criterion, v. 26, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—London Review of Books, v. 9, November 12, 1987. Appears here by permission of the London Review of Books.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 12, 1997. Copyright, 1997, Los Angeles Times. Reproduced by permission.—MELUS, v. 16, Spring, 1989; v. 20, Summer, 1995; v. 26, Summer, 2001. Copyright, MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1989, 1995, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Studies, v. 22, Summer, 1992 for “Scents and Insensibility: Patrick Süskind’s New Historical Critique of ‘Die Neue Sensibilität’ in Das Parfum (1985)” by Neil H. Donahue. Copyright, Northeast Modern Language Association 1992. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and author.—Mosaic, v. 34, December, 2001. © Mosaic 2001. Acknowledgment of previous publication is herewith made.—Nation (New York), v. 265, November 3, 1997. © 1997 The Nation magazine/The Nation Company, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—New Leader, v. 72, February 6, 1989. © 1989 by The American Labor Conference on International Affairs, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—New Republic, v. 211, December 5, 1994. © 1994 The New Republic, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New Statesman, v. 112, September 26, 1986. © 1986 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman and Society, v. 2, December 15, 1989. © 1989 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Reproduced by permission.—New York Review of Books, v. 49, December 19, 2002. Copyright © 2002 Nyrev, Inc. Reproduced with permission from The New York Review of Books.—Publishers Weekly, v. 234, December 9, 1988; v. 244, August 25, 1997; v. 249, September 23, 2002; v. 250, November 24, 2003. Copyright 1988, 1997, 2002, 2003 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.—Research in African Literatures,
  • v. 20, Spring, 1989; v. 20, Fall, 1989; v. 22, Winter, 1991; v. 26, Winter, 1995; v. 28, Spring, 1997; v. 28, Summer 1997; v. 30, Fall, 1999; v. 30, Winter, 1999; v. 31, Summer, 2000; v. 33, Summer, 2002; v. 34, Summer, 2003. Copyright © 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 Indiana University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Review of Contemporary Fiction, v. 21, Fall, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Spectator, v. 271, December 4, 1993; v. 280, February 14, 1998. © 1993, 1998 by The Spectator. Reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 30, Fall, 1993. Copyright 1993 by Studies in Short Fiction, Inc.. Reproduced by permission.—Symposium, v. 56, Fall, 2002. Copyright © 2002 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational

    • Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—Times Literary Supplement, no. 4447, June 24-30, 1988; no. 4889, December 30, 1988-January 5, 1989; no. 4498, June 16, 1989; no. 4541, April 13-19, 1990; no. 4672, October 16, 1992; no. 4886, November 22, 1996; no. 4889, December 13, 1996; no. 5163, March 15, 2002. © The Times Supplements Limited 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2002. Reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—World Literature Today, v. 59, Autumn, 1985; v. 61, Autumn, 1987; v. 63, Winter, 1989; v. 66, Winter, 1992; v. 67, Autumn, 1993; v. 68, Summer, 1994; v. 70, Autumn, 1996; v, 74, Winter, 2000; v. 75, Summer-Autumn, 2001. Copyright 1985, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2001 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.—Yearbook in English Studies, v. 27, 1997. © Modern Humanities Research Association 1997. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.

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    Borchardt, Edith. From “Caricature, Parody, Satire: Narrative Masks as Subversion of the Picaro in Patrick Süskind’s Perfume,”in State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film. Edited by Nicholas Ruddick. Greenwood Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Nicholas Ruddick. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Erickson, John. From “Women’s Space and Enabling Dialogue in Assia Djebar’s L’amour, la fantasia,”in Postcolonial Subjects: Francophone Women Writers. Edited by Mary Jean Green, Karen Gould, Micheline Rice-Maximin, Keith L. Walker, and Jack A. Yeager. University of Minnesota Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Geesey, Patricia. From “Women’s Words: Assia Djebar’s Loin de Médine,”in The Marabout and the Muse: New Approaches to Islam in African Literature. Edited by Kenneth W. Harrow. Heinemann, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Heinemann. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Guyot-Bender, Martine. From “Harmony and Resistance in L’amour, la fantasia’s Algerian Women’s Communities,” in Homemaking: Women Writers and the Politics and Poetics of Home. Edited by Catherine Wiley and Fiona R. Barnes. Garland, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Catherine Wiley and Fiona R. Barnes. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of publisher and author.—Parkes, Stuart. From “The Novels of Patrick Süskind: A Phenomenon of the 1980s,” in Literature on the Threshold: The German Novel in the 1980s. Edited by Arthur Williams, Stuart Parkes, and Roland Smith. Berg, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Arthur Williams, Stuart Parkes and Roland Smith. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Stolz, Dieter. From “Patrick Süskind’s Parfum: ‘No One Knows How Well Made It Is,’” in German-Language Literature Today: International and Popular? Edited by Arthur Williams, Stuart Parkes, and Julian Preece. Peter Lang, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Peter Lang AG, European Academic Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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