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Criticism of the Works of Today’s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers

Janet Witalec

PROJECT EDITOR

Acknowledgments

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 182, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

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;

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.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 182, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

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.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN CLC, VOLUME 182, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Djebar, Assia, at St. Paul’s cathedral in Frankfurt/Main, Germany on October 22, 2000 after winning the Peace Prize of the German Book traders association, photograph by Frank Rumpenhorst. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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