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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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The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted 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 160, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Poetry Review, v. 26, May-June, 1997; v. 28, September-October, 1999. Both reproduced by permission.— Antioch Review, v. 54, Spring, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Atlantic Monthly, v. 271, June, 1993 for “An Artist of American Violence” by Jack Miles. Copyright © 1993 by Jack Miles. Reproduced by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., for the author.—Boston Review, v. 18, October-November, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Chronicle of Higher Education, v. 45, January 15, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Commonweal, September 13, 1991; August 13, 1993. Both reproduced by permission.—Critique, v. 43, Fall, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—English Journal, December, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Georgia Review, v. 50, Winter, 1998; v. 54, Spring, 2000. Both reproduced by permission.—Kenyon Review, v. 23, Winter, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Latin American Perspectives, v. 18, Summer, 1991; v. 22, Fall, 1995; v. 25, November, 1998; v. 26, November, 1999. Copyright © 1991, 1995, 1998, 1999 by Latin American Perspectives, Inc. All reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Inc.—The Literary Review, v. 31, Spring, 1988; v. 39, Spring, 1996. Both reproduced by permission.—London Review of Books, December 11, 1997 for “Fanfares,” by Ian Sansom. This article first appeared in the London Review of Books. www.lrb.co.uk./July 11, 1991 for “Paradise Lost,” by Nicholas Everett. This is an edited version of an article that appeared in the London Review of Books. www.lrb.co.uk. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, May 5, 1985; March 3, 1991; February 28, 1993; September 28, 1997. All reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times Magazine, January, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Massachusetts Review, v. 29, Spring, 1988; v. 41, Spring, 2000. © 1988, 2000 The Massachusetts Review, Inc. Both reproduced by permission.—NACLA Report on the Americas, v. 32, March-April. Reproduced by permission.—The Nation, February 15, 1993; v. 268, 1999; June 25, 2001. All reproduced by permission.—The New Criterion, v. 17, June, 1999; v. 18, June, 2000; v. 19, June, 2001. All reproduced by permission.—New Leader, September 8, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—New Republic, October 29, 1990; June 3, 1991; December 15, 1997; March 8, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman, July 6, 1984; August 15, 1997. Both reproduced by permission.—New Statesman and Society, February 2, 1990; October 5, 1990; July 21, 1995. All reproduced by permission.—New York Review of Books, March 27, 1997; April 8, 1999; May 11, 2000. All reproduced by permission.—North American Review, v. 279, July-August, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Parnassus, v. 17-18, February, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, v. 112, May, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Prairie Schooner, v. 75, Summer, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—The Progressive, January, 1993; October, 1998. Both reproduced by permission.—Raritan, v. 10, Winter, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Review of Contemporary Fiction,

v. 18, Spring, 1998; v. 21, Spring, 2001. Both reproduced by permission.—Salmagundi, Fall-Winter, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Sewanee Review, v. 107, Winter, 1999. Copyright 1999 by the University of the South. Reprinted with the permission of the editor.—South Carolina Review, v. 33, Fall, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Southwest Review, v. 84, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 30, Summer, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Times Literary Supplement, August 2, 1991; July 2, 1993; May 16, 1997; September 19, 1997; July 16, 1999; July 30, 1999; October 1, 1999; September 15, 2000. All reproduced by permission.—Virginia Quarterly Review, v. 74, Summer, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—The Washington Post, January 21, 1999 for “Noble Winner’s Work Disputed; Scholar Claims Guatemalan Exaggerated Her Horrifying Story,” by Molly Moore. © 1999 The Washington Post. Reproduced by permission.—The Washington Post Book World, July 26, 1998 for “Memories of the Struggle,” by Pamela Constable. © 1998 The Washington Post. Reproduced by permission.—Women and Language, v. 13, Fall, 1990. Reproduced by permission.— Women’s Review of Books, September, 1998 for “Eyes on the Prizewinner,” by Margaret Randall. Reproduced by permission of the author.—World Literature Today, v. 67, Spring, 1993; v. 68, Winter, 1994; v. 71, Winter, 1997; v. 72, Winter, 1998; v. 73, Spring, 1999; v. 74, Autumn, 2000. All reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 160, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Dodd, Elizabeth. From “Louise Glück: The Ardent Understatement of Postconfessional Classicism,” in The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet: H. D., Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bishop, and Louise Glück. University of Missouri Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by University of Missouri Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Keller, Lynn. From “‘Free/of Blossom and Subterfuge’: Louise Glück and the Language of Renunciation,” in World, Self, Poem: Essays on Contemporary Poetry from the “Jubilation Poets.” The Kent State University Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by The Kent State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Thieme, John. From “Critical Overview and Conclusion,” in Derek Walcott. Manchester University Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Manchester University Press. All right reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Treacy, Mary Jane. From “Rigoberta Menchu´: The Art of Rebellion,” in A Dream of Light and Shadow. University of New Mexico Press, 1995. © 1995 by the University of New Mexico Press. Reproduced by permission.—Upton, Lee. From “Fleshless Voices: Louise Glück’s Rituals of Abjection and Oblivion,” in The Muse of Abandonment: Origin, Identity, Mastery in Five American Poets. Bucknell University Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Bucknell University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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Glück, Louise, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Gordimer, Nadine, photograph by Wyatt Counts. AP/Wide World Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Menchu´, Rigoberta, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1992, photograph by Daniel Hernandez. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Momaday, N. Scott, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Walcott, Derek, photograph. Liaison Agency. Reproduced by permission.

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