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Preface

N
amed “one of the twenty-five most distinguished reference titles published during the past twenty-five years” by Reference Quarterly, the Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) series provides readers with critical commentary and general information on more than 2,000 authors now living or who died after December 31, 1999. Volumes published from 1973 through 1999 include authors who died after December 31, 1959. Previous to the publication of the first volume of CLC in 1973, there was no ongoing digest monitoring scholarly and popular sources of critical opinion and explication of modern literature. CLC, therefore, has fulfilled an essential need, particularly since the complexity and variety of contemporary literature makes the function of criticism especially important to today’s reader.

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Each CLC volume contains individual essays and reviews taken from hundreds of book review periodicals, general magazines, scholarly journals, monographs, and books. Entries include critical evaluations spanning from the beginning of an author’s career to the most current commentary. Interviews, feature articles, and other published writings that offer insight into the author’s works are also presented. Students, teachers, librarians, and researchers will find that the general critical and biographical material in CLC provides them with vital information required to write a term paper, analyze a poem, or lead a book discussion group. In addition, complete biographical citations note the original source and all of the information necessary for a term paper footnote or bibliography.

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    • reserved. Reproduced with permission of the author.—The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, v. 96, April, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Mercury Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Nation, v. 271, October 9, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by The Nation Magazine/ The Nation Company, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—National Review, v. 46, July 11, 1994; v. 52, July 3, 2000. Copyright © 1994, 2000 by National Review, Inc, 215 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Both reproduced by permission.—New Criterion, v. 12, June, 1994 for “Women Beware Women” by Heather Mac Donald. Reproduced by permission of the author.—New Republic, v. 162, June 13, 1970; v. 211, July 11, 1994. Copyright © 1970, 1994 by The New Republic, Inc. Both reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New Statesman & Society, v. 6, January 15, 1993; v. 7, November 25, 1994. Copyright © 1993, 1994 by Statesman and Nation Publishing Company Ltd. Both reproduced by permission.—New Statesman, v. 5, January, 1992; Copyright © 1992 by Statesman and Nation Publishing Company Ltd. and Contributors. Reproduced by permission.—New York Review of Books, v. 38, June 13, 1991; v. 40, January 28, 1993; v. 43, October 31, 1996; v. 45, November 5, 1998; v. 49, April 11, 2002. Copyright © 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2002 by NYREV, Inc. All reproduced with permission from The New York Review of Books.—Paris Review, v. 44, summer, 2002. Copyright © 2002 The Paris Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc.—Philological Papers, v. 31, 1985-86. Copyright © 1985-86 by Philological Papers. Reproduced by permission.—Public Interest, v. 118, winter, 1995 for “Sisters at Odds” by Diana Schaub. Copyright © 1995 by National Affairs, Inc. Reproduced with permission from The Public Interest and the author.—Publishers Weekly,

  • v. 241, May 2, 1994. Copyright © 1994 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.—Quadrant,v. 39, April, 1995 for “Liberal Versus Illiberal Feminism” by Anne Manne. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Reason, v. 26, October, 1994; v. 32, February, 2001. Copyright © 1994, 2000 by Reason Foundation, 3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90034, www.reason.com. Both reproduced with permission.—The Spectator,
  • v. 264, June 9, 1990; v. 269, August, 1992. Copyright © 1990, 1992 by The Spectator. Both reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Theatre Journal, v. 55, May 3, 2003. Copyright © 2003, University and College Theatre Association of the American Theatre Association. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—Times Educational Supplement, no. 4175, July, 1996 for “Master of Flat Earth” by Renata Rubnikowicz. Copyright © The Times Supplements Limited 1996. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Times Literary Supplement, no. 4611, August 16, 1991; no. 4686, January 22, 1993; no. 4786, December 23, 1994; no. 5114, April 6, 2001. Copyright © 1991, 1993, 1994, 2001 by The Times Supplements Limited. All reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—Utne Reader,v. 102, November-December, 2000 for “Save the Males” by Miriam Karmel. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Variety, February 10-16, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Variety. Reproduced by permission.—Virginia Quarterly Review,v. 77, spring, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by The Virginia Quarterly Review, The University of Virginia. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Washington Post Book World, v. 24, March 27, 1994 for “Terry Prachett” by Gregory Feeley; v. 24, July 17, 1994 for “Their Own Worst Enemies” by Deirdre English; v. 29, May, 1999 for “You Call That a Knife?” by Kay Douglas; November 26, 2000 for “The Artful Codger” by Carolyn See. Copyright © 1994, 1999, 2000 by The Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. All reproduced by permission of the respective authors./v. 26, September 15, 1996 for “The Lawyer in His Labyrinth” by Francine Prose. Copyright © 1996 by Francine Prose. Reproduced by permission of Denise Shannon Literary Agency, Inc.—Western American Literature, v. 23, February, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by The Western Literature Association. Reproduced by permission.—Wilson Quarterly, v. 24, summer, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—World and I, v. 15, October, 2000; v. 16, March 1, 2001. Copyright © 2000 News World Communications, Inc. Both reproduced by permission.
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    Baldry, Cherith. From “The Children’s Books,” in Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature. The Science Fiction Foundation, 2000. Copyright © The Science Fiction Foundation, on behalf of the authors. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Bryer, Jackson R. From “Lanford Wilson,” in The Playwright’s Art: Conversations with Contemporary American Dramatists. Edited by Jackson R. Bryer. Rutgers University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Rutgers University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Rutgers, The State University.—Busby, Mark. From “Lanford Wilson,” in Lanford Wilson. Edited by Wayne Chatterton and James H. Maguire. Boise State University, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Boise State University Western Writers Series. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Callens, Johan. From “When ‘The Center Cannot Hold’ or the Problem of Mediation in Lanford Wilson’s The Mound Builders,” in New Essays on American Drama. Edited by Gilbert Debusscher and Henry I. Schvey, with assistance of Marc Maufort. Rodopi, 1989. Copyright © Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam. Reproduced by permission.—Dean, Anne M. From Discovery and Invention: The Urban Plays of Lanford Wilson. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Harriott, Esther. From American Voices: Five Contemporary Playwrights in Essays and Interviews. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Copyright © 1988 by Esther Harriott. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Martine, James J. From “Charlotte’s Daughters: Changing Gender Roles and Family Structures in Lanford Wilson,” in Lanford Wilson: A Casebook. Edited by Jackson R. Bryer. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Garland Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Books, Inc., and the author.—Moody, Nickianne. From “Death,” in Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature. The Science Fiction Foundation, 2000. Edited by Andrew M. Butler, Edward James, and Farah Mendelsohn. Copyright The Science Fiction Foundation, on behalf of the Authors. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Savran, David. From In Their Own Words: Contemporary American Playwrights. Theatre Communications Group, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by David Savran. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Sawyer, Andy. From “The Librarian and His Domain,” in Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature. Edited by Andrew M. Butler, Edward James, and Farah Mendelsohn. The Science Fiction Foundation, 2000. Copyright © The Science Fiction Foundation, on behalf of the Authors. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Williams, Philip Middleton. From A Comfortable House: Lanford Wilson, Marshall W. Mason and the Circle Repertory Theatre. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by McFarland & Company. Reproduced by permission of the author.

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    Begley, Louis, photograph. Copyright © Jerry Bauer.—Pratchett, Terry, photograph. Copyright © Rune Hellestad/Corbis.— Sommers, Christina Hoff, photograph by Paula Lerner/Woodfin Camp/Time Life.—Wilson, Lanford, photograph. Copyright © Corbis.

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