TCLC is designed to serve as an introduction to authors who died between 1900 and 1999 and to the most significant interpretations of these author’s works. Volumes published from 1978 through 1999 included authors who died between 1900 and 1960. The great poets, novelists, short story writers, playwrights, and philosophers of the period are frequently studied in high school and college literature courses. In organizing and reprinting the vast amount of critical material written on these authors, TCLC helps students develop valuable insight into literary history, promotes a better understanding of the texts, and sparks ideas for papers and assignments. Each entry in TCLCpresents a comprehensive survey on an author’s career or an individual work of literature and provides the user with a multiplicity of interpretations and assessments. Such variety allows students to pursue their own interests; furthermore, it fosters an awareness that literature is dynamic and responsive to many different opinions.

Every fourth volume of TCLC is devoted to literary topics. These topics widen the focus of the series from the individual authors to such broader subjects as literary movements, prominent themes in twentieth-century literature, literary reaction to political and historical events, significant eras in literary history, prominent literary anniversaries, and the literatures of cultures that are often overlooked by English-speaking readers.

TCLC is designed as a companion series to Thomson Gale’s Contemporary Literary Criticism, (CLC) which reprints commentary on authors who died after 1999. Because of the different time periods under consideration, there is no duplication of material between CLC and TCLC.

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Company. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Blackwell Publishers.—Hitchcock, Peter. From “The Grotesque of the Body Electric,” in Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words. Edited by Michael Mayfeld Bell and Michael Gardiner. SAGE Publications, 1998. Chapter 6 © Peter Hitchcock 1998. Reproduced by permission of SAGE Publications Ltd. at www.sagepub.co.uk.—Holquist, Michael. From “Why Is God’s Name a Pun? Bakhtin’s Theory of the Novel in the Light of Theophilogy,” in The Novelness of Bakhtin: Perspectives and Possibilities. Edited by Jørgen Bruhn and Jan Lundquist. Museum Tusculanum Press, 2001. Copyright © Museum Tusculanum Press, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Homberger, Eric. From American Writers and Radical Politics, 1900-39: Equivocal Commitments. Copyright © Ric Homberger 1986. Macmillan, 1986. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.—Kelly, Aileen M. From “The Flesh of Time: Mikhail Bakhtin,” in Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. Yale University Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Yale University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lucas, Susan M. From “Counter Frictions: Writing and Activism in the Work of Abbey and Thoreau,” in Thoreau’s Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing. Edited by Richard J. Schneider. Copyright © 2000, by the University of Iowa Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the University of Iowa Press.—Norwick, Steve. “Nietzschean Themes in the Works of Edward Abbey,” in Coyote in the Maze: Tracking Edward Abbey in a World of Words. Edited by Peter Quigley. The University of Utah Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998, by The University of Utah Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Rosendale, Steven. From “In Search of Left Ecology’s Usable Past: The Jungle, Social Change, and the Class Character of Environmental Impairment,” in The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment. Edited by Steven Rosendale. University of Iowa Press, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by the University of Iowa Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the University of Iowa Press.—Todorov, Tzvetan. From “History of Literature,” in Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle. Edited and translated by Wlad Godzich. University of Minnesota Press, 1984. English Language copyright 1984 by the University of Minnesota. Originally published in “Mikhail Bakhtine: le principe dialogigue suivi de Ecrits de Cerle Bakhtine” copyright 1981 by Editions de Seuil. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Georges Bouchardt, Inc for Editions de Seuil.—Twining, Edward S. From “The Roots of Abbey’s Social Critique,” in Coyote in the Maze: Tracking Edward Abbey in a World of Words. Edited by Peter Quigley. The University of Utah Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998, by The University of Utah Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wreszin, Michael. From Oswald Garrison Villard, Pacifist at War. Indiana University Press, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by Indiana University Press. Reproduced by permission.

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