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Volume 151

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism

Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, and Other Creative Writers Who Lived between 1900 and 1999, from the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations

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Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 151
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American Poetry Review, v. 6, July, 1977 for “Review of The Zodiac” by Stanley Plumly. Copyright © 1977 by American Poetry. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Carolina Quarterly, v. 22, spring, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by The University of North Carolina Press. Reproduced by permission.—Chicago Review, v. 20, November, 1968. Copyright © 1968 by Chicago Review. Reproduced by permission.—Commentary, v. 89, February, 1990 for “Agnon without End” by Alan L. Mintz. Copyright © 1990 by the American Jewish Committee. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Commonweal, v.122, February 24, 1995. Copyright © 1995 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.—Contemporary Literature, v. 39, winter, 1998. Copyright © 1998 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—English Language Notes, v. 26, December, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Regents of the University of Colorado. Reproduced by permission.—Georgia Review, v. 32, summer, 1978. Copyright © 1978 by the University of Georgia. Reproduced by permission.—Hebrew Annual Review, v. 10, 1986 for “S. Y. Agnon’s Art of Composition: The Befuddling Turn of the Compositional Screw” by Yair Mazor. Copyright © 1986 by the Division of Hebrew Language and Literature, Ohio State University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Hudson Review, v. 52, summer, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by The Hudson Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, v. 1, fall, 1999 for “Literature, Politics, and the Law: On Blacksmiths, Tailors, and the Demolition of Houses” by Shulamit Almog. Copyright © 1999 by Interdisciplinary Studies. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Intertexts, v. 7, spring, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Texas Tech University Press. Reproduced by permission.—James Dickey Newsletter, v. 7, fall, 1990 for “To Rise Above Time: The Mythic Hero in Dickey’s Deliverance and Alnilam” by Angelin Brewer. Copyright © 1990 by Angelin Brewer. Reproduced by permission of the author./v. 8, fall, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by James Dickey Newsletter. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Modern Hebrew Literature, v. 9, spring-summer, 1984; v. 11, springsummer, 1986; v. 14, spring-summer, 1995. Copyright © 1984, 1986, 1995 by the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature (Tel Aviv). All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Studies, v. 13, winter, 1983, for “Biblical Substructures in the Tragic Form: Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge; Agnon, And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight” by Nehama Aschkenasy; v. 15, fall, 1985 for “Wherefrom Did Gediton Enter Gumlidata?: Realism and Comic Subversiveness in ‘Forevermore,’” by Esther Fuchs. Copyright © 1983, 1985 by the Northeast Modern Language Association, all rights reserved. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Modern Poetry Studies, v. 5, autumn, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by Jerome Mazzaro. Reproduced by permission.—New Criterion, v. 18, May, 2000 for “Review of Crux: The Letters of James Dickey” by Jeffrey Meyers. Copyright © 2000 by The Foundation for Cultural Review. Reproduced by permission of the author.—New Republic, v. 157, September 23, 1967. Copyright © 1967 by New Republic. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman, March 20, 1998. Copyright © 1998 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Reproduced by permission.—New York Review, v. 46, November 18, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by New York Review. Reproduced with permission from The New York Review of Books.—Northwest Review, v. 7, fallwinter, 1965-66. Copyright © 1965-66 by Northwest Review. Reproduced by permission.—Papers on Language and Literature, v. 31, fall, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by The Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Reproduced by permission.—Parnassus, v. 8, 1980 for “Double Dutch” by Turner Cassity; v. 13, spring-summer, 1986 for “Toward the Abyss: James Dickey at Middle Age” by Paul Christensen. Copyright © 1980, 1986 by Poetry in Review Foundation, NY. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Poetry, v. 105, November, 1964 for “James Dickey’s New Book” by Wendell Berry. Copyright © 1964 by Poetry. Reproduced by permission of the editor of POETRY and the author.—Prairie Schooner, v. 52, spring, 1978. Copyright © 1978 by University of Nebraska Press. Reproduced from Prairie Schooner by permission of the University of Nebraska Press.—Prooftexts, v. 9, September, 1989. Copyright 1989 by Johns Hopkins University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Publishers Weekly, v. 247, May 29, 2000. Copyright © 2000 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.—Review of Contemporary Fiction, v. 20, fall, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Scandinavian Studies, v. 71, fall, 1999 for “Writing on the Wall: The Language of Advertising in Knut Hamsun’s Sult” by Mark Sandberg. Copyright © 1999, by Scandinavian Studies. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Scandinavica: An International Journal of Scandinavian Studies, v. 14, November 2, 1975. Copyright © 1975, 1989, by the editors of Scandinavica. Both reproduced by permission.—Sewanee Review, v. 77, April, 1969. Copyright © 1969 by The University of the South. Reproduced with permission of the editor./v. 108, winter, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Harry Hart. Reproduced with permission of the editor and the author.—South Carolina Review, v. 3, June, 1971; v. 26, spring, 1994. Copyright © 1971, 1994 by Clemson University. All reproduced by permission.—Southern Literary Journal, v. 28, spring, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Quarterly, v. 33, winter-summer, 1994-1995. Copyright © 1994-1995 by the University of Southern Mississippi. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Review, v. 36, spring, 2000 for “James Dickey: Journal to War” by Henry Hart. Copyright © 2000 by Southern Review. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Studies in Contemporary Satire, v. 17, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 12, 1975; v. 34, summer, 1997. Copyright © 1975, 1997 by Newberry College (South Carolina). All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Virginia Quarterly Review, v. 63, winter, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by the Virginia Quarterly Review, The University of Virginia. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—War, Literature, and the Arts, v. 6, fall-winter, 1994. 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COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN TCLC, VOLUME 151, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Auster, Paul. From The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews and The Red Notebook. Sun & Moon Press, 1992. Copyright © 1991, by Paul Auster. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Green Integer Books, Los Angeles.— Axelrod, Mark. From The Poetics of Novels: Fiction and Its Execution. St. Martin’s Press, Inc., 1999. Copyright © 1999, by Mark Axelrod. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC.—Band, Arnold. From “The Kafka-Agnon Polarities,” in The Dove and the Mole: Kafka’s Journey into Darkness and Creativity. Edited by Moshe Lazar and Ronald Gottesman. Undena, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Undena Publishing. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Baughman, Ronald. “Deliverance,” in Understanding James Dickey. University of South Carolina Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by University of South Carolina Press. Reproduced by permission.— Calhoun, Richard J. and Robert W. Hill. From “The Literary Criticism, Lately Neglected,” in James Dickey. Twayne Publishers, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Twayne Publishers. Reproduced by permission of the Gale Group.—Ferguson, Robert. From “1888-1890: The Breakthrough: Hunger,” in Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun. Hutchinson, 1987. Copyright © 1987, by Robert Ferguson. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Gershon, Shaked. From “Midrash and Narrative: Agnon’s ‘Agunot’,” in Midrash and Literature. Edited by Geoffrey H. Hartman and Sanford Budick. Chapter translated by Lois Bar-Yaacov. Yale University Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Yale University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hassan, Ihab. From “The Spirit of Quest in Contemporary American Letters,” in Rumors of Change: Essays of Five Decades. University of Alabama Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hoffman, Anne Golomb. From “Introduction: ‘Like a Man Who Is Exiled from the Palace of His Father’,” in Between Exile and Return: S. Y. Agnon and the Drama of Writing. State University of New York Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by the State University of New York Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the State University of New York Press.—Nagel, James. From Biographies of Books: The Compositional Histories of Notable American Writings. Edited by James Barbour and Tom Quirk. University of Missouri Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the Curators of the University of Missouri. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ozick, Cynthia. From Metaphor and Memory. Vintage, 1991. Copyright © 1989 by Cynthia Ozick. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. In the UK by permission of the author.—Pratt, John Clark. From Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature. Edited by Phillip K. Jason. University of Iowa Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by the University of Iowa. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Roskies, David. From “Essay on ‘The Sense of Smell’,” in Reading Hebrew Literature. Edited by Alan Mintz. Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Brandeis University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Sokoloff, Naomi B. From “Expressing and Repressing the Female Voice in S. Y. Agnon’s In the Prime of Her Life”in Women of the World: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing. Edited by Judith

R. Baskin. Wayne State University Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Wayne State University Press. Reproduced with permission of the Wayne State University Press.—Starr, William W. “Alnilam: James Dickey’s Novel Explores Father and Son Relationships,” in The Voiced Connections of James Dickey: Interviews and Conversations. Edited by Ronald Baughman. University of South Carolina Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 University of South Carolina Press. Reproduced by permission.—Van Ness, Gordon. From “Other Prose: Jericho, God’s Images, Wayfarer, and Southern Light,”in Outbelieving Existence: The Measure Motion of James Dickey. Camden House, 1992. Copyright © Camden House. Reproduced by permission.

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