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Volume 121

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. 121
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Acknowledgments

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 TCLC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN TCLC, VOLUME 121, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

The Antigonish Review, n. 91, Fall, 1992 for “’© and Even Spoke Some Myself’: Elizabeth Bishop, Great Village and the Community of Imaginable Words,” by Peter Sanger. Copyright 1992 by the author. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Chicago Review, v. 40, Fall, 1994. Copyright © by Chicago Review 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Colby Library Quarterly, v. XXIV, September, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—Comparative Literature Studies,

  • v. 25, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—Concerning Poetry, v. 19, 1986. Copyright © 1986, Western Washington University. Reproduced by permission.—Contemporary Literature, v. 26, Summer, 1985; v. 34, Spring, 1993. © 1985, 1993 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin. Both reproduced by permission of The University of Wisconsin Press.—Critical Inquiry, v. 13, Summer, 1987 for “The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop” by Helen Vendler. © 1987 by Helen Vendler. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Critical Survey, v. 6, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Critique, v. 22, 1981. Copyright © 1981 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.—ELH, v. 62, Summer, 1995. © 1995 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.— The Explicator, v. 54, Fall, 1995. Copyright © 1995 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.—Frontiers, v. X, 1988. Copyright © The University of Nebraska Press 1988. Reproduced by permission.—The German Quarterly, v. 59, Winter, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by the American Association of Teachers of German. Reproduced by permission.—The Germanic Review, v. 56, Fall, 1981 for “‘Homo Faber, Homo Ludens’, and the Demeter-Kore Motif” by Rhonda L. Blair. Copyright © 1981 Rhonda L. Blair. Reproduced by permission of the author./v. 59, Summer, 1984 for “Archetypal Imagery in Max Frisch’s ‘Homo faber’: The Wise Old Man and the Shadow” by Rhonda L. Blair. Copyright © 1984 Rhonda L. Blair. Reproduced by permission of the author./v. 70, Fall, 1995 for “Man the Maker: Max Frisch’s ‘Homo faber’ and the Daedalus Myth” by Peter C. Thornton. Copyright © 1995 by Peter C. Thornton. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Modern Language Review, v. 78, April, 1983. © Modern Humanities Research Association 1983. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Monatschefte, v. 78, Winter, 1986; v. 79, Winter, 1987; v. 87, Winter, 1995. © 1986, 1987, 1995 by the Board of Regents of The University of Wisconsin System. All reproduced by permission.—Mosaic, v. XV, September, 1982. © Mosaic 1982. Acknowledgment of previous publication is herewith made.—New Literary History, v. 26, Autumn, 1995. © 1995 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—The New Criterion, v. 12, May, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—The New Republic, 1983. Copyright © 1983, The New Republic, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—Raritan, v. 13, Fall, 1993; v. 14, Winter, 1995. Copyright © 1993, 1995 by Raritan: A Quarterly Review. Both reproduced by permission.—South Atlantic Review,
  • v. 59, November, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Reproduced by permission.—The Times Literary Supplement, n. 4454, August 12-18, 1988. © The Times Supplements Limited 1988. Reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—The Virginia Quarterly Review, v. 60, Spring, 1984. Copyright, 1984, by The Virginia Quarterly Review, The University of Virginia. Reproduced by permission.—The Women’s Review of Books, v. XI, July, 1994 for “The Letter and the Spirit,” by Adrian Oktenberg. Copyright © 1994. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—World Literature Today, v. 60, Autumn, 1986; v. 69, Winter, 1995. Copyright 1986, 1995, by the University of Oklahoma Press. All reproduced by permission.
    • COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN TCLC, VOLUME 121, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

    Ahearn, Edward J. From Visionary Fictions: Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age. Yale University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Yale University. Reproduced by permission.—Brogan, Kathleen. From “Lyric Voice and Sexual

    Difference in Elizabeth Bishop,” in Writing the Woman Artist: Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture. Edited by Suzanne W. Jones. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. © 1991 by Suzanne W. Jones. Reproduced by permission.—Dahl, Mary Karen. From Political Violence in Drama: Classical Models, Contemporary Variations. UMI Research Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Mary Karen Dahl. Reproduced by permission.—Foster, Dennis A. From Sublime Enjoyment: On the Perverse Motive in American Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1997. © Cambridge University Press 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Lydenberg, Robin. From “Sound-Identity Fading Out: William Burroughs’ Tape Experiments,” in Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde. Edited by Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead. The MIT Press, 1992. Reproduced by permission of The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.—Murphy, Timothy S. From Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs. University of California Press, 1998. © 1997 by the Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission.—Niven, Bill. From “The Green ‘Bildungsroman,’” in Green Thought in German Culture: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Edited by Colin Riordan. University of Wales Press, 1997. © The Contributors, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Oxenhandler, Neal. From “Listening to Burrough’s Voice,” in Surfiction: Fiction Now © and Tomorrow. Edited by Raymond Federman. Swallow Press, 1975. Copyright © 1975 by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Reproduced by permission.—Parkinson, Thomas. From Poets, Poems, Movements. UMI Research Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 Thomas Francis Parkinson. Reprinted by permission of the author.—Russell, John. From Reciprocities in the Nonfiction Novel. The University of Georgia Press, 2000. © 2000 by the University of Georgia Press. Reproduced by permission.—Shaviro, Steven. From “Two Lessons from Burroughs,” in Posthuman Bodies. Edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston. Indiana University Press, 1995. © 1995 by Indiana University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Skerl, Jennie. From William S. Burroughs. Twayne, 1985. Reproduced with the permission of Macmillan Library Reference USA, a division of Ahsuog, Inc.

    PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN TCLC, VOLUME 121, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

    Bishop, Elizabeth, photograph by J. L. Castel. The Library of Congress.—Burroughs, William S., photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Frisch, Max, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.— Hurston, Zora Neale, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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