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Volume 119

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. 119
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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 TCLC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN TCLC, VOLUME 119, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

America, v. 144, May 23, 1981. © 1981. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of America Press, Inc.,106 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019.—American Literature, v. 41, January, 1969-70; v. 57, March, 1985. Both reproduced by permission.—The American Scholar, v. 58, Summer, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by the United Chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Reproduced by permission.—American Quarterly, v. 6, Spring, 1954. Reproduced by permission.— Atlantic Monthly, v. 223, June, 1969 for “The Peripatetic Review” by Edward Weeks. Reproduced by permission of the Estate of Edward Weeks.—Biography, v. 8,Winter, 1985. Reproduced by permission.—Christian Century, v. 113, October, 1996. Copyright 1996 Christian Century Foundation. Reproduced by permission.—CLIO, v. 14, Spring, 1985 for “Art Versus Truth in Autobiography: The Case of Lillian Hellman” by Anita Susan Grossman. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Commonweal, v. LVII, October 24, 1952; v. LXVIII, June 27, 1958. Copyright 1952, 1958 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Both reproduced by permission.—The Intercollegiate Review, v. 30, Fall, 1994. Reproduced by permission.— Kenyon Review, Spring, 1952. Copyright 1952 by Kenyon College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Laurels, v. 58, Fall, 1987 for “Jean Cocteau and His World” by Arthur King Peters. Reproduced by permission of the Literary Estate of Arthur King Peters.—Literature/Film Quarterly, v. 12, 1984; v. 17, 1989. © copyright 1984 Salisbury University. Both reproduced by permission.—Modern Age, v. 28, Winter, 1984; v. 37, Winter, 1995; v. 38, Fall, 1996; v. 38, Summer, 1996; v. 38, Winter, 1996; v. 40, Winter, 1998; v. 40, Summer, 1998. All reproduced by permission.—Modern Drama, v. 32, March, 1989; v. 39, Spring, 1996. Copyright © 1989 University of Toronto, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. Both reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Review, v. 89, April, 1994 for “Jean Cocteau’s Snow,” by Jennifer Hatte. © Modern Humanities Research Association 1994. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—The Nation, New York, v. 232, May 9, 1981. © 1981 The Nation magazine/ The Nation Company, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—National Review, v. 21, April 22, 1969; v. 33, May 29, 1981; v. XLVI, May 30, 1994. Copyright © 1969, 1981, 1994 by National Review, Inc, 215 Lexington Avenue. New York, NY 10016. All reproduced by permission.—The New Criterion, v. 13, December, 1994 for “The Legacy of Russell Kirk” by David Frum. Reproduced by permission of the author.—New Orleans Review, v. 15, Spring, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Loyola University. Reproduced by permission.— The New Republic, v. 160, April 26, 1969; v. 184, May 2, 1981; v. 213, December 11, 1995. © 1969, 1981, 1995 The New Republic, Inc. All reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New York Review of Books, v. 12, June 5, 1969; v. 28, April 16, 1981. Copyright © 1969, 1981 Nyrev, Inc. Both reproduced with permission from The New York Review of Books.—The New York Times Book Review, May 17, 1953. Copyright 1953, renewed 1981 by The New York Times Company. Reproduced by permission.—Partisan Review, v. XL, Winter, 1973 for “The Unread Eliot” by W. W. Robson. Copyright © 1973 by Partisan Review. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the Literary Estate of W.W. Robson.— Perspectives on Contemporary Literature, v. 12, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by The University Press of Kentucky. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.—PMLA, v. 107, May, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by the Modern Language Association of America. Reproduced by permission of the Modern Language Association of America.—Policy Review, n. 67, Winter, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Political Science Quarterly, v. LXVIII, December, 1953. Reproduced by permission.— The Political Science Reviewer, v. II, Fall, 1972. Reproduced by permission.—Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, v. 40, 1986. Reproduced by permission.—Romance Notes, v. 27, Autumn, 1986. Reproduced by permission.— Romance Quarterly, v. 35, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—Saturday Review, v. 35, October 18, 1952; v. 41, May 24, 1958; v. 52, April 19, 1969; v. 8, April, 1981. © 1952, 1958, 1969, 1981 Saturday Review Magazine, © 1979 General Media International, Inc. All reproduced by permission.—Southern Literary Journal, v. 28, Spring, 1996. Copyright 1996 by the Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Quarterly,

v. 25, Spring, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by the University of Southern Mississippi. Reproduced by permission.—Syracuse University Library Associates Courier, v. XXIII, Spring, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—The Sewanee Review, v. LXII, Winter, 1954; v. LXXX, Fall, 1972. Copyright 1954, 1972 by the University of the South. Both reprinted with per

mission of the editor.—Theatre Journal, v. 45, October, 1993. © 1993, University and College Theatre Association of the American Theatre Association. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—Times Literary Supplement, n. 4246, August 17, 1984. © The Times Supplements Limited 1984. Reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, v. 10, Fall, 1991 for “Murdering the Lesbian: Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour” by Mary Titus. © 1991, The University of Tulsa. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—The Wall Street Journal, April 4, 1996 for “The Discord at Concord” by James W. Tuttleton. Reproduced by permission of the Literary Estate of James W. Tuttleton.—Western Review, v. 17, Spring, 1953. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN TCLC, VOLUME 119, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Barlow, Judith E. From “Into the Foxhole: Feminism, Realism, and Lillian Hellman,” in Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition. Edited by William W. Demastes. The University of Alabama Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 The University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Brantley, Will. From Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston. University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by the University Press of Mississippi. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Georgoudaki, Ekaterini. From “Women in Lillian Hellman’s Plays, 1930-1050,” in Women and War: The Changing Status of American Women from the 1930s to the 1950s. Edited by Maria Diedrich and Dorothea Fischer-Hornung. Berg, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Hanlon, Lindley. From “Cocteau, Cauchemar, Cinema,” in The Anxious Subject: Nightmares and Daymares in Literature and Film. Edited by Moshe Lazar. Undena Publications, 1983. © 1983 by Undena Publications. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Herron, Don. From “Russell Kirk: Ghost Master of Mecosta,” in Discovering Modern Horror Fiction. Edited by Darrell Schweitzer. Starmont House, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Starmont House, Inc. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Hook, Sidney. From Philosophy and Public Policy. Southern Illinois University Press, 1980. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Howe, Irving. From Selected Writings, 1950-1990. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Irving Howe. Reproduced by permission.—Lenker, Lagretta Tallent. From The Aching Hearth: Family Violence in Life and Literature. Edited by Susan Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker. Insight Books, 1991. © 1991 Plenum Press. Reproduced by permission of Perseus Books Group.—Person, James E., Jr. From Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind. Madison Books, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by James E. Person, Jr. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Thiher, Allen. From The Cinematic Muse: Critical Studies in the History of French Cinema. University of Missouri Press, 1979. Copyright © 1979 by the Curators of the University of Missouri. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wiles, Timothy J. From “Lillian Hellman’s American Political Theater: The Thirties and Beyond,” in Critical Essays on Lillian Hellman. Edited by Mark W. Estrin.

G. K. Hall, & Co., 1989. Copyright 1989 by Mark W. Estrin. Reproduced by permission.

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Baker, Carlos, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Cocteau, Jean, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Hellman, Lillian, 1966, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Kirk, Russell, Mecosta, Michigan, 1984, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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