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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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 EXCERPTS IN TCLC, VOLUME 100, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Literature, v. 70, December, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced by permission.—American Quarterly, v. 41, June 1989. © 1989. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—The American Scholar, v. 46, Winter, 1976-77 for a review of “F.O. Matthiessen” by Kenneth S. Lynn. Copyright © 1976 by the United Chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Arizona Quarterly, v. 48, Autumn, 1992, for “The ‘Wholeness’ of the Whale: Melville, Matthiessen, and the Semiotics of Critical Revisionism” by Marc Dolan. Copyright © 1992 by the Regents of the University of Arizona. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Contemporary Literature, v. 31, Fall, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Critical Quarterly, v. 37, Autumn, 1995. © 1995. Reproduced by permission of Blackwell Publishers.—Journal of Popular Culture, v. VIII, Spring, 1975. Reproduced by permission.—The Kenyon Review, v. VII, Spring, 1945. Copyright © 1945 by Kenyon College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Monthly Review, February, 1983. Reproduced by permission.—The New Criterion, v. 7, June, 1989, for a review of “Politics and Art in the Criticism of F. O. Matthiessen” by James W. Tuttleton. Copyright © 1989 by The Foundation for Cultural Review. Reproduced by permission of the Estate of James W. Tuttleton.—The New England Quarterly, v. LX, June, 1987, for a review of “Criticism and Politics: F. O. Matthiessen and the Making of Henry James” by William E. Cain. Copyright © 1987 by The New England Quarterly. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, v. 1, June, 1940; v. 1, September, 1940; v. XXXVI, December, 1975; v. XXXVI, June, 1976; v. LII, September, 1992. Copyright 1940, renewed 1968 by University of Buffalo. All reproduced by permission.—Quarterly Journal of Speech, v. 84, August, 1998, for “‘The Responsibilities of the Critic’: F. O. Matthiessen’s Homosexual Palimpsest” by Charles E. Morris, III. Copyright © 1998 by the Speech Communication Association. Used by permission of Speech Communication Association and the author.—The South Atlantic Quarterly, v. 87, Spring, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced by permission.—Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought, Spring, 1970; Fall 1970; Fall, 1973. All reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN TCLC, VOLUME 100, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Arac, Jonathan. From Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies. Columbia University Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 Columbia University Press, New York. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Bergman, David. From Gaiety Transﬁgured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Brendon, Piers. From “Mrs. Pankhurst” in Eminent Edwardians. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. Copyright © 1979 by Piers Brendon. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Cadden, Michael. From “Engendering F. O. M.: The Private Life of American Renaissance” in Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism. Edited by Joseph A. Boone and Michael Cadden. Copyright © 1990. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis, Inc./Routledge, Inc.—Gurwitsch, Aron. From Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology. Northwestern University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1966 by Northwestern University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. From “The Philosopher and His Shadow” in Signs. Edited by John Wild. Translated by Richard C. McCleary. Northwestern University Press, 1964. Copyright © 1964 by Northwestern University Press. Reproduced by permission.— Probst, Gerhard F. From “Alfred Neumann’s and Erwin Piscator’s Dramatization of Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ and the Role of Theater as a Contribution to America’s War Efforts,” in Exile and Enlightenment. Uwe Faulhaber, Jerry Glenn, Edward

P. Harris, Hans-Georg Richert eds. Wayne State University Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48202. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Ricoeur, Paul. From Husserl: An Analysis of His Phenomenology. Translated by Edward G. Ballard and Lester E. Embree. Northwestern University Press, 1967. Copyright © 1967 by Northwestern University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Ruland, Richard . From The Rediscovery of American Literature. Harvard University Press, 1967. Copyright © 1967 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Schmitt, Richard. From “Transcendental Phenomenology: Muddle or Mystery?” in Phenomenology and Existentialism. Edited by Robert C. Solomon. Littleﬁeld Adams, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by Robert C. Solomon. Reproduced by permission of Rowman and Littleﬁeld and the editor.—Wartofsky, Marx W. From “Consciousness, Praxis, and Reality: Marxism vs. Phenomenology” in Husserl: Expositions and Appraisals. Edited by Frederick A. Elliston and Peter McCormick. University of Notre Dame Press, 1977. Copyright © 1977 University of Notre Dame Press. Reproduced by permission.

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Husserl, Edmund, photograph. The Granger Collection, New York. Reproduced by permission.