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

Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the 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 14, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

America, v. 109, September 7, 1963. © 1963. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of America Press, Inc., 106 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019. www.americamagazine.org.—American Literature, v. 57, March, 1985; v. 61, March 1989. Copyright © 1985, 1989 Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced by permission.—American Political Science Review, v. 48, June, 1954. Copyright 1954 by American Political Science Association. Reproduced by permission.—American Scholar, v. 66, Winter, 1997 for “Who Was Leo Strauss?” by Gregory Bruce Smith. Copyright © 1997 Gregory Bruce Smith. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Arizona Quarterly, v. 46, Spring, 1990 for “The Fate of Demonism in William Faulkner” by Bernard Radloff; v. 55, Winter, 1999 for “Class, Character, and ’Croppers: Faulkner’ Snopeses and the Plight of the Sharecropper” by Matthew Lessig. Copyright © 1990, 1999 by the Regents of the University of Arizona. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Classical World, v. 66, May, 1973. Reproduced by permission.—College Literature, v. 15, Spring, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—Commentary, v. 44, October, 1967 for “Philosophy & Poetry” by Arnaldo Momigliano; v. 58, August, 1974 for “On Leo Strauss” by Gertrude Himmelfarb. Copyright © 1967, 1974 by the American Jewish Committee. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Commonweal, v. 73, November 4, 1960. Copyright © 1960 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.—Faulkner Journal, v. 1, Spring, 1986. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Narrative Technique, v. 25, Fall, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Mississippi Quarterly, v. 51, Summer, 1998. Copyright 1998 Mississippi State University. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Drama, v. 23, September, 1980. Copyright © 1980 University of Toronto, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. Reproduced by permission.—National Review, v. 19, April 18, 1967; v. 21, February 25, 1969; v. 41, August 18, 1989. Copyright © 1967, 1969, 1989 by National Review, Inc. 215 Lexington Avenue. New York, NY 10016. Reproduced by permission.— New York Times Book Review, June 15, 1913. Reproduced by permission.—Perspectives on Political Science, v. 28, Fall, 1999. Copyright © 1999 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.— Perspectives on Political Science, v. 28, Spring, 1999. Copyright © 1999 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.—Philosophical Review, v. 75, April, 1966 for a review of “Thoughts on Machiavelli” by Leo Strauss. Copyright 1966 Cornell University. Reprinted by permission of the publisher and the author.— Poetics Today, v. 19, Summer, 1998. © The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics. Reproduced by permission of Duke University Today.—Renascence, v. 40, Fall, 1987. Copyright © 1987, Marquette University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Review of Metaphysics, v. 47, June, 1994; v. 51, December, 1997. Copyright 1994, 1997 by The Review of Metaphysics. Reproduced by permission.—Social Research, v. 61, Winter, 1994. Copyright 1994 by New School for Social Research. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Quarterly, v. 26, Summer, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by the University of Southern Mississippi. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Studies, v. 24, Summer, 1985 for “Faulkner’s Early Narrative Technique and Flags in the Dust” by Philip Cohen. Reproduced by permission of the author.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN TCLC, VOLUME 141, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Andrews, Carol M. From Modern American Fiction: Form and Function. Edited by Thomas Daniel Young. Louisiana State University Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Bercovitch, Sacvan. From Faulkner in Cultural Context: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1995. Edited by Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. University Press of Mississippi, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by the University Press

of Mississippi. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Clarke, Deborah. From Faulkner and Gender: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1994. Edited by Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. University Press of Mississippi, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the University Press of Mississippi. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Drury, Shadia

B. From The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss. Macmillan Press, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Shadia B. Drury. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Duvall, John N. From Faulkner’s Marginal Couple: Invisible, Outlaw and Unspeakable Communities. University of Texas Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by the University of Texas Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Fackenheim, Emil L. From Jewish Philosophers and Jewish Philosophy. Edited by Michael L. Morgan. Indiana University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Emil L. Fackenheim. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Fuller, Timothy. From Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: German Emigres and American Political Thought After World War II. Edited by Peter Graf Kielmansegg, Horst Mewes, and Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt. German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by the German Historical Institute. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gunnell, John G. From The Crisis of Liberal Democracy: A Straussian Perspective. Edited by Kenneth L. Deutsch and Walter Soffer. State University of New York Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by State University of New York Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gwin, Minrose. From New Essays on Go Down Moses. Edited by Linda Wagner-Martin. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Jarraway, David R. From American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative. Edited by Robert K. Martin and Eric Savoy. University of Iowa Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by University of Iowa Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mathews, John T. From Southern Literature and Literary Theory. Edited by Jefferson Humphries. The University of Georgia Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by the University of Georgia Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Parker, Rennie. From The Georgian Poets: Abercrombie, Brooke, Drinkwater, Gibson and Thomas. Northcote House, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Rennie Parker. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Polk, Noel. From Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner. University Press of Mississippi, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the University Press of Mississippi. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Sturgeon, Mary C. From Studies of Contemporary Poets. Dodd, Mead and Co., 1916. Reproduced by permission.—Taylor, Walter. From On Faulkner: The Best from American Literature. Edited by Louis J. Budd and Edwin H. Cady. Duke University Press, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Weygandt, Cornelius. From The Times of Yeates: English Poetry of To-Day Against an American Background. Russell and Russell, 1937. Copyright © 1937 by D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc. Copyright © 1964 by Cornelius N. Weygandt. Reissued, 1969 by Russell & Russell. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN TCLC, VOLUME 141, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Faulkner, William, photograph. Getty Images. Reproduced by permission.—Lascelles Abercrombie, portrait. By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London. Reproduced by permission.—Strauss, Leo, photograph. Courtesy of the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. Reproduced by permission.

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