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Volume 135

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism

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Criticism of Various Topics in Twentieth-Century Literature, including Literary and Critical Movements, Prominent Themes and Genres, Anniversary Celebrations, and Surveys of National Literatures

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Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 135
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    Calvet, Louis-Jean. From Roland Barthes: A Biography, by Louis-Jean Calvet. Translated by Sarah Wykes. Polity Press, 1994. English translation copyright © 1994 by Polity Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission Blackwell Publishers.—Carpenter, Frederic I. From American Literature and the Dream. Books for Libraries Press, 1955. Copyright © 1955 by Philosophical Library, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Random House, Inc.—Cary, Richard. From Mary N. Murfree. Twayne Publishers, 1967. Copyright © 1967 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Simon & Schuster Macmillan.—Cassuto, David N. From “Turning Wine into Water: Water as Privileged Signifier in The Grapes of Wrath.”in Steinbeck and the Environment: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Edited by Susan F. Beegel, Susan Shillinglaw, and Wesley N. Tiffney Jr. The University of Alabama Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by the University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Cederstrom, Lorelei. From “The ‘Great Mother’ in The Grapes of Wrath.”in Steinbeck and the Environment: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Edited by Susan F. Beegel, Susan Shillinglaw, and Wesley N. Tiffney Jr. The University of Alabama Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by the University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Chambers, Ross. From Loiterature. University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by University of Nebraska Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Conder, John J. From Naturalism in American Fiction: The Classic Phase. The University Press of Kentucky, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by The University Press of Kentucky. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The University Press of Kentucky.—de Man, Paul. From Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminar and

    Other Papers. Edited by E. S. Burt, Kevin Newmark, and Andrzej Warminski. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Eekman, Thomas. From “Ivo Andric’s Short Stories in the Context of the South Slavic Prose Tradition,” in Ivo Andric Revisited: The Bridge Still Stands. Edited by Wayne S. Vucinich. University of California, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Gallop, Jane. From Critical Essays on Roland Barthes. Edited by Diana Knight. G.K. Hall, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by G.K. Hall & Co. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of G.K. Hall & Co., an imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan.— Gorup, Radmila. From “Women in Andric’s Writing,” in Ivo Andric Revisited: The Bridge Still Stands. Edited by Wayne

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