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Volume 126

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Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 126
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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 126, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Drama, v. 10, Summer, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—American Literary History, v. 9, Winter, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Amerikastudien/American Studies, v. 40, 1995 for “Writing Language Poetry as a Women: Susan Howe’s Feminist Project in ‘A Bibliography of the King’s Book, or Eikon Basilike,’” by Kornelia Freitag. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, v. 10, Winter, 1998 for “A Practicing Lawyer Looks Back on Law and Literature,” by Daniel J. Kornstein./v. 11, Winter, 1999 for “Truth and Justice in Bertolt Brecht,” by Michael Freeman. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—The Comparatist, v. 23, May, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Contemporary Literature, v. xxx, Spring, 1989. © 1989 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Reproduced by permission.—Critical Inquiry, v. 12, Summer, 1986 for “What is ‘Language Poetry’?,” by Lee Bartlett./v. 25, Spring, 1999 for “Language Poetry and the Lyric Subject: Ron Silliman’s ‘Albany,’ Susan Howe’s ‘Buffalo,’” by Marjorie Perloff. © 1986, 1999 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors./v. 13, Spring, 1987 for “Contemporary Poetry, Alternate Route,” by Jerome McGann. © 1987 by Jerome McGann. Reproduced by permission of the author.—differences, v. 12, Summer, 2001. Copyright 2001 Indiana University Press. Reproduced by permission.—London Review of Books, v. 9, October 15, 1987. Reproduced by permission.—Modernism/Modernity, v. 8, April, 2001. © 2001 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Symposium, v. 52, Fall, 1998. Copyright © 1998 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.—Tamkang Review, v. xxv, Spring & Summer, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—The South Atlantic Quarterly, v. 97, Fall & Summer, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN TCLC, VOLUME 126, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Billingslea-Brown, Alma Jean. From Law and Literature Perspectives. Edited by Bruce L. Rockwood. Peter Lang, 1996. © 1995 Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown. Reproduced by permission.—Dolin, Kieran. From Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1999. © Kieran Dolin 1999. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Emanuel, Lynn. From Poetry After Modernism. Second edition. Edited by Robert McDowell. Story Line Press, 1998. © 1998 Robert McDowell. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Hartley, George. From Textual Politics and the Language Poets. Indiana University Press, 1989. © 1989 by George Hartley. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Messerli, Douglas. From Language Poetries: An Anthology. Edited by Douglas Messerli. New Direction Books, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Douglas Messerli. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Pencak, William. From Law and Literature Perspectives. Edited by Bruce L. Rockwood. Peter Lang, 1996. © 1996 Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Posner, Richard A. From Law and Literature. Revised edition. Harvard University Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Rockwood, Bruce L. From Law and Literature Perspectives. Edited by Bruce L. Rockwood. Peter Lang, 1996. © 1996 Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Silliman, Ron. From In the American Tree. Edited by Ron Silliman. National Poetry Foundation, Inc., 1986. © 1986 by The National Poetry Foundation. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Ward, Ian. From Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, 1995. © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Watten, Barrett. From In the American Tree. Edited by Ron

Silliman. National Poetry Foundation, Inc., 1986. © 1986 by The National Poetry Foundation. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Watten, Barrett. From Artiface and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics. Edited by Christopher Beach. The University of Alabama Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 The University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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