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Volume 129

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. 129
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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 129, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Scholar, v. 21, Autumn, 1951. Copyright 1951 by the United Chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Copyright renewed © 1978 by The United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. Reproduced by permission.—Black Scholar, v. 29, Summer, 1999. Copyright 1999 Black World Foundation. Reproduced by permission.—Commentary, v. 89, April, 1990 for “Why Whittaker Chambers Was Wrong,” by Charles Horner. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—The Commonweal, v. LVI, May 23, 1952. Copyright 1952 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission.— Encounter, v. 36, March, 1971 for “Private Chambers v. Public Chambers,” by Wilfred Sheed. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, v. ix, 1987. © 1987 FRONTIERS Editorial Collective. All rights reserved. produced by permission.—Kirkus Review, v. 65, September 15, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing, v. 24, Fall, 1980 for “Portrait of the Artist in Slapstick: Malamud’s Pictures of Fidelman,” by Irvin Malin. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Missouri Review, v. 15, 1992 for an interview by Kay Bonetti. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Modern Age, v. 28, Spring, 1984; v. 31, Summer, 1987. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Studies, v. 20, Spring, 1990 for “Malamud’s Italian Progress: Art and Bisexuality,” by Irving Buchen. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—The Nation, New York, v. 210, February 16, 1970; v. 26, January 4, 1999. © 1970, 1999 The Nation magazine/ The Nation Company, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—National Review, v. 30, August 4, 1978; v. 41, June 2, 1989; v. 47, December 11, 1995; v. 49, November 24, 1997. Copyright 1978, 1989, 1995, 1997 National Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—New Criterion,

v. 8, April, 1990 for “Whittaker Chambers, Man of Letters,” by Sam Tanenhaus. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The New Republic, v. 162, March 28, 1970. © 1970 The New Republic, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The New York Review of Books, v. 44, December 4, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by NYREV. Reproduced by permission.—Religion and Literature, v. 29, Spring, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, n. 37, November, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in American Fiction, v. 20, Spring, 1992. Copyright © 1992 Northeastern University. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in American Jewish Literature, v. 3, 1983; v. 7, Fall, 1988, v. 11, Spring, 1992. © 1983, 1988, 1992 by The Kent State University Press. Reproduced by permission of University of Nebraska Press.—Yiddish, v. 10, 1997 for “Did Malamud’s Jewish Vision Wane?,” by Andrew Furman. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN TCLC, VOLUME 129, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Abbott, Philip. From States of Perfect Freedom: Autobiography and American Political Thought. The University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by The University of Massachusetts Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Abramson, Edward A. From Bernard Malamud Revisited. Twayne Publishers, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Alexander, Margaret Walker with Joanne V. Gabbin. From an interview in The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry. Edited by Joanne V. Gabbin. University Press of Virginia, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Alter, Iska. From The Goodman’s Dilemma: Social Criticism in the Fiction of Bernard Malamud. AMS Press, Inc., 1981. Copyright © 1981 by AMS Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Barksdale, Richard K. From Black American Poets Between Worlds, 1940-1960. Edited by R. Baxter Miller. The University of Tennessee Press, 1986. Reproduced by permission.—Benson, Jackson J. From The Fiction of Bernard Malamud. Edited by Richard Astro and Jackson J. Benson. Oregon State University Press, 1977. © 1977, Oregon State University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Berke, Nancy. From Women Poets on the Left: Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker. University Press of Florida, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Bilik, Dorothy Seidman.

From Immigrant-Survivors: Post Holocaust Consciousness in Recent Jewish American Fiction. Wesleyan University Press, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Dorothy Seidman Bilik. Reproduced by permission.—Carmichael, Jacqueline Miller. From Trumpeting a Fiery Sound: History and Folklore in Margaret Walker’s ‘Jubilee’. The University of Georgia Press, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Howe, Irving. From Irving Howe: Selected Writings 1950-1990. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Irving Howe. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lauricella, John A. From Home Games: Essays on Baseball Fiction. McFarland & Company, Inc., 1999. © 1999 John A. Lauricella. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of McFarland & Company, Inc., P.O. Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640, info@mcfarlandpub.com.—Malamud, Bernard with Leslie Field and Joyce Field. From an interview in Bernard Malamud: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Leslie A. Field and Joyce W. Field. Prentice-Hall, 1975. Reproduced by permission of Leslie A. Field and Joyce W. Field.—Mellard, James M. From The American Writer and the University. Edited by Ben Siegel. University of Delaware Press, 1989. © 1989 by Associated University Presses, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN TCLC, VOLUME 129, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Chambers, Whittaker, photograph. Getty Images. Reproduced by permission.—Malamud, Bernard, photograph by Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Orwell, George, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.— Walker, Margaret, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Wharton, Edith, photograph. The Library of Congress.

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