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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. 152
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COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN TCLC, VOLUME 152, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Literature, v. 75, June, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by Duke University Press, Durham, N. C. Reproduced by permission.—American Scholar, v. 66, autumn, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by John Forester. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Ariel, v. 21, January, 1990 for “Female Sexuality in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and the Era of Scientific Sexology: A Dialogue Between Frontiers” by C. Susan Wiesenthal. Copyright © 1990 by The Board of Governors, The University of Calgary. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Chesterton Review, v. 12, November, 1986 for “Mr. Shusaku Endo Talks About His Life and Works as a Catholic Writer” by Kazumi Yamagta. Copyright © 1986 by Chesterton Review. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Christian Science Monitor, v. 91, no. 88, April 2, 1999 for “‘Hornblower’ Strikes Blow for the Good Guys,” by M. S. Mason; v. 93, no. 92, April 6, 2001. Copyright © 1999, 2001 by The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. Both reproduced by permission from The Christian Science Monitor.—CLA Journal, v. 9, December, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by The College Language Association. Used by permission of The College Language Association.—Colloquia Germanica, v. 30, 1997 for “Peter Weiss’s Entry into the German Public Sphere: On Diaspora, Language, and the Uses of Distance” by Katia Garloff. Copyright © 1997 by Colloquia Germanica. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Commonweal, v. 116, September 22, 1989; v. 123, November 8, 1996;

v. 125, March 13, 1998. Copyright © 1989, 1996, 1998 by Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. All reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.—Fides et Historia, v. 26, no. 1, winter-spring 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Conference on Faith and History. Reproduced by permission.—Great Plains Quarterly, v. 2, fall, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Great Plains Quarterly. Reproduced by permission.—History & Memory, v. 10, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by History & Memory. Reproduced by permission of Indiana University Press Journals.—History Today, v. 49, October 1999. Copyright © 1999 by History Today Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, v. 16, March, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, v. 27, April, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese. Reproduced by permission.—Literature Film Quarterly, v. 10, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Salisbury State College, New Jersey. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 36, spring, 1990; v. 45, summer, 1999. Copyright © 1990, 1999 by Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN 47907. All rights reserved. Both reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University.—Prairie Schooner, v. 46, spring, 1972; v. 55, spring & summer, 1981. Copyright © 1972, 1981 by University of Nebraska Press. Both reproduced from Prairie Schooner by permission of the University of Nebraska Press.—Scottish Journal of Theology, v. 45, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Scottish Journal of Theology. Reprinted with permission of Cambridge University Press.—Southern Quarterly, v. 35, summer, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by the University of Southern Mississippi. Reproduced by permission.—Spectator, v. 283, December 18, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by the Spectator. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the Spectator.—Studies in American Fiction, v. 6, autumn, 1978. Copyright © 1978 by Northeastern University. Reproduced by permission.—Theatre Journal, May 1990. Copyright © 1990 by University and College Theatre Association of the American Theatre Association. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—Western American Literature, v. 9, fall, 1974; v. 30, summer, 1995. Copyright © 1974, 1995 by the Western American Literature Association. Both reproduced by permission.— Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v. 12, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Inc. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN TCLC, VOLUME 152, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Berghahn, Klaus L. From “‘Our Auschwitz’: Peter Weiss’s The Investigation Thirty Years Later,” in Rethinking Peter Weiss. Edited by Jost Hermand and Marc Silberman. Peter Lang, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Peter Lang. All rights re

served. Reproduced by permission.—Best, Otto F. From “Self-Analysis and Confession: Leavetaking and Vanishing Point,” in Peter Weiss. Translated by Ursule Molinaro. Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1976. Copyright © 1976 by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Cohen, Robert. From Understanding Peter Weiss. University of South Carolina Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by University of South Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Harvey, Sally Peltier. From Redefining the American Dream: The Novels of Willa Cather. Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Associated University Presses. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hively, Evelyn Helmick. From Sacred Fire: Willa Cather’s Novel Cycle. University Press of America, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by University Press of America, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mathy, Francis. From “Shusaku Endo: Japanese Catholic Novelist,” in Catholics on Literature. Edited by J. C. Whitehouse. Four Courts Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Francis Mathy. Reproduced by permission of the author.—McFarland, Dorothy Tuck. From Willa Cather. Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1972. Copyright © 1972 by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission of The Continuum International Publishing Company.—Moseley, Ann. From “Mythic Reality: Structure and Theme in Cather’s O Pioneers!,” in Under the Sun: Myth and Realism in Western American Literature. Edited by Barbara Howard Meldrum. The Whitston Publishing Company, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Barbara Howard Meldrum. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Murphy, John J. From Critical Essays on Willa Cather. G. K. Hall & Co., 1984. Copyright © 1984 by John J. Murphy. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Netland, John

T. From “Encountering Christ in Shusaku Endo’s Mudswamp of Japan,” in Historicising Christian Encounters with the Other. Edited by John C. Hawley. New York University Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Macmillan Press Ltd. Reproduced by permission of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., in the U.S. and Canada by permission of John T. Netland.—Stephan, Alexander. From “The Civil War as Model: Peter Weiss, Spain, and Die Asthetik des Widerstands,”in German and International Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War: The Aesthetics of Partisanship. Edited by Luis Costa, Richard Critchfield, Richard Golsan, and Wulf Koepke. Camden House, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Camden House, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Boydell & Brewer Ltd.—Sternlicht, Sanford V. From C. S. Forester and the Hornblower Saga. Syracuse University Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Syracuse University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Stouck, David. From “Historical Essay,” in O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. Edited by Susan J. Rosowski, Charles W. Mignon, and Kathleen Danker. University of Nebraska Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by the University of Nebraska Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Vance, Kathleen A. From “Der Schatten des Körpers des Kutschers: The Phenomenology of Alienation,” in The Theme of Alienation in the Prose of Peter Weiss. Peter Lang 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Peter Lang. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Williams, Mark B. From “Towards Reconciliation,” in Endo Shusaku: A Literature of Reconciliation. Copyright © 1999 by Mark B. Williams. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.

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Cather, Willa, photograph. Copyright © Hulton/Archive. Reproduced by permission.—Endo, Shusaku, photograph. AP/ Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Forester, C. S., photograph. Copyright © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/ CORBIS. Reproduced by permission.—Weiss, Peter, 1966, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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