Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism


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Volume 143

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. 143
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COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN TCLC, VOLUME 143, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

The American Scholar, v. 65, Winter, 1996. Copyright 1995 by Dan Jacobson. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—College Literature, v. 23, October, 1996. Copyright PC 1996 by West Chester University. Reproduced by permission.—Contemporary Review, v. 232, 1978; December, 1993. Copyright 1978, 1993 by Contemporary Review. Reproduced by permission of Contemporary Review Ltd.—Critique, v. 29, 1998. Copyright PC 1988 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.—Éire-Ireland, v. 35, Spring/Summer, 2000. Copyright PC 2000 by the Irish American Cultural Institute. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—ELH, v. 56, Autumn, 1989; v. 65, 1998. PC The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, v. XXXIII, Winter, 1997 for “Bruno Bettelheim and the Concentration Camps” by Christian Fleck and Albert Mueller. Copyright 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This material is used by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.— Modern Age, v. 42, Fall, 2000. Copyright 2000 by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—The New Criterion, September, 2002 for “Hardy and the Warriors” by Jeffrey Meyers. Copyright PC 2002 by The Foundation for Cultural Review. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Psychohistory Review, v. 20, Spring, 1992 for “The Rise and Fall of Bruno Bettelheim” by Paul Roazen. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Rethinking History, v. 5, July, 2001 for “The Historian of Wessex” by Shannon L. Rogers. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—The Saturday Review of Literature, v. 34, January 6, 1951. PC 1951 Saturday Review Magazine, PC 1979 General Media International, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in American Humor,

v. 3, 1997. Copyright 1997 by Studies in American Humor. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900, v. 39, Autumn, 1999. Copyright 1999 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 32, Winter, 1995. Copyright 1995 by Newberry College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—The Sewanee Review, v. 100, Spring, 1992 for “Seán O’Faoláin: 1900-1991” by Ben Howard. First printed in The Sewanee Review. Copyright 1992 by Ben Howard; v.105, Spring, 1997. Copyright 1997 by Samuel Hynes. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of the editor.—The Spectator, March 24, 1990. PC 1990 by The Spectator. Reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Thomas Hardy Annual, No 5, 1997 for “Hardy and the World of Little Things” by Norman Page. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Victorian Studies, Summer, 1995. Reproduced by permission of Indiana University Press.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN TCLC, VOLUME 143, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Barreca, Regina. From an introduction to Complete Stories. Edited by Colleen Breese. Penguin Books, 1995. Copyright 1995 by Regina Barreca. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.—Bonaccorso, Richard. From Seán O’Faoláin’s Irish Vision. State University of New York Press, 1987. Copyright 1987 by the State University of New York Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the State University of New York Press.— Butler, Pierce. From Seán O’Faoláin: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne Publishers, 1993. Copyright 1993 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Gale.—Carpenter, Richard. From Thomas Hardy. Twayne Publishers, 1964. Copyright 1964 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Johnson, Ken. From “Dorothy Parker’s Perpetual Motion,” in American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays. Garland Publishing, 1995. Copyright 1995 by Julie Brown. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the editor.— Kiely, Benedict. From A Raid into Dark Corners and Other Essays. Cork University Press, 1999. Copyright 1999 by Cork University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Cork University Press, Crawford Business Park,

Crosses Green, Cork, Ireland.—Kilroy, James F. From “Setting the Standards: Writers of the 1920s and 1930s,” in The Irish Short Story. Edited by James F. Kilroy. Twayne Publishers, 1984. Copyright 1984 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Gale.—Kinney, Arthur. F. From Dorothy Parker, Revised. Twayne Publishers, 1998. Copyright 1998 by Twayne Publishers. Reproduced by permission of Gale.—Kramer, Dale. From Thomas Hardy: The Forms of Tragedy. Wayne State University Press, 1975. Copyright 1975 by the Wayne State University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Marcus, Paul. From Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps and Mass Society. Praeger, 1999. Copyright PC 1999 by Paul Marcus. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—Meiesel, Perry. From Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Repressed. Yale University Press, 1972. Copyright 1972 by the Yale University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Melzer, Sondra. From The Rhetoric of Rage: Women in Dorothy Parker. Peter Lang Publishing, 1997. Copyright 1997 by Peter Lang Publishing. Reproduced by permission.—Mitchell, Judith. From The Sense of Sex: Feminist Perspectives on Hardy. University of Illinois Press, 1993. Copyright 1993 by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved. Used with permission of the University of Illinois Press.—Paul, Robert A. From “Bettelheim’s Contribution to Anthropology,” in Education the Emotions: Bruno Bettelheim and Psychoanalytic Development. Edited by Nathan M. Szajnberg. Plenum Press, 1992. Copyright 1992 by Human Science Press. Reproduced by permission of the editor and the author.—Pettit, Rhonda S. From A Gendered Collision: Sentimentalism and Modernism in Dorothy Parker’s Poetry and Fiction. Associated University Press, 2000. Copyright 2000 by Associated University Presses, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Pollak, Ellen. From “Premium Swift: Dorothy Parker’s Iron Mask of Femininity,” in Pope, Swift, and Women Writers. Edited by Donald C. Mell. University of Delaware Press. 1996. Copyright 1996 by Associated University Presses, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Associated University Presses, Inc.—Riquelme, John Paul. From “The Modernity of Thomas Hardy’s Poetry,” in The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy. Edited by Dale Kramer. Cambridge University Press, 1999. Copyright 1999 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of Cambridge University Press.—Widdowson, Peter. From “Hardy and Critical Theory,” in The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy. Edited by Dale Kramer. Cambridge University Press, 1999. Copyright 1999 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of Cambridge University Press.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN TCLC, VOLUME 143, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Bettelheim, Bruno, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Hardy, Thomas, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—O’Faoláin, Sean, photograph. James A. Sugar/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Parker, Dorothy, 1933, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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