TCLC is designed to serve as an introduction to authors who died between 1900 and 1999 and to the most significant interpretations of these author’s works. Volumes published from 1978 through 1999 included authors who died between 1900 and 1960. The great poets, novelists, short story writers, playwrights, and philosophers of the period are frequently studied in high school and college literature courses. In organizing and reprinting the vast amount of critical material written on these authors, TCLC helps students develop valuable insight into literary history, promotes a better understanding of the texts, and sparks ideas for papers and assignments. Each entry in TCLCpresents a comprehensive survey on an author’s career or an individual work of literature and provides the user with a multiplicity of interpretations and assessments. Such variety allows students to pursue their own interests; furthermore, it fosters an awareness that literature is dynamic and responsive to many different opinions.

Every fourth volume of TCLC is devoted to literary topics. These topics widen the focus of the series from the individual authors to such broader subjects as literary movements, prominent themes in twentieth-century literature, literary reaction to political and historical events, significant eras in literary history, prominent literary anniversaries, and the literatures of cultures that are often overlooked by English-speaking readers.

TCLC is designed as a companion series to Thomson Gale’s Contemporary Literary Criticism, (CLC) which reprints commentary on authors who died after 1999. Because of the different time periods under consideration, there is no duplication of material between CLC and TCLC.

A TCLC entry consists of the following elements:

Stage: Differences,” in Chekhov on the British Stage. Edited and translated by Patrick Miles. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.—Candelaria, Cordelia. From “Engendering Re/ Solutions: The (Feminist) Legacy of Estela Portillo Trambley,” in Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century. Edited by Arturo J. Aldama and Naomi H. Quiñonez. Indiana University Press, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Indiana University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Chances, Ellen. From “Chekhov’s Seagull: Ethereal Creature or Stuffed Bird?,” in Chekhov’s Art of Writing: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Paul Debreczeny and Thomas Eekman. Slavica Publishers, Inc., 1977. Copyright © 1977 by Slavica Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Clark, Thomas D. From an introduction to The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan. The University Press of Kentucky, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by The University Press of Kentucky. Reproduced by permission.—Cook, Raymond A. From Thomas Dixon. Twayne Publishers, 1974. Reproduced by permission The Gale Group.—Daghistany, Ann. From “The Shaman, Light and Dark,” in Literature and Anthropology. Edited by Philip A. Dennis and Wendell Aycock. Texas Tech University Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 Texas Tech University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Dewey, Janice. From “Doña Josefa: Bloodpulse of Transition and Change,” in Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writing and Critical Readings. Edited by Asunción Horno-Delgad, Eliana Ortega, Nina M. Scott, and Nancy Saporta Sternbach. The University of Massachusetts Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by The University of Massachusetts Press. Reproduced by permission.—Eysturoy, Annie O. From Daughters of Self-Creation: The Contemporary Chicana Novel. University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Fossett, Judith Jackson. From “(K)night Riders in (K)night Gowns: The Ku Klux Klan, Race, and Constructions of Masculinity,” in Race Consciousness: African-American Studies for the New Century. Edited by Judith Jackson Fossett and Jeffrey A. Tucker. New York University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by New York University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Gunning, Sandra. From Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912. Oxford University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.—Jackson, Robert Louis. From “Chekhov’s Seagull: The Empty Well, the Dry Lake, and the Cold Cave,” in Chekhov: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Jean-Pierre Barricelli. Prentice Hall, 1967. Copyright © 1967 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group.—Katsell, Jerome H. From “Chekhov’s The Seagull and Maupassant’s Sur l’eau,”in Chekhov’s Great Plays: A Critical Anthology. Edited by Jean-Pierre Barricelli. New York University Press, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by New York University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Martínez, Eliud. From “Personal Vision in the Short Stories of Estela Portillo Trambley,” in Beyond Stereotypes: The Critical Analysis of Chicana Literature. Edited by Maria Herrara-Sobek. Bilingual Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Bilingual Press/ Editorial Bilingüe, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Paperny, Zinovii S. From “Microsubjects in The Seagull,”in Critical Essays on Anton Chekhov. Edited by Thomas A. Eekman. G. K. Hall & Co., 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Thomas A. Eekman. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Rayfield, Donald. From Understanding Chekhov: A Critical Study of Chekhov’s Prose and Drama. University Press of Wisconsin, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Donald Rayfield. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.—Salazar-Parr, Carmen. From “La Chicana in Literature,” in Chicano Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Edited by Eugene E. García, Francisco A. Lomelí, and Isidro D. Ortiz. Copyright © 1983 by Teachers College, Columbia University. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.—Scolnicov, Hanna. From “Chekhov’s Reading of Hamlet,”in Reading Plays: Interpretation and Reception. Edited by Hanna Scolnicov and Peter Holland. Cambridge University Press, 1991. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.—Williams, Raymond. From Drama from Ibsen to Brecht. Chatto & Windus, 1968. Copyright © Raymond Williams 1952 and 1968. Used by permission of The Random House Group Limited.

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