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Volume 136

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

Janet Witalec Project Editor
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 136
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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 136, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

AB Bookman’s Weekly, v. 81, January 25, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—African American Review, v. 31, Fall 1997 “The Horror of Bigger Thomas: The Perception of Form Without Face in Richard Wright’s Native Son,” by Stephen K. George. © 1997 by Stephen K. George; v. 35, Spring, 2001 for “Invented by Horror: The Gothic and African American Literary Ideology in Native Son,” by James Smethurst. © 2001 James Smethurst. All reproduced by permission of the authors.—American Literature, v. 57, May, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by the Duke University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Callaloo, v. 9, Summer, 1986. Reproduced by permission.—Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue Canadienne des Slavists, v. 28, March, 1986. Reproduced by permission.—Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, v. 9, Spring, 1984;

  • v. 9, Winter, 1984-85; v. 17, Fall, 1992; v. 21, Fall, 1996. © 1984, 1984-1985, 1992, 1996 Children’s Literature Association. All reproduced by permission.—CLA Journal, v. xxi, 1978; v. xl, March, 1997. Copyright, 1978, 1997 by The College Language Association. Reproduced by permission.—College Literature, v. 14, Winter, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by West Chester University. Reproduced by permission.—The Hudson Review, v. xlv, Summer, 1992 for “The Problematic Texts of Richard Wright” by James Tuttleton. Copyright © 1992 by The Hudson Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Latin American Literary Review, v. 11, Fall-Winter, 1982. Reproduced by permission.—Mississippi Quarterly, v. 42, Fall, 1989. Copyright 1989 Mississippi State University. Reproduced by permission.—The Modern Language Review,
  • v. 93, April, 1998. © 1998 The Modern Humanities Research Association. Reproduced by permission.—Partisan Review,
  • v. 59, Spring, 1992 for “Poetics and Politics” by Dariusz Tolczyk. Copyright © 1992 by Partisan Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Russian Review, v. 60, April, 2001. Copyright 2001 The Russian Review. Reproduced by permission.—Slavic and East European Journal, v. 28, Summer, 1984; v. 32, Spring, 1988; v. 33, Fall, 1989; v. 36, Fall, 1992; v. 38, Summer, 1994. All reproduced by permission.—Slavic Review, v. 50, Fall, 1991. © 1991 by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—South Atlantic Review, v. 54, January, 1989; v. 59, November, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in American Fiction, v. 14, Autumn, 1986. Copyright © 1986 Northeastern University. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, v. 1, 1976-77. Copyright © 1977 by Studies in Twentieth Century Literature. Reproduced by permission.—Theatre Journal, v. 37, 1985. © 1985 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Times Literary Supplement, June 26, 1969 for “The Children’s Falstaff” by Nicholas Tucker. © The Times Supplements Limited 1969. Reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.
    • COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN TCLC, VOLUME 136, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

    Borenstein, Eliot. From Men Without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1929. Duke University Press, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Caron, Timothy P. From Struggles Over The Word: Race and Religion in O’Connor, Faulkner, Hurston, and Wright. Mercer University Press, 2000. © 2000 Mercer University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Evans, Dennis F. From Richard Wright’s Travel Writings: New Reflections. Edited by Virginia Whatley Smith. University Press of Mississippi, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by University Press of Mississippi. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hakutani, Yoshinobu. From Richard Wright and Racial Discourse. University of Missouri Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by The Curators of the University of Missouri. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Harkins, William E. From Russian Literature and American Critics. Edited by Kenneth N. Brostrom. Department of Slavic Languages & Literature, University of Michigan, 1984. Reproduced by permission.— Harris, Trudier. From New Essays on Native Sons. Edited by Kenneth Kinnamon. Cambridge University Press, 1990. © Cambridge University Press 1990. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Hunt, Peter. From “The

    Wind in the Willows”: A Fragmented Arcadia. Twayne Publishers, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Joyce, Joyce Ann. From Richard Wright’s Art of Tragedy. University of Iowa Press, 1986. Copyright ©) 1986 by the University of Iowa. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Kuznets, Lois

    R. From Kenneth Grahame. Twayne Publishers, 1987. Copyright 1987 by G. K. Hall & Co. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Michalski, Milena. From Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts. Edited by Catriona Kelly and Stephen Lovell. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.— Peppard, Victor. From The Poetics of Yury Olesha. University of Florida Press, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Porter, Horace A. From Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K. A. Appiah. Amistad, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K. A. Appiah. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Rollin, Lucy and Mark I. West. From Psychoanalytic Responses to Children’s Literature. Mc-Farland & Company, Inc., 1999. © 1999 Lucy Rollin and Mark I. West. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Slonim, Marc. From Soviet Russian Literature: Writers and Problems, 1917-1977. Revised edition. Oxford University Press, 1977. Reproduced by permission.—Trippett, Anthony M. From Adjusting to Reality: Philosophical and Psychological Ideas in the Post-Civil War Novels of Ramon J. Sender. Tamesis Books Limited, 1986. © 1986 by Tamesis Books Limited. Reproduced by permission.—Vasquez, Mary S. From Critical Essays on the Literatures of Spain and Spanish America. Edited by Luis T. Gonzalez-del-Valle and Julio Baena. Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 1991. © Copyright, Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Wall, Barbara. From The Narrator’s Voice: The Dilemma of Children’s Fiction. St. Martin’s Press, 1991. © Barbara Wall 1991. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

    PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN TCLC, VOLUME 136, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

    Grahame, Kenneth, photograph. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Jones, Terry, as Toad, a scene from the 1996 film The Wind in the Willows. The Kobal Collection/Allied Film Makers. Reproduced by permission.—Sender, Ramón, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Wright, Richard, photograph. Archive Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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