CRITICISM

Butler, Thomas. “Between East and West. Three Bosnian Writer-Rebels: Kočić, Andrić, Selimović.” Cross Currents: A Yearbook of Central European Culture 3 (1984): 339-57.

Traces Bosnia's heroic epic oral tradition through its transformation after the Austrian Occupation of 1878 to the early twentieth-century writers who played a role in the region's struggle for change.

Coote, Mary P. “Narrative and Narrative Structure in Ivo Andrić's Devil's Yard.” Slavic and East European Journal 21 (1977): 56-63.

Examines the role of story-telling and legends in Devil's Yard.

Costantini, Leonello. “Ivo Andrić in the Centenary of His Birth.” Italian Books and Periodicals: Cultural and Bibliographic Review 36, nos. 1-2 (January-December 1993): 13-18.

Provides a retrospective of major themes in Andrić's works.

Talmor, Sascha. “The Bridge on the Drina” History of European Ideas 21, no. 2 (March 1995): 247-60.

Explains the history behind the bridge in Andrić's novel.

Villari, Lucio. “On the Frontier between Two Europes.” Italian Books and Periodicals: Cultural and Bibliographic Review 36, nos. 1-2 (January-December 1993): 19-21.

Discusses Andrić's reaction in his writing to the political and social turbulence of the Balkans.

Additional coverage of Andrić's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, Vol. 4; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 57-60, 81-84; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 43, 60; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 8; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 147; European Writers, Vol. 11; Major 20th-Century Writers, Ed. 1; Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Ed. 2; Reference Guide to World Literature, Eds. 2, 3; and Short Story Criticism, Vol. 36.