Contemporary Literary Criticism

by Hunter, Jeffrey W.; Cromie, Jenny; Blanchard, Rebecca J.; Cousino, Vince; Karr, Justin

• ISBN13: 9780787632014
• ISBN10: 0787632015
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

Summary

Each volume profiles about six to eight novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative and nonfiction writers who are currently active or who died after Dec. 31, 1999. A biographical and critical introduction to each author prefaces a collection of reprinted critical essays and reviews. A cumulative title index to the entire series is available separately (included in subscription).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
Russian poet, translator, and essayist	1	(58)
Anna Akhmatova
South African poet, novelist, memoirist, nonfiction writer, and short story writer	59	(44)
Breyten Breytenbach
American short story writer, poet, and scriptwriter; entry devoted to Cathedral	103	(84)
Raymond Carver
American filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter	187	(82)
Francis Ford Coppola
American poet, essayist, dramatist and editor	269	(52)
Cherrie Moraga
English mystery writer	321	(25)
Anne Perry
American playwright, poet, novelist, and essayist	346	(38)
Ntozake Shange
Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, autobiographer, and editor	384	(35)
Yevgeny Yevtusheko
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Author Index	419	(74)
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Topic Index	493	(10)
CLC Cumulative Nationality Index	503	(16)
CLC-126 Title Index	519