Contemporary Literary Criticism

by Hunter, Jeffrey W.; Burns, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780787658526
• ISBN10: 0787658529
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• 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
Literary Criticism Series Advisory Board	xiii
Chinua Achebe 1930	1	(99)
Nigerian novelist, essayist, poet, short story writer, and children's writer; single-work entry devoted to the novel Things Fall Apart (1958)
Jill Ker Conway 1934-	100	(16)
Australian historian, essayist, editor, and memoirist
Herbert Gold 1924-	116	(32)
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, nonfiction writer, and editor
Susan Howe 1937-	148	(109)
American poet and critic
Patrick O'Brian 1914-2000	257	(45)
Irish novelist, short story writer, translator, nonfiction writer, and biographer
Josef Skvorecky 1924-	302	(41)
Czechoslovakian-born Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet, screenwriter, critic, translator, and editor
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Author Index	343	(86)
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Topic Index	429	(8)
CLC Cumulative Nationality Index	437	(14)
CLC-152 Title Index	451