Contemporary Literary Criticism

by Hunter, Jeffrey W.; Burns, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780787646349
• ISBN10: 0787646342
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• 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	xv
Stephen Ambrose 1936-	1	(60)
American historian, biographer, and editor
Jacques Barzun 1907-	61	(52)
French-born American historian, nonfiction writer, essayist, critic, and editor
Fred D'Aguiar 1960-	113	(19)
English poet, novelist, and playwright
Kaye Gibbons 1960-	132	(72)
American novelist
Susan Gubar 1944-	204	(87)
American editor and literary critic
Janette Turner Hospital 1942-	291	(31)
Australian novelist and short story writer
Tama Janowitz 1957-	322	(26)
American novelist, short story writer, journalist, and children's writer
Francis King 1923-	348	(23)
Swiss-born English novelist, nonfiction and short story writer, and poet
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Author Index	371	(68)
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Topic Index	439	(8)
CLC Cumulative Nationality Index	447	(14)
CLC-145 Title Index	461