Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism

by Baise, Jennifer; Pavlovski, Linda; Ligotti, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780787645595
• ISBN10: 0787645591
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

Summary

pThis highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists, poets, playwrights and literary theorists, of 1900 to 1999 -- the era most frequently studied in high schools. p Each volume presents overviews of four to eight authors with chronologically arranged criticism representing the entire range of response to each author. A typical excerpt is prefaced by an annotation that explains the critic's reputation and critical philosophy and providing a synopsis of the excerpt. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. PEvery fourth volume is a Topics volume covering major literary movements, trends and other topics. Volumes include author, nationality, topic and title indexes; a cumulative title index to the entire series is published separately.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
William Jennings Bryan 1860-1925	1	(163)
American orator and politician
Willa Cather 1873-1947	164	(128)
American novelist, short story writer, and essayist; single-work entry on Death Comes for the Archbishop
Kunikida Doppo 1869-1908	292	(16)
Japanese short story writer, journalist, editor, biographer, and poet
Marietta Holley 1836-1926	308	(43)
American novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, and autobiographer
Edward Marsh 1872-1953	351	(20)
English editor, translator, poet, and memoirist
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Author Index	371	(74)
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Topic Index	445	(8)
TCLC Cumulative Nationality Index	453	(6)
TCLC-99 Title Index	459