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Gale Literature Criticism
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New authors: Iain Banks, 1954- -- T.J. Binyon, 1936- -- William Caunitz, 1935- -- David Cudlip, 1933- -- Michael Cunningham, 1952- -- Pete Dexter, 1943- -- Tish O'Dowd Ezekiel, 1943- -- T. Gertler, 19?- -- Steven Goldsberry, 1949- -- Kent Haruf, 19?- -- Carolyn Hougan, 19?- -- Josephine Humphreys, 1945- -- Nettie Jones, 19?- -- T.E.D. Klein, 19?- -- Kathryn Kramer, 19?- -- David Leavitt, 1961?- -- Jay McInerney, 1955- -- William McPherson, 1939- -- Sylvia Murphy, 19?- -- Kem Nunn, 19?- -- Padgett Powell, 1952- -- Darcy Ribeiro, 1922- -- Kim Stanley Robinson, 19?- -- Lucius Shepard, 19?- -- Mark Stevens, 19?- -- Douglas Unger, 1952- -- Cay Van Ash, 1918- -- Gordon Vorster, 1924- -- Prizewinners: David Brin, 1950- -- Anita Brookner, 1938- -- Anne Chislett, 1943- -- David Dabydeen, 1956- -- Harriet Doerr, 1914- -- David Donnell, 1939?- -- Marguerite Duras 1914- -- Ellen Gilchrist, 1939- -- Paavo Haavikko, 1931- -- Louis R. Harlan, 1922- -- Obituaries: John Betjeman, 1906-1984 -- Richard Brautigan, 1935-1984 -- Truman Capote, 1924-1984 -- Julio Cortazar, 1914-1984 -- William Empson, 1906-1984 -- Michel Foucault, 1926-1984 -- Lillian Hellman, 1907?-1984 -- Liam O'Flaherty, 1896-1984 -- George Oppen, 1908-1984 -- J.B. Priestley, 1894-1984 -- Irwin Shaw, 1913-1984 -- Jesse Stuart, 1906-1984 -- Paul Zweig, 1935-1984. |
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Literary biography: an excerpt from Writing lives -- T.S. Eliot: a life -- The true adventures of John Steinbeck, writer -- Ross MacDonald -- Dos Passos: a life -- E.B. White: a biography -- Ilya Ehrenburg; revolutionary novelist, poet, war correspondent, propagandist: the extraordinary epic of a Russian survivor -- Herself defined: the poet H.D. and her world -- Josephine Herbst: the story she could never tell -- Saroyan: a biography -- The seven mountains of Thomas Merton -- Frost: a literary life reconsidered -- Fame became of him: Hemingway -- Solzhenitsyn: a biography -- Ivy: the life of I. Compton-Burnett -- The roots of treason: Ezra Pound and the secret of St. Elizabeths -- Literary criticism: motives for fiction -- Reading for the plot: design and intention in narrative -- T.S. Eliot: a study in character and style -- Writing lives: principia biographica -- Using biography -- Saul Bellow: vision and revision -- The art of fiction: notes on craft for young writers -- American fictions 1940-1980: a comprehensive history and critical evaluation -- An American procession -- Dawn to the West: Japanese literature of the modern era -- Criticism and social change -- In defence of fantasy: a study of the genre in English and American literature since 1945 -- Diversity and depth in fiction: selected critical writings of Angus Wilson. |
| Summary |
Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Original Version |
Original: 596 p. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: Internet. |
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American literature -- 20th century.
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Drama -- 20th century.
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European literature -- 20th century.
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century.
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Literature -- Stories, plots, etc.
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
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Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
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Popular literature.
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| Added Author |
Hall, Sharon K., editor.
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Gale (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781414424354 (electronic book) |
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0810344084 |
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9780810344082 |
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