Contemporary Literary Criticism

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-02-01
Publisher(s): Gale / Cengage Learning
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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

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