Contemporary literary criticism. Volume 8 / Phyllis Carmel Mendelson and Dedria Bryfonski, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carmel Mendelson, Phyllis, author.

Contributor:

Bryfonski, Dedria, editor.

Mendelson, Phyllis Carmel, editor.

Series:

Literature criticism online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century.

American literature.

Drama--20th century.

Drama.

European literature--20th century.

European literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature--Stories, plots, etc.

Literature.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Plots (Drama, novel, etc.).

Poetry, Modern--20th century.

Poetry, Modern.

Popular literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1978.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet.

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.

Contents:

Kobo Abe, 1924-

Renata Adler, 1938-

S(hmuel) Y(osef) Agnon, 1888-1970

Kingsley Amis, 1922-

A(rchie) R(andolph) Ammons, 1926-

Ivo Andric, 1892-1975

Jean Anouilh, 1910-

Miguel Angel Asturias, 1899-1974

Margaret Atwood, 1939-

Alan Ayckbourn, 1939-

Beryl Bainbridge, 1933-

Elliot Baker, 1922-

James Baldwin, 1924-

George Barker, 1913-

Djuna Barnes, 1892-

Sue Kaufman- see Sue Kaufman - Donald Barthelme, 1931-

Ann Beattie, 1947-

Simone Beauvoir, 1908-

Brendan Behan, 1923-1964

Marvin Bell, 1937-

Saul Bellow, 1915-

Peter Benchley,1940-

Thomas Berger, 1924-

Wendell Berry, 1934-

John Berryman, 1914-1972

Adolfo Bioy Casares, 1914-

Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-

Vance Bourjaily, 1922-

John Brunner, 1934-

Anthony Burgess, 1917-

Michel Butor, 1926-

Erskine Caldwell, 1903-

Hortense Calisher, 1911-

Italo Calvino, 1923-

Alejo Carpentier, 1904-

Jerome Charyn, 1937-

John Cheever, 1912-

Agatha Christie, 1890?-1976 - Austin C(hesterfield) Clarke, 1934-

Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963

Richard Condon, 1915-

Robert Creeley, 1926-

E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings, 1894-1962

Donald Davie, 1922-

Samuel R. Delany, 1942-

Miguel Delibes, 1920-

Don DeLillo, 1936-

Nigel Dennis, 1912-

Joan Didion, 1934-

Jose Donoso, 1924-

John Dos Passos, 1896-1970

Margaret Drabble, 1939-

Martin Duberman, 1930-

Georges Duhamel, 1884-1966

Lawrence Durrell, 1912-

Friedrich Durrenmatt, 1921-

William Eastlake, 1917-

William Empson, 1906-

D(ennis) J(oseph) Enright, 1920-

James T(homas) Farrell, 1904-

William Faulkner, 1897-1962

Irvin Faust, 1924-

Jules Feiffer, 1929-

Paula Fox, 1932-

Daniel Fuchs, 1909-

Carlos Fuentes, 1928-

William Gaddis, 1922-

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1928-

John Gardner, 1933-

Jean Garrigue, 1914-1972

William H(oward) Gass, 1924-

Gail Godwin, 1937-

William Golding, 1911-

(Charles) William Goyen, 1915-

Gael Greene, John Guare, 1938-

Judith Guest, 1936-

H(ilda) D(oolittle), 1886-1961

Alex Haley, 1921-

Peter Handke, 1942-

James Hanley, 1901-

Anthony Hecht, 1923-

Ben Hecht, 1894-1964

Robert Heinlein, 1907-

Joseph Heller, 1923-

Lillian Hellman, 1906-

Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961

Geoffrey Hill, 1932-

Sandra Hochman, 1936-

John Hollander, 1929-

Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963

William Inge, 1913-1973

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1927-

Erica Jong, 1942-

Sue Kaufman, 1926-

Thomas Keneally, 1935-

Joseph Charles Kennedy- see X.J. Kennedy

X.J. Kennedy, 1929-

Francis King, 1923-

Kenneth Koch, 1925-

Arthur Koestler, 1905-

Tadeusz Konwicki, 1926-

Miroslav Krleza, 1893-

Philip Larkin, 1922-

Ursula K(roeber) Le Guin, 1929-

Stanislaw Lem, 1921-

Denise Levertov, 1923-

Robert Lowell, 1917-1977 - Archibald MacLeish, 1892-

Bernard Malamud, 1914-

Kamala (Purnalya) Markandaya, 1924-

Wallace (Arthur) Markfield, 1926-

Robert Markham- see Kingsley Amis

James Merrill, 1926-

W.S. Merwin, 1927-

Henri Michaux, 1899-

Henri de Montherlant, 1896-1972

Brian Moore, 1921-

Marianne Moore, 1887-1972

Elsa Morante, 1918-

(Jean) Iris Murdoch, 1919-

Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977

Charles Newman, 1938-

Anais Nin, 1903-1977

Larry Niven, 1938-

Edna O'Brien, 1932-

Yuri Olesha, 1899-1960

Rochelle Owens, 1936-

Amos Oz, 1939-

Walker Percy, 1916-

William Plomer, 1903-1973

J(ames) F(arl) Powers, 1917-

David Rabe, 1940-

Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1922-

Theodore, Roethek, 1908-1963

Juan Rulfo, 1918-

J(erome) D(avid) Salinger, 1919-

William Saroyan, 1908-

Nathalie Sarraute, 1902-

Leonardo Sciascia, 1921-

Hubert Selby, Jr., 1928-

Anne Sexton, 1928-1974

Ntozake Shange, 1948-

Karl Shapiro, 1913-

Georges Simenon, 1903-

Andrei Sinyavsky (Also Abram Tertz), 1925-

C(harles) H(ubert) Sisson, 1914-

Florence Margaret Smith- see Stevie Smith

Stevie Smith, 1902-1971

Muriel Spark, 1918-

Jack Spicer, 1925-1965

Christina Stead, 1902-

Tom Stoppard, 1937-

David Storey, 1933-

Jesse Stuart, 1907-

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, 1886-1965

Abram Tertz- see Andrei Sinyavsky

Paul Theroux, 1941-

J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien,1892-1973

B. Traven, 1890-1969 - Vassilis Vassilikos, 1933-

Gore Vidal, 1925-

Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-

Robert Penn Warren, 1965-

Evelyn Waugh, 1903-1966

Theodore Weiss, 1916-

Tennessee Williams, 1914-

Edmund Wilson, 1895-1972

John Anthony Burgess Wilson- see Anthony Burgess

Yvor Winters, 1900-1968

Richard Yates, 1926-.

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ISBN:

9781414415550

1414415559

OCLC:

644700135