Contemporary literary criticism. Volume 5 / Carolyn Riley and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley, Carolyn, author.

Contributor:

Mendelson, Phyllis Carmel, editor.

Riley, Carolyn, 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, 1976.

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:

Chinua Achebe, 1930-

Richard Adams, 1920

Conrad Aiken, 1889-1973

Edward Albee, 1928-

Brian Aldiss, 1925-

A(lfred) Alvarez, 1929-

Kingsley Amis, 1922-

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

Ayi Kwei Armah, 1939-

Jean Arp, 1887-1966

Alan Ayckbourn, 1939-

Beryl Bainbridge, 1933-

James Baldwin, 1924-

Imamu Amiri Baraka, 1934-

Peter Barnes, 1931-

John Barth, 1930-

Donald Barthelme, 1931-

Hal Bennett, 1936-

Thomas Berger, 1924-

Robert Bly, 1926-

Kay Boyle, 1903-

Richard Brautigan, 1933-

Maeve Brennan, 1917-

Henry Bromell, 1942-

Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-

George Mackay Brown, 1921-

Charles Bukowski, 1920-

Ed Bullins, 1935-

Anthony Burgess, 1917-

William S(eward) Burroughs, 1914-

G(uillermo) Cabrera Infante, 1929-

Italo Calvino, 1923-

Angela Carter, 1940-

Jerome Charyn, 1937-

Eleanor Clark, 1913-

Laurie Colwin, 1945?-

Julio Cortazar, 1914-

Donald Davie, 1922-

R(ichard) H(enry) W(ilde) Dillard, 1937-

Margaret Drabble, 1939-

William Everson (formerly Brother Antoninus), 1912-

Frederick Forsyth, 1938-

Bruce Jay Friedman, 1930-

Brian Friel, 1929-

Athol Fugard, 1932-

John Gardner, 1933-

Jean Genet, 1910-

William Gerhardie, 1895-

Natalia Ginzburg, 1916-

Gail Godwin, 1937-

Albert Goldbarth, 1948-

Nadine Gordimer, 1923-

(Charles) William Goyen, 1915-

Juan Goytisolo, 1931-

Bill Gunn, 1934- Marilyn Hacker, 1942-

Arthur Hailey, 1920-

(Samuel) Dashiell Hammett, 1894-1961

Peter Handke, 1942?-

James Hanley, 1901-

Robert Hayden, 1913-

Seamus Heaney, 1939-

Joseph Heller, 1923-

Geoffrey Hill, 1932-

Stanley Hoffman, 1944-

John Hollander, 1929-

Maureen Howard, 1930-

(James) Langston Hughes, 1902-1967

Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963

Elizabeth Jennings, 1926-

Diane Johnson, 1934-

Uwe Johnson, 1934-

June Jordan, 1936-

Anna Kavan (pseudonym of Helen Ferguson Woods), 1904-1968

Yasunari Kawabata, 1899-1972

Thomas Keneally, 1935-

Jack Kerouac, 1922-1969

Galway Kinnell, 1927-

Kenneth Koch, 1925-

William Kotzwinkle, 1938-

Robert Kroetsch, 1927-

Maxine Kumin, 1925-

Philip Larkin, 1922-

John Le Carre (pseudonym of David Cornwell), 1931-

Rosamond Lehmann, 1905-

Alan Lelchuk, 1938-

Denise Levertov, 1923-

Philip Levine, 1928-

John Logan, 1923-

Robert Lowell, 1917-

Alison Lurie, 1926-

George MacBeth, 1932-

David Madden, 1933-

Norman Mailer, 1923-

Bernard Malamud, 1914-

Saul Maloff, 1922-

Olivia Manning, 1911-

Peter Matthiessen, 1927-

Mary McCarthy, 1912-

James McCourt, 1941-

Joseph McElroy, 1930-

John McGahern, 1935-

Tom McHale, 1941-

David Mercer, 1928-

W(illiam) S(tanley) Merwin, 1927-

James A(lbert) Michener, 1907-

Czeslaw Milosz, 1911-

A(nn) G(race) Mojtabai, 1938-

Michael Moorcock, 1939-

Brian Moore, 1921-

Penelope Mortimer, 1918-

Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973

Peter Nichols, 1927-

Edna O'Brien, 1932-

Flann O'Brien (pseudonym of Brian O'Nuallain), 1911-1966

Sean O'Casey, 1880-1964

Liam O'Flaherty, 1896-

Frank O'Hara, 1926-1966

Charles Olson, 1910-1970

John Osborne, 1929-

Amos Oz, 1939-

S(idney) J(oseph) Perelman, 1904-

Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963

Peter Porter, 1929-

Ezra Pound, 1885-1972

J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley, 1894-

V(ictor) S(awden) Pritchett, 1900-

Manuel Puig, 1932-

Raymond Queneau, 1903-

John Crowe Ransom, 1888-1974

Ishmael Reed, 1938-

Mordecai Richler, 1931-

Harold Robbins, 1912-

Antonis Samarakis, 1919-

Sonia Sanchez, 1934-

George Seferis (pseudonym of Georgios Stylianou Seferiadis), 1900-1971

Peter Shaffer, 1926-

Robert Shaw, 1928-

David Slavitt, 1935-

Gary Snyder, 1930-

(Holmes) Raymond Souster, 1921-

Wole Soyinka, 1934-

Muriel Spark, 1918-

Stephen Spender, 1909-

Christina Stead, 1902-

John Steinbeck, 1902-1968

Robert Stone, 1937?-

Tom Stoppard, 1937-

David Storey, 1933-

William Styron, 1925-

Harvey Swados, 1920-1972

Eleanor Ross Taylor, 1920-

Paul Theroux, 1941-

James Thurber, 1894-1961

Amos Tutuola, 1920-

John Updike, 1932-

Laurens Van der Post, 1906-

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 1922-

David Wagoner, 1926-

Alice Walker, 1944-

Edward Lewis Wallant, 1926-1962

Eudora Welty, 1909-

Arnold Wesker, 1932-

Patrick White, 1912-

J(ohn) E(dgar) Wideman, 1941-

Elie(zer) Wiesel, 1928-

Thornton Wilder, 1897-

John A(lfred) Williams, 1925-

Tennessee Williams, 1911-

William Carlos Williams, 1883-1963

Calder Willingham, 1922-

Angus Wilson, 1913-

P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse, 1881-1975

James Wright, 1927-

Andrew Young, 1885-1971.

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ISBN:

9781414415529

1414415524

OCLC:

644699563