Contemporary literary criticism. Volume 3 / Carolyn Riley, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley, Carolyn, author.

Contributor:

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 (548 pages).

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1975.

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-

Conrad Aiken, 1889-1973

Edward Albee, 1928-

Kingsley Amis, 1922-

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

Jean Anouilh, 1910-

Louis Aragon, 1897-

John Ashbery, 1927-

Isaac Asimov, 1920-

Miguel Angel Asturias 1899-1974

Margaret Atwood, 1939-

W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden, 1907-1973

James Baldwin, 1924-

J(ames) G(raham) Ballard, 1930-

Imamu Amiri Baraka, 1934-

Djuna Barnes, 1892-

John Barth, 1930-

Donald Barthelme, 1931-

Samuel Beckett, 1906-

Saul Bellow, 1915-

Thomas Berger, 1924-

Thomas Bernhard, 1931-

John Berryman, 1914-1972

Heinrich Boll, 1917-

Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-

Elizabeth Bowen, 1899-1973

Jane Bowles, 1917-

Ray Bradbury, 1920-

John Braine, 1922-

Richard Brautigan, 1935

Stanley Burnshaw, 1906-

Michel Butor, 1926-

James M(allahan) Cain, 1892-

Morley Callaghan, 1903-

Elias Canetti, 1905-

Truman Capote, 1924-

John Dickson Carr, 1905-

Louis-Ferdinand Celing (pseudonym of Louis-Ferdinand Destouches), 1894-1961

John Cheever, 1912-

Leonard Cohen, 1934-

Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1892-1969

Robert Coover, 1932-

Julio Cortazar, 1914-

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

J(ames) V(incent) Cunningham, 1911-

Peter DeVries, 1910-

William Dickey, 1928-

Joan Didion, 1934-

Margaret Drabble, 1939-

Bob Dylan, 1941-

Richard Eberhart, 1904-

T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot, 1888-1965

Ralph Ellison, 1914-

William Empson, 1906-

William Faulkner, 1897-1962

Ian Fleming, 1908-1964

E(dward) M(organ) Forster, 1897-1970

John Fowles, 1926-

Janet Frame, 1924-

Bruce Jay Friedman, 1930-

Max Frisch, 1911-

Robert Frost, 1874-1963

Carlos Fuentes, 1928-

William Gaddis, 1922-

Ernest J. Gaines, 1933-

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1928-

John Gardner, 1933-

David Garnett, 1892-

George Garrett, 1929-

Allen Ginsberg, 1926-

William Golding, 1911- Nadine Gordimer, 1923-

Hannah Green

Julien Green, 1900-

Graham Greene, 1904-

Thom Gunn, 1929-

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

(Samuel) Dashiell Hammet, 1894-1961

James Hanley, 1901-

John Hawkes, 1925-

Robert A(nson) Heinlein, 1907-

Joseph Heller, 1923-

Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961

Herman Hesse, 1877-1962

A(lec) D(erwent) Hope, 1907-

E(verette) Howard Hunt, 1918-

Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963

Robinson Jeffers, 1887-1962

James Jones, 1921-

Sue Kaufman, 1926-

Jack Kerouac, 1922-1969

Ken Kesey, 1935-

Galway Kinnell, 1927-

Arthur Koestler, 1905-

Jerzy Kosinksi, 1933-

Philip Larkin, 1922-

Richmond Lattimore, 1906-

Margaret Laurence, 1926-

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

Doris Lessing, 1919-

Denise Levertov, 1923-

Ira Levin, 1929-

C(live) S(taples) Lewis, 1898-1963

Robert Lowell, 1917-

John D(ann) MacDonald, 1916-

(John) Ross Macdonald (pseudonym of Kenneth Millar), 1915-

Alistair MacLean, 1922-

Archibald MacLeish, 1892-

Norman Mailer, 1923-

Clarence Major, 1936-

Bernard Malamud, 1914-

Mary McCarthy, 1912-

Thomas McGuane, 1939-

Tom McHale, 1942(?)-

Rod McKuen, 1933-

Larry McMurtry, 1936-

James Merrill, 1926-

Thomas Merton, 1915-1968

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

Brian Moore, 1921-

Wright Morris, 1910-

Slawomir Mrozek, 1930-

(Jean) Iris, Murdoch, 1919-

Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-

James Ngugi, 1938-

Joyce Carol Oates, 1938-

Edna O'Brien, 1932-

Flannery O'Connor, 1925-1964

John O'Hara, 1905-1970

Cynthia Ozick, 1928-

Octavio Paz, 1914-

John Peck, 1941-

Walker Percy, 1916-

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

Harry Mark Petrakis, 1923-

Marge Piercy

Harold Pinter, 1930-

Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963

Katherin Anne Porter, 1890-

Ezra Pound, 1885-1972

Anthony Powell, 1905-

(Edward) Reynolds Price, 1933-

Manuel Puig, 1932-

A(lfred) W(ellington) Purdy, 1918-

Thomas Pynchon, 1937-

Ellery Queen [joint speudonym of Frederic Kannay (1905-) and Manfred B(ennington) Lee (1905-1971)]

Ayn Rand, 1905-

Ishmael Reed, 1938-

Mary Renault, 1905-

Adrienne Rich, 1929-

Mordecai Richler, 1931-

Laura Riding, 1901-

Theodore Roethke, 1908-1963

Anne Roiphe, 1935-

Philip Roth, 1933-

Gibbons Ruark, 1941-

Francoise Sagan, 1919-

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

Erich Segal, 1937-

Alan Sillitoe, 1928-

Georges Simenon, 1903-

Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1904-

Stevie Smith, 1902-1971

Gilbert Sorrentino, 1929-

Wole Soyinka, 1934-

Muriel Spark, 1918-

Mickey Spillane, 1918-

Tom Stoppard, 1937-

Hyemeyohsts Storm

Rex Stout, 1886-

William Styron, 1925-

Ronald Sukenick, 1932-

Jacqueline Susann

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

Thomas Tryon, 1926-

John Updike, 1932-

Mona Van Duyn, 1921-

Jean-Claude Van Itallie, 1936-

Mario Vargas Llosa, 1936-

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 1922-

David Wagoner, 1926-

Joseph Wambaugh, 1937-

Evelyn Waugh, 1903-1966

Peter Weiss, 1916-

Theodore Weiss, 1916-

Arnold Wesker, 1932-

Patrick White, 1912-

Elie Wiesel, 1928-

Richard Wilbur, 1921-

Angus Wilson, 1913-

Colin Wilson, 1931-

Edmund Wilson, 1895-1972

James Wright, 1927-

Richard Wright, 1908-1960

Yevgeni Yevtushenko, 1933-.

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ISBN:

9781414415505

1414415508

OCLC:

644699507