Contemporary literary criticism. Volume 1 / Carolyn Riley, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley, Carolyn, author.

Contributor:

Riley, Carolyn, editor.

Series:

Gale Literature Criticism

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 (385 pages)

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1973.

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-

Edward Albee, 1928

Kingsley Amis, 1922-

Jean Anouilh, 1910-

Brother Antoninus- see William Everson

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

James Baldwin, 1924-

Imamu Amiri Baraka- see (Everett) LeRoi Jones

John Barth, 1930-

Donald Barthelme, 1931-

Simone de Beauvoir, 1908-

Samuel Beckett, 1906-

Brendan Behan, 1923-1964

Saul Bellow, 1915-

John Berryman, 1914-1972

(Alfred) Earle Birney, 1904-

Elizabeth Bishop, 1911-

Nicholas Blake- see C(ecil) Day Lewis

Robert Bly, 1926-

Arma Bontemps, 1902-

Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-

Elizabeth Bowen, 1899-

Paul Bowles, 1910-

Kay Boyle, 1903-

Ray Bradbury, 1920-

John Braine, 1922-

Richard Brautigan, 1935-

Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-

Sterling Brown, 1901-

Ed Bullins, 1936?-

Anthony Burgess, 1917-

William Burroughs, 1914-

Michel Butor, 1926-

Erskine Caldwell, 1903-

Albert Camus, 1913-1960

Truman Capote, 1924-

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

Agatha Christie, 1890-

Arthur C(harles) Clarke, 1917-

Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963

Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1884-1969

(Nunzio) Gregory Corso, 1930-

Noel Coward, 1899-

James Gould Cozzens, 1903-

Robert Creeley, 1926-

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

Roald Dahl, 1916-

Edward Dahlberg, 1900-

C(ecil) Day Lewis, 1904-1972

Peter De Vries, 1910-

James Dickey, 1923-

Joan Didion, 1934-

J(ames) P(atrick) Donleavy, 1926-

John Dos Passos, 1896-1970

W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt) Du Bois, 1868-1963

Friedrich Durrenmatt, 1921-

Robert Duncan, 1919-

Lawrence Durrell, 1912-

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

Harland Ellison, 1934-

Ralph Ellison, 1914-

William Everson, 1912-

Evgeni Evtushenko- see Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Philip Jose Farmer, 1918-

James T(homas) Farrell, 1904-

William Faulkner, 1897-1962

E(dward) M(organ) Forster, 1879-1970

John Fowles, 1926-

Robert Frost, 1874-1963

William Gaddis, 1922-

William H(oward) Gass, 1924-

Jack Gelber, 1932-

Jean Genet, 1910-

Allen Ginsberg, 1926-

William Golding, 1911-

William Goldman, 1931-

Paul Goodman, 1911-1972

Charles Gordone, 1926?-

Gunter Grass, 1927-

Robert Graves, 1895-

Graham Greene, 1904-

Donald Hall, 1928-

Edmond Hamilton, 1904-

John Hawkes, 1925-

Robert A(nson)Heinlein, 1907-

Joseph Heller, 1923-

Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961

John Hersey, 1914-

Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962

(James) Langston Hughes, 1902-1967

Richard Hughes, 1900-

Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963

William Inge, 1913-

Eugene Ionesco, 1912-

Christopher Isherwood, 1904-

Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965

Pamela Hansford Johnson, 1912-

James Jones, 1921-

(Everett) LeRoi Jones, 1934-

Jack Kerouac, 1922-1969

Ken Kesey, 1935-

Galway Kinnell, 1927-

John Knowles, 1926-

Arthur Koestler, 1905-

Arthur Kopit, 1937-

Jerzy Kosinski, 1933-

Doris Lessing, 1919-

Denise Levertov, 1923-

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

C(ecil) Day Lewis- see C(ecil) Day Lewis

Jakov Lind, 1927-

Robert Lowell, 1917-

Ross Macdonald (pseudonym of Kenneth Millar), 1915-

Louis MacMeice, 1907-1963

Norman Mailer, 1923-

Bernard Malamud, 1914-

Andre Malraux, 1901-

Mary McCarthy, 1912-

Carson McCullers, 1917-1967

Rod McKuen, 1938-

Thomas Merton, 1915-1968

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

James A(lbert) Michener, 1907?-

Josephine Miles, 1911-

Arthur Miller, 1915-

Henry Miller, 1891-

Brian Moore, 1921-

Marianne Moore, 1887-1972

Wright Morris, 1910-

Iris Murdoch, 1919-

Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-

Pablo Neruda, 1904-

Anais Nin, 1903-

Joyce Carol Oates, 1938-

Flann O'Brien, 1911-1966

Sean O'Casey, 1884-1964

Flannery O'Connor, 1925-1964

Sean O'Faolain, 1900-

John O'Hara, 1905-1970

Charles Olson, 1910-1970

John Osborne, 1929-

Gordon Parks, 1912-

Kenneth Patchen, 1911-1972

Ann Petry, 1911-

Harold Pinter, 1930-

Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963

Katherine Anne Porter, 1890-

Ezra Pound, 1885-

Anthony Powell, 1905-

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

Mario Puzo, 1920-

Dudley Randall, 1914-

John Rechy

Kenneth Rexroth, 1905-

Conrad Kent Rivers, 1933-1968

Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1922-

Theodore Roethke, 1908-1963

Philip Roth, 1933-

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

Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967

William Saroyan, 1908-

Nathalie Sarraute, 1902-

Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-

Hubert Selby, Jr., 1928-

Alan Sellitoe, 1928-

Georges Simenon, 1903-

Upton Sinclair, 1878-1968

Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1904-

C(harles) P(ercy) Snow, 1905-

Gary Snyder, 1930-

Aleksandr I(sayevich) Solzhenitsyn, 1918-

Stephen Spender, 1909-

John Steinbeck, 1902-1968

Tom Stoppard, 1937-

Jesse Stuart, 1907-

William Styron, 1925-

Peter Taylor, 1919-

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

Jean Toomer, 1894-1967

John Updike, 1932-

Peter Ustinov, 1921-

A(lfred) E(lton) Van Vogt, 1912-

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 1922-

Andrei Voznesensky, 1933-

Margaret Walker, 1915-

Robert Penn Warren, 1905-

Evelyn Waugh, 1903-1966

Eudora Welty, 1909-

Thornton Wilder, 1897-

Tennessee Williams, 1914-

William Carlos Williams, 1883-1963

Edmund Wilson, 1895-1972

Tom Wolfe, 1931-

Herman Wouk, 1915-

Richard Wright, 1908-1960

Frank G(arvin) Yerby, 1916-

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 1933-

Louis Zukofsky, 1904-.

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ISBN:

9781414415482

1414415486

OCLC:

644699416