Overview
Contemporary Literary Criticism assembles critical responses to the writings of the world's most renowned novelists, poets, playwrights, short-story writers, scriptwriters, and other creative writers and provides supplementary biographical context and bibliographic material to guide the reader to a greater understanding of the genres and creators. Each entry includes a set of previously published reviews, essays and other critical responses from sources that include scholarly books and journals, literary magazines, interviews, websites, and other sources, carefully selected to create a representative history and cross-section of critical responses.
Features & Benefits
- Each entry includes a brief introduction, including an overview of author's biographical information
- major works, and a critical reception section, followed by reprinted essays.
- Entries in this volume include: E. L. Doctorow, Toni Morrison, Esmeralda Santiago, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
What's New
Each volume of CLC features reprinted criticism and reviews on a set of noted authors and topics.