The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Volume VII1987

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F.M. Dostoevsky: Life, Work, and Criticism Victor Terras (Brown Univ.) : Life, Work, and Criticism K.J. Fickert (Wittenberg Univ.) : Life, Work, and Criticism R.K. Bird (Univ. of Alaska) : Life, Work, and Criticism R.S. Nelson (Friends Univ.) : Life, Work, and Criticism J. Mileck (Univ. of Calif. Berkeley) L.N. Tolstoy: Life, Work, and Criticism E. Wasiolek (Univ. of Chicago) Henrik Ibsen: Life, Work, and Criticism Y. Shafer (Florida State Univ.) Vladimir Nabokov: Life, Work, and Criticism Charles Stanley Ross (Purdue Univ.) : Life, Work, and Criticism J. Ditsky (Univ. of Windsor) Jean Anouilh: Life, Work, and Criticism C.N. Smith (Univ. of East Angiia) James Joyce: Life, Work, and Criticism T.J. Rice (Univ. of South Carolina) : Life, Work, and Criticism D.A. Yates (Michigan State Univ.) Julio Cortazar: Life, Work, and Criticism E.D. Carter, Jr. (Calif. State Univ.) Nathaniel Hawthorne: Life, Work, and Criticism K. Dauber (SUNY, Buffalo) Federico Garcia Lorca: Life, Work, and Criticism G.G. MacCurdy (Calif. State Univ.) Eugene O'Neill: Life, Work, and Criticism Foster Hirsch (Brooklyn College, CUNY) Alain Robbe-Grillet: Life, Work and Criticism Ben Stoltzfus (Univ. of Calif., Riverside) Other titles are in preparation Written by noted scholars and established researchers, each study deals with the life, work, and criticism of one author, and consists of five chapters: I. Biographical information. II. A complete list of the author's works—with publishers and exact date of publication (or first performance). III. A summary of the author's most important works (plot outline, recurring themes, leitmotifs, abstract ideas, etc.). IV. An evaluation of the author's works, and a condensation of other opinions. V. A bibliography of the major publications that deal with this author, and an assessment of each of them.

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