Contemporary Literary Criticism

< p>< I> Contemporary Literary Criticism< /I> covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959.< p>Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 6-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. Each of the approximately 200 essays per volume is prefaced by a full citation and annotation and most entries in the print series include an author portrait. Other features of < I>CLC< /I> in print include: < ul>< li>A format familiar to librarians< li>Fully indexes by author name, title and nationality< li>Coverage of nearly 3,000 authors< li>More than 200 volumes in print since 1974< /ul>< p>Each volume includes cumulative author name, topic, and nationality indexes, as well as a volume-specific title index. A cumulative title index to the entire series is available separately.