The Critical Response to Joan Didion

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Joan Didion is a major contemporary American novelist and journalist whose works have popular appeal and are widely studied from a variety of literary perspectives as well as for philosophical, psychological, and political insights into the times and topics with which they deal. This volume collects an extensive range of critical commentary, both reviews and scholarly examinations, including newly commissioned essays, covering the entire canon: four works of fiction and five of nonfiction published between 1963 and 1992. Individually, the selections explore diverse critical approaches to Didion's canon; collectively, they establish a critical map that will serve as a guide to future scholarship. A substantive introduction assesses the canon and the critical reaction to it. Other features include a brief chronology of Didion's accomplishments, a bibliography, and contributors and subject indexes.

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SHARON FELTON is a specialist in modern and contemporary American and British literature and women's writing. Now teaching in Canada, she was Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Waterbury. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Hollins Critic, Connecticut Review, Mississippi Quarterly, American Literature, Studies in the Humanities, Modern Fiction Studies, and other journals.