Lafcadio Hearn, 1850-1904 : American and Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist, travel writer, and poet -- Karl Kraus, 1874-1936 : Austrian essayist, aphorist, playwright, poet, critic, and editor -- Stephen Leacock, 1869-1944 : Canadian short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and autobiographer. Presents literary criticism on the works of twentieth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, interviews, radio and television transcripts, pamphlets, and scholarly papers
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