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Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
A Casebook
Av Robert Kolker, Robert Kolker
Inbunden, 2004
3812 kr
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Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: A Casebook collects some of the finest essays on this groundbreaking film--a film that is ideal for teaching the language of cinema and the ways in which strong filmmakers can break Hollywood conventions. Psycho is a film that can be used to present the structures of …
Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain
A Casebook
Inbunden, 2008
1345 kr
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This collection seeks to illustrate the ways in which Thomas Mann's 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain, has been newly construed by some of today's most astute readers in the field of Mann studies. The essays, many of which were written expressly for this volume, comment on some of the familiar and …
Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger)
A Casebook
Av William L. Andrews, Douglas Taylor
Häftad, 2003
804 kr
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This casebook gathers together the most important critical responses to Richard Wright's autobiography. It includes a 1945 interview with Richard Wright, contemporary reviews of Black Boy written by W.E.B. Du Bois, Lionel Trilling, Mary McCarthy, and Ralph Ellison, and eight critical essays. These …
Toni Morrison's Beloved
A Casebook
Av William L. Andrews, Nellie Y. McKay
Inbunden, 1999
3179 kr
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With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that …
Toni Morrison's Beloved
A Casebook
Av William William L. Andrews, Edited by William L Andrews m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
841 kr
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With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that …
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A Casebook
Av Maya Angelou, Joanne M. Braxton
Inbunden, 1999
1985 kr
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Perhaps more than any other single text, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings helped to establish the audience and the "mainstream" status of the renaissance in black women's writing and thus to pave the way for the future success of Alice Walker, Terry McMillan, Sherley Anne Williams and …
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A Casebook
Av Maya Angelou, Joanne M. Braxton
Häftad, 1999
1319 kr
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With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that …
Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
A Casebook
Av Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong, Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
Inbunden, 1999
2389 kr
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Noted Asian Americanist Sau-ling C. Wong presents a thought-provoking overview of critical issues surrounding Kingston's contemporary classic, such as reception by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in autobiography, and feminist and …
Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
A Casebook
Häftad, 1999
1085 kr
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With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that …
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Casebook
Inbunden, 2000
2652 kr
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The rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937 but subsequently out of print for decades, marks one of the most dramatic chapters in African-American literature and Women's Studies. Its popularity owes much to the lyricism of the prose, the …
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Casebook
Häftad, 2000
710 kr
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The rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937 but subsequently out of print for decades, marks one of the most dramatic chapters in African-American literature and Women's Studies. Its popularity owes much to the lyricism of the prose, the …
Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine
A Casebook
Häftad, 1999
1441 kr
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Louise Erdrich's first novel, Love Medicine, came out in 1984 to instant national acclaim, winning a National Book Circle Critics Award and launching a tetralogy which it would take Erdrich ten years to complete. In its centrality to Native American literary tradition, Love Medicine is an …
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
A Casebook
Inbunden, 2002
2599 kr
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Along with Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine , Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony is one of the two most widely taught and studied Native American literature texts today. In Ceremony Silko recounts a young man's search for consolation in his tribe's history and traditions, and his resulting voyage of …
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
A Casebook
Häftad, 2002
787 kr
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Along with Louise Erdich's Love Medicine, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony is one of the two most widely taught and studied Native American literature texts today. In Ceremony, Silko recounts a young man's search for consolation in his tribes history and traditions, and his resulting voyage of …
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
A Casebook
Häftad, 2002
1007 kr
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Not only is One Hundred Years of Solitude regularly taught across disciplines in colleges and universities, it is also one of the few Latin American classics that has become recognizable to a more general public beyond academia. This collection includes ten articles by different authors that offer …
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
A Casebook
Häftad, 2004
787 kr
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Ralph Ellisons' Invisible Man: A Casebook offers students and scholars a rich variety of interpretations from which to fashion their own views of the novels and the man who created it. Both Ellison's comments, a number of which appear in print here for the first time, and those of ten distignuished …
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
A Casebook
Inbunden, 2002
2125 kr
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Still the most popular book of Hemingway's to teach, The Sun Also Rises captures the quintessential romance of the expatriate Americans and Britains in Paris after World War I. As the international vacationers move from Paris to Pamplona for the bullfight festival, the characters wend their various …
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
A Casebook
Häftad, 2002
766 kr
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Still the most popular book of Hemingway's to teach, The Sun Also Rises captures the quintessential romance of the expatriate Americans and Britains in Paris after World War I. As the international vacationers move from Paris to Pamplona for the bullfight festival, the characters wend their various …
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
A Casebook
Häftad, 2003
824 kr
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The essays in this volume represent the major currents in critical thinking about Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison's widely acclaimed examination of the individual quest for self-knowledge in the context of the African-American experience. This collection offers a broad overview of the scholarship …
Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter
A Casebook
Häftad, 2003
804 kr
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South African writer Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Her seventh novel, Burger's Daughter, focuses upon the daughter of a white, communist Afrikaner hero. Based partly on fact, successively banned and unbanned by the South African authorities, the novel has also become …
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
A Casebook
Av Orin Hargraves, Isidore Okpewho
Inbunden, 2003
3265 kr
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Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. Translated into close to sixty languages, Things Fall Apart is the novel that inaugurated the long and continuing tradition of postcolonial …
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
A Casebook
Häftad, 2003
785 kr
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Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. Translated into close to sixty languages, Things Fall Apart is the novel that inaugurated the long and continuing tradition of postcolonial …
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
A Casebook
Häftad, 2002
636 kr
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Midway through the last century, Lolita burst on the literary scene - a Russian exile's extraordinary gift to American letters and the new world. The scandal provoked by the novel's subject - the sexual passion of a middle-aged European for a twelve-year-old American girl - was quickly upstaged by …
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Casebook
Häftad, 2003
726 kr
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James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook offers a comprehensive introduction to a landmark in modern fiction. The essays collected here will help first-time readers, teachers, and advanced scholars gain new insight into Joyce's semi-autobiographical story of an Irish boy's …
William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
A Casebook
Häftad, 2003
778 kr
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Absalom, Absalom! has long been seen as one of William Faulkner's supreme creations, as well as one of the leading American novels of the twentieth century. In this collection Fred Hobson has brought together eight of the most stimulating essays on Absalom, essays written over a thirty-year span …
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
A Casebook
Häftad, 2004
1319 kr
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Edith Wharton is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important American writers. The House of Mirth not only initiated three decades of Wharton's popular and critical acclaim, it helped move women's literature into a new place of achievement and prominence. The House of Mirth is …
James Joyce's Ulysses
A Casebook
Inbunden, 2004
2504 kr
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James Joyce's Ulysses is probably the most famous-or notorious-novel published in the twentieth century. Its length and difficulty mean that readers often turn to critical studies to help them in getting the most out of it. But the vast quantity of secondary literature on the book poses problems …
James Joyce's Ulysses
A Casebook
Häftad, 2004
841 kr
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James Joyce's Ulysses is probably the most famous-or notorious-novel published in the twentieth century. Its length and difficulty mean that readers often turn to critical studies to help them in getting the most out of it. But the vast quantity of secondary literature on the book poses problems …
Orson Welles's Citizen Kane
A Casebook
Av James Naremore, James Naremore
Inbunden, 2004
3812 kr
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Citizen Kane is arguable the most admired and significant film since the advent of talking pictures. To study it even briefly is to learn a great deal about American history, motion-picture style, and the literary aspects of motion-picture scripts. This volume will represent the essential writings …
Orson Welles's Citizen Kane
A Casebook
Av James Naremore, James Naremore
Häftad, 2004
841 kr
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Citizen Kane is arguably the most admired and significant film since the advent of talking pictures. No other film is quite so interesting from both artistic and political points of view. To study it even briefly is to learn a great deal about American history, motion-picture style, and the …
