Columbia Critical Guides – serie
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18 produkter
Toni Morrison: Beloved
Essays, Articles, Reviews
Av Carl Plasa
Häftad, 1999
551 kr
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With excerpts from interviews and reviews, an exploration of the historical documents and slave narrative traditions on which Morrison drew, and an insightful juxtaposition of psychoanalytic and postcolonial approaches to the novel, this guide places Beloved in the contexts of Morrison's oeuvre and …
William Shakespeare: King Lear
Essays, Articles, Reviews
Av Susan Bruce
Häftad, 1999
549 kr
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Nearly three centuries of Lear criticism provide insight into the play's merit and its place within Shakespeare's work and the canon of English literature. Highlights include excerpts from the neoclassical and Romantic receptions of King Lear -- material from John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Samuel …
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse / The Waves
Essays, Articles, Reviews
Av Jane Goldman
Häftad, 1999
586 kr
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Essays, Articles, Reviews
Häftad, 1999
551 kr
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More critical writing exists on The Great Gatsby than on any other work of American fiction. This Columbia Critical Guide introduces and contextualizes the key critical debates surrounding Fitzgerald's novel. The extracts and essays included here reflect The Great Gatsby's place as one of the first …
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
Essays. Articles, Reviews
Inbunden, 1999
1855 kr
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A guide to and excerpts from the critical commentary on the only novel this particular Brontd (1818-48) published. Stoneman (English, U. of Hull) arranges the commentary into sections on Victorian responses: power, propriety, and poetry; the rise and fall of the author: humanism, formalism, deconst
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Essays, Articles, Reviews
Häftad, 1999
509 kr
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Spanning an impressive range of interpretations, the critical works in this collection analyze the complex narrative technique of Heart Of Darkness while exploring its evocation of myth, philosophy, and politics, its attitudes to empire, its images of Africa, and its representations of women. …
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Essays, Articles, Reviews
Häftad, 1999
551 kr
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Surveying the key debates about a novel which has provoked an immensely rich critical response, the extracts and essays included here examine Great Expectations in structural, symbolic, social, political, psychological, and sexual terms, relating the novel to its own time and to a range of …
Geoffrey Chaucer: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Essays, Articles, Reviews
Häftad, 2000
604 kr
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Taught in schools and universities around the world, and the constant subject of books, essays, and articles down the years, "The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales" has long been central to the English literary canon. Jodi-Anne George provides a detailed introduction to the most important …
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying
Essays, Articles, Reviews
Inbunden, 2000
1767 kr
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Now recognized as two of Faulkner's greatest novels, "The Sound and the Fury" (1929) and "As I Lay Dying" (1930) were commercial failures in the decade following their publication. By the end of the Second World War, however, the reputation of both novels had grown and Faulkner's great fictional …
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying
Essays, Articles, Reviews
Häftad, 2000
551 kr
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Now recognized as two of Faulkner's greatest novels, "The Sound and the Fury" (1929) and "As I Lay Dying" (1930) were commercial failures in the decade following their publication. By the end of the Second World War, however, the reputation of both novels had grown and Faulkner's great fictional …
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Essays, Articles, Reviews
Häftad, 2000
568 kr
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With the publication of "The Scarlet Letter" in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne achieved not only critical recognition in his native New England, but also an undisputed place amongst the newly emerging ranks of great American writers. This guide introduces and sets in context, the enormous range of …
George Eliot: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch
Essays, Articles, Reviews
Av Lucie Armitt
Häftad, 2001
586 kr
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Focusing on three of Eliot's most influential and widely read novels, this guide traces recent critical interpretations of her work as well as revisiting some of the perspectives offered by original reviewers and early critics.
T. S. Eliot: "The Waste Land"
Essays, Articles, Reviews
Av Nick Selby
Inbunden, 2001
1591 kr
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Selby (American studies, U. of Wales, Swansea) considers the critical history of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land . Selby contends that the poem "is a crucial document that marks and produces a change in sensibility from unity of thought to a modern even postmodern apprehension of the plurality of exper
T. S. Eliot: "The Waste Land"
Essays, Articles, Reviews
Av Nick Selby
Häftad, 2001
551 kr
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The Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Essays, Articles, Reviews
Inbunden, 2001
1767 kr
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This collection of reviews of the writing of Sylvia Plath is arranged in sections on reviews of The Colossus and Ariel , unifying strategies and early feminist readings of the 1970s, cultural and historical readings, feminist and psychoanalytic strategies, and new directions. Brief excerpts by nume
