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Margaret Atwood
Inbunden, 2012
1359 kr
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A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Atwood and the critical discussions surrounding her work. As the author of over forty works-including over a dozen novels and over a dozen books of poetry as well as collections of short stories and short fictions, works of literary …
George Orwell
Av John Rodden
Inbunden, 2012
1359 kr
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A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Orwell and the critical discussions surrounding his work. ""Big Brother Is Watching You,"" ""Two plus two make five,"" ""Some animals are more equal than others""… George Orwell's two famous novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, …
Dystopia
Inbunden, 2012
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Great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it. The addition of the word ""dystopia"" to our common, everyday vocabulary is indicative of both a dark turn taken by our popular culture, and a broader pessimistic turn in the general …
Hero's Quest
Inbunden, 2012
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Great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it. Odysseus, Gilgamesh, Aneas, even The Lord of the Rings' Frodo-their stories thrill us with their adventure and classic quest themes. Throughout their journeys, they discover amazing …
Southern Gothic Literature
Av Jay Ellis
Inbunden, 2013
1359 kr
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Presents one of the few book-length surveys of the genre available today, in a diverse collection of representative texts from a group of international critics. In addition to exemplary novels from established writers, such as Edora Welty, Flannery O’Conner, Carson McCullers, and Cormac McCarthy, …
Pulp Fiction of the 1920s and 1930s
Inbunden, 2013
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Explores the ""weird"" and diverse fiction of popular pulp writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, A. Merritt, as well as pulp magazines such as Weird Tales.From their origin at the end of the nineteenth century to their decline in the 1950s, ""pulp"" magazines …
Great Gatsby
Inbunden, 2009
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This title contains in-depth critical discussions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel. Representing a variety of critical approaches and edited by one of the leading critics on 20th Century American literature, this collection focuses on one of the most widely taught works of American literature. The …
Death of a Salesman
Inbunden, 2009
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This title contains in-depth critical discussions of Arthur Miller's great drama. When it premiered, ""Death of a Salesman"" received immediate critical praise and popular attention. Miller set out to change the face of American Drama and succeeded. The play won the Pulitzer Prize, the New York …
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Av Steven Frye
Inbunden, 2009
1359 kr
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This title includes in-depth critical discussions of Edgar Allan Poe's work. This is a collection of sixteen essays by leading scholars examining the short stories and life of the 19th century American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Representing the best of a broad range of critical perspectives from the …
Handmaid's Tale
Av Salem Press, J. Brooks Bousan
Inbunden, 2009
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This title includes in-depth discussions of Margaret Atwood's ""The Handmaid's Tale"". ""The Handmaid's Tale"" won international acclaim when it was first published in 1985; with it, Margaret Atwood won Canada's Governor General's Award as well as the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was nominated for …
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Inbunden, 2009
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This title includes in-depth critical discussions of Maya Angelou's novel. Maya Angelou's ""I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"" took the world by storm when it was published in 1969. As it shot to the top of best-seller lists, it made Angelou one of the most recognized black women in America. Despite …
Isabel Allende
Av Jogn Rodden
Inbunden, 2010
1359 kr
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The border between fact and fiction has always been a porous one for Isabel Allende. Her acclaimed first novel, The House of the Spirits, began as a letter to her dying grandfather yet is filled with ghosts and green-haired and clairvoyant women; her memoir Paula, though ostensibly nonfiction, is a …
Slaughterhouse-Five
Inbunden, 2010
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There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre," Kurt Vonnegut writes in the first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five, his novel about the firebombing of Dresden during World War II. "Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again." Fittingly, …
Albert Camus
Inbunden, 2011
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Camus attracted the interest of scholars from many disciplines— specialists in literature, theater, philosophy, theology, political science, history, psychology, medicine, and law. This volume offers original contributions, while also reprinting a sampling of some of the more trenchant earlier …
John Cheever
Inbunden, 2012
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This collection provides broad coverage of Cheever and his work. Original essays discuss the basic facts of Cheever's life and critical reputation. The work explores his complicated personal life and discusses his decorous style and fragmented structure, and his fascination with language.This …
Absalom, Absalom!
Av David Madden
Inbunden, 2011
1359 kr
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The purpose of this collection of sixteen essays on William Faulkner's multi-faceted novel is to provide the reader who has read or is about to read Absalom, Absalom! with as much of a multi-faceted perspective as possible.Faulkner created a novel so complex that every interpretation of his "little …
Catcher in the Rye
Inbunden, 2011
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For more than fifty years, Catcher fans have found a friend in the lonely misfit Holden Caulfield. The essays in this volume offer an examination of the novel's impact over time, and include discussions of the reach of Salinger's influence, Catcher's tumultuous history, and the culture and politics …
War and Peace
Av Brett Cooke
Inbunden, 2014
1359 kr
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Tolstoy’s epic novel is one of the most famous pieces of Russian literature and is on the short list of the most important works of literature in the world. This volume examines Tolstoy’s unique achievement through a number of thought-provoking essays, and the interplay of the many genres of the …
Slave Narrative
Inbunden, 2014
1359 kr
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Edited by Kimberly Drake, who directs the writing program and teaches writing and American literature and culture at Scripps College, this volume includes chapters on the more widely read slave narratives, including those by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Solomon Northup, but also …
Moby-Dick
Inbunden, 2014
1359 kr
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Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is often considered the greatest American novel – a vast epic that combines deep philosophy and high adventure as well as rich comedy and profound tragedy. Moby-Dick also offers a particularly diverse array of characters of various types, personalities, and ethnic …
American Short Story
Inbunden, 2015
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Diverse in theme, style and cultural context, the American short story can take many forms. The only common theme is the short story’s unique ability to captivate an audience. This volume discusses the origin and popularity of the short story. Original critical essays on a diverse collection of …
On the Road
Av Salem Press, Robert C. Evans
Inbunden, 2023
1484 kr
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Jack Kerouac's On the Road is one of the most famous works produced by a so-called ""beat"" writer—one of a group of nonconformists who shocked many of their contemporaries not only because of the works they produced but also because of the lives they lived. Initially attacked for its celebration …
Harlem Renaissance
Inbunden, 2016
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Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it.Critical Insights: Harlem Renaissance presents the period of unparallel growth in art and literature from the African …
Beloved
Inbunden, 2015
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Toni Morrison's 1987 tale of Sethe, an escaped slave living in Cincinnati and struggling to overcome her past, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 along with instant international acclaim. Several essays in this volume study major themes of Beloved, including motherhood, the psychological …
Critical Insights: Patriotism
Av Salem Press
Inbunden, 2021
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Patriotism has long been an important theme in world literature, especially during the era of the so-called "nation-state." Millions of people, motivated by patriotism, have served their countries in many different ways, including in military service in which millions have died. What is patriotism? …
Critical Insights: Julius Caesar
Av Salem Press, Robert C. Evans
Inbunden, 2022
1359 kr
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Julius Caesar is one of William Shakespeare's most famous and important plays, and one of the most frequently taught, especially in high schools. Dealing with one of the most significant events in the history of Rome, the assassination of Julius Caesar and the subsequent end of the Roman Republic, …
Critical Insights: the Color Purple
Av Salem Press, Jericho Williams
Inbunden, 2022
1359 kr
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Alice Walker's The Color Purple is one of the most celebrated and influential novels in American and African American literature, a rare winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Fiction, and the inspiration for an acclaimed film adaptation and Broadway musical. In celebration …
Critical Insights: the Lord of the Rings
Av Salem Press, Robert C. Evans
Inbunden, 2022
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J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings quickly became one of the most popular and influential novels of the twentieth century. It inspired not just one film but a series of well-received movies that brought Tolkien's highly imaginative fantasy epic to life on the big screen. This volume about the …
Critical Insights: the Brontë Sisters
Av Salem Press, Robert C. Evans
Inbunden, 2022
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The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, are well known English poets and novelists of the nineteenth century. This volume closely examines Charlotte's masterpiece Jane Eyre, Emily's influential Wuthering Heights, and Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, to give readers a deeper sense of the …
