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Critical Response to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
Av Laurie Champion, Laurie Champion
Inbunden, 1991
901 kr
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Proclaimed by H.L. Mencken as one of the great masterpieces of the world and by Ernest Hemingway as the source of all modern American literature, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remains firmly established in both the American and world literary canons as a classic work of literature. Yet it …
Critical Response to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
Inbunden, 1992
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The Scarlet Letter is virtually unique among works of American fiction because it has not lapsed from print in over 140 years. The history of its reception, which is fully articulated in the volume introduction, may be read as a case study in canon formation. The collection of documents in the …
Critical Response to Eugene O'Neill
Inbunden, 1993
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Extolled and maligned, Eugene O'Neill was unquestionably the first American playwright of international stature, and his major plays, such as The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night, remain giants of the American stage. Acres of print have been devoted to O'Neill by theatre critics and …
Critical Response to Tom Wolfe
Av Doug Shomette, Doug Shomette
Inbunden, 1992
901 kr
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Author of The Right Stuff and other journalistic writings in a literary vein and the novel Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe has been lauded and vilified by the critics for breaking down the barriers between fact and fiction, journalism and literature, and for his stylistic idiosyncrasies. …
Critical Response to Raymond Chandler
Inbunden, 1995
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In the past decade, Raymond Chandler has come to be recognized as a major mid-century American novelist. Though an immensely popular writer of mysteries, Chandler is now receiving the serious attention of scholars. He is seen as a writer with a deliberate approach toward the creation of fictions …
Critical Response to William Styron
Av Daniel Ross, Daniel W. Ross
Inbunden, 1995
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William Styron has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity with the publication of Darkness Visible (1990), his account of his struggle with near-suicidal depression. His works are known for discussing psychological conflicts within families, religious doubt, existentialism, racial tension, and the role …
Critical Response to Ann Radcliffe
Inbunden, 1993
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Ann Radcliffe was one of the most influential women writers of the 18th century. Best known as the author of The Italian and The Mysteries of Udolpho, she contributed to the rise of the English novel and the development of the female gothic. This book brings together, for the first time, almost one …
Critical Response to John Cheever
Av Francis J. Bosha, Francis J. Bosha
Inbunden, 1993
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Bosha collects major, representative criticism of John Cheever's fiction, and his posthumously published Letters and Journals, from the earliest reviews of 1943, through to the present. The volume provides a clear and comprehensive assessment of Cheever's critical reputation both during his …
Critical Response to Ann Beattie
Av Jaye B. Montresor-Berman, Jaye Berman Montresor
Inbunden, 1993
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Acknowledged as an original and important voice in American letters, Ann Beattie published her first short story at age twenty-five in 1972. Four years later, she issued her first short-story collection and first novel concurrently. This volume brings together book reviews, criticism, interviews, …
Critical Response to Saul Bellow
Inbunden, 1995
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Though one of the most significant American writers of the 20th century, Saul Bellow has continually elicited conflicting responses from critics. Some critics have seen him as America's greatest contemporary writer, while others have discounted him as discouragingly redundant. Not even his novel …
Critical Response to Bram Stoker
Inbunden, 1993
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This volume collects some of the most significant critical responses to the works of Bram Stoker, a writer best known in our time as the author of Dracula. But Stoker wrote other works as well, and he responded to many of the issues that concerned Victorian England and which continue to concern the …
Critical Response to Joan Didion
Inbunden, 1993
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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 …
Critical Response to Eudora Welty's Fiction
Av Laurie Champion, Laurie Champion
Inbunden, 1994
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Eudora Welty holds a prominent position among Southern writers, receiving critical attention in publications that scan a wide range of interests. Journals that specialize in American literature, journals that publish general essays, and journals that focus on Southern literature frequently include …
Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut
Inbunden, 1994
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From the time he left his job as a publicist for General Electric in 1950 to pursue a career as a writer, Kurt Vonnegut has made an indelible mark on American literature. During the first decade of his career, his work appeared chiefly in paperback. With the hardcover publication of Cat's Cradle in …
Critical Response to Tillie Olsen
Av Nancy Huse, Kay Nelson
Inbunden, 1994
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The selections of criticism in this anthology reveal the social, cultural, and economic contexts of the writings of Tillie Olsen. The essays link Olsen with socialism, feminism, and the American literary tradition, and show the potential for activism cultivated in her early years. They reflect her …
Critical Response to George Eliot
Inbunden, 1994
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George Eliot is one of the most important women novelists of the 19th century. Throughout her writings, she explores the interconnectedness of the self and society. This theme of interconnectedness creates the social, psychological, and religious worlds of her fictional communities. Eliot …
Critical Response to H.G. Wells
Av William J. Scheick, William J. Scheick
Inbunden, 1995
901 kr
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H. G. Wells was one of the most influential authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best remembered today as the author of classic works of science fiction, such as The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and The First Men in the Moon. He was also the author of The Outline of …
Critical Response to Richard Wright
Inbunden, 1995
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Richard Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important African-American writers and as a significant 20th-century author. With the publication of Native Son in 1940, Wright established his enduring reputation as a man of letters. With the immense critical success of Native Son, Wright …
Critical Response to Samuel Beckett
Av Cathleen C. Andonian, Cathleen Culotta Andonian
Inbunden, 1998
1063 kr
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Best known as the author of Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett was one of the most distinguished writers of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1969, and his works have secured him a lasting place in the literary canon. The critical response to his fiction has been overwhelming. …
Critical Response to Arthur Miller
Av Steven R. Centola, Michelle Cirulli
Inbunden, 2006
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Presenting roughly sixty year's worth of Miller scholarship, Centola and Cirulli offer a wide range of interpretations and critical responses to the playwright's work. Incorporating insights from several disciplines including, but not limited to, philosophy, psychology, and sociology, this work …
Critical Response to John Milton's Paradise Lost
Inbunden, 1997
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Paradise Lost was recognized as a major epic poem soon after its publication in 1667. For more than three centuries, critics have been describing, interpreting, and evaluating it. Regardless of their approaches to changing literary values, they have generally accepted it as the prime example of the …
Critical Response to Jack London
Inbunden, 1995
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This volume contains the key pieces of criticism on London's major works arranged chronologically to reconstruct the literary debate on London's work from earliest reviews to recent analyses. The essays contained here show how the perception of London's ideas and concerns have evolved throughout …
Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett
Inbunden, 1994
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As author of Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, and other works, Dashiell Hammett is one of the most popular American writers of detective fiction. The critical response to his work has been diverse. Edmund Wilson saw little merit in his novels, while Raymond Chandler pointed to …
Critical Response to Robert Lowell
Inbunden, 1999
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From the publication of his first major volume in 1946, Lord Weary's Castle, to a few years before his death in 1977, Robert Lowell held sway as the premier English-language poet of his time. Lord Weary's Castle seemed to push poetic language and cultural critique in exciting new directions, yet …
Critical Response to Katherine Mansfield
Inbunden, 1996
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The appeal of Katherine Mansfield's work knows no geographical boundaries. All of her writings remain in print, she is widely read, taught, and anthologized throughout the world, and her work has been translated into diverse languages. The essays in this volume chart the response to Mansfield's …
Critical Response to Thomas Carlyle's Major Works
Av Rodger L. Tarr, D. J. Trela m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
901 kr
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Born in 1795, Thomas Carlyle was a preeminent figure in Victorian letters. Carlyle was widely reviewed, discussed, praised and criticized during his lifetime, because of his controversial ideas as well as his masterful biographies, histories and extended essays, all forms deemed more canonical in …
Critical Response to Anais Nin
Av Philip K. Jason, Philip K. Jason
Inbunden, 1996
901 kr
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Best known for her diary, Anais Nin was also the author of several novels, short fiction, and a book on D.H. Lawrence. As a woman who made a career of her aesthetic femininity, her works helped shape the future of gender studies and feminist literary criticism. Her writings have challenged numerous …
Critical Response to Chester Himes
Av Charles L. P. Silet, Charles L. P. Silet
Inbunden, 1999
1063 kr
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The work of Chester Himes is now undergoing a critical and popular reevaluation as it gradually comes back into print after years of neglect. His protest novels from the 1940s and early 1950s, his Harlem Domestic crime books, first published in France and later released in English in the United …
Critical Response to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Av Barbara A. Heavilin, Barbara A. Heavilin
Inbunden, 2000
1063 kr
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When it was initially published in 1939, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath instantly became a bestseller. Like many phenomenally popular works, it has elicited a wide range of critical responses. Some earlier reviewers faulted Steinbeck for his apparent sentimentality, while others were …
Critical Response to Ishmael Reed
Av Bruce Allen Dick, Pavel Zemliansky m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1063 kr
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Ishmael Reed has emerged as one of the most innovative and controversial novelists in contemporary African American literature. By focusing on his nine published novels, this volume charts the critical response to his works over time. The book is organized by decade, with each section containing …
