Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series – serie
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56 produkter
Understanding Cry, the Beloved Country
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Inbunden, 2007
692 kr
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Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country is one of the most influential works of South African literature. Appearing at a time when the South African political system was being increasingly questioned, the novel drew worldwide attention to the horrors of apartheid, a political institution promoting …
Understanding Jane Eyre
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
E-bok, 2001
896 kr
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Immediately popular when published over a century and a half ago, Jane Eyre has continued to find appreciative audiences since. This student casebook offers a unique interdisciplinary approach to the study of Charlotte Bronte's landmark novel. While it gives insightful literary analysis, it also …
Understanding Hamlet
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
E-bok, 1998
896 kr
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Shakespeare's Hamlet , regarded by many as the world's most famous play by the world's most famous writer, is one of the most complex, demanding, discussed, and influential literary texts in English. As a means of access to this play, this unique collection of primary materials and commentary will …
Understanding Richard Wright's Black Boy
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
E-bok, 1998
896 kr
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In Black Boy , Richard Wright triumphs over an ugly, racist world by fashioning an inspiring, powerful, beautiful, and fictionalized autobiography. To help students understand and appreciate his story in the cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook …
Understanding Pride and Prejudice
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
E-bok, 1997
896 kr
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This is the only book about Pride and Prejudice to combine both analysis of the novel and excerpts from significant primary documents of Austen's own time. These materials will help the reader to understand the complexities of both the novel and English society at the beginning of the 19th century, …
Understanding I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
E-bok, 1998
896 kr
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Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was nominated for a National Book Award, yet in 1995 it topped the list of books most frequently challenged in schools and libraries. This interdisciplinary collection of documents and commentary explores the historical and social …
Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Av Neal Lester
E-bok, 1999
896 kr
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Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God highlights the vitality of African American culture. This casebook demonstrates how African Americans fashioned themselves individually and collectively to combat racism, classism, and sexism. With provocative documents that contextualize the …
Understanding The Call of the Wild
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
E-bok, 2000
896 kr
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London's adventure tale The Call of the Wild explores the complex relationships between man and nature, and animals' struggle with their own nature in man's world. In this interdisciplinary study, a rich collection of primary documents point out the many issues that make this story as poignant and …
Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
E-bok, 1996
986 kr
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Since the time of its publication in 1884, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has generated heated controversy. One of the most frequently banned books in the history of literature, it raises issues of race relations, censorship, civil disobedience, and adolescent group psychology as relevant today as …
Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historic Documents
Inbunden, 1994
903 kr
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel of such profound power that it has affected the lives of readers and left and indelible mark on American culture. This rich collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary captures the essence of the novel's impact, making it an ideal …
Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Inbunden, 1996
903 kr
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Since the time of its publication in 1884, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has generated heated controversy. One of the most frequently banned books in the history of literature, it raises issues of race relations, censorship, civil disobedience, and adolescent group psychology as relevant today as …
Understanding The Scarlet Letter
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Inbunden, 1995
822 kr
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Sexual misconduct of society's leaders, the plight of single mothers, the separation of church and state — all are burning issues of the 1990s which sparked outrage and controversy 150 years earlier in The Scarlet Letter. Now, no study of American history is complete without thorough examination of …
Understanding Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Av Hedda Kopf
Inbunden, 1997
736 kr
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Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is the most widely read text about the Holocaust, yet it reveals only one example of the tragic consequences of the Nazi policy to eliminate the Jews. This casebook enriches Anne Frank's remarkable personal account with a variety of historical documents that …
Understanding Romeo and Juliet
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Av Alan Hager
Inbunden, 1999
822 kr
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The tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet has touched the hearts of young and old for nearly four hundred years. In this work, Alan Hager has compiled a rich collection of primary materials and contemporary ranging from information about the earliest performances of Romeo and Juliet to discussions …
Understanding Macbeth
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Inbunden, 1997
822 kr
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This rich interdisciplinary collection of primary materials and commentary about Shakespeare's Macbeth will help student and teacher explore historical, literary, theatrical, social, and political issues related to the play. Bringing together past and present in its approach to Macbeth, the guide …
Understanding Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Inbunden, 1998
822 kr
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This lively gathering of materials about Shakespeare's Julius Caesar will enrich students' understanding of the historical context of the play and encourage interpretations of its cultural meaning. Shakespeare's Julius Caesar reflects perennial cultural concerns about order and freedom, …
Understanding Hamlet
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Inbunden, 1998
822 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Shakespeare's Hamlet, regarded by many as the world's most famous play by the world's most famous writer, is one of the most complex, demanding, discussed, and influential literary texts in English. As a means of access to this play, this unique collection of primary materials and commentary will …
Understanding A Tale of Two Cities
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Inbunden, 1998
822 kr
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A Tale of Two Cities, does not waste a word in telling a humanly touching, suspenseful tale against the background of one of the most bloody events in history, the French Revolution. This collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary will promote interdisciplinary study of …
Understanding Great Expectations
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Inbunden, 2000
822 kr
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More than one hundred years after being written, Great Expectations is still one of the most widely studied works of fiction. This casebook of historical documents, collateral readings and essays brings to life both Dickens' masterpiece and the social issues surrounding his work. The …
Understanding Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony and The Pearl
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Inbunden, 1997
822 kr
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Although John Steinbeck's novellas Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony, and The Pearl are works of fiction, they provide a window on the history of the times and places they portray. Studying the historical, social, economic, and regional background of each novella is important to fully understanding …
Understanding The Great Gatsby
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Av Dalton Gross, MaryJean Gross
Inbunden, 1998
822 kr
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Today, more than 70 years after its publication, The Great Gatsby seems as fresh and pertinent to American life as it did in the 1920s. The social, cultural, and historical milieu of the 1920s reflected in its pages is not so very different from our own. This interdisciplinary collection of …
Understanding The Crucible
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Av Claudia Durst Johnson, Vernon Johnson
Inbunden, 1998
822 kr
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Ideal for student research and class discussion, this interdisciplinary casebook provides a rich variety of primary historical documents and commentary on The Crucible within the context of two relevant historical periods: the Salem witch-trials of 1692 and the Red Scare of the 1950s, when the play …
Understanding The Red Badge of Courage
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Inbunden, 1998
822 kr
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Every generation of readers has interpreted the meaning of The Red Badge of Courage anew. Its appeal is both historical and universal—historical in its Civil War setting and universal in its relating of the experiences of a young man who is thrust into a situation he does not understand and cannot …
Understanding Pride and Prejudice
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Inbunden, 1997
822 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is the only book about Pride and Prejudice to combine both analysis of the novel and excerpts from significant primary documents of Austen's own time. These materials will help the reader to understand the complexities of both the novel and English society at the beginning of the 19th century, …
Understanding The Catcher in the Rye
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Av Sanford Pinsker, Ann Pinsker
Inbunden, 1999
822 kr
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This rich source of social, cultural, and historical documents and commentary will illuminate the reading of The Catcher in the Rye, a novel that has become an important rite of passage for many young adults. In addition to a literary analysis, this casebook acquaints students with the larger world …
Understanding Animal Farm
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Av John Rodden
Inbunden, 1999
822 kr
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Animal Farm is a political allegory of the history of the USSR written in the form of a fable. Its stinging moral warning against the abuse of power is forcefully demonstrated in this casebook through a wide variety of historical, political, and literary documents that are directly applicable to …
Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Av Neal Lester
Inbunden, 1999
822 kr
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Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God highlights the vitality of African American culture. This casebook demonstrates how African Americans fashioned themselves individually and collectively to combat racism, classism, and sexism. With provocative documents that contextualize the …
Understanding Richard Wright's Black Boy
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Inbunden, 1998
822 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In Black Boy, Richard Wright triumphs over an ugly, racist world by fashioning an inspiring, powerful, beautiful, and fictionalized autobiography. To help students understand and appreciate his story in the cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook …
Understanding I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Inbunden, 1998
822 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was nominated for a National Book Award, yet in 1995 it topped the list of books most frequently challenged in schools and libraries. This interdisciplinary collection of documents and commentary explores the historical and social …
Understanding Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Inbunden, 1999
822 kr
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Since its publication in 1985, Annie John has become one of the most widely taught novels in American high schools. Part of its appeal lies in its unique setting, the island of Antigua. This interdisciplinary collection of 30 primary documents and commentary will enrich the reader's understanding …
