"Praise for the earlier edition: ""Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to "Fifteen Modern American Authors "(1969) as an indispensable guide to significant scholarship and criticism about twentieth-century American writers. In its new form--"Sixteenth Modern American Authors"--it will continue to be indispensable. If it is not a desk-book for all Americanists, it is a book to be kept in the forefront of the bibliographical compartment of their brains."--"American Studies" "An indispensable research took (has) maintained and even increased its...
"Praise for the earlier edition: ""Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to "Fifteen Modern American Authors "(1969) a...
Thornton Wilder Jackson R. Bryer Robin Gibbs Wilder
Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writer's correspondence. In these letters, Wilder, the author of Our Town, draws on his vast reservoir of learning and his incessant reading to inform, encourage, instruct, and entertain.
Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writer'...
"Who is this Gatsby anyhow?" Answering that question, voiced by one of the book's characters, is fundamental to teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Although there is no simple answer, classroom analysis of this classic American novel can lead to a rich exploration of the colorful yet contradictory period Fitzgerald dubbed the Jazz Age. The novel also prompts considerations of novelistic technique, specifically point of view, characterization, and narrative structure.
This volume aims to give instructors of The Great Gatsbymultiple tools and strategies for...
"Who is this Gatsby anyhow?" Answering that question, voiced by one of the book's characters, is fundamental to teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's T...
The essays in "Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives" constitute a comprehensive critical reassessment at a time of renewed interest in the writer. Wilder is best known for "Our Town "and "The Bridge of San Luis Rey, "both winners of a Pulitzer Prize, making Wilder still the only writer to be so honored for both drama and fiction. His other fiction, in particular, is far less familiar to a wider readership. The authors of these essays aim to contextualize Wilder s work historically and to show that Wilder s handling of questions of religion, American identity, gender, and ethics should vault him...
The essays in "Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives" constitute a comprehensive critical reassessment at a time of renewed interest in the writer. Wilder...
