When the Swedish Academy announced that Gunter Grass had been awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, it singled out his first novel The Tin Drum (1959, English translation 1963) as a seminal work that had signaled the postwar rebirth of German letters, auguring -a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction.- Nearly fifty years after its publication, the novel's significance has been generally acknowledged: it is the uncontested favorite among Grass's works of fiction on the part of reading public and critics alike, yet its canonical status tends to obscure the...
When the Swedish Academy announced that Gunter Grass had been awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, it singled out his first novel The Tin Drum...
Presents an array of scholarship on a novel that is becoming a modern classic, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. This title emphasizes the artistic excellence of Tan's text. It features Critical Contexts section that presents four survey essays that provide the reader with a useful framework for studying Tan's novel.
Presents an array of scholarship on a novel that is becoming a modern classic, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. This title emphasizes the artistic excelle...
Introducing students to the full range of critical approachesto the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of international poetic responses to the Great War of 1914-18. Each chapter covers one or more major poets, and guides the reader through close readings of poems from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including: - Classical - Formalist - Psychoanalytic - Marxist - Structuralist - Reader-response - New Historicist - Feminist Including the full text of each poem discussed and poetry from...
Introducing students to the full range of critical approachesto the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and a...
Othello has long been, and remains, one of Shakespeare's most popular works. It is a favourite work of scholars, students, and general readers alike. Perhaps more than any other of Shakespeare's tragedies, this one seems to speak most clearly to contemporary readers and audiences, partly because it deals with such pressing modern issues as race, gender, multiculturalism, and the ways love, jealousy, and misunderstanding can affect relations between romantic partners. The play also features Iago, one of Shakespeare's most mesmerizing and puzzling villains.
This guide offers...
Othello has long been, and remains, one of Shakespeare's most popular works. It is a favourite work of scholars, students, and general reade...
Othello has long been, and remains, one of Shakespeare's most popular works. It is a favourite work of scholars, students, and general readers alike. Perhaps more than any other of Shakespeare's tragedies, this one seems to speak most clearly to contemporary readers and audiences, partly because it deals with such pressing modern issues as race, gender, multiculturalism, and the ways love, jealousy, and misunderstanding can affect relations between romantic partners. The play also features Iago, one of Shakespeare's most mesmerizing and puzzling villains.
This guide offers...
Othello has long been, and remains, one of Shakespeare's most popular works. It is a favourite work of scholars, students, and general reade...
A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Tim O'Brien and the critical discussions surrounding his work. This collection brings together a selection of recent representative critical essays on OAEBrien from a variety of perspectives. After opening with several short introductory essays, the volume moves on to consider OAEBrienAEs semi-autobiographical coverage of his experience in Vietnam and discusses OAEBrienAEs most famous work, The Things They Carried, in addition to several of his other works. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with...
A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Tim O'Brien and the critical discussions surrounding his work. This collection brings t...
Herman MelvilleAEs Moby-Dick is often considered the greatest American novel u 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 backgrounds, and its styles are as varied as the people it depicts. Full of humorous dialects and idioms and brimming with probing, impassioned, poetic speeches, MelvilleAEs novel explores the fascinating world of whale-hunting in the mid-nineteenth century, even as it also explores some of the most...
Herman MelvilleAEs Moby-Dick is often considered the greatest American novel u a vast epic that combines deep philosophy and high adventure as well as...
Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study, Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the verse of the Early Modern period. Each chapter covers a major figure in Early Modern poetry and explores two different poems from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including:
Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study, Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the verse of the Early Modern period. Each chapter covers a major figure in Early Modern poetry and explores two different poems from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including:
