Literature: History & Criticism

What can we learn from the novels of Graham Greene? This book argues that Greene's writings have much to teach us about fighting evil here and now,...

This collection of essays by a diverse group of young academics, established critics, and well-known writers strikes an intriguing balance between ...

Since Plato, Western critics of literature have asked how it is possible for fiction writers to mean something serious. The outrage over Salman Rus...

Born in the Southside of Chicago in 1930, Lorraine Hansberry and her family moved to a large house in a white neighborhood in 1938. In order to liv...

In the past decade, Raymond Chandler has come to be recognized as a major mid-century American novelist. Though an immensely popular writer of myst...

Eighteenth-century rhetorical theory and rhetoricians figured prominently in the development of contemporary composition and rhetoric. This referen...

Publication of this sourcebook on important gay American fiction writers grants legitimacy and recognition to this rapidly emerging area of literar...

Adopting the concept of diaspora--literally dispersal, or the scattering of a people--to the historical and contemporary presence of people of Indi...

As non-African writers have created images of Africa that suit their own needs, African writers have countered these images with African landscapes...

The comparison made between Prometheus and Faust occurs so frequently in modern scholarship as to seem commonplace. However, while each figure has ...

A collection of 11 chapters by Nigerian professors, this book covers such issues as the dignity of intellectual labor; how colonial writings on Afr...

To have a clear understanding of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the reader needs to know about the vocations of the pilgrims. For some 600 years, this...

This collection is the first of its kind: it brings to North America essays that are organized around the theme of the fantastic in Alain Robbe-Gri...

In 1959, Walter M. Miller, Jr., culminated a brief publishing career of eight years with his only novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz. Since that time ...

Bertolt Brecht has been perceived as an ardent proponent of social change, an avid advocate of a just world that he defined in terms of socialism, ...

Extolled and maligned, Eugene O'Neill was unquestionably the first American playwright of international stature, and his major plays, such as The I...

Bringing together a variety of critical approaches and interdisciplinary perspectives, this work reflects the continuing vitality and breadth of Ge...

William Saroyan, one of the most prolific writers in America, was the first playwright to win simultaneously both the New York Drama Critics' Circl...

This collection of recent essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls demonstrates the centrality of this Spanish Civil war novel in the author...

Most critics of southern novelist Eudora Welty have analyzed her work with a primary focus on her southern background. In Serious Daring from Withi...

This comprehensive and sophisticated feminist analysis contradicts the negative evaluations of earlier feminist critics to define Oates' feminist a...

This unique volume provides a bibliography and analysis of American women's literary interpretations of war and peace during the twentieth century....

This comprehensive, detailed study of Wilder's entire dramatic oeuvre is the only one to place the works in their broad aesthetic and philosophical...

Pearl Buck made important contributions as a humanitarian and an advocate of racial equality and women's rights. She did much to change American at...

Derogation of nineteenth-century women novelists was often the immediate response to their works. While modern feminist scholarship has repudiated ...

While literary utopias depict an ideal society and reflect an optimistic belief in the triumph of humanity and government, dystopias present a soci...

Irish playwrights such as Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, and John Millington Synge have made enormous contributions to world drama. This refere...

Written for librarians, teachers, and researchers, this is the second five-year supplement to the authors' Dictionary of American Children's Fictio...