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Author : Leonard Moss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780805705003
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Arthur Miller written by Leonard Moss and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Mogen
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ray Bradbury written by David Mogen and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bradbury's name has become synonymous with superb science fiction. Mogen examines the whole of his career and his large, varied body of work up to this time.
Author : Donald A. Ringe
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book James Fenimore Cooper written by Donald A. Ringe and published by New York : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1962 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deidre Johnson
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate written by Deidre Johnson and published by New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born in 1862, this man was one of the most prolific children's writers in the United States, and he exploited the market to its fullest potential. After some publishing successes himself in the 1890s, he developed the Stratemeyer Syndicate - a type of production factory for series books. Stratemeyer would conceive ideas for series, draft an outline for each book, and hire writers to turn the outlines into full-length manuscripts, all published under pennames. The syndicate kept between 19 and 31 series in progress until Stratemeyer's death in 1930, when his daughters assumed control, publishing over 480 books. Not all the books were popular, but by experimenting with different types of series, using timely material, and reflecting prevailing social values, Edward Stratemeyer and the Syndicate offered readers vicarious wish fulfillment."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : William F. Touponce
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Frank Herbert written by William F. Touponce and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert L. Jarrett
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cormac McCarthy written by Robert L. Jarrett and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this astute and learned analysis of McCarthy's fiction, Robert Jarrett looks at all seven of the novels published to date and responds to much of the current (and proliferating) critical thought about McCarthy. After an introductory biographical chapter, Jarrett addresses what he considers the two phases of McCarthy's fiction: as a regional writer of the Appalachian South, whose work mixes modernist and realistic techniques and merges contemporary fiction with the tradition of Southern literature (as in The Orchard Keeper [1965], Outer Dark [1968], Child of God [1973], and Suttree [1979]), and as a bold experimenter in form and style, with a keenly rendered postmodern esthetic (as in Blood Meridian [1985], All the Pretty Horses, and The Crossing [1994]). Jarrett regards McCarthy's early novels as attempts to write a modern fiction of the twentieth-century Tennessee hill country, comparable to what local-color realists or regionalists accomplished in the nineteenth century and to what William Faulkner accomplished in his mixture of modernism and regionalism in his Yoknapatawpha fiction. It is during his second phase, Jarrett points out, that the locales of McCarthy's novels shift to the Southwest, and any appearance they give of being popular westerns becomes only a disguise. In the final chapter Jarrett stresses three distinctive aspects of McCarthy's fiction: the diverse and idiosyncratic style of the narrative discourse, the central theme of the quest undertaken through a visionary landscape, and the role of interpolated tales. Drawing keenly on literary theory to synthesize the various strands of McCarthy's unique narrative voice, Jarrett concludes that while the author's tales -often steeped in violence - may not tell us what we want to hear, the enduring pleasure of his novels lies in their imaginative and stylistic power.
Author : Virginia L. Wolf
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Louise Fitzhugh written by Virginia L. Wolf and published by New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International. This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Louise Fitzhugh, a major innovator in realistic fiction for children, stunned the book world with her challenging 1964 novel Harriet the Spy. An individualist who satirized conformity in all her books--among them Sport, Nobody's Family Is Going to Change, and Bang, Bang, You're Dead--Fitzhugh created memorable protagonists who consistently resist deadening familial and societal conventions. Although her novels celebrate independence and self-knowledge, the absence of intimacy in Fitzhugh's fictional world also suggests the tragedy of individualism; her work thus serves as a subtle critique of contemporary American society, where neither outsider nor conformist is truly happy." "In this first book-length study of Fitzhugh's published works, Virginia L. Wolf introduces new biographical information and explores the complex relationship between Fitzhugh's life and art. Wolf enhances our understanding of the homosexual artist by tracing the autobiographical sources of Fitzhugh's major themes and inspirations: alienation, the family, individualism, conformity, religion, war, and bigotry. In this careful examination of Fitzhugh's feminism and lesbianism, Wolf emphasizes the revolutionary, iconoclastic positions championed by Fitzhugh and her characters. These hitherto unexamined issues provide a unique new insight into Fitzhugh's accomplishments and further our understanding of her contribution to children's literature."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Mary A. McCay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ellen Gilchrist written by Mary A. McCay and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a writer of novels, short stories, poetry, and journalism, Ellen Gilchrist combines the best of the Southern tradition with a unique voice that speaks to contemporary readers across the land." "With her first collection of short stories, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams (1981), Gilchrist attained widespread critical and popular success; to date she has produced close to twenty books, including Victory over Japan, winner of the American Book Award, and Falling through Space, a compendium of her broadcast journalism for National Public Radio." "That Gilchrist is "a master of portraying the paradox of the independent woman" is the premise of Mary A. McCay's Ellen Gilchrist, the first book-length study of the writer's work. Though Gilchrist disavows feminist labels, McCay argues, she centers on women's experience in salient ways and reflects an intriguing contrast between her stated position and the more liberal terrain of her imagination. In a detailed introduction, McCay examines autobiographical patterns in the lives of Gilchrist and her characters, including the search for artistic freedom, and explores significant relationships in the writer's life, such as those with the poets James Whitehead and Frank Stanford. McCay also mines common themes in Gilchrist's writings - among them the quest for an articulate self and the conflict between love and independence - and discusses the importance of place, particularly New Orleans, in Gilchrist's works. Especially informative are in-depth analyses of the poetry and journalism, as well as the short stories and novels, including The Annunciation, Net of Jewels, The Anna Papers, Starcarbon, and Gilchrist's triad of novellas, I Cannot Get You Close Enough."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Fakrul Alam
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Prentice Hall International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bharati Mukherjee written by Fakrul Alam and published by New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Prentice Hall International. This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the novels The Tiger's Daughter (1972), Wife (1975), Jasmine (1989), and The Holder of the World (1993), as well as short-fiction collections and volumes of nonfiction, Mukherjee can be seen as either a leading writer of the Indian diaspora (along with Salman Rushdie, Rhonton Mistry, and Vikram Seth) or a prominent Asian-American writer (in the company of Maxine Hong Kingston and Diana Chang). By describing herself as an "Ellis Island writer," however, Mukherjee is putting herself in the tradition best exemplified by Bernard Malamud.
Author : Warren G. French
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell MacMillan Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book John Steinbeck's Fiction Revisited written by Warren G. French and published by New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell MacMillan Canada. This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work. Each volume features: -- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works -- A brief biography of the author -- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context -- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index -- A readable style presented in a manageable length
Author : Janet McCann
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Wallace Stevens Revisited written by Janet McCann and published by New York : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Janet McCann adds an important dimension to our understanding of Stevens in this updated look at his oeuvre, from Harmonium (1923) and Idea of Order (1936) through the Collected Poems (1954) and Opus Posthumous (1957). The interplay of opposing forces in Stevens's work, she argues, reflect a lifelong search for a new metaphysic, a replacement for the Christianity he discarded in his youth. Reading poems from every phase in his life, McCann finds evidence of the intellectual rigor of this search. In Harmonium, she finds Stevens stripping away the vestiges of childhood religious beliefs; in The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937), she reveals his approach to atheism; and in later poems she finds a revitalized religious inquiry, leading to the poet's deathbed conversion to Roman Catholicism. In many poems, McCann reveals Stevens's reverence for a natural order of things, expressed in both meter and image, and in others she shows us his beliefs about art as a spiritually transformative process." "Based in part on new biographical material, McCann's analysis diverges from much New Historicist and Marxist criticism by focusing on Stevens's preoccupation with things of the spirit, and on his progression toward the metaphysical. Of special interest are her reflections on Stevens in his early milieu, and his interest in the experimental movements of the avant garde, such as Dadaism and cubism. Stevens's poetry, she shows us, brought the aesthetics of these new art movements to bear on some very old questions. Her study brings us important new insights into the work of an artist for whom, as he put it, "the major poetic idea in the world is and always has been the idea of God.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Virginia R. Monseau
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Presenting Ouida Sebestyen written by Virginia R. Monseau and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by interviews with both the author and her longtime editor, Monseau reveals Sebestyen's thoroughness and commitment to relatively unorthodox writing methods - such as working outdoors, writing in longhand, and compiling lists of slang, common pastimes, and even jokes from the 1920s as background material.
Author : La Vinia Delois Jennings
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Alice Childress written by La Vinia Delois Jennings and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A founding member of the American Negro Theatre, Childress became in 1952 the first African-American woman to see her play (Gold through the Trees) professionally produced in New York and in 1956 the first to receive an Obie Award (for Trouble in Mind). She is perhaps best known today, for A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich, her 1973 novel for young adults about a 13-year-old black boy addicted to heroin. At the time of her death in 1994, Childress could lay claim to a writing career of more than 40 years in which she examined with honesty and passion the meaning of being black, and especially of being black and female, in a culture where being white and male was what counted. As Childress herself once said, "I concentrate on portraying have-nots in a have society".
Author : Tony Magistrale
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Stephen King written by Tony Magistrale and published by New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International. This book was released on 1992 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work. Each volume features: -- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works -- A brief biography of the author -- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context -- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index -- A readable style presented in a manageable length
Author : Terry Reed
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Truman Capote written by Terry Reed and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the life and works of Truman Capote. Includes a chronology.
Author : George Shannon
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arnold Lobel written by George Shannon and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical analysis of the works of Arnold Lobel.
Author : Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 : 9780805716238
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Indian Captivity Narrative, 1550-1900 written by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volumeaddresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writers work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading theAuthors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives.
