Literary Criticism : American - General

Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author -- perhaps best known for her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" an......

Perspectives on America's greatest living playwright that explore his longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theater Arthur Miller's Ameri......

Ezra Pound and China, the first collection to explore the American poet's career-long relationship with China, considers how Pound's engagement with the Orie......

From the acclaimed author of Winter (Mirror) and Rehearsal in Black, Fables of Representation is a powerful collection of essays on the state of contemporary......

A new edition of the delightful 1924 memoir by James's longtime secretary, with a biographical essay and excerpts from her diaries Theodora Bosanquet was ......

In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to fi......

How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice......

The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver explores the visual dimensions of literary texts by looking at the rich representations of vision, movement and space in......

Drawing on multiple resources of an unconventional nature, this book examines some of McCarthy's most significant works, including Blood Meridian, Suttre......

Kenneth Burke has been widely praised as one of the sharpest readers of Shakespeare, Freud, and Marx, among others. He was also well known for turning his ma......

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Zane Grey was a disappointed aspirant to major league baseball and an unhappy dentist when he belatedly decided to take up writing at the age of thirty. He w......

" ""Tithecott takes aim at the unsettling disparity of attention between murderer and murdered.""âChris Bull, Washington Post Of Men and Monsters examine......

In Murder on the Reservation, Ray B. Browne surveys the work of several of the best-known writers of crime fiction involving Indian characters and references......

In his first book of "Satires," written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposes satiric speech as a tool of power and domination. Usi......

In a thoughtful, well-informed study exploring fiction from throughout Stephen King's immense oeuvre, Heidi Strengell shows how this popular writer enriches ......

Janet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma, los......

When he learned he had ALS and roughly two years to live, literary critic Mark Krupnick returned to the writers who had been his lifelong conversation partne......

Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America is the definitive biography of this major American writer of novels and short stories, whose work includes the modern ......

This book is about the making of the writer William Faulkner. It is the first to inquire into the three most important women in his lifeÂhis black and white ......