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Critical Insights: Neil Gaiman |
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One of the most prolific and award-winning writers of prose spanning comics and graphic novels to feature-length films and television serials, Neil Gaiman is as popular with critics as he is with readers. The essays in this volume trace the work of the author from the little-known comic, The Sandman, through The Graveyard Book and look at his novels for adults and children.
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"A fascinating collection of essays on one of the most interesting writers of the 21st century.”
—American Reference Books Annual
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Critical Insights: Margaret Atwood |
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This Critical Insights volume discusses Margaret Atwood, one of Canada's best-known contemporary authors. Essays include a brief biography, a discussion of the critical reception of Atwood's work, her use of myth, and the themes of Gothicism, spirituality, and trauma that recur throughout her work. Works discussed include The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and her mostly widely read short stories and poetry collections.
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Critical Insights: The Handmaid's Tale |
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Written in the midst of the anti-feminist backlash and the culture wars of the 1980s, The Handmaid's Tale is a timely and chilling dystopian novel depicting a future in which the American government has been overthrown by religious fundamentalists who have, in turn, erected a patriarchal theocracy. This volume analyzes the rich critical discussion surrounding the work.
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Critical Insights: George Eliot |
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Mary Ann Evans, also known as George Eliot, published under a male pen name during the Victorian Era to ensure her fiction was taken just as seriously as her male counterparts. This volume of critical essays compares Eliot to those male contemporaries, and studies some of her greatest works, including Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and The Mill on the Floss.
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"The entire volume would form an ample foundation for beginning scholars of Eliot, but it also has unique content to offer an advanced reader.”
—American Reference Books Annual
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Critical Insights: Albert Camus |
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Throughout his career and in the decades following his premature death in 1960, Albert Camus gained a large and avid international readership. But he has also attracted the interest of scholars from many disciplines, specialists in literature, theater, philosophy, theology, political science, history, psychology, medicine, and law. |
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Critical Insights: Louisa May Alcott |
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A 19th-century American novelist of the transcendentalist school, Louisa May Alcott is most renowned for Little Women, a coming-of-age children's tale still popular with readers of all ages today. Essays in this volume take a closer look at Alcott, her beliefs, and her work in Little Women and its two sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys.
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"Critical Readings carry the bulk of this volume, with 10 essays delving into an array of topics seeking to explore beneath Alcott’s surface. Several essays place Alcott in juxtaposition to other examples of nineteenth-century literature."
—American Reference Books Annual
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Critical Insights: Little Women |
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A unique combination of romance, coming-of-age tale, and family drama, Little Women paved the way for a new form of literature, changing the conversation regarding a women's journey from childhood to womanhood. This work surveys the critical conversation regarding Alcott's achievement from all standard critical perspectives: social, gender-based, post-modern, psychological, and cultural.
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"Critical Insights: Little Women provides thought-provoking analyses of one of the truly great works of American fiction. Recommended for upper-level high school students and undergraduate students.”
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Critical Insights: Mark Twain |
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Mark Twain remains one of America's most beloved literary figures. Eminently quotable, his best writing combines irreverent humor with practical good sense and deep human feeling and, perhaps more so than the work of any other author, defines what is it to be an American. His most beloved novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a nostalgic paean to a simpler, more innocent America.
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"Specific works/genres read include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Connecticut Yankee, and his travel and science fiction writings. The volume includes a chronology of Twain’s life, list of his works, and a bibliography.”
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Critical Insights:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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On the 100th anniversary of Huckleberry Finn's publication, Henry Nash Smith remarked that the novel "made vernacular language, with its new sources of pleasure and new energy, available for American prose and poetry in the twentieth century." This volume of essays examines what made this vernacular so groundbreaking, as well as the ongoing controversy that still surrounds one of the first great American novels.
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"...this book will be of interest to patrons of all kinds of libraries, although the price may force some libraries (and their patrons) to rely on interlibrary loan services to make it available. Both scholars and more casual readers will find this book fascinating.”
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Critical Insights: Kurt Vonnegut |
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Over the course of his career, Vonnegut was honored as the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University, as a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and as the Distinguished Professor of English Prose at the City University of New York. Through his insightful and sympathetic treatment of the psychologically and morally crippled victims of the modern world, Vonnegut earned a reputation as one of the greatest humanist writers of his time. |
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