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Examining Images of Urban Life
There are novels that portray cities as magical places, others as stifling, imposing environments, and others still as a gritty but beautiful, living landscape. Cities can be the center of culture, business, the arts, and are the meeting places for diversities of all kinds. Examining Images of Urban Life gathers contributions from scholars, educators, and young adult authors, like Benjamin Alire Saenz and e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, who consider how living in a city affects character identity and growth, and the ways authors world-build the urban setting. The collection discusses what the urban landscape means, and dispels the media-driven, anecdotally propagated preconceptions about city living...
Mark Strand
Provides reviews of four poems by Mark Strand along with criticism and thematic analysis of other works and a short biography of the poet.
Reading Mark Strand
Combining phenomenological ideals with rigorous close reading and antithetical criticism, this study assesses the career evolution of the Pulitzer Prize-winning former U.S. poet laureate, while providing a methodology for analyzing other poetic careers.
The Pearl
John Steinbeck's The Pearl is one of the most popular and most frequently taught of all American novellas. Its Mexican setting, in a location not far from California, gives it a particular interest today as the United States becomes increasingly multicultural. The present volume examines the book from numerous perspectives - historical, cultural, social, economic, ethnic, and literary. This book in the Critical Insights series explores the many factors that have made Steinbeck's short novel so enduringly appealing, examining the history of the work's critical reception while also contributing new insights that have not been pursued before.
Catch-22
Provides a collection of critical essays on Joseph Heller's Catch-22.
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Reading Mark Strand
Combining phenomenological ideals with rigorous close reading and antithetical criticism, this study assesses the career evolution of the Pulitzer Prize-winning former U.S. poet laureate, while providing a methodology for analyzing other poetic careers.
Encyclopedia of African-American Writing
A timely survey of an important sector of American letters, this fourth edition of The encyclopedia of African-American writing highlights the role and influence of African-American cultural leaders, from all walks of life, from the 17th century to the present. The text takes readers on a journey to learn about what inspired various African-American writers to create poems, plays, short stories, novels, essays, opinion pieces, and numerous other works, and how those writings contributed to American culture ... New arrangement, this edition has a new topical arrangement, to aid in discovery. The entries are grouped into four main sections: Author biographies, for a total of 722, with illustra...
