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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.

Usually read as an attack on the brutalities of European colonialism, the work is sometimes now read as a colonialist project in its own right. This volume explores numerous dimensions of Conrad's book, looking at it in various historical, literary, and cultural contexts and examining both its artistry and its themes.

Looks at Milton's epic from many different critical and theoretical perspectives and offers students and researchers multiple ways of engaging with a writer whom many critics consider the equal of William Shakespeare.

Offers diverse views of the work that many consider William Shakespeare's masterpiece. Essays provide close analyses of language, discussion of the play as a work (and film), and various contextual approaches, including essays on historical, cultural, social, philosophical, and gender contexts.

Addresses the theme of inequality and includes critical readings in classic and contemporary works. Chapters explore literary representations of social and economic inequality, including those which address multiple vectors of social marginalization; consider authors' strategies for compelling readers' attention; and engage with questions of aesthetics, canon formation and literary value.

Examines survival in both literal and figurative terms to include such varied kinds of survival as physical, psychological, social, and spiritual endurance. Works represented include narrative nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, novels, plays, and films.

Winner of the 1953 National Book Award for Fiction and often listed among the top one hundred novels of the twentieth century. This volume places Ellison's work within the contexts of the African American literary canon as well as within the broader traditions of American and world literature.

Explores the work of the groundbreaking author of Black Boy and Native Son, to place the author's body of work in the canon of American literature, the literature of identity and literature of protest.

Offers in-depth critical discussions of William Shakespeare's play. Essay topics include consciousness, conscience, and madness in Macbeth and the lasting influence of the play. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited", along with endnotes. The volume's appendices offer a section of useful reference resources.

Examines many aspects of Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers including the history of the play's criticism, issues of confession, trauma and uses of the imagination. Essays on film adaptations and parodies as well as pluralistic appraoches to the balcony scene are also included. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited".

Offers in-depth critical discussions of Herman Melville's novel. Essays examine themes of sexuality, disability, law, capital punishment, and race. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources.

Examines the developments of the country's history: its economic and military rise in the early 20th century and its bitter defeat after WWII. Essays in this volume explore the search for national identity and examine the work of Murakami Haruki, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, and Futabatei Shimei. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited".

This first-of-its-kind volume on flash fiction-prose of no more than 1,000 words-tracks the development and critical context of this international literary genre. Essays look at both prominent forebearers and current practitioners. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited", along with endnotes.

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.

Presents the period of unparallel growth in art and literature from the African American community, also known as the Harlem Renaissance. This title offers not only expanded readings of the central themes that have long captivated the attention of scholars across time, but also provides valuable insight into the texts, authors, and critical perspectives too often overlooked.

Over the last twenty years, J.K. Rowling has captured the hearts and imaginations of readers around the world with her Harry Potter series, an adventurous tale of a young wizard's coming of age. In the course of seven books, this epic fantasy saga tells the story of Harry Potter, a boy wizard at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Edited and with an introduction by Brian Murdoch, Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Stirling in Scotland, this volume in the Critical Insights series brings together a wide variety of introductory and in-depth essays on Remarque's classic war novel.

Combines biographical material with original essays comparing his career to that of Mark Twain and an examination of his critical reception. His interest in Carl Jung, Naturalism and the theme of androgyny throughout his novels are also discussed.

Offers a collection of essays that surveys the critical conversation regarding American creative non-fiction, and explores the genre's cultural and historical contexts and offer close and comparative reading of key texts in the genre. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited", along with endnotes.

Addresses the key authors and works in contemporary Canadian fiction. Essays survey the critical conversation regarding these works, explore the cultural and historical contexts, and offer comparative readings of key texts in the genre. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited", along with endnotes.

Edited by Juan E De Castro, this volume includes essays by some of the best-known Vargas Llosa scholars. The articles not only provide an introduction to the Nobel Prize winner's novels and essays, they also trace his artistic and political evolution, and place his works in their historical and cultural context.

So much of great literature centres on explorations of gender, sex, and sexuality. What does it mean to be a proper man or woman; what if one cannot be properly called either? Should one wield one's sexual power politically? What is the relation between law, divine or secular, and sexuality? What does it mean to fail at doing gender? These are just some of the questions that this volume examines.

Tolstoy's epic novel is one of the most famous pieces of Russian literature and is on the short list of the most important works of literature in the world. This volume examines Tolstoy's unique achievement through a number of thought-provoking essays, and the interplay of the many genres of the text, including historical fiction, war drama, romance and realism.