Böcker i Critical Responses in Arts and Letters-serien

Since her untimely death from tuberculosis in 1923, her writings have drawn increasingly varied critical attention. Through a collection of essays and reviews, this volume traces the critical response to Mansfield's writings.

These pieces treat various aspects of Chandler's art, such as his writing style, the nature of the hard-boiled detective hero, the relation of Chandler to his contemporaries, Los Angeles as the setting for his fiction, studies of individual novels, and analyses of films of Chandler's works.

This volume brings together book reviews, criticism, interviews, biographical materials, and bibliography spanning the entire corpus of Beattie's fiction to date---five short-story collections and four novels published through 1991.

Though one of the most significant American writers of the 20th century, Saul Bellow has continually elicited conflicting responses from critics.

This text traces the critical reception of the writings of William Styron since the 1950s. All of Styron's novels are covered, with an emphasis on "Lie Down in Darkness", "The Confessions of Nat Turner" and "Sophie's Choice". A bibliography lists Styron's writings, along with critical studies.