Critical Insights: Gender, Sex and Sexuality

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• 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 b... Lees meer

Critical Insights: Harry Potter Series

Salem Press

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• 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 adventu... Lees meer

Critical Insights: Censored & Banned Literature

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• Examines the wide range of literary texts that have been subjected to censorship, either at the time of their first publication, later in their histor... Lees meer

Critical Insights: Heart of Darkness

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• 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 v... Lees meer

Critical Insights: Mario Vargas Llosa

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• 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... Lees meer

Critical Insights: War and Peace

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• 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 ... Lees meer

Critical Insights: Flash Fiction

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• 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 lit... Lees meer

Critical Insights: The Pearl

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• Examines the book from numerous perspectives – historical, cultural, social, economic, ethnic, and literary. This book in the Critical Insights series... Lees meer

The Woman Warrior

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• A lethal combination of strength, seduction, bravery, charm and intelligence the woman warrior has been fighting, and winning, her battles throughout ... Lees meer

Critical Insights: American Creative Non-Fiction

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• Offers a collection of essays that surveys the critical conversation regarding American creative non-fiction, and explores the genre’s cultural and hi... Lees meer

Critical Insights: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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• Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings took the world by storm when it was published in 1969. Despite controversy over its frank depiction of ... Lees meer

Critical Insights: Magical Realism

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• Analyses the evolution of magical realism, as well as its manifestations in different cultures. Several essays discuss the struggle between the hegemo... Lees meer

Critical Insights: Modern Japanese Literature

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• 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 ... Lees meer

Critical Insights: Contemporary Canadian Fiction

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• This volume addresses the key authors and works in contemporary Canadian fiction. Essays survey the critical conversation regarding these works, explo... Lees meer

Critical Insights: Oscar Wilde

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• Examines the whole range of Wilde's work, from the light-hearted to the tragically serious, and explores Wilde and his writings in their biographical,... Lees meer

Critical Insights: Billy Budd, Sailor

Salem Press

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• Offers in-depth critical discussions of Herman Melville's novel. Essays examine themes of sexuality, disability, law, capital punishment, and race. Ea... Lees meer

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. He has ... Lees meer

Critical Insights: To Kill a Mockingbird

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• Translated into over 40 languages, Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird is considered to be one of the most influential works of the 20th century.... Lees meer

Critical Insights: Ernest Hemingway

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• The shadow Ernest Hemingway casts over American literature is nothing less than colossal. Widely imitated, his distinctive prose style revolutionized ... Lees meer

Critical Insights: Of Mice and Men

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• With an array of contributions by leading Steinbeck scholars, Critical Insights: Of Mice and Men provides a rich array of fresh perspectives and valua... Lees meer

Critical Insights: The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

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• This volume of the Critical Insights series opens with a reflection of Poe's aesthetics, and offers a consideration of Poe's distinctive contribution ... Lees meer

Critical Insights: A Streetcar Named Desire

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• A Streetcar Named Desire quickly became an international sensation when it premiered on Broadway in 1947. This work features essays on Tennessee Willi... Lees meer

Critical Insights: Isaac Asimov

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• Isaac Asimov is widely considered to be one of the founding figures of American science fiction. This volume contains a general introduction to Asimov... Lees meer

Critical Insights: The Canterbury Tales

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• Considered one the English language's most masterful works, Geoffrey Chaucer's series of tales has managed to stay relevant and prominent for more tha... Lees meer