The Critical Response to Gloria Naylor

Sharon Felton, Michelle Loris

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• As the author of The Women of Brewster Place , Linden Hills , Mama Day , and Bailey's Cafe , Gloria Naylor is widely respected as one of the most impo... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Joan Didion

Sharon Felton

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 8
• Joan Didion is a major contemporary American novelist and journalist whose works have popular appeal and are widely studied from a variety of literary... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Truman Capote

Joseph Waldmeir, John Waldmeir

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 32
• One of the most controversial American authors of the twentieth century, Truman Capote is best known as the author of In Cold Blood (1966), a work of ... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Raymond Chandler

J Kennet Van Dover

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• In the past decade, Raymond Chandler has come to be recognized as a major mid-century American novelist. Though an immensely popular writer of mysteri... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Erskine Caldwell

Robert McDonald

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 28
• Author of such classics of 20th-century popular American literature as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933), Erskine Caldwell was somethin... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Katherine Mansfield

Janice Pilditch

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• The appeal of Katherine Mansfield's work knows no geographical boundaries. All of her writings remain in print, she is widely read, taught, and anthol... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Ann Beattie

Jaye B. Montresor-Berman

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 4
• Acknowledged as an original and important voice in American letters, Ann Beattie published her first short story at age twenty-five in 1972. Four year... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Ann Radcliffe

Deborah Rogers

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• Ann Radcliffe was one of the most influential women writers of the 18th century. Best known as the author of The Italian and The Mysteries of Udolpho,... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett

Christop Metress

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 15
• As author of Red Harvest , The Maltese Falcon , The Thin Man , and other works, Dashiell Hammett is one of the most popular American writers of detect... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Chester Himes

Charles L P Silet

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 34
• The work of Chester Himes is now undergoing a critical and popular reevaluation as it gradually comes back into print after years of neglect. His prot... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Kamau Brathwaite

Emily Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 41
• While Kamau Brathwaite is renown for his achievements as a world literary, historical, and cultural critic, his Anglophone Caribbean poetry is the cor... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Arthur Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• How did a bedraggled band of nomads manage to evolve into a Mesoamerican superpower in such a brief time? This volume looks at the essential elements ... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Tillie Olsen

Nancy Huse, Kay Nelson

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• The selections of criticism in this anthology reveal the social, cultural, and economic contexts of the writings of Tillie Olsen. The essays link Olse... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Samuel Beckett

Cathleen C. Andonian

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• Best known as the author of Waiting for Godot , Samuel Beckett was one of the most distinguished writers of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel... Lees meer

The Critical Response to John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath

Barbara A. Heavilin

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 37
• When it was initially published in 1939, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath instantly became a bestseller. Like many phenomenally popular works, it ... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Richard Wright

Robert Butler

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 16
• Richard Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important African-American writers and as a significant 20th-century author. With the publicati... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Gary Scharnhorst

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 2
• The Scarlet Letter is virtually unique among works of American fiction because it has not lapsed from print in over 140 years. The history of its rece... Lees meer

The Critical Response to George Eliot

Karen Pangallo

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• George Eliot is one of the most important women novelists of the 19th century. Throughout her writings, she explores the interconnectedness of the sel... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Eugene O'Neill

John Houchin

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• Extolled and maligned, Eugene O'Neill was unquestionably the first American playwright of international stature, and his major plays, such as The Icem... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

Kevin J Hayes

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 13
• Herman Melville's Moby-Dick received considerable attention shortly after its publication in 1851. Melville's contemporaries reacted strongly to his w... Lees meer

The Critical Response to D.H. Lawrence

Janice Pilditch

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• The works of D.H. Lawrence have always generated critical controversy. From the early prosecution of The Rainbow (1915) to more recent disputes about ... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Anais Nin

Philip K. Jason

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• Best known for her diary, Anais Nin was also the author of several novels, short fiction, and a book on D.H. Lawrence. As a woman who made a career of... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Robert Lowell

Steven Axelrod

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 33
• From the publication of his first major volume in 1946, Lord Weary's Castle, to a few years before his death in 1977, Robert Lowell held sway as the p... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Thomas Carlyle's Major Works

D J Trela Rodger L T

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• Born in 1795, Thomas Carlyle was a preeminent figure in Victorian letters. Carlyle was widely reviewed, discussed, praised and criticized during his l... Lees meer