Scholars of Japanese literature from a number of prestigious US universities present 24 essays profiling as many writers, among them Novel-Prize winners Kawabata Yasunari and Oe Kenzaburo; and Murakam
Includes entries for a variety of novels, containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original
Entries on African literary works from Thomas Mofolo's "Chaka" to Doris Lessing's "African Laughter" describe each works' genre, contents, and reflection of real-life events in African history and in
Includes entries for a variety of novels, containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original
Designed for middle and high school aged students, this volume presents approximately 30 full and excerpted Revolutionary era speeches, diary entries, poems, and documents. Each entry, organized into
Includes entries for a variety of novels, containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original
This three-volume reference comprises 595 articles written by leading historians, psychologists, anthropologists, folklorists, sociologists, criminologists, and medical researchers. In addition to bio
Volume II of a projected six-volume set designed to stimulate critical thinking about major historical events by illuminating opposing viewpoints and perspectives on heavily debated questions. Each vo
Presents fifteen excerpts from primary sources related to World War II, including speeches, diary entries, newspaper accounts, novels, poems, and memoirs
Includes entries for a variety of novels, containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original
Volume I of a projected six-volume set designed to stimulate critical thinking about major historical events by illuminating opposing viewpoints and perspectives on heavily debated questions. Each vol
Presents biographies of individuals who participated in or were affected by World War II, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Winston Churchill
Wolfe (English, U. of Missouri-St. Louis) analyzes the work of African-American dramatist Wilson, whose career soared after the 1984 production of his Ma Rainey's Black Bottom . He finds that Wilson
Includes entries for a variety of novels, containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original
Twenty-two essays are collected to provide an overview of the current trajectory of critical readings of Browning. The essays, all either republished journal articles or book excerpts, reflect three d
A collection of critical essays on a Czech playwright and president, showing him from various perspectives. Contributions range from political analyses and historical assessments to linguistic interpr
Includes entries for a variety of novels, containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original
The oral testimonies of 11 individuals who took part in the Nuremberg trials in less prominent roles than are usually subjected to historical examination. Among those interviewed are the nighttime sec
Rather than presenting one monolithic view of Poe's storied and studied career, Peeples (English, College of Charleston) argues that Poe's writing offers itself to varied interpretations, and itself w
Includes entries for a variety of novels, containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original
Resource mobilization theory is the tool the author uses to examine the history of the movement to grant clemency to women jailed for killing or assaulting the men who abused them. Countering the view
Includes entries for a variety of novels, containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original
Landsman (history, State U. of New York-Stony Brook) examines the submerged changes in British American colonial culture during a period in which history textbooks can find few actual events to report
Includes entries for thirty novels, containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original critic
Includes entries for thirty novels, containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original critic
Includes entries for forty short stories containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpt, and an original cr
Includes entries for forty short stories containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpt, and an original cr
Best known as a novelist - especially for The Grapes of Wrath, his heartfelt portrayal of disenfranchised dustbowl farmers in the 1930s - John Steinbeck nonetheless devoted a good portion of his liter
In the short period of time since Gloria Naylor published her first novel, The Women of Brewster Place (1982), to wide acclaim, she has established herself as a significant contemporary writer. A self
World War II stands, for most Americans, as the "good" war; it was a necessary war fought for a just cause. Yet more than 40,000 American men refused to fight the war. Citing principled opposition, th
In some ways prefiguring the dramas in its creator's life, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a fictional model of the moral contradictions pervading late Victorian society. Oscar Wilde's Faustian tale of
