Johnson (English, University College of the Cariboo in Kamloops, B.C.) examines the life and work of a writer whom he considers to be one of the most unjustly neglected figures of the Georgian period.
Kennedy, author of the authoritative Cummings biography Dreams in the Mirror , draws upon the Cummings Collection at the Harvard Library, including previously unavailable materials, to provide a read
A story, Julio Cortazar claimed, is born in a sparkle, a thunderous strike of inspiration, and requires very little by way of processing. He considered literature the product of a spirit dictating its
A developmental, though not strictly chronological, examination of Salinger's brilliant short fiction 22 uncollected stories and three collections: Nine stories, Franny and Zooey , and Raise high th
In this reassessment of a little studied decade, J. David Hoeveler, Jr., finds that the sense of detachment and dislocation that characterizes the postindustrial society serves as a paradigm for Ameri
Two of the world's most popular children's books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1864) and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson),
Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of Africa's most distinguished writers. This appraisal of her 12 novels stresses her enduring quality as an artist beyond the confines o
Places the novel in the context of its times, discusses its style, characters, and themes, and describes its role in the development of the techniques of stream-of-consciousness writing
Quinones (English and comparative literature, Claremont McKenna College) considers the Commedia in the context of Dante's changeful public career and as the product of his evolving thought and poetic
"Everyone needs someone, even if it's just to scratch their back." So says a young boy to a lonely dragon named Shimmer in Laurence Yep's Dragon of the Lost Sea (1983). These words seal a friendship
