Homer


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A selection of critical essays by Joyce, Tolstoy, Kafka, Pound and others.




Virginia Woolf


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Emily Dickinson


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This collection of 16 essays (many by well-known poets like Archibald MacLeish) assesses the poetry of Emily Dickinson.




Blake


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Representative collection of contemporary critical essays.




Sherman Alexie


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A collection of critical essays on the writing and films of American Indian author Sherman Alexie.




Robert Browning


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A collection of critical essays assesses Browning's techniques, achievements, and place in literary history.




Proust


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Arthur Miller; a Collection of Critical Essays


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The 10 essays in this book explore the themes developed by Miller in his plays and his career as a playwright.




James Baldwin


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James Baldwin has been on of the foremost interpreters of the black American experience. The controversial and outspoken nature of his works has stirred up a storm of critical reaction. Kenneth Kinnamon has selected a broad range of interpretations of Baldwin's life and work. Race, sex, violence, love, and religion, the most recurrent themes in Baldwin's works, receive the scrutiny of diverse commentators. Literary and social critics, black and white, explore in detail the impact, worth, and place of Baldwin as an imaginative writer and as an analyst of American racial dilemmas. -- From publisher's description.




Detective Fiction


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