EN 104 Introduction to Literature - Fellinger

In-depth critical discussions of Erich Maria Remarque's novel - Plus complimentary, unlimited online access to the full content of this great literary reference.

In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists. including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound. Examining how Hemingway developed this inheritance, Lamb insightfully charts the evolution of the unique style and innovative techniques that would forever change the nature of short fiction.

This volume, "Critical Essay on Charlotte Perkins Gilman", is the most comprehensive collection of essays ever published on this important writer, who has recently emerged as a subject for intense scholarly investigation.

Langston Hughes' blues and jazz poetry is given special attention in a study which places the poetry in the Afro-American oral tradition and the tradition of struggle and protest.

Critically acclaimed authors Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and K.A. Appiah selected reviews and essays for Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past and Present representing the key critical perspectives on Hughes's work.

A critical analysis of Updike's stories, essays, poems, and reviews.

A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Tim O'Brien and the critical discussions surrounding his work.

In Understanding James Baldwin, Marc K. Dudley shows that a proper grasp of Baldwin's work begins with a grasp of the times in which he wrote. During a career spanning the civil rights movement and beyond, Baldwin stood at the heart of intellectual and political debate, writing about race, sexual identity, and gendered politics, while traveling the world to promote dialogue on those issues. In surveying the writer's life, Dudley traces the shift in Baldwin's aspirations from occupying the pulpit like his stepfather to becoming a writer amid the turmoil of sexual self-discovery and the harsh realities of American racism and homophobia.