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Product Description: The selections in this anthology, General Introduction, and thoroughly researched biographical and critical introduction to each author and work, as well as footnotes, provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the theme and literary value of each novel...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With the growing emphasis on theory in literary studies, psychoanalytic criticism has taken its place alongside other forms as an important contribution to literary interpretation. Despite its tendency to make readers uncomfortable, it offers insights into human nature, and hence is appropriate in examining a genre such as children's literature...read more

Product Description: With the growing emphasis on theory in literary studies, psychoanalytic criticism has taken its place alongside other forms as an important contribution to literary interpretation. Despite its tendency to make readers uncomfortable, it offers insights into human nature, and hence is appropriate in examining a genre such as children's literature...read more

Shows how American teenagers lived during the twentieth century, with sections on each decade and descriptions of home life, drug use, and dating, as well as teens' tastes in movies, music, fashion, and books. (view table of contents)