Product Description: This new four-volume set covers world authors from many periods and genres, building a broad understanding of the various contexts--from the biographical to the literary to the historical--in which literature can be viewed. The Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature will allow a reader to analyze an author's work as a reflection of the heritage, traditions and experiences of the author's personal life and the beliefs, events, and lifestyles of the world at the time...read more

With so many resources already covering past and more modern-day classics, Literary Newsmakers for Students fills a glaring need for analysis and criticism on recent novels and other works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Providing all the same curriculum-related information researchers have come to expect from a more traditional reference, this title covers recent releases, including: The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown; The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd; Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini; The Last Juror, by John Grisham; Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser and Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices, by Walter Dean Myers.

Discusses the themes of race and prejudice in literature, including poetry, plays, short stories, novels, and nonfiction, with each entry consisting of a plot summary, analysis of themes, and an introduction to the work and author.

Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include: Omen by Edward Hirsch If by Rudyard Kipling The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe Pineapples and Pomegranates by Paul Muldoon When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer By Walt Whitman And more

Discusses the themes of war and peace in literature, including poetry, plays, short stories, novels, and nonfiction, with each entry consisting of a plot summary, analysis of themes, and an introduction to the work and author.

Product Description: Each bi-annual volume presents vital information on approximately 15 of the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels.Titles featured in vol. 23 of Short Stories for Students include: Hot Ice by Stuart Dybek Marry the One Who Gets There First by Heidi Julavits In the Middle of the Fields by Mary Lavin Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson Brokeback Mountain by E...read more

Product Description: Each volume of Poetry for Students provides analysis of approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses. Some of the poems covered in this volume include: Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pine by Kimiko Hahn Song: To Celia by Ben Jonson Lost in Translation by James Merrill Lepidopterology By Jesper Svenbro And mor...read more

Every bi-annual volume of Drama for Students features coverage of 15 plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Look for: Proof by David Auburn Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz The Producers by Mel Brooks The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde And more

Every bi-annual volume of Drama for Students features coverage of 15 plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Look for: "Angels Fall" by Lanford Wilson "Arsenic and Old Lace" by Joseph Kesselring "The Imaginary Invalid" by Moliere "Strange Interlude" by Eugene O'Neill "The Young Man from Atlanta" by Horton Foote And more

Entries contain the full text of the poem, a line-by-line discussion of its meaning, a summary of themes, an analysis of style, and an essay linking the poem to its historical context.