Twenty-two essays are concerned with Hemingway's development as a writer, his characteristic style, his work as a whole, and the themes and language of individual novels

Dr. Williams discusses his own work and that of such contemporaries as Pound and Eliot and reveals his thoughts on a wide variety of twentieth-century concerns

Criticism and reviews of Joyce Carol Oates' novels, such as Them, Wonderland, and The Assassins, are collected along with analyses of her fiction techniques and poetry

Product Description: The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel and is now widely considered to be the most important of his longer works of fiction. Written in an accessible style by prominent scholars, this collection of essays provides helpful and valuable insight for new readers and Hemingway specialists alike...read more

Recounts the troubled life of the American poet and uses her unpublished letters and journals to depict the feelings that led her to suicide

Product Description: This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995...read more

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Placing herself in the avid reader's chair, Linda Wagner-Martin writes about women's biography from George Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Mead, and even to Cher and Elizabeth Taylor. Along the way, she looks at dozens of other life stories, probing at the differences between biographies of men and women, prevailing stereotypes about women's lives and roles, questions about what is public and private, and the hazy margins between autobiography, biography, and other genres. In quick-paced and wide-ranging discussions, she looks at issues of authorial stance (who controls the narrative? who chooses which story to tell?), voice (is this story told in the traditional objective tone? and if it is, what effect does that telling have on our reading?), and the politics of publishing (why aren't more books about women's lives published? and when they are, what happens to their advertising budgets?). She discusses the problems of writing biography of achieving women who were also wives (how does the biographer balance the two?), of daughters who attempt to write about their mothers, and of husbands trying to portray their wives. Amid the current controversy over biography as partial invention, she weighs the possibilities of ever achieving a true depiction of a life and outlines the responsibility of the biographer and the art of biographical writing. As an accomplished biographer herself, Wagner-Martin weaves comments about her experiences writing about Sylvia Plath, Ellen Glasgow, John Dos Passos, and, most recently, Gertrude Stein throughout her discussion. Her point of view is always illuminating, lively, and readable. Telling Women's Lives is the first overview ofthe writing and the history of biographies about women. It is a significant contribution to the reassessment of the work of the hundreds of women writers who have made a difference in our conception of what women's stories - and women's lives - have been, and are becoming. The bo

Provides a comprehensive, authoritative survey of women's writing, history, and concerns covering four centuries of literature, examining various regions, ethnic focuses, and genres, and including voices as diverse as Kate Chopin, Annie Dillard, Wendy Wasserstein, Rachel Carson, and Susan B. Anthony. UP. (view table of contents)

Expertly annotated short stories, poems, essays, plays, speeches, experimental writing, erotica, diaries, and correspondence by almost one hundred women of every age and ethnic background from the past four centuries offer a panorama of women's lives and concerns. UP. (view table of contents)

Revealing Gertrude Stein in a new light, a biography shows the idiosyncratic art collector and writer as a member of her German-Jewish patriarchal family, undergraduate at Radcliffe, feminist, medical student, lesbian and lover, war survivor, and in many other roles. UP.

Product Description: Go Down, Moses (1942) came to fruition during the second world war and was written during one of Faulkner's most traumatic periods, yet it has fallen to critical neglect amid the vast scholarship on the great Southern writer. In part, this collection aims to tilt the balance, forcing the reader beyond critical commonplaces through asking challenging questions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Wagner-Martin (English and comparative literature, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) examines the historical and social influences of Wharton's time, devotes one chapter to each of the principal characters, and finally considers the novel from several literary perspectives: as a "novel of manners," as a "traditional" novel, and as a "modern" novel...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From the heart of the Great Depression to the turbulent 1960s, the mid-century in America was a vibrant literary era. Linda Wagner-Martin's comprehensive study encompasses the "political literature" that flourished in the 1930s, the beat movement of the 1950s, and the multicultural literature of the 1960s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The emphasis in this study is the way Sylvia Plath made herself into a writer. She studies elements of Plath's work with dedication to discussions of style and effect. Close attention to Plath's reading and her apprenticeship writing in both fiction and poetry provides information helpful to understanding the late work of the 1960s...read more

By examining the works and life of Sylvia Plath, Linda Wagner-Martin achieves to make the story of her growth into a consummate artist both dramatic and convincing. In her narrative of the accomplished, yet tentative American girl, Wagner-Martin brings the desire to become a writer to the center of Plath's life. By this, she humanizes Plath and brings her from the status of myth and legend to the normality of a talented woman who guides her life by her continuous attempts to achieve her literary aims. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Frederick Eckman (1924-1996) was a legendary editor....an exceptional teacher of young writers... [and] a superlative poet. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Reexamines Hemingway as America's modernist writer, and explores historical and biographical details of the writer's life, as well as the unexpected dimensions of his accomplishments and influence. (view table of contents)