The Critical Response to Raymond Chandler

J Kennet Van Dover

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• In the past decade, Raymond Chandler has come to be recognized as a major mid-century American novelist. Though an immensely popular writer of mysteri... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Richard Wright

Robert J Butler

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 16
• Richard Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important African-American writers and as a significant 20th-century author. With the publicati... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Samuel Beckett

Cathleen C Andonian

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• Best known as the author of Waiting for Godot , Samuel Beckett was one of the most distinguished writers of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Bram Stoker

Carol a Senf

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• This volume collects some of the most significant critical responses to the works of Bram Stoker, a writer best known in our time as the author of Dra... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Ann Radcliffe

Deborah Rogers

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• Ann Radcliffe was one of the most influential women writers of the 18th century. Best known as the author of The Italian and The Mysteries of Udolpho,... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Eudora Welty's Fiction

Laurie Champion

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 12
• Eudora Welty holds a prominent position among Southern writers, receiving critical attention in publications that scan a wide range of interests. Jour... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Arthur Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• Presenting roughly sixty year's worth of Miller scholarship, Centola and Cirulli offer a wide range of interpretations and critical responses to the p... Lees meer

John Updike

Jack De Bellis

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 40
• Twenty-seven critics, as well as Updike himself, provide a kaleidoscopic view of the Rabbit Angstrom saga in 34 reviews and essays. There is dual purp... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Joan Didion

Sharon Felton

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 8
• Joan Didion is a major contemporary American novelist and journalist whose works have popular appeal and are widely studied from a variety of literary... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut

Leonard Mustazza

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 14
• From the time he left his job as a publicist for General Electric in 1950 to pursue a career as a writer, Kurt Vonnegut has made an indelible mark on ... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Ann Beattie

Jaye B Montresor-Berman

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 4
• Acknowledged as an original and important voice in American letters, Ann Beattie published her first short story at age twenty-five in 1972. Four year... Lees meer

The Critical Response to George Eliot

Karen Pangallo

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• George Eliot is one of the most important women novelists of the 19th century. Throughout her writings, she explores the interconnectedness of the sel... Lees meer

The Critical Response to D.H. Lawrence

Janice Pilditch

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• The works of D.H. Lawrence have always generated critical controversy. From the early prosecution of The Rainbow (1915) to more recent disputes about ... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Flannery O'Connor

Douglas Robillard

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• As the author of such classic American short stories as A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Everything That Rises Must Converge, and Revelation, Flannery O'Co... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Thomas Carlyle's Major Works

Rodger L Tarr, D J Trela

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• Born in 1795, Thomas Carlyle was a preeminent figure in Victorian letters. Carlyle was widely reviewed, discussed, praised and criticized during his l... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Erskine Caldwell

Robert McDonald

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 28
• Author of such classics of 20th-century popular American literature as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933), Erskine Caldwell was somethin... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Ishmael Reed

Bruce Allen Dick, Pavel Zemliansky

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 31
• Ishmael Reed has emerged as one of the most innovative and controversial novelists in contemporary African American literature. By focusing on his nin... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter

Gary Scharnhorst

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 2
• The Scarlet Letter is virtually unique among works of American fiction because it has not lapsed from print in over 140 years. The history of its rece... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Katherine Mansfield

Janice Pilditch

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• The appeal of Katherine Mansfield's work knows no geographical boundaries. All of her writings remain in print, she is widely read, taught, and anthol... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Ann Petry

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 44
• Ervin has brought together 16 reviews and 26 essays that chronicle the literary reception of Ann Petry and her three novels in America from 1946 to th... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Robert Lowell

Steven G Axelrod

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 33
• From the publication of his first major volume in 1946, Lord Weary's Castle, to a few years before his death in 1977, Robert Lowell held sway as the p... Lees meer

The Critical Response to Anais Nin

Philip K Jason

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• Best known for her diary, Anais Nin was also the author of several novels, short fiction, and a book on D.H. Lawrence. As a woman who made a career of... Lees meer

The Critical Response to William Styron

Daniel Ross

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
• William Styron has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity with the publication of Darkness Visible (1990), his account of his struggle with near-suicidal ... Lees meer

The Critical Response to John Milton's Paradise Lost

Timothy Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters | nr. 26
• Paradise Lost was recognized as a major epic poem soon after its publication in 1667. For more than three centuries, critics have been describing, int... Lees meer