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From: Heroines of Popular Culture[(essay date 1987) In the following essay, Senf discusses the female protagonists of King's Cujo and asserts that "Donna especially in her display of courage becomes a new American heroine, a strong woman with whom women...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)In twenty-five years of writing essays and short fiction, editing books and journals, and teaching writing, James Alan McPherson has established himself as an important voice in American literature. Recognition of his...
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From:St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (4th ed.)Victoria Holt was a prolific writer of romantic suspense novels. Her vivid descriptions and well-rounded characters absorb the reader into the stories' intricate plots. These plots are various; yet, death, love,...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date Autumn 1995) In the following review, Hutchings examines Three Tall Women , comparing it to works by Identified only as B and C, two of the three tall women of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama...
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From: Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction[The Tin Drum has] an epic range in its temporal and cultural matter [and] a largeness of vision which, in its own way, comprehends the tragicomic implications of personal existence and historical development. (p. 5)...
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From: Modern DramaFor several years Sam Shepard has been acknowledged as the most talented and promising playwright to emerge from the Off-off Broadway movement. Now, more than a decade after his work was first performed, he is...
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From: Canadian LiteratureThe emergent theatre of Native peoples offers theatre scholars and historians a unique opportunity to observe the fusion of cultures in the making. While contemporary postmodern theatre represents just one more link in a...
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From: Women's Review of Books[(review date April 1996) In the following review of Small Ceremonies and The Box Garden, Lipton compares the protagonists from each novel.] Small Ceremonies and The Box Garden, Carol Shields' earliest published...
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From: Neil Simon: A CasebookAs a playwright who has achieved popular acclaim as well as artistic success over the past 25 years, Neil Simon provides an instructive example of changing middle-class American attitudes toward homosexuality. While he...
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From: The New York Review of Books[(review date 10 October 1991) In the following review, Kazin discusses Roth's Call It Sleep and asserts that it is a story of David's inner growth.] Call It Sleep is the most profound novel of Jewish life that I have...
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From: Extrapolation[(essay date Spring 1985) In the following essay, Magistrale explores the role of children in King's work.] On March 25, 1984, in Boca Raton, Florida, Stephen King delivered the closing address at the International...
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From:St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (4th ed.)The most exciting development in the private-eye novel during the 1980s was the emergence of several creditable female private eyes. One of the best of the lot is Kinsey Millhone, a twice-divorced 32-year-old California...
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From: John Steinbeck: An Introduction and InterpretationIn the forties Steinbeck was clearly turning his principal interest from biology and sociology to individual ethics. He was one of several writers whom the Second World War and its aftermath made aware of the “problem of...
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From: Yiddish[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Drucker examines "wise fool" characters in "Gimpel the Fool" and Shosha. As Drucker notes, these characters achieve transcendent vision through spiritual openness rather than...
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From:Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (Vol. 50. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:La Chanson de Roland [The Song of Roland] c. 1170 Principal English TranslationsThe Song of Roland (translated by Dorothy L. Sayers) 1957The Song of Roland (translated by Robert Harrison) 1970The...
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From: The Southern Literary Journal[(essay date Spring 1990) In the following essay, Eckard compares Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant to As I Lay Dying and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.] At eighty-five, Pearl Tull is blind and dying. She drifts...
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From: The Uses of Fiction: Essays on the Modern Novel in Honour of Arnold Kettle[(essay date 1982) Below, Muir assesses the achievement of Hill's fiction up to her hiatus from writing, discussing her narrative method, characterization, and themes.] When Susan Hill, to the dismay of her admirers,...
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From: Graham Greene[ Romanticism and reality will seem to square with one another only as long as the particular brand of romanticism is shared by the author and his or her public. Once that becomes suspect, or even ludicrous, the work...
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From: Modern Drama[(December 1982) Carpenter is an American critic. In the following essay, he questions critical attempts to clarify and explain the bizarre events in The Homecoming and suggests a non-explanatory approach to...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date Spring 1986) Dukore is an American educator and critic who has written numerous studies on such twentieth-century dramatists as Bernard Shaw and Alan Ayckbourn: A Casebook (1991). In the following excerpt,...