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From: Oedipus Anne: The Poetry of Anne SextonAnne Sexton 's poetry tells stories that are immensely significant to mid-twentieth-century artistic and psychic life. Sexton understood her culture's malaise through her own, and her skill enabled her to deploy...
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From: South Atlantic Review[In the following excerpt, Hawkins considers Forster's primary anti-imperial argument as the impossibility of personal relationships. Besides the bigotry of the English in India, he dwells on the self-interest and fear...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)"There is no contemporary author," wrote Joseph Wood Krutch in 1929, "whose evolution is more interesting than that of Zona Gale." Although she lived most of her life in the village of her birth—Portage, Wisconsin—and...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersAt the age of 30 Douglas Coupland became the unofficial spokesman for those born between the early 1960s and 1970s, a generation whose label was coined from the title of his first novel, Generation X (1991). The scant...
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"Now that April's Here" is a marvellously, closely observed tale that is a telling monument to the crucial role that a sojourn in Paris played in the cultural life of North American writers in the decade after World War...
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From: Lippincott's Monthly Magazine[In the following essay, Fawcett appraises Ouida's novels and comments on the essay, excerpted above by Harriet Waters Preston.] Readers of current literature may have recently observed that two writers of reputation,...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Ernest Hemingway's first novel created a large and, generally, appreciative readership for the most modern fiction an American had, in 1926, yet produced. Spare dialogue, little description, and even less authorial...
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From: Modern DramaAyckbourn claims our attention for his insights about people: he prompts us to laugh, then to care about the character and to make a connection with ourselves, our own behaviour, and possibly beyond to the world in which...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersNovelist Alice Hoffman meshes fantasy and reality to illustrate the bizarre or troubled lives of her characters. She writes about family relationships, misplaced love, faith, and friendship. Her hallmark is the use of...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Like his contemporary Stephen Crane, Richard Hovey died tragically young, before he could fulfill the artistic promise he demonstrated, before he could make himself felt as a major force in modern poetry. But unlike...
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From: CLA JournalIn the conclusion of her study of twelve novels by black women over the last four decades (No Crystal Stair: Visions of Race and Sex in Black Women's Fiction), Gloria Wade-Gayles, speaking about the female characters,...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date fall/winter 1986) In the following essay, Ditsky surveys the plots and themes of the stories in The Time of Friendship, maintaining that the collection encapsulates Bowles's preoccupation with the...
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From: The Atlantic Monthly[In the following excerpt, Preston appraises Ouida's novels in the context of the romantic tradition in literature.] It is no light thing to be a popular writer; and when one has been a popular writer for twenty-five...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)In his preface to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain writes that "most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest of boys who were schoolmates of mine."...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Chilly Scenes of Winter and Distortions were published simultaneously, and, to Ann Beattie's consternation, she was quickly celebrated as the chronicler of the disillusioned 1960s counterculture. She was praised as an...
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From:Literature Resource Center[In the following essay, Alton, an honorary research associate at the University of Sydney, provides an overview discussion of Potok's novel.] Chaim Potok's The Chosen focuses on the contrasts between extreme ends of...
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From:Literature Resource Center[In the following essay, Dykema-VanderArk, a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University, looks at how the stories of Jim Burden and Ántonia intertwine throughout Cather's novel to address themes of childhood,...
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From: Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby: A Working Partnership[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, taken from her study of the work and literary partnership of Brittain and her close friend Winifred Holtby, Kennard assesses Brittain's autobiography Testament of Youth,...
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From: Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora[(essay date spring-summer 2001) In the following essay, Osa examines elements of Africanism in three African-American focused works of children's literature--Mildred Taylor's Song of the Trees and The Friendship, and...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date spring 2003) In the following essay, Shih applies the psychoanalytical theories of Sigmund Freud to the intimate relationships in "Bardon Bus," emphasizing the role of parental influence on the characters'...