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From: Papers on Language and Literature[(essay date October 1993) In the following essay, Freedman discusses Plath's use of the mirror as a symbol of female passivity, subjugation, and Plath's own conflicted self-identity caused by social pressure to...
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From: London Review of Books[(review date 24 August 1995) In the following review, Wood discusses White's The Burning Library and Skinned Alive.] Edmund White has always struggled between appeasing the gods of his art and paying off the...
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From: The Hudson Review[(review date Summer 1995) Pritchard is an American educator and critic. In the following review, he remarks on theme and style in Under My Skin and summarizes Lessing's development over her literary career .] A little...
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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: Literature/Film Quarterly[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, DalMolin discusses the role of the female voice in Jules and Jim.] In the very beginning of Jules and Jim, while the screen is still black, a woman's voice is heard. No...
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From:Gay & Lesbian BiographyIt is nearly impossible to overestimate James Baldwin's importance as a public figure, a visionary, and a storyteller. The author of some two dozen books, Baldwin employed a wide range of voices and genres to tell his...
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From:Novels for StudentsResponse to Annie John has been unanimous in its praise. Reviewers focus on Kincaid's successful writing of a girl's coming of age as well as the wonder and excitement of a historic epicenter—the Caribbean. More serious...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Redgauntlet is one of the most important works of Sir Walter Scott's later career. In it, he returns to a subject raised in Waverley, his first novel: the Jacobite uprisings of the 18th century. Unlike the 1745 rebellion...
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From: Nine Contemporary Poets: A Critical Introduction[(essay date 1979) In the following excerpt, King chronicles Gunn's growth from a young egocentric individual to a more mature person who is able to respond to relationships with other people, as evidenced by his...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Walter Pater's early aestheticism was distorted or trivialized by his disciples and it was barely recognised that his thought developed over the years. For Oscar Wilde, the Renaissance of 1873 was a golden book: but it...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date Winter 1990) In the following essay, Edmundson discusses Mailer's portrayal of Gilmore in The Executioner's Song in light of Mailer's romantic narrative style and Emersonian literary aspirations.] Romantic...
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From: African Literature Today[(essay date 1973) In the excerpt below, Izevbaye delineates the interplay of sources Okigbo employs in Heavensgate and Limits.] The year 1971 saw the publication by Heinemann Educational Books of Labyrinths with Path...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)Although primarily a poet—and as such, one of the best writing in English today—Derek Walcott is also an accomplished playwright, whose interest in drama was kindled at an early age. A youthful stage designer, he has for...
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From: The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation[(excerpt date 1990) In the following excerpt, Stephenson argues that Ginsberg's focus in "Howl" is transcendence in contemporary life.] In the quarter century since its publication by City Lights Books, Allen...
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From: Penbroke Magazine[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Rigsbee responds to charges that Ashbery's poetry is obscure.] Reaction to John Ashbery's poetry has ranged from the grandiose ["It is likely that he will come to dominate the...
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From: The Humanities Association Bulletin[(essay date Spring 1970) In the following essay, Gibbs considers Livesay's poetry in the tradition of Transcendentalist writing, especially as represented by the works of Henry David Thoreau.] To entertain seriously...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Dream on Monkey Mountain, Derek Walcott's most acclaimed play, was first performed in Toronto in 1967 and won an Obie Award in 1971. Experimental in technique—as its author described it, ``The play is a dream, one that...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Mervyn Peake's is a visual imagination: the strength of his literary accomplishment lies in its realization of atmosphere by an obsessive attention to detail, while as a book illustrator he ranks with Tenniel in...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)"I know now, all these years and plays later, that I always write about solitary confinement." If this realisation only came to Marsha Norman with the anthologising of Getting Out in 1988, it also eluded critics who...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)The dramas of Joseph A. Walker explore various aspects of black life such as male-female relationships, interracial strife, and family and community bonds. However, the focus of most of his works is on the psyche of...