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From:Novels for Students"The Feminine in Winesburg, Ohio" in Studies in American Fiction. Vol. 9, No. 2, Autumn, 1981, pp. 233–44. [In the following excerpt, Rigsby argues that Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio is concerned with the meaning of the...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersThe novels and stories of Bernard Malamud deal with downtrodden losers whose lives consist of facing hardship and humiliation, which they may or may not be able to endure. Many of his characters are Jewish, inhabiting...
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From: The Christian Century[(essay date 23-30 September 1992) In the following essay, Wood examines Gibbons's first three novels, contending that her writings are “spiritually bracing” because her “characters tell and listen to stories. . . to...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Juan Rulfo is a leading candidate both for the title of Latin America's greatest writer of prose fiction and for that of the author of the slimmest body of published work. His accomplishment, quite simply, is to have...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Graham Greene is an inveterate visitor and revisitor. Travel, the dominant fact of his life, is also the central theme and metaphor of his work: places visited, people met, and ideas pursued are certain to reappear in...
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From: Bernard MalamudWriting in a parable mode that uses (to varying degrees) his own distinctive mix of realism, myth, fantasy, romance, comedy, and fairy tale. Malamud has continued to grow artistically. Always a writer willing to take...
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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: Studies in Short FictionThe author of several articles on the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Hamsun, Buttry is currently at work on a book concerning Hamsun's attitude towards art and the artist. In the following excerpt from her study of...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)A man of a profound and complex sensibility who could not express himself in the commonly accepted patterns of poetic communication, César Vallejo transformed the Spanish lyrical language so dramatically that his works...
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From: Books Abroad[(essay date Summer 1974) In the following essay, Knipp examines the themes of negritude and the alienation of the modern African in Tchicaya's poetry.] The Congolese Felix Tchikaya U'Tamsi is the most prolific and...
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From: Obsidian: Black Literature in Review[(essay date Spring 1981) In the following excerpt, Zebrun describes Hayden's effort to achieve transcendence in his poetry.] The great poets of the 20th century have achieved angles of ascent, transcendences of...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Aside from the autobiographical implications of its being a ``love letter'' to Alfred Douglas—the ``dear Bosie'' of Oscar Wilde's homosexual life—De Profundis on strictly literary merits stands as the noble work of a...
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From: New Republic[(review date 15 November 1993) In the following review of Mr. Cogito and Still Life with a Bridle, Baranczak emphasizes Herbert's sense of irony and his underlying moral code.] Certain collections of poems simply have...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionBorn into an old family of Danish nobility and writing both in Danish and in English under her maiden name at times, at times under the best-known of her pseudonyms, Isak Dinesen became world famous for her reminiscences...
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From: RenascenceA fifty-year vogue for “experimental” novels notwithstanding, Iris Murdoch continues, to all outward appearances, to write nineteenth century fiction. But if she avoids wordplay, unstructured plots, even the...
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From: The Midwest Quarterly[(essay date 1973) In the following essay, Patterson argues that the four points of the compass are a much-used image for Dickinson, carrying emotional and mythic meaning in her poetry. She maintains that Dickinson’s...
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From: Portraying 9/11: Essays on Representations in Comics, Literature, Film and Theatre[(essay date 2011) In the following essay, Oxoby uses 9/11 fiction by Gibson and Wallace to examine how the mass media shaped public perceptions of the attacks and diminished their complexity. ] We saw the first tower...
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From: Mapping the Feminine: Russian Women and Cultural Difference[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Kovarsky argues that the repeated act of envisioning the face of Nastasia, the archetypal fallen woman, provides a lesson in empathy for Myshkin and a lesson in empathetic...
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From:Poetry Criticism (Vol. 55. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:PoetryVecher [Evening] 1912Chetki [Rosary] 1914Belaya staya [White Flock] 1917U samogo morya 1921Podorozhnik 1921Anno Domini MCMXXI 1921Iz shesti knig [From Six Books] 1940Izbrannye stikhi...
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From:Novels for Students"Historical Horror and the Shape of Night," in Elie Wiesel: Between Memory and Hope, edited by Carol Rittner, New York University Press, 1990, pp. 120–29. [A discussion of Wiesel's eloquent narrative as a means of...