Literary companions books

The fourteen essays selected and edited by Henry Dan Piper present for the first time together Malcolm Cowley's...  Read More >>

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In this illuminating study of the grotesque and black comedy, Mr. Pearce traces the classic clown tradition in the...  Read More >>

The pursuit of the American Dream, supposedly shaped by the edenic promises of the American land, has engaged our...  Read More >>

In this companion volume to his Minor British Novelists, a previous book in this series, Charles Alva Hoyt has brought...  Read More >>

June 1970marks the centenary of the death of Charles Dickens, whose books are being read today with the same enthusiasm...  Read More >>

This first full-scale treatment of the early prose of Dylan Thomas demonstrates the unity of his total work. Her...  Read More >>

James I. Wimsatt edits Guillaume de Machaut's important Dit de la fleur de lis et de la Marguerite; he identifies...  Read More >>

A critical edition of the literary criticism of Jacques de la Taille, including the original French text, critical...  Read More >>

Examines the thematic unity of Les Tragiques as the resolution of disorder, interprets its form as a fusion of generic...  Read More >>

This study has as its object the presentation of a new approach to the understanding of the content and style of...  Read More >>

The author identifies the existentialist thinkers. After a review of the criticism (most of which does not consider...  Read More >>

Ugo Foscolo's Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis, written between 1799 and 1815, was the first true Italian novel. Jacopo's...  Read More >>

An annotated edition of a unique Spanish translation of Guido de Colonna's Latin version of the Old French Roman...  Read More >>

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This unusual study raises anew the controversy over the function of art in the interpretation of human existence....  Read More >>

A fresh and unusual study of Dreiser which stresses the political and philosophical theories basic to his novels....  Read More >>

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The twelve original essays in this volume are joined by a common interest in the forms the shadows of an author's...  Read More >>

Edward Stone here analyzes works of six major American authors and reveals ""this irrational fear, the dread of...  Read More >>

Maureen Malone here gives us a new view of the individ­ual works of the leading dramatist of the Abbey Theatre as...  Read More >>

Donald L. Kaufmann, omitting much of the private drama of the man, has written the first objective evaluation of...  Read More >>

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