Literary companions books

Twelve scholars here discuss the life and work of the exquisite poet and gifted poetic thinker of late nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Richard Wright's major themes in both fiction and nonfiction -- freedom, existential horror, and black nationalism--are...  Read More >>

An ingenious metaphor provides the framework for this pene­trating study of Andr� Gide. To explore Gide's ""labyrinth...  Read More >>

Explores Ernest Hemingway's newspaper and magazine journalism, his introductions and prefaces to books by others,...  Read More >>

Phialas provides commentaries on Shakespeare's romantic comedies, treats in detail individual scenes and characters,...  Read More >>

A collection of fifty-seven essays, manifestos, and other prose writings on literature, painting, music, and cinema...  Read More >>

Examines the short stories of French author Arthur de Gobineau. Through detailed analysis, Valette underscores Gobineau's...  Read More >>

This is a study that traces the influence of drugs on French literature. The first three chapters acquaint the reader...  Read More >>

Traces the development of Roa Bastos's concern with the reality of his people and their history and focuses on the...  Read More >>

Provides an analysis of Rousseau's relationship to his reader in the major works from Discours sur les sciences...  Read More >>

Most of the essays in this collection illustrate the manner in which Italian letters influenced European writers...  Read More >>

Through careful reading of Luis Cernuda's later poetry, written after 1936, Alexander Coleman argues that Luis Cernuda...  Read More >>

Nikolai Gogol wrote some letters to his friends, none of which were a nose of high rank. Many are reproduced here...  Read More >>

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Traces the developing view of the human condition through the major works of five writers. The method is inductive,...  Read More >>

Offers the first full-length assessment of the poetry and criticism of Robert Graves. Concentrating on his development...  Read More >>

These two anonymous French poems indicated that the medieval legend of the Fifteen Signs Before the Judgment still...  Read More >>

In her study of Marie de France's twelfth century poem, The Lay of Guingamor, Sara Strum examines the work as a...  Read More >>