Literary reference works books

Was there a sudden break in the world of art, literature, and music when modernism gave way to postmodernism? Philip...  Read More >>

From 1840 to 1848, journalist C. M. Haile published a series of mock letters-to-the-editor in the New Orleans Picayune...  Read More >>

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Acclaimed writer Janette Turner Hospital conjures up a rainforest for readers by weaving connection and meaning...  Read More >>

From her first interview, originally published over three decades ago in her native tongue Bengali in the Calcutta...  Read More >>

Describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classics...  Read More >>

Eugene O'Neill is widely considered the greatest American dramatist. This book covers O'Neill's works, as well as...  Read More >>

The Bible is one of the masterpieces of world literature. This book examines the Bible as a work of literature,...  Read More >>

Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured,...  Read More >>

From Homer to Harry Potter, from Chaucer to Charlotte's Web, acompelling book of quizzes on history's most influential...  Read More >>

The latest addition to the bestselling Don't Know Much About series is a compelling compendium of history's greatest...  Read More >>

Why be frightened of the most wonderful collection of tales ever written? No Fear: The Canterbury Tales makes it...  Read More >>

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This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive...  Read More >>

Create earth-conscious programs and units with the carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and new media materials...  Read More >>

New Aphorisms & Reflections, the fourth volume of a major work in progress, features nearly 500 entries, some of...  Read More >>

From antebellum times, Louisiana's unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary...  Read More >>

A reference handbook of basic literary, rhetorical, and critical terminology designed primarily to support course...  Read More >>

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Each volume in this series presents biographical and critical information on four to eight short story writers and...  Read More >>

These nine new essays on Homer's epics deal not only with major Homeric themes of time (honor), kleos (fame), geras...  Read More >>

This study is the first comprehensive, full-length account of the works of the Anglo-Jewish author Leonard William...  Read More >>

Analyzing the work of canonical as well as popular writers - including Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, Julia Peterkin,...  Read More >>