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This reader's companion contains thousands of lively and informative entries on persons, places, and events, fictional and real, and on quotations, works of art, and other items to reveal meanings or provide background for understanding Cather's fictional world.

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A multicultural collection of 47 chapters intended to introduce short-story writers to teachers, students, and the reading public.

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Best known for The Catcher in the Rye, which continues to be read and discussed by secondary school students, undergraduates, and scholars, Salinger also wrote numerous shorter works.

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The author of such works as The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Lady in the Lake (1943), and The Long Goodbye (1953), Raymond Chandler was one of the most popular mystery writers of his time.

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Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the 20th century, and also among the most challenging. The author goes through each of Stevens' poems in his six major collections as well as his later lyrics, in chronological order. For each poem she provides an introductory head note and a series of annotations on difficult phrases and references.

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Examines the life and career of Dylan Thomas and provides an extensive consideration of the critical reception of his works.

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A very thorough guide to the fantasies and fantasists selected, this is unlike any other guide to the genre. People who remember something of a fantasy sequence and want to find it again will find this the most helpful guide to fantasies yet to appear.

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Ross Macdonald is best known as the creator of private detective Lew Archer and as the author of such works as The Drowning Pool (1950) and The Underground Man (1971).

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Identifies individual works, fictional characters, family members, and personal and professional friends of Sarah Orne Jewett, a nineteenth-century American woman writer. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was dismissed as a timid New England local colourist, known principally for her novels and short stories based in her native state of Maine.

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Using examples from the works of Sophocles, Shakespeare, Dickens, Proust, Burroughs, DeLillo, Toni Morrison, and other notable writers, this intriguing new approach to literature demonstrates how to read the works of great authors to understand the complexities of human feelings and emotions, espec

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Within these short pages, Evans captures the sweep of English drama, from the miming oculator of the early ages to Noel Coward and J.B. Priestley.

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The search for love (or failing that, sex), the passing of time and the inevitability of pain and grief, the struggle for transcendence against our awareness of limitation: these are the things that can suddenly seem to compose a life - a life not so much reduced to essentials as seen in its passionate essence, a 'shorter' life.

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A comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England. It tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. It explores the effects of declining empire on modernist form - and on the very meaning of Englishness.

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A wide range of writers are brought together for the first time in this discussion of an on-going, largely unrecognized American prose tradition: literary journalism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Departing from established structuralist or psychological approaches to the fantastic, Jos Monlecn offers an ideological reading of this literary product of mass culture. In an exploration of the origins and development of the fantastic, Monlecn traces the relation of reason to unreason in light of three distinct events that influenced capitalist t

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In the nineteenth century, the French lyric poets imposed their diction on the theatrical genre and thus illuminated the essence of both poetry and theatre. Ten plays by Victor Hugo, the standard-bearer of the French romantic theatre, and Alfred de Musset, the romantic playwright most frequently performed in France today, are analyzed by Charles Af

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A work by an eminent critic which addresses itself to values in literature, and attempts to answer the simple and elusive question, Why read a work of imaginative literature

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Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles. -- .