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"Explores and articulates Jean-Luc Nancy's profound impact on our understanding of artistic and literary modernism"--

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"Explores and articulates Jean-Luc Nancy's profound impact on our understanding of artistic and literary modernism"--

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Draws together diverse disciplines in order to uncover Nietzsche's impact upon the many manifestations of the modernist movement.

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Willa Cather's novels Oh Pioneers! and My ntonia are at once accurate representations of life on the midwestern prairies in the era of their first settlement and continuations of a literary tradition that stretches back to Virgil and other classical writers who celebrated nature and pondered humanity's place within it.

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Although John Steinbeck's novellas Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony, and The Pearl are works of fiction, they provide a window on the history of the times and places they portray.

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Although Othello has been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, its performance history has been marked with risk and tension because of the play's focus on racial prejudice, gender conflict, and sexuality.

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A study of Pride and Prejudice combining analysis of the novel with excerpts from significant primary documents of Austen's own time. These materials will help the reader to understand the complexities of both the novel and English society at the beginning of the 19th century, and to compare those issues to contemporary society.

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The first book to situate Richard Wright's fictionalized autobiography Black Boy in its cultural, political, racial, social and literary context by means of original documents.

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A collection of commentary and primary documents on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

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This lively gathering of materials about Shakespeare's Julius Caesar will enrich students' understanding of the historical context of the play and encourage interpretations of its cultural meaning.

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Examines Jack London's The Call of the Wild from the Yukon Gold Rush to the animal rights issues confronting our society today.

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In addition to a literary analysis of the novel, this text acquaints students with the larger world in which Holden Caulfield moves: Hollywood films; Broadway plays; and jazz musicians. It also presents a detailed account of the censorship challenges to the novel.

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This interdisciplinary casebook provides a variety of primary historical documents and commentary on The Crucible within the context of two relevant historical periods.

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When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, it had an explosive effect on the public, calling attention to the problems of migrant farm workers during the Great Depression. the legacy of the 1930sCesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, and working and living conditions of farm workers long after the publication of the novel.

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This interdisciplinary collection of commentary and rich collateral materials will enrich the reader's understanding of those times and their influence on Fitzgerald's novel.

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A source of literary analysis of the literature of World War II with accompanying commentary and primary documents about the history of the period.

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His analysis of the play helps students interpret Shakespeare's plot and interwoven subplots, the sources that helped shape the play and the characters, and the thematic issues relating to justice, mercy, and the myriad bonds of human relationships.

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Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and specifically cited by the Swedish Academy when Hemingway received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, The Old Man and the Sea remains one of the author's most beloved works.

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An ideal student companion to understanding the novel with more than 40 primary documents that illuminate its historical context and thematic issues.