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For James McMichael, Joyce's Ulysses invites the wide range of interpretations it has received: what it also does is to prod its interpreters to put the book to some just use. If Ulysses were more conventional than it is, McMichael claims, its readers could set more comfortable limits for themselves in their responses to it, limits that did not ext

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Reassesses the work of James Joyce, especially Ulysses, in light of postcolonial and Marxist literary theory, and explores the influence of Cold War anticommunism on previous reading of Joyce in the West.

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This analysis aims to help young readers relate to the themes of disillusionment, guilt and betrayal, and the fear of failure and intergenerational conflicts experienced by the teenaged characters in the novel.

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A Tale of Two Cities, does not waste a word in telling a humanly touching, suspenseful tale against the background of one of the most bloody events in history, the French Revolution.

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The memoirs in the chapter Mark Twain's Mississippi Valley illuminate the novel's pastoral view of nature in conflict with a violent civilization resting on the institution of slavery and shaped by the genteel code of honor.

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A valuable collection of commentary and historical documents that enrich the reading of Animal Farm as a political fable.

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In doing so, it helps students understand the political climate of South Africa under apartheid, as well as the challenges of racism that continue to plague contemporary society.

Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) is one of the most influential works of South African literature.

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A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully alive within his ideas and disarmingly confident about his innermost thoughts. This title draws on contemporary correspondence and diaries to reveal a young intellectual struggling to define himself and his principles.

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Newlin has unearthed significant documentation on the dilemma of Victorian women, supplying original social commentary such as Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Women, and John Stuart Mill's 1861 The Subjection of Women.

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This interdisciplinary collection of commentary and 30 primary documents will enrich the reader's understanding of the historical, social, and cultural contexts of the novel.

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An interdisciplinary approach to the study of "Jane Eyre", offering literary analysis as well as contextualizing the novel in terms of the historical and social issues it confronts. There are primary documents from legal and medical treatises, magazine articles, letters and essays.

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This casebook probes the many layers of meaning in Golding's "Lord of the Flies". It examines its literary, philosophical, historical, scientific and religious significance, integrating primary and secondary documents, with extracts from texts as diverse as the Bible and war crimes interviews.

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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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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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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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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.

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Part Four draws connections between two issues raised by the novel - the unwed mother and the lapsed minister - that remain controversial today and features recent news articles on these issues.

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A wealth of documents and commentary on the historical, social, and cultural contexts of Things Fall Apart.

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A rich sourcebook of materials on African-American folk culture, history, and society that illuminates the novel.

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The unlikely heroines analyzed in this book are fictional women, who, like their male counterparts of the era, demonstrated an urge to break with tradition, a rejection of conventional values, and a desire for adventure.

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The author examines how Gissing's work reveals and unhappy accommodation with money's underwriting of human existance and culture and how daily life in all its forms is transcended or made irrelevant by the commodification of everyday life. This is a valuable introduction to Gissing's work.