Dante stands among the supreme Western masters of literary representation, including Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, the Yahwist, Tolstoy, Cervantes, Milton, and Proust, as an author ...
Maya Angelou has been called a national institution and the peoples poet. It has been suggested that she has manifested an indomitable spirit and benign will in her most famous bo...
It is suggested that Jane Austen has few novelistic peers, and approaches Chaucer and Shakespeare as a creator of literary character. Her characters are fully individuated, speak d...
Struggling with poor eyesight and eventual blindness for most of his life, Borges went on to become of one of the greatest short story writers of 20th century. His fiction, often m...
This volume focuses on the novels of Charlotte Brontė and Emily Brontė. A biography of each author is included along with examinations of Charlotte's Villette and Jane Eyre, and Em...
Though he died of tuberculosis at the age of 28, Stephen Crane wrote a canonical novel, three remarkable stories, and a handful of permanent poems. He has been considered as a poss...
Harold Bloom suggests Don DeLillo's work holds a proleptic sense of the triumph of terror. This text offers critical views on numerous DeLillo novels, including The Names, Mao II, ...
The Brontė sisters have little resemblance to any writers prior to their publication. They are viewed as self-generated, an autonomous myth in their lives and in their work. This t...
George Eliot has been compared to Shakespeare and Dante in her role as a moral authority. This text offers criticism of her work from some of the most respected authorities on the ...
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