Books in the Casebooks in Criticism series

This collection includes ten articles by different authors that offer in-depth readings of the novel. Among the topics examined are myth, magic, women, Western Imperialism, and the Media. The book also includes an 1982 interview with the author.

Thomas Keymer's introduction to this casebook examines the historical context and controversial reception of Tristram Shandy, and connects the essays selected for inclusion to the diverse traditions of Sterne Criticism.

Thomas Keymer's introduction to this Casebok examines the historical context and controversial reception of Tristram Shandy, and connects the essays selected for inclusion to the diverse traditions of Sterne criticism.

James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook offers a comprehensive introduction to a landmark of modern fiction. The essays collected here will help first-time readers, teachers, and advanced scholars gain new insight into Joyce's semi-autobiographical story of an Irish boy's slow and difficult discovery of his artistic vocation.

"Burger's Daughter" was banned by successive South African governments and is a test case for feminist critics of Gordimer's writing. This casebook includes an interview with and an essay by Nadine Gordimer, critical essays, and an introduction discussing biographical and historical contexts.

This volume comprises an interview with Nabokov as well as nine critical essays that follow a progression focusing first on textual and thematic features of "Lolita" and then proceeding to broader issues and cultural implications, including the novel's relations to other work of literature and art.

Perhaps more than any other single text, Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" helped to establish the audience and the 'mainstream' status of the renaissance in black women's writing. Along with Braxton's introduction and the Claudia Tate interview, the selected essays provide a range of critical approaches to the text.

Features nine essays that demonstrate the full extent of the contemporary critical response, from studies of narrative technique to psychoanalytic and gender-based analysis, and set the critical agenda for its study in the twenty-first century.

Perhaps more than any other single text, Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" helped to establish the audience and the 'mainstream' status of the renaissance in black women's writing. Along with Braxton's introduction and the Claudia Tate interview, the selected essays provide a range of critical approaches to the text.

This casebook assembles historical and theoretical materials relevant to a deeper understanding of the origins and reception of Joseph Conrad's best-knowen and most controversial work, with texts by Conrad himself, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Max Beerbohm, and distinguished scholars such as Zdzislaw Najder and Ian Watt.

Opening up discussions of war, sexuality, personal angst, and national identity, this novel has become synonymous with modernism, both in theme and style. It is often used as either a starting point for courses in modernism or as a representative modernist novel.

An overview of critical issues surrounding Kingston's contemporary classic, such as reception by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in autobiography, and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity, these eight critical essays are supplemented by headnotes, an interview and a bibliography.

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: A Casebook brings together outstanding critical essays on this influential and teachable film. The essays not only elaborate on the complexities of the film, but represent the spectrum of film criticism, including an analysis of its music and close readings illustrated by many stills from the film.

The essays in this volume represent the major currents in critical thinking about Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison's widely acclaimed examination of the individual quest for self-knowledge in the context of the African-American experience.

Joyce's "Ulysses" is probably the most famous - or notorious - novel published in the 20th century, with its length and difficulty meaning readers often turn to critical studies. This casebook covers some of the most influential critics to have written on Joyce, including new voices.

Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. The essays collected in this casebook explore the work's artistic, multicultural, and global significance from a variety of critical perspectives.

The ten essays selected for this book illuminate the central themes of the most frequently taught Canterbury Tales.

Gathers a collection of essays about both parts of "Don Quixote" (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. This book includes pieces by major Cervantes scholars. All these essays seek to discover that which is peculiarly Cervantean in "Don Quixote" and why it is considered to be the first modern novel.

In its centrality to Native American literary tradition, "Love Medicine" is an uncompromising portrait of a community till then too often portrayed in flat or comic terms. Hertha Wong has established herself as the leading commentator on Erdrich.

William Wordsworth's long poem "The Prelude" is a fascinating work - as autobiography and as a fragment of historical evidence from the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years. This volume gathers together thirteen essays on "The Prelude", and is useful as a companion for students and general readers of Wordsworth's greatest poem.

This casebook reprints a selection of the most important and most representative reviews, criticism, and scholarly analysis of Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth (1991).

Absolom, Absolom! has long been seen as one of William Faulkner's supreme creations, as well as one of the leading American novels of the twentieth century. In this collection Fred Hobson has brought together eight of the most stimulating essays written over a thirty-year span which approach the novel both formally and historically.

Collecting the most widely cited and influential essays published on Hurston's classic novel over the last half of the 20th century, this casebook presents contesting viewpoints. The volume also includes a statement Hurston submitted to a reference book on 20th-century authors in 1942.

William Wordsworth's long poem "The Prelude" is a fascinating work - as autobiography and as a fragment of historical evidence from the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years. This volume gathers together thirteen essays on "The Prelude", and is useful as a companion for students and general readers of Wordsworth's greatest poem.

Gathers a collection of essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615), and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. All these essays ultimately seek to discover that which is peculiarly Cervantean in "Don Quixote", and why it is considered to be the first modern novel.

"Ceremony" is one of the most widely taught and studied Native American literature texts. This casebook includes theoretical approaches and information, especially on Native American beliefs, that should enhance their understanding and appreciation of this contemporary classic.

Collecting the most widely cited and influential essays published on Hurston's classic novel over the last half of the 20th century, this casebook presents contesting viewpoints. The volume also includes a statement Hurston submitted to a reference book on 20th-century authors in 1942.