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"Citizen Kane" is the most admired and significant film since the advent of talking pictures. This volume represents the essential writings on "Kane". It gives the reader a set of critical interpretations, together with the production information, historical background, and technical understanding to comprehend the film's cultural significance.

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.

This collection seeks to illustrate the ways in which Thomas Mann's 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain, has been newly construed by some of today's most astute readers in the field of Mann studies. The essays, many of which were written expressly for this volume, comment on some of the familiar and inescapable topics of Magic Mountain scholarship, including the questions of genre and ideology, the philosophy of time, and the ominous subjects of diseaseand medical practice. Moreover, this volume offers fresh approaches to the novels underlying notions of masculinity, to its embodiment of the cultural code of anti-Semitism, and to its precarious relationship to the rival media of photography, cinema, and recorded sound.

Discusses the novel's composition and the range of approaches adopted by critics. This collection reproduces excerpts from Lawrence's letters relating to Sons and Lovers, along with a transcription of Alfred Booth Kuttner's 1916 Freudian analysis of the work.

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.

Captures the quintessential romance of the expatriate Americans and Britons in Paris after World War I. As the international vacationers move from Paris to Pamplona for the bullfight festival, the characters wend their various narratives through the impressionistic colours of modern European life.

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.

Offering students and scholars a variety of interpretations from which to fashion their own views of the novel and the man who created it, this text takes the position that there can be no last word on "Invisible Man". The essays share a respect for the novel's fluidity and for every reader's encounter with its narrator, story, and meanings.

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 selection of critical essays offers guidance and stimulation to readers, representing some of the best accounts of the novel to have been published during the past twenty years. An introduction discusses the writing and reading of Ulysses, and conversations with Joyce about the book are also included.

General for the Series: The Casebooks in Criticism introduce readers to the essential criticism on landmark works of literature and film. For each volume, a distinguished scholar who is an authority on the text has collected the most elucidating and distinctive scholarly essays on that work and added key supporting materials. Each volume includes a substantial introduction which considers the key features of the work, describes its publication history, andcontextualizes its cultural import and contemporary reputation while also surveying the major approaches which have informed the works critical history. A condensed bibliography offers suggestions for further reading. The compact volumes provide a critical survey and suggest provocative ways to engage withtheir texts. They are ideally suited to those interested in developing a deeper understanding of a works history and significance. Specific for this book: Most of the best criticism on Stowe's landmark novel is fairly recent. Until the combined impact of the civil rights and women's movements changed the focus of the academic ciriculum, Uncle Tom's Cabin seldom appeared in classrooms or as the subject of published scholarship. However, from the mid-1970 forward, the book has been widelywritten about and taught. Today, Uncle Toms Cabin is a stable, important part of the nineteenth-centruy American literature canon and has generated a rich body of new critical work. This casebook collects the best of the new scholarship as well as the most influencial older essays. Included in thisvolume are letters by Harriet Beecher Stowe and articles by James Baldwin, Leslie Fiedler, Jane Tompkins, Gillian Brown, Robert Stepto, and Elizabeth Ammons.

This Casebook brings together seminal essays on Crime and Punishment by American, British and Russian scholars, and reflects both classical and more recent critical opinion. The novel is examined from various perspectives-literary influences, the role of the city, artistic structure, the hero's psychology and the novel's philosophical and religious connotations.

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.

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

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.

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).

The House of Mirth is perhaps Edith Wharton's best-known and most frequently read novel. This casebook collects critical essays addressing a broad spectrum of topics and utilizing a range of critical and theoretical approaches.

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.

A new collection of recent essays on D. H Lawrence's most complex and challenging work. An international group of distinguished scholars demonstrate the power Women in Love still has to challenge and stimulate its readers.

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

The essays collected in this casebook reflect changing opinions of Emma from its earliest reception to its established position in the literary canon.

"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.

Claude Lanzmann's monumental Shoah is the most celebrated film about the Holocaust ever made. It provides vivid accounts of the destruction of European Jewry by those who witnessed the slaughter at first hand. This volume examines Shoah from its inception through its reception in France, Europe, and the United States.

General for the Series: The Casebooks in Criticism introduce readers to the essential criticism on landmark works of literature and film. For each volume, a distinguished scholar who is an authority on the text has collected the most elucidating and distinctive scholarly essays on that work and added key supporting materials. Each volume includes a substantial introduction which considers the key features of the work, describes its publication history, andcontextualizes its cultural import and contemporary reputation while also surveying the major approaches which have informed the works critical history. A condensed bibliography offers suggestions for further reading. The compact volumes provide a critical survey and suggest provocative ways to engage withtheir texts. They are ideally suited to those interested in developing a deeper understanding of a works history and significance. Specific for this book: Most of the best criticism on Stowe's landmark novel is fairly recent. Until the combined impact of the civil rights and women's movements changed the focus of the academic ciriculum, Uncle Tom's Cabin seldom appeared in classrooms or as the subject of published scholarship. However, from the mid-1970 forward, the book has been widelywritten about and taught. Today, Uncle Toms Cabin is a stable, important part of the nineteenth-centruy American literature canon and has generated a rich body of new critical work. This casebook collects the best of the new scholarship as well as the most influencial older essays. Included in thisvolume are letters by Harriet Beecher Stowe and articles by James Baldwin, Leslie Fiedler, Jane Tompkins, Gillian Brown, Robert Stepto, and Elizabeth Ammons.

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.

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.

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.