Carl Edmund Rollyson

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Ostatnie dni Sylvii Plath

A Life of the Actress

Marilyn Monroe

Through a chronological critique of Mailer's major novels, essays, and reportage, Carl Rollyson observes that Mailer has always used his mutability to explore themes of American identity and to cut across the boundaries of fact and fiction. This controversial expose shows how inseparable the writer and his work have become. 8 pages of photographs.

A Biography

The Lives of Norman Mailer

Frank Northen Magill

Combines, updates, and expands two earlier Salem Press reference sets: Critical survey of drama, Rev. ed., English language series, published in 1994, and Critical survey of drama, Foreign language series, published in 1986. This new 8 vol. set contains 602 essays, of which 538 discuss individual dramatists and 64 cover broad overview topics. The dramatist profiles contain more than 310 photographs and drawings.

Critical Survey of Drama: Victor Hugo - John Marston

Lisa Olson Paddock

The Making of an Icon

Susan Sontag

"A Higher Form of Cannibalism? explores the nexus between scholarship and biography, and demonstrates how the similarities of method between Leon Edel and Kitty Kelly outweigh the differences. The gap between the scholarly and the popular, the "authorized" and the "unauthorized," may not be as wide as most people suppose."--BOOK JACKET.

Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography

A Higher Form of Cannibalism?

Lisa Olson Paddock, Ph.D., LLB

Delves beneath the surface to examine the forces that made Sontag an international icon, exploring her public persona and private passions, including the strategies behind her meteoric rise to fame and her political moves and missteps. 12,000 first printing.

April Gentry

Examines the life and writings of Herman Melville including detailed synopses of his works in a variety of genres, explanations of literary terms, biographies of friends and family, social and historical influences, and more.

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

Critical Companion to Herman Melville

Notable Playwrights contains biographical sketches and critical studies of 106 of the most important and best-known dramatists. Of the playwrights covered here, 72 are English-language writers and 34 are foreign-language writers whose works are widely studied in translation.

Notable Playwrights

A Reader

British Biography

Combines, updates, and expands two earlier Salem Press reference sets: Critical survey of drama, Rev. ed., English language series, published in 1994, and Critical survey of drama, Foreign language series, published in 1986. This new 8 vol. set contains 6

Critical Survey of Drama: Essays, resources, indexes

Critical Survey of Drama: Minna Canth - Richard Foreman

A Private Life of Michael Foot

Critical Survey of Drama: Maria Irene Fornes - Tina Howe

The first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag's work, including full discussions of her fiction. "One can ask for no better guidebook."--M. Thomas Inge.

A Critical Introduction to Her Work

Reading Susan Sontag

Entries cover biographical information, a bibliography of writings, and a critical analysis of each author's longer works of fiction, and address long fiction written in various time periods, countries, and genres.

Carl Edmund Rollyson

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