Matthew J. Bruccoli

Patrick D. Murphy

Examines all of Snyder's poetry & prose volumes from Riprap through The Practice of the Wild, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Turtle Island.

Understanding Gary Snyder

George Garrett

Professor George P Garrett

Understanding Mary Lee Settle

Updates entries already published and supplements the Dictionary of Literary Biography series with entries on newly prominent writers.

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 2000

Richard Layman

Covers American authors that were prominent from 1968-1988. Emphasis is on authors from all genres that are most frequently studied in high school and college literature courses.

Broadening Views, 1968-1988

Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography

Judith Kitchen

Kitchen (English, SUNY-Brockport) views Stafford's works chronologically, identifying themes and techniques, considering his prose writings and career as a teacher, and offering a comprehensive reassessment of Stafford as a major and distinctive poet of the second half of the century. 5x7 Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Understanding William Stafford

Merritt Moseley

Contains biographical sketches of representative British novelists whose work began to appear roughly around 1960.

Third series

British Novelists Since 1960

Linda Whitney Hobson

Addresses a number of crucial issues, including the manner in which employers & unions formulate strategies, the specific tactics utilized by both sides, & the impact of strategies & tactics on union organizing effectiveness.

Understanding Walker Percy

Judith S. Baughman

Tender is the Night, the novel F. Scott Fitzgerald worked longest and hardest on, has not achieved its proper recognition because the text is peppered with errors and chronological inconsistencies. Moreover, the novel has a concentration of references to people, places and events that most readers no longer recognize. In this guide to the novel, Matthew J. Bruccoli corrects those errors and explains the factual details. He also offers maps, photos, correspondence and notes that demystify the writing of one of literature's most misunderstood - and underrated - masterpieces.

Reader's Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night

Working with the complete collection of Tender is the Night manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, Matthew J. Bruccoli reconstructs seventeen drafts and three versions of the novel to answer questions about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s major work that have long puzzled critics of modern literature. In 1934, nine years after the appearance of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald permitted publication of Tender is the Night. Disappointed by its critical reception, Fitzgerald suggested that the structure of the novel should be drastically rearranged. In 1951, eleven years after his death, Charles Scribner’s Sons brought out an edition that incorporated Fitzgerald’s changes. Controversy arose over the merits of the two published versions and over the “nine lost years” in Fitzgerald’s life between his two great novels, years of rewriting before publication of Tender is the Night that resulted in six cartons of notes and drafts. After analyzing this wealth of material, Bruccoli reconstructs every working stage in the novel and reaches his own conclusions about which edition is the most valid.

The Composition of Tender is the Night

Contains biographical information about American authors between 1640-1988, with bibliographies of primary and secondary materials relating to each author and critical remarks about the works of each writer.

The New Consciousness, 1941-1968

Carla Mulford

Angela Vietto

Amy E. Winans

Essays on woman prose writers, including diarists and letter writers, who lived and published or circulated their works in North America and the Caribbean during the colonial and early national periods. Includes writers who received significant attention from contemporary scholars as well as writers from under-represented groups, such as those from the South, those who remained Loyalists, and those whose lives were less privileged.

American Women Prose Writers to 1820

Gale Cengage

Provides researchers basic materials useful in studying The Maltese Falcon: background readings related to Hammett's life; composition of the novel; reception of the novel, including reviews and critical response; and the various media adaptations of this classic complex story.

A Documentary Volume

Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon

Lawrence Meir Friedman

Lawrence S. Friedman

A critical survey of the work of an important contemporary American-Jewish writer.

Understanding Cynthia Ozick

Douglas Fowler

Describes Doctorow's work in terms of the author's intentions, inventions, politics, creation of voice, taste for melodrama, & character types.

Understanding E.L. Doctorow

Presents biographies and criticism of some of the most influential Norwegian writers of the twentieth century, producing a representative cross section of the Norwegian literary environment with writers of various decades, movements, and genres - preference has been given to authors whose works have been translated into English.

Twentieth-century Norwegian Writers

Presents career biographies and criticism for Portuguese writers from historic and modern times. There is also an essay on medieval poetry.

Portuguese Writers

Emory Elliot

Bruccoli Matthew J.

Professor Matthew J Bruccoli

Provides students of American Literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction.

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