Joseph Michael Sommers

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The popular American comic book is considered in this volume of Critical Insights. From their creation in the 1930s to the widespread popularity of comic book heroes today, this literary form continues to delight and entertain readers. This volume offers

The American Comic Book

Novels into film offers a unique look at how a story makes its way from the printed page to the screen.

Novels Into Film: Adaptations and Interpretation (Volume Two)

Provides an introduction to J.D. Salinger and the critical discussions surrounding his work.

Critical Insights: J. D. Salinger

Frank Northen Magill

Notable Poets comprises biographical sketches and critical studies of 110 of the world's best-known poets from antiquity to the late twentieth century. This set is designed to survey the essential poets whose works comprise the core curriculum of high school and undergraduate poetry studies.

Notable Poets

Robert C. Evans

A Tale of Two Cities has long been valued as one of Charles Dickens's most important and fascinating novels. This volume explores the novel from various deliberately diverse perspectives, setting it in historical, critical, and aesthetic contexts and examining how its impact has been kept alive to the present day.

Critical Insights: a Tale of Two Cities

Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, a late work in this important writer's long career, has often been examined not only in relation to his previous works but also as a new departure. This volume offers a wide range of approaches to the text, exploring it in terms of history, psychology, sociology, and artistic achievement.

Critical Insights: the Old Man and the Sea

Surveys approximately 125 major U.S. Latino writers and world Spanish-language writers translated into English who have contributed to the rich heritage of Latino and Hispanic literature.

Notable Latino Writers

Stephen Weiner

Bart Beaty

Independents and Underground Classics. A.D.: New Orleans after the deluge - Houdini: The handcuff king. Vol. 1

Critical Survey of Graphic Novels

Sarah J. Greenwald

Jill E. Thomley

The essays discuss the various mathematics involved in engineering, technology and medicine. Topics include bridge design, city planning, roller coasters and video games.

Engineering, Technology and Medicine

Explores the ways in which civil rights have been given, cemented, overturned, or left unrecognised, from the first uprisings to the present day. This two volume work contains more than 350 in-depth essays that analyse the events that have shaped American attitudes from the start of the civil rights movement into the new millennium.

The Civil Rights Movement

All the essays in this set have been selected from the popular Salem titles, Great Lives from History: The 18th Century, Great Lives from History: The 19th Century, and the upcoming Great Lives from History: The 20th Century. Each essay has been fully revised and updated for this brand-new, three-volume set. Each comprehensive, in-depth essay is approximately 5 to 6 pages in length.

American Heroes

Provides an in-depth critical analysis of the sonnet's historical significance, literary technique and discusses its meaning to a contemporary audience.

Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Carl Rollyson

Specific subject selections from the Critical Survey of Long Fiction create 24 single-volume trade paperbacks. Titles include Feminist Novelists, Gothic Novelists, Science Fiction Novelists, plus Asian, Greek, French, German, Latin, Russian, Italian and Jewsh Novelists.

Psychological Novelists

Mammalian social systems--Zoos. Appendices and indexes.

Ecology Basics

Highlighting the importance of fashion and design and its impact on social and cultural norms and trends over the hundred years, this brand-new volume in the Innovators series profiles the most innovative and important individuals in fashion history. Innovators in Fashion spans two complete volumes, examining nearly 200 individuals and personalities who had an influential impact on the fashion industry.

Fashion Innovators

Shakespeare's most loved comedy, this intricately structured drama employs a rich range of poetry and prose to juxtapose fairies and mortals, fantasy and reality, reason and madness. This volume offers new perspectives on its complex form, rich language, key themes and reinterpretations in light of twenty-first-century concerns with gender, harassment, social division and trauma.

Critical Insights: a Midsummer Night's Dream

This brand-new second edition of Recommended Reading: 500 Classics Reviewed?the first since 1995?covers 500 noteworthy works that have endured the test of time and continue to hold the interest of general readers and literary specialists, year after year.

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David Peck

Covers numerous ethnic writers and their works. All major American ethnicities are covered: African American, Asian American, Jewish American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American.

American Ethnic Writers

Holocaust Literature

From slave narrative to abolitionist tracts, from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's to the Black Arts movement of the 1960's and 1970's, African American writers have always influenced literature in the United States. Notable African American Writers compiles 80 essays on great novelists, poets, playwrights, short-story writers, and writers of nonfiction from colonial America to today.

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