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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 304
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English
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Not an exhaustive criticism, but it does introduce his life, major short works, and long fiction.
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 168
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English
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I have tried to proved a straightforward account of Browning's poetic career as a whole, to give special attention to works and issues of special interest, and to gloss with cogent events in the life of the poet. Despite awareness of the dangers, I have hoped to say something useful or interesting about every book and every poem that Browning published. And at the very least, I do place every book and poem at its appropriate position in the poet's...
8) C.S. Lewis
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 442
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English
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A critical examination of C.S. Lewis as a novelist and man of letters.
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 533
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English
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Organizing her material both by groups of writers and by common themes, Nelson chronicles the historical, literary, and social forces affecting women writers at the fin de siecle and considers the works of well-known and lesser-known writers. Fiction written for the notable Yellow Book is given a separate chapter, for example, as are women's writings centering on marriage and on the woman as artist. While emphasizing the feminist viewpoint throughout,...
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 461
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English
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Examines the history of the Arthurian legends and their role in English and American literature up to the present. One chapter is devoted to Malory's Morte Darthur.
13) Thomas Hardy
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 13
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English
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After an introduction examining the relevance to his work of Hardy's milieu, his ideas of art, and his interest in myth, Professor Carpenter analyzes the seldom-read but intriguing "minor" novels and short stories, then provides detailed interpretations of the major novels.
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 493
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English
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Though the acceptance of William Shakespeare as the primary author of the western canon is now a cultural fact, the Renaissance theatergoer could not have known with certainty that such a skilled chronicler of history would come to hold such a mighty place in that history himself. Recognized as the preeminent playwright and poet of England, Shakespeare spent the first third of his career dramatizing the exploits of past rulers of the kingdom. The...
16) George Eliot
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 414
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English
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One chapter is devoted to her life, and the other chapters each emphasize a subject of thematic and aesthetic importance and two or three of her fictional works.
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 499
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English
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Critical discussion of three Shakespeare plays, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well that Ends Well, and Measure for Measure, that defy attempts to classify them as either comedy, romance, tragedy, or satire.