Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 430
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and works of twentieth-century African-American playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote "A Raisin in the Sun"; includes a chronology and a selected bibliography.
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 90
Language
English
Description
A brief, appreciative working analysis of Katherine Anne Porter's stories, one novel, and essays by a professor of English, and a mixed reception by American, English, and German critics of Ship of Fools is reviewed at some length.
6) Alice Walker
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 596
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker is indisputably one of the leading figures of contemporary African American literature. Author of four novels, two collections of short stories, two collections of essays, and four volumes of poetry, Walker writes of African American women's discovery of their inner selves, selves from which they draw the strength necessary for survival....
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 559
Language
English
Description
Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students...
8) Willa Cather
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 258
Language
English
Description
Renowned for their spirited portrayals of pioneer life on the austere Nebraska prairie, Willa Cather's novels--such as O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Antonia--carry Cather's trademark strong women characters, intimate knowledge of the Midwestern landscape, and lean, supple prose. In the course of her 40-year writing career, Cather published a dozen novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning One of Ours. In this revision Philip Gerber...
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 265
Language
English
Description
Criticisms and interpretations of several of Wharton's novels, novellas, and short stories.
10) Carson McCullers
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 354
Language
English
Description
Bibliography: p. 152-156. A critical interpretation of McCullers' works.
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 42
Language
English
Description
A critical and sympathetic examination of the total literary and cultural significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe, a legend in her own time, who not only championed the abolition of slavery but also women's rights, the protection of children against exploitation, and the temperance movement.
12) Kate Chopin
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 485
Language
English
Description
"The author 'provides careful analyses of Chopin's two volumes of published short stories ("Bayou Folks" and "A Night in Arcadie"), the stories of her unpublished short volume, "A Vocation and a Voice," her uncollected short stores, poems, and essays, as well as her two novels, "At Fault" and "The Awakening." A thorough critical study of interest to both general readers and scholars.'" Booklist.
14) Dorothy Parker
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 315
Language
English
Description
A critical and appreciative reassessment of the work of Parker. The author briefly examines her life and the influences on her writings, and then discusses her works in more detail. He argues that her poetry, fiction, and criticism reveal language of a dialogic nature, and that what many have seen as monotonal and trivial in her work is in fact a compound of confused and complicated voicings. What is most evident in Parker's work, he contends, is...
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 653
Language
English
Description
One of a new generation of Indian writers who have chosen to settle in the West and write in the English language, Bharati Mukherjee has staked a claim for herself as an "Ellis Island writer," an American storyteller writing about the lives of new migrants to the United States. Author of the novels The Tiger's Daughter (1972), Wife (1975), Jasmine (1989), and The Holder of the World (1993), as well as short-fiction collections and volumes of nonfiction,...
16) Sylvia Plath
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 309
Language
English
Description
Critical examination of Plath's writing.
17) Amy Lowell
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 483
Language
English
Description
A critical history of the life and works of the once prolific and popular writer of poetry and prose, Amy Lowell.
18) Anne Tyler
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 620
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive critical evaluation introduces readers to Tyler the short story writer and critic as well as novelist. It analyzes the author's persistent use of the family as focal point, of humor and wit, of quirky and eccentric characters wedded to their locale - primarily Baltimore, Tyler's home for many years.
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 457
Language
English
Description
Briefly outlines Alcott's life, examines her fiction for children and adults, and assesses her place in American literature.