San Antonio College Library

John Steinbeck, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, was misread for a long time and his work was not considered worthy of 'serious' attention. His critics did finally concede that his fiction reveals, "qualities of insight and discipline which are essential to the creation of great art." This book through a close analysis of his novels affirms that Steinbeck's choice of artistic materials well as his non-teleological thinking is in...

Cooper shows how Conrad manipulates situation and character to produce a coherent moral policy for humanity out of an environment whose separate elements are predominantly amoral or immoral.

This critical study explores a central thesis -- that Bellow's dominant theme is an onward and upward quest for the human. Eight extended essays provide a detailed and chronologically progressive analysis of Bellow's fiction.

See "Homosexuality" in the index.

Simon Gatrell offers a fresh and stimulating exploration of Hardy's account in fiction of the individual man or woman's relationship with various aspects of the encompassing world - with other men and women, with the aggregation known as society, with the natural and artificial environment, and with the supernatural. He focuses on the importance of community in Hardy's fiction, especially on the ability of rural villages and towns to withstand the...