San Antonio College Library

"This critical study of Sherwood Anderson's most famous and perhaps most widely taught work, Winesburg, Ohio, treats it as a thoroughly modernist novel examining the aesthetic nature of romantic identity." "Author Clarence Lindsay argues that Anderson's famous theory of the Grotesque is a theory of American identity. Each of the small town's grostesques in effect authors a romantic narrative that privileges the self. In trying to live their lives...

A collection of critical interpretations of Toni Morrison's Beloved.

A critical overview of the work features such contributors as Bernard W. Bell, Trudier Harris, Nancy Jesser, and Susan Corey.

A chronology, brief biographical summary, bibliography, and extensive critical analysis of Richter's work emphasizing the lack of soundness in the philosophical theories of his essays and the excellence of the art with which his best fiction, notably his historical works, outsoared his attempted application of these theories to his creative writing.

"The purpose of this study ... is to examine his works as a whole in order to determine what he attempted and what he accomplished or failed to accomplish in each of them and in the canon as a whole. This book ... is not ... intended to be a biography of Bromfield."

Details the significance of this collection of short stories (about the lives of the inhabitants of the fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio) to both Sherwood Anderson's works and American literature as a whole.

A child's descent into madness was explored in Eye.