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Weaving a poetic language that comes alive with imagery, rhythm, characterization, and elliptic narration, Jamaica Kincaid's novels, short stories, and essays offer captivating stories set in Antigua and the United States. This is a collection of the best criticism written on Kincaid's work.
4) Kate Chopin
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"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of Chopin's two volumes of published short stories ("Bayou Folks" and "A Night in Arcadie"), the stories of her unpublished short volume, "A Vocation and a Voice," her uncollected short stores, poems, and essays, as well as her two novels, "At Fault" and "The Awakening."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.
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"A biography of the imagination, this book meditates on Sylvia Plath's struggle for voice. It combines the rhetoric of psychoanalysis with the rhetoric of literary criticism, assuming with Freud that the self may be read as a text and with Robert Lowell that a text may become 'by a wild extended figure of speech, something living ... a person' ..."--Ix (preface).
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The career of Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) follows closely the trajectory of other "reclaimed" American women writers of the century such as Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Zora Neale Hurston: well known in her time, effaced from canonical consideration after her death, rediscovered years later through the surfacing of one work around which critical attention has focused. Glaspell, a contemporary of Eugene O'Neill, was a respected international...
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This volume contains include twenty-eight reviews and critical essays related to American writer and essayist Flannery O'Connor's (1925-1964) life and work. The collection begins with an introduction, which survey's O'Connor's career and the critical reaction to it, the remaining selections are arranged into three sections -- the first, offers twelve reviews dealing with O'Connor's two novels, and her collections of short stories and essays; the second...
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"Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject ... But I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak." Thus did Harriet Beecher Stowe announce her decision to begin work on what would become one of the most influential novels ever written. The subject she had hesitated to "meddle with" was slavery, and the novel, of course,...
20) George Eliot
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This guide to George Eliot's work offers an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of her texts, from publication to the present. It also cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, context and criticism.
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