families in literature

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families in literature

Little women

a family romance
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Little Women, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.

Buddenbrooks

family life as the mirror of social change
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Buddenbrooks, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.

Brideshead revisited

the past redeemed
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Brideshead Revisited, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.

Absalom, absalom

the questioning of fictions
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Absalom, Absalom!, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.

Amy Tan

Offers insights into the full range of Amy Tan's creative work.

Little women

a family romance
1999
A study of "Little Women," discussing the literary and historical context of the novel, and offering a reading of the story as a romanticized portrait of author Louisa May Alcott's own family.

The sound and the fury

Faulkner and the lost cause
1991
A study of Faulkner's 1929 novel "The Sound and the Fury" with critical commentary and an analysis of the text.

Critical essays on William Faulkner

the Sutpen family
1996
Collection of reviews and critical essays on Faulkner's Sutpen family, who appear in his novel, "Absalom, Absalom!".

Family

critical insights
2013

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