alienation (social psychology) in literature

Collects critical essays on John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," including selections by Kathleen Hicks, Tom Barden, Mimi Reisel Gladstein, and others; and includes a chronology of the life of the author.

Compares how Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf depict artistic characters within their novels, discussing Woolf's "The Voyage Out," "Mrs. Dalloway," and "To the Lighthouse," and Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," "Sula," and "Beloved.".

A companion guide to the young adult novel "The Outsiders, " providing biographical information about author S. E. Hinton, and discussing the story's plot, characters, and themes.

Examines the parallels in the lives of nineteenth-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud and rock musician Jim Morrison, one of Rimbaud's admirers.

Contains twenty critical essays that explore themes of alienation in various works, such as Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener, " Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451, " Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway, " and others.