Galens, David

A student guide to understanding literary movements, featuring entries on twenty-eight movements, each with information in the areas of representative authors and works, themes, style, movement variations, and historical context, as well as a critical overview.

A student guide to understanding literary movements, featuring entries on fourteen movements, each with information in the areas of representative authors and works, themes, style, movement variations, and historical context, as well as a critical overview.

Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Profiles fifteen commonly studied short stories by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ernest Hemingway, and Kate Chopin, providing plot summaries, author biographies, analysis, historical context, and criticism for each, as well as research ideas and lists of media adaptations.

Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

This volume profiles eleven novels, including an introduction to the story and its author, analysis of themes, and critical commentary.