criticism

Offers a critical introduction to the works of Stephen King, providing a brief biography and critical treatments of his eight most recent novels.

Profiles six novels by twentieth-century North Carolina writer Kaye Gibbons, discussing their plots, characters, settings, themes, and imagery and providing Marxist, cultural, feminist, and psychoanalytic readings.

Presents thirteen critical essays on the writings of twentieth-century West Indian poet Derek Walcott, and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Contains essays in which the authors offer critical assessments of the life and work of twentieth-century author Salman Rushdie.

A collection of contemporary criticisms of the work of author Philip Roth.

A collection of critical essays which explore the full range of critical response to American novelist Thomas Pynchon's work.

Presents a selection of critical essays in which the authors examine the writings of Asian-American author Amy Tan.

Discusses the work of Jasper Johns, an American artist in the 1950s and 1960s, and analyzes three of his paintings, and how he uses opposition between surface and subject, describes their private and public meanings, and develops a visual language.

Presents a collection of essays that examine the work of contemporary American writer E. L. Doctorow.

Fifteen essays analyze the art and the psychology of Austrian author Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis, " in which a man is suddenly turned into an insect. Also includes a chronology and a bibliography.