Explains how William Shakespeare created human nature and characters and includes analyses of the character development in each of Shakespeare's plays.
A resource on twentieth-century African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" that includes a Hurston chronology, background texts by Hurston and others, six critical essays, and a selected bibliography.
An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, " and its author, James Joyce.
Text and 275 illustrations chronicle the life and career of twentieth-century American artist Judy Chicago, providing in-depth descriptions of her major works and their development, including commentary from the artist herself.
Examines the life, career, and works of American journalist and novelist Tom Wolfe, author of "The Bonfire of the Vanities." Includes a chronology and selected bibliography.
Provides a general examination of the life of African American author Gloria Naylor and an analysis of her four novels, looking at how Naylor's work has been influenced by her involvement in the Jehovah's Witness religion and the emergence of a new generation of African-American women writers and scholars.
