history and criticism

Presents a survey of Latin music, discussing its many different styles, and tracing its entry into and acceptance in North America.

Provides information on twelve horror writers from the first half of the twentieth century, each featuring biographical facts about important events in the author's life, a selection of critical extracts on his or her life and works, and a full bibliographical citation.

Features 15 significant fantasy writers of the mid-20th century, providing biographical profiles, bibliographies, and extracts of works.

Gives biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on twelve modern African American poets and dramatists.

Provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on thirteen mystery authors who wrote from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Reprint of a 1934 text in which the author meditates upon the design and goals of literary culture, chronicling the conditions, ideas, and experiences that shaped American writing in the early twentieth century, and paying homage to the nurturing atmosphere of Paris in the 1920s.

Provides critical analyses of four novels by feminist writer Barbara Kingsolver, and includes biographical information about the author.

Provides an overview of the life and career of author Chaim Potok, along with scholarly readings of eight of his works and a primary and secondary bibliography.

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