history and criticism

Presents an examination of the imaginary world created by C.S. Lewis in his series "Chronicles of Narnia," and points out the connections between the stories and the Christian message.

Includes a brief biography of J. D. Salinger, thematic and structural analysis of "The Catcher in the Rye", critical views, and more. Includes teacher notes.

Examines the lives of four authors--Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and E. M. Foster--in 1922. A pivotal year in literature, 1922 also marked moments within these artists' lives when they were struggling, but ultimately found their voice once again.

Shares the history of hip-hop and discusses its influence on popular culture.

Offers a detailed analysis of baseball, basketball, and football fiction written between 1930 and 1969, exploring dime novel heroes; the explosion of sports novels before WWII and its influence on the authors; how $.50 sports novels persisted during the Great Depression; the rise and decline of sports pulps; why sports comics failed; postwar heroes; the lack of sports fiction for females; Duane Decker's Blue Sox books; and other related topics.

A survey of Western music, organized chronologically from ancient Greece and Rome through the twentieth-and twenty-first century, with discussion of the defining characteristics of each period, and information about some of history's most significant composers.