Explores the literary genre of the graphic novel, presenting an overview of the genre's history and highlighting some notable examples of graphic novels, such as "Maus" and "Descender: Tin Stars.".
Includes a brief biography of William Golding, thematic and structural analysis of "Lord of the Flies", critical views, and more. Includes teacher notes.
Poet Ben Lerner discusses the common and intense criticism of poetry, using people's dislike of poetry to defend the art form. Explains what he calls poetry's "noble failure" and gives examples from poets such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Claudia Rankine.
A visual, song-by-song history of The Rolling Stones covers 29 studio albums, 24 compilation albums and more than 100 singles, providing photos, a musician list, recording information, a summary of how the song was developed and a production description for each tune.
Offers a critical history of pop music in America. Discusses the sheet music era, the rise of records, music charts, rock and roll, radio, singer-songwriters, punk, disco, music videos, hip-hop, and digitization of music.
Examines ancient Greek tragedy in the context of late twentieth-century reading, criticism, and performance, considering the plays in relation to the society that created and developed tragic theater.
