Critical insights

Provides a collection of critical essays on Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God, exploring it from numerous and diverse perspectives, including race, gender, and class.

Provides a collection of critical essays on Markus Zusak's The book thief.

Explores Canadian author Yann Martel's most famous book from various critical perspectives and contexts.

Explores deliberately diverse approaches to women writers, women-centered texts, and feminist methods of interpretation.

Provides a collection of critical essays on Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, presenting a detailed portrait of various kinds of life in Russia in the nineteenth century while exploring such broad themes as love, lust, class, family, marriage, adultery, and the relevance of religion to social and personal life.

Offers insights into the full range of Amy Tan's creative work.

Provides a collection of critical essays on Joseph Heller's Catch-22.

In-depth critical discussions of the controversial play by Arthur Miller - Plus complimentary, unlimited online access to the full content of this great literary reference. This volume offers diverse perspectives on one of Arthur Miller's most popular, most controversial and most frequently staged plays. The volume situates the play within many different contexts--historical, critical, literary, biographical, social, cultural, and others.

Examines the wide range of important literary texts that have been subjected to censorship, either at the time of their first publication, later in their history, or both. Because important works frequently offer challenging responses to social, historical, and political issues, often it is the very best works that provoke; at least initially; the most hostility or discomfort.

Introduces the theme of inequality and includes critical readings in classic and contemporary works.