Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Volume 137: Critcism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, and Other Creative Writ (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780787670368)

This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists, poets, playwrights and literary theorists, of 1900 to 1999 -- the era most frequently studied in high schools.

Each volume presents overviews of four to eight authors with chronologically arranged criticism representing the entire range of response to each author. A typical excerpt is prefaced by an annotation that explains the critics reputation and critical philosophy and providing a synopsis of the excerpt. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text.

Every fourth volume is a Topics volume covering major literary movements, trends and other topics. Volumes include author, nationality, topic and title indexes; a cumulative title index to the entire series is published separately.

Author: Janet Witalec
ISBN-10: 0787670367
ISBN-13: 9780787670368
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2003
Pages: 478
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.92lbs
Size: 11.42h x 8.42w x 1.30d