Bücher der Reihe Casebooks in Criticism

James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook offers a comprehensive introduction to a landmark of modern fiction. The essays collected here will help first-time readers, teachers, and advanced scholars gain new insight into Joyce's semi-autobiographical story of an Irish boy's slow and difficult discovery of his artistic vocation.

Captures the quintessential romance of the expatriate Americans and Britons in Paris after World War I. As the international vacationers move from Paris to Pamplona for the bullfight festival, the characters wend their various narratives through the impressionistic colours of modern European life.

Offering students and scholars a variety of interpretations from which to fashion their own views of the novel and the man who created it, this text takes the position that there can be no last word on "Invisible Man". The essays share a respect for the novel's fluidity and for every reader's encounter with its narrator, story, and meanings.

This Casebook brings together seminal essays on Crime and Punishment by American, British and Russian scholars, and reflects both classical and more recent critical opinion. The novel is examined from various perspectives-literary influences, the role of the city, artistic structure, the hero's psychology and the novel's philosophical and religious connotations.

Claude Lanzmann's monumental Shoah is the most celebrated film about the Holocaust ever made. It provides vivid accounts of the destruction of European Jewry by those who witnessed the slaughter at first hand. This volume examines Shoah from its inception through its reception in France, Europe, and the United States.

General for the Series: The Casebooks in Criticism introduce readers to the essential criticism on landmark works of literature and film. For each volume, a distinguished scholar who is an authority on the text has collected the most elucidating and distinctive scholarly essays on that work and added key supporting materials. Each volume includes a substantial introduction which considers the key features of the work, describes its publication history, andcontextualizes its cultural import and contemporary reputation while also surveying the major approaches which have informed the works critical history. A condensed bibliography offers suggestions for further reading. The compact volumes provide a critical survey and suggest provocative ways to engage withtheir texts. They are ideally suited to those interested in developing a deeper understanding of a works history and significance. Specific for this book: Most of the best criticism on Stowe's landmark novel is fairly recent. Until the combined impact of the civil rights and women's movements changed the focus of the academic ciriculum, Uncle Tom's Cabin seldom appeared in classrooms or as the subject of published scholarship. However, from the mid-1970 forward, the book has been widelywritten about and taught. Today, Uncle Toms Cabin is a stable, important part of the nineteenth-centruy American literature canon and has generated a rich body of new critical work. This casebook collects the best of the new scholarship as well as the most influencial older essays. Included in thisvolume are letters by Harriet Beecher Stowe and articles by James Baldwin, Leslie Fiedler, Jane Tompkins, Gillian Brown, Robert Stepto, and Elizabeth Ammons.

A new collection of recent essays on D. H Lawrence's most complex and challenging work. An international group of distinguished scholars demonstrate the power Women in Love still has to challenge and stimulate its readers.

"Citizen Kane" is the most admired and significant film since the advent of talking pictures. This volume represents the essential writings on "Kane". It gives the reader a set of critical interpretations, together with the production information, historical background, and technical understanding to comprehend the film's cultural significance.

The essays collected in this casebook reflect changing opinions of Emma from its earliest reception to its established position in the literary canon.

Thomas Keymer's introduction to this Casebok examines the historical context and controversial reception of Tristram Shandy, and connects the essays selected for inclusion to the diverse traditions of Sterne criticism.

Features nine essays that demonstrate the full extent of the contemporary critical response, from studies of narrative technique to psychoanalytic and gender-based analysis, and set the critical agenda for its study in the twenty-first century.

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: A Casebook brings together outstanding critical essays on this influential and teachable film. The essays not only elaborate on the complexities of the film, but represent the spectrum of film criticism, including an analysis of its music and close readings illustrated by many stills from the film.

The essays in this volume represent the major currents in critical thinking about Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison's widely acclaimed examination of the individual quest for self-knowledge in the context of the African-American experience.

Joyce's "Ulysses" is probably the most famous - or notorious - novel published in the 20th century, with its length and difficulty meaning readers often turn to critical studies. This casebook covers some of the most influential critics to have written on Joyce, including new voices.

This collection includes ten articles by different authors that offer in-depth readings of the novel. Among the topics examined are myth, magic, women, Western Imperialism, and the Media. The book also includes an 1982 interview with the author.

Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. The essays collected in this casebook explore the work's artistic, multicultural, and global significance from a variety of critical perspectives.

The ten essays selected for this book illuminate the central themes of the most frequently taught Canterbury Tales.

Gathers a collection of essays about both parts of "Don Quixote" (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. This book includes pieces by major Cervantes scholars. All these essays seek to discover that which is peculiarly Cervantean in "Don Quixote" and why it is considered to be the first modern novel.

Collecting the most widely cited and influential essays published on Hurston's classic novel over the last half of the 20th century, this casebook presents contesting viewpoints. The volume also includes a statement Hurston submitted to a reference book on 20th-century authors in 1942.