<p>At about half the length and a much lower price than comparable anthologies, this introductory anthology of short fiction, poetry, and drama is organized by genre and features chapter introductions and a bibliography of film adaptations. Readings have been chosen with an eye toward classic selections and gender balance, while allowing the book to retain the teachability and traditional emphases for which it has long been admired.</p>

The Heath Introduction to Literature

Literature & Fiction

Landy, Alice

Allen, William Rodney

Literary

Cengage Learning'

Understanding Kurt Vonnegut (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)

<p>Understanding Kurt Vonnegut is a critical analysis of Vonnegut’s fiction as a point of entrance for students and general readers alike. In close readings of Vonnegut’s novels, William Rodney Allen examines the distinctive stylistic, thematic, and formally innovative elements that earned Vonnegut (1922–2007) a mass following, especially among young readers, as well as critical respect among scholars.</p>

Univ of South Carolina Pr

This valuable and informative book is a study of Percy's five novels in the context of his southern and American literary sources and his tragic personal history. Though Percy has emphasized mainly his European existential influences, his highly allusive novels echo his tragic early years in the South, as well as his ambivalent relationship with his adoptive father William Alexander Percy and his awareness of such writers as Twain, Hemingway, and Warren.This perceptive study examines Percy's novels in the light of psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, and literary analysis. The author finds that Percy's fiction has been shaped as much by what Percy rejected as by what he embraced.This book is "admirable first of all for its good taste. It respects Walker Percy's privacy. . . . It offers fair readings, generous readings, and ultimately new and rewarding readings." --Lewis Lawson

Walker Percy: A Southern Wayfarer

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Univ Pr of Mississippi

University of South Carolina Press

This valuable and informative book is a study of Percy's five novels in the context of his southern and American literary sources and his tragic personal history. Though Percy has emphasized mainly his European existential influences, his highly allusive novels echo his tragic early years in the South, as well as his ambivalent relationship with his adoptive father William Alexander Percy and his awareness of such writers as Twain, Hemingway, and Warren.This perceptive study examines Percy's novels in the light of psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, and literary analysis. The author finds that Percy's fiction has been shaped as much by what Percy rejected as by what he embraced.

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

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