Concise Major 21st Century Writers

2006

A comprehensive, five-volume set, Concise Major 21st-Century Writers profiles today's most outstanding and widely known writers.

Author: Tracey L. Matthews

Publisher: Gale Cengage

ISBN: 078767544X

Category: Authors

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A comprehensive, five-volume set, Concise Major 21st-Century Writers profiles today's most outstanding and widely known writers. Clearly written in an easy-to-use format, it collects detailed biographical and bibliographical information on approximately 700 authors who are most often studied in college and high school.
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Reference User Services Quarterly

2006

Not recommended for academic Concise Major 21st - Century Writers : A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors . Ed . by Tracey L. Matthews . Detroit : Thomson Gale , 2006. 5 vols . $ 469 ( ISBN 0-7876-7539-3 ) .

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A Concise Companion to American Fiction 1900 1950

2008-04-15

Looking at issues of race, language, cosmopolitanism, book production, and gender, this volume introduces the contextual information and strategic knowledge that students can use to formulate their own readings of classic American fiction.

Author: Peter Stoneley

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9780470693292

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 328

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An authoritative guide to American literature, this Companion examines the experimental forms, socio-cultural changes, literary movements, and major authors of the early 20th century. This Companion provides authoritative and wide-ranging guidance on early twentieth-century American fiction. Considers commonly studied authors such as Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, alongside key texts of the period by Richard Wright, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, and Anzia Yezierska Examines how the works of these diverse writers have been interpreted in their own day and how current readings have expanded our understanding of their cultural and literary significance Covers a broad range of topics, including the First and Second World Wars, literary language differences, author celebrity, the urban landscape, modernism, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, regionalism, and African-American fiction Gives students the contextual information necessary for formulating their own critiques of classic American fiction
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Black Literature Criticism Ellison to Lorde

2008

critics , such as Laura Niesen de Abruna and Helen Tiffin , see connections between Kincaid's fiction and the Caribbean writing of Jean Rhys and Erna ... 3 ; Concise Major 21st - Century Writers , Ed . 1 ; Contemporary Authors , Vol .

Author: Jelena O. Krstovic

Publisher: Gale Cengage

ISBN: PSU:000064832555

Category: African Americans

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Focuses on writers and works published since 1950. The majority of the authors surveyed are African American, but representative African and Caribbean authors are also included.
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Black Literature Criticism Achebe Dumas

2008

2 ; Children's Literature Review , Vol . 20 ; Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography , Vol . 3 ; Concise Major 21st - Century Writers , Ed . 1 ; Contemporary Authors , Vol . 1-4R ; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series ...

Author: Jelena O. Krstovic

Publisher: Gale Cengage

ISBN: PSU:000064830698

Category: African Americans

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Focuses on writers and works published since 1950. The majority of the authors surveyed are African American, but representative African and Caribbean authors are also included.
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Children s Literature Review

2008-02-08

Explores the roles that war and masculinity play in The Lord of the Flies and other early novels by Golding Fleck ... 94 ; Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography , 1945-1960 ; Concise Major 21st - Century Writers , Ed . 1 ...

Author: Tom Burns

Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

ISBN: 0787696056

Category: Literary Criticism

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Covers writers and illustrators for children and young adults. Entries consist of listings of major works, awards, and critical excerpts from significant reviews and commentaries on the author's or artist's works.
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Twentieth century Literary Criticism

2010

Additional coverage of Ionesco's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale : Concise Major 21st - Century Writers , Ed . 1 ; Contemporary Authors , Vols . 9-12R , 144 ; Contemporary Authors New Revision ...

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ISBN: PSU:000057131962

Category: Literature, Modern

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Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.
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Black Literature Criticism Mackey to Zobel Indexes

2008

Author: Jelena O. Krstovic

Publisher: Gale Cengage

ISBN: PSU:000064831459

Category: African Americans

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Focuses on writers and works published since 1950. The majority of the authors surveyed are African American, but representative African and Caribbean authors are also included.
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Choice

2008

... 79.95 Soil is one of the Earth's most important natural resources , but its study and conservation are so often overlooked . This book , by Hillel ( emer . , Univ . of Massachusetts , Amherst ) , one of the most prolific writers in ...

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Bibliographic Index

2009

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ISBN: STANFORD:36105129062332

Category: Bibliographical literature

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