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  1. Drama for students. Volume 11
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Gale, Detroit, Mich. ; Gale Cengage Learning, [Farmington Hills, Michigan]

    Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction;... more

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    Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.

     

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  2. Drama for students. Volume 12
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Gale, Detroit, Mich. ; Gale Cengage Learning, [Farmington Hills, Michigan]

    Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction;... more

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    Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.

     

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  3. Drama for students. Volume 13
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Gale, Detroit, Mich. ; Gale Cengage Learning, [Farmington Hills, Michigan]

    Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction;... more

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    Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.

     

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  4. Poetry for students. Volume 11
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich. ; Gale Cengage Learning, [Farmington Hills, Michigan]

    Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism. more

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    Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

     

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  5. Poetry for students. Volume 12
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry
    Contributor: Smith, Jennifer (Herausgeber); Thomason, Elizabeth (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich. ; Gale Cengage Learning, [Farmington Hills, Michigan]

    Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism. more

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    Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

     

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  6. Poetry for students. Volume 13
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich. ; Gale Cengage Learning, [Farmington Hills, Michigan]

    Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism. more

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    Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

     

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  7. Nonfiction classics for students
    presenting analysis, context, and criticism on nonfiction works
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (Herausgeber); Smith, Jennifer (Herausgeber); Galens, David (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich. ; Gale Cengage Learning, [Farmington Hills, Michigan]

    Provides critical overviews on the most frequently studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs. Includes discussions of literary format, themes, and structure. more

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    Provides critical overviews on the most frequently studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs. Includes discussions of literary format, themes, and structure.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (Herausgeber); Smith, Jennifer (Herausgeber); Galens, David (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780787692797; 0787692794
    Subjects: Nonfiction novel; Prose literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (5 v.), Ill.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and indexes

  8. Novels for students. Volume 11
    presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich. ; Gale Cengage Learning, [Farmington Hills, Michigan]

    Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and... more

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    Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism.

     

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  9. Novels for students. Volume 12
    presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich. ; Gale Cengage Learning, [Farmington Hills, Michigan]

    Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and... more

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    Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781414428055; 1414428057
    Subjects: Fiction; Fiction; Fiction; Literature
    Other subjects: James, Henry (1843-1916): Ambassadors; Kingsolver, Barbara: Animal dreams; Anaya, Rudolfo A: Bless me, Ultima; Emecheta, Buchi: Bride price; Atwood, Margaret Eleanor (1939-): Edible woman; Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888): Little women; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941): Mrs; Norris, Frank (1870-1902): Octopus; Kosinski, Jerzy (1933-1991): Painted bird; Mendez M., Miguel: Peregrinos de Aztlan; Updike, John: Rabbit, run; Du Maurier, Daphne Dame, (1907-1989): Rebecca; Fox, Paula: Slave dancer; Paton, Alan: Too late the phalarope; Irving, John (1942-): World according to Garp
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 375 p.), Ill., photos.
    Notes:

    "ISSN 1094-3552

    Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  10. Drama for students
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas ; Volume 13
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Gale, Detroit, Mich

    Amadeus / Peter Shaffer -- The cocktail party / T.S. Eliot -- Da / Hugh Leonard -- Dinner with friends / Donald Margulies -- The Jew of Malta / Christopher Marlowe -- The misanthrope / Molière -- The purple flower / Marita Bonner -- The raft / John... more

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    Amadeus / Peter Shaffer -- The cocktail party / T.S. Eliot -- Da / Hugh Leonard -- Dinner with friends / Donald Margulies -- The Jew of Malta / Christopher Marlowe -- The misanthrope / Molière -- The purple flower / Marita Bonner -- The raft / John Pepper Clark -- Seascape / Edward Albee -- Six degrees of separation / John Guare -- Sleuth / Anthony Shaffer -- Sticks and bones / David Rabe -- The teahouse of the August moon / John Patrick -- Travesties / Tom Stoppard -- Wit / Margaret Edson. Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary

     

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  11. Drama for students
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas ; Volume 12
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Gale, Detroit, Mich

    Anna Christie / Eugene O'Neill -- Biloxi blues / Neil Simon -- The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds / Paul Zindel -- The fourposter / Jan de Hartog -- The government inspector / Nikolai Gogol -- The green pastures / Marc Connelly --... more

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    Anna Christie / Eugene O'Neill -- Biloxi blues / Neil Simon -- The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds / Paul Zindel -- The fourposter / Jan de Hartog -- The government inspector / Nikolai Gogol -- The green pastures / Marc Connelly -- A life in the theatre / David Mamet -- The River Niger / Joseph A. Walker -- The seagull / Anton Chekov -- Street scene / Elmer Rice -- Sweet bird of youth / Tennessee Williams -- Talley's folly / Lanford Wilson -- That championship season / Jason Miller -- Top girls / Caryl Churchill -- The tower / Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary

     

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  12. Drama for students
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas ; Volume 11
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Gale, Detroit, Mich

    Abe Lincoln in Illinois / Robert E. Sherwood -- The amen corner / James Baldwin -- Dancing at Lughnasa / Brian Friel -- Driving Miss Daisy / Alfred Uhry -- Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen -- The great god Brown / Eugene O'Neill -- Harvey / Mary Chase -- Indian... more

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    Abe Lincoln in Illinois / Robert E. Sherwood -- The amen corner / James Baldwin -- Dancing at Lughnasa / Brian Friel -- Driving Miss Daisy / Alfred Uhry -- Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen -- The great god Brown / Eugene O'Neill -- Harvey / Mary Chase -- Indian ink / Tom Stoppard -- The insect play / Josef Capek and Karel Capek -- M. Butterfly / David Henry Hwang -- Saint Joan / George Bernard Shaw -- Shadowlands / William Nicholson -- Slave ship / Amiri Baraka -- The sleep of reason / Antonio Buero Vallejo -- Spike heels / Theresa Rebeck. Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary

     

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  13. Poetry for students
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 13
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: c2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich

    An African elegy / Robert Duncan -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Blood oranges / Lisel Mueller -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- The conquerors / Phyllis McGinley -- Darwin in 1881 / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Daylights / Rosanna Warren -- For... more

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    An African elegy / Robert Duncan -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Blood oranges / Lisel Mueller -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- The conquerors / Phyllis McGinley -- Darwin in 1881 / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Daylights / Rosanna Warren -- For the White poets who would be Indian / Wendy Rose -- I felt a funeral, in my brain / Emily Dickinson -- i was sitting in mcsorley's / e. e. cummings -- The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens -- Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats -- The song of the smoke / W. E. B. Du Bois -- To his excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick -- We live by what we see at night / Martin Espada. Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism

     

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  14. Poetry for students
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 12
    Contributor: Smith, Jennifer (HerausgeberIn); Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: c2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich

    Anorexic / Eavan Boland -- An Arundel tomb / Philip Larkin -- The base stealer / Robert Francis -- The Czar's last Christmas letter. A barn in the Urals / Norman Dubie -- Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop -- For Jean Vincent D'abbadie, Baron... more

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    Anorexic / Eavan Boland -- An Arundel tomb / Philip Larkin -- The base stealer / Robert Francis -- The Czar's last Christmas letter. A barn in the Urals / Norman Dubie -- Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop -- For Jean Vincent D'abbadie, Baron St.-Castin / Alden Nowlan -- A grafted tongue / John Montague -- Having a Coke with you / Frank O'Hara -- Hope is a tattered flag / Carl Sandburg -- The lamb / William Blake -- maggie and milly and molly and may / e. e. cummings -- My mother pieced quilts / Teresa Palomo Acosta -- On freedom's ground / Richard Wilbur -- The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope -- A tall man executes a jig / Irving Layton -- Wilderness gothic / Al Purdy. Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism

     

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  15. Poetry for students
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 11
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: c2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich

    Beowulf / Richard Wilbur -- Chocolates / Louis Simpson -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Go down, Moses / Anonymous -- The hospital window / James Dickey -- Island of the three Marias / Alberto Rios -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The... more

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    Beowulf / Richard Wilbur -- Chocolates / Louis Simpson -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Go down, Moses / Anonymous -- The hospital window / James Dickey -- Island of the three Marias / Alberto Rios -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The milkfish gatherers / James Fenton -- A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson -- Overture to a dance of locomotives / William Carlos Williams -- Paradoxes and oxymorons / John Ashbery -- To a child running with outstretched arms in Canyon de Chelly / N. Scott Momaday -- Tonight I can write / Pablo Neruda -- A valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne -- The war against the trees / Stanley Kunitz -- The weight of sweetness / Li-Young Lee. Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism

     

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  16. Novels for students
    presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 12
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: c2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich

    The ambassadors / Henry James -- Animal dreams / Barbara Kingsolver -- Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya -- The bride price / Buchi Emecheta -- The edible woman / Margaret Atwood -- Little women / Louisa May Alcott -- Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf --... more

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    The ambassadors / Henry James -- Animal dreams / Barbara Kingsolver -- Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya -- The bride price / Buchi Emecheta -- The edible woman / Margaret Atwood -- Little women / Louisa May Alcott -- Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf -- The octopus / Frank Norris -- The painted bird / Jerzy Kosinski -- Pilgrims in Aztlan / Miguel Mendez -- Rabbit, run / John Updike -- Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier -- The slave dancer / Paula Fox -- Too late the phalarope / Alan Paton -- The world according to Garp / John Irving. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781414428055; 1414428057
    Series: Gale eBooks
    Subjects: Fiction; Fiction; Fiction; Literature
    Other subjects: James, Henry (1843-1916): Ambassadors; Kingsolver, Barbara: Animal dreams; Anaya, Rudolfo A: Bless me, Ultima; Emecheta, Buchi: Bride price; Atwood, Margaret Eleanor (1939-): Edible woman; Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888): Little women; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941): Mrs. Dalloway; Norris, Frank (1870-1902): Octopus; Kosinski, Jerzy (1933-1991): Painted bird; Mendez M., Miguel: Peregrinos de Aztlan; Updike, John: Rabbit, run; Du Maurier, Daphne Dame (1907-1989): Rebecca; Fox, Paula: Slave dancer; Paton, Alan: Too late the phalarope; Irving, John (1942-): World according to Garp
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 375 p), ill., photos
    Notes:

    "ISSN 1094-3552."

    Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  17. Novels for students
    presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 11
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: c2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich

    The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara -- Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison -- Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange -- Body and soul / Frank Conroy -- Cane / Jean Toomer -- The clan of the cave bear / Jean Auel... more

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    The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara -- Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison -- Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange -- Body and soul / Frank Conroy -- Cane / Jean Toomer -- The clan of the cave bear / Jean Auel -- The crazy horse electric game / Chris Crutcher -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The grass dancer / Susan Power -- Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis -- The return of the native / Thomas Hardy -- A room with a view / E.M. Forster -- The stone angel / Margaret Laurence -- Watership down / Richard Adams. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781414428048; 1414428049
    Series: Gale eBooks
    Subjects: Fiction; Fiction; Fiction; Literature
    Other subjects: Wharton, Edith (1862-1937): Age of innocence; O'Hara, John (1905-1970): Appointment in Samarra; Allison, Dorothy: Bastard out of Carolina; Shange, Ntozake: Betsey Brown; Conroy, Frank (1936-2005): Body and soul; Toomer, Jean (1894-1967): Cane; Auel, Jean M: Clan of the cave bear; Crutcher, Chris: Crazy horse electric game; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894): Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Power, Susan (1961-): Grass dancer; Ellis, Bret Easton: Less than zero; Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928): Return of the native; Forster, E. M (1879-1970): Room with a view; Laurence, Margaret: Stone Angel; Adams, Richard (1920-): Watership down
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 381 p), ill., photos
    Notes:

    "ISSN 1094-3552."

    Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  18. Nonfiction classics for students
    presenting analysis, context, and criticism on nonfiction works
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn); Smith, Jennifer (HerausgeberIn); Galens, David (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: c2001-2003
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich

    vol. 1. Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt -- Aspects of the novel / E. M. Forster -- Black boy / Richard Wright -- Darkness visible / William Styron -- The education of Henry Adams / Henry Brooks Adams -- The journalist and the murderer / Janet Malcolm... more

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    vol. 1. Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt -- Aspects of the novel / E. M. Forster -- Black boy / Richard Wright -- Darkness visible / William Styron -- The education of Henry Adams / Henry Brooks Adams -- The journalist and the murderer / Janet Malcolm -- Lindbergh / A. Scott Berg -- The making of the atomic bomb / Richard Rhodes -- My brother / Jamaica Kincaid -- Paula / Isabel Allende -- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard -- A preface to morals / Walter Lippmann -- Silent spring / Rachel Carson -- The souls of Black folk / W. E. B. Du Bois -- A study of history / Arnold J. Toynbee. vol. 2. Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl / Anne Frank -- Cadillac desert: the American West and its disappearing water / Marc Reisner -- Design for dying / Timothy Leary -- The double helix / James D. Watson -- Eleanor Roosevelt, volume one, 1884-1933 / Blanche Wiesen Cook -- Good-bye to all that / Robert Graves -- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- In cold blood / Truman Capote -- Madame Curie / Eve Curie -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself / Frederick Douglass -- Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen -- Profiles in courage / John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- The story of my life / Helen Keller -- Undaunted courage / Stephen E. Ambrose. vol. 3. The affluent society / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Autobiographies / William Butler Yeats -- The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X -- Backlash: the undeclared war against American women / Susan Faludi -- Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody -- Hunger of memory: the education of Richard Rodriguez / Richard Rodriguez -- The interpretation of dreams / Sigmund Freud -- I remain in darkness / Annie Ernaux -- I will bear witness: a diary of the Nazi years, 1933-1941 / Victor Klemperer -- News of a kidnapping / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Operating instructions / Anne Lamott -- Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Shadow and act / Ralph Ellison -- A theory of justice / John Rawls -- Walden / Henry David Thoreau. vol. 4. The American language / H. L. Mencken -- The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / Gertrude Stein -- The autobiography of Mark Twain / Mark Twain -- Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia / Rebecca West -- The diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys -- Elizabeth the Great / Elizabeth Jenkins -- Eminent Victorians / Lytton Strachey -- The Gnostic gospels / Elaine Pagels -- In the American grain / William Carlos Williams -- Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in apartheid South Africa / Mark Mathabane -- Night / Elie Wiesel -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- On growth and form / D'Arcy Thompson -- The promise of American life / Herbert Croly -- Speak, memory: an autobiography revisited / Vladimir Nabokov. vol. 5. Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation / E. H. Gombrich -- The basketball diaries / Jim Carroll -- A boy called H / Kappa Senoh -- Bury my heart at Wounded Knee / Dee Brown -- The elements of style / William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White -- The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan -- The golden bough / James Frazer -- The liars' club / Mary Karr -- The lost daughters of China / Karin Evans -- A mathematician's apology / G. H. Hardy -- Selected essays, 1917-1932 / T. S. Eliot -- Shame / Annie Ernaux -- Steal this book / Abbie Hoffman -- The varieties of religious experience / William James. Provides critical overviews on the most frequently studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs. Includes discussions of literary format, themes, and structure

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn); Smith, Jennifer (HerausgeberIn); Galens, David (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780787692797; 0787692794
    Series: Gale eBooks
    Subjects: Nonfiction novel; Prose literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (5 v), ill
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and indexes

  19. Poetry for students
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 13
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: c2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich

    An African elegy / Robert Duncan -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Blood oranges / Lisel Mueller -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- The conquerors / Phyllis McGinley -- Darwin in 1881 / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Daylights / Rosanna Warren -- For... more

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    An African elegy / Robert Duncan -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Blood oranges / Lisel Mueller -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- The conquerors / Phyllis McGinley -- Darwin in 1881 / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Daylights / Rosanna Warren -- For the White poets who would be Indian / Wendy Rose -- I felt a funeral, in my brain / Emily Dickinson -- i was sitting in mcsorley's / e. e. cummings -- The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens -- Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats -- The song of the smoke / W. E. B. Du Bois -- To his excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick -- We live by what we see at night / Martin Espada. Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism

     

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  20. Poetry for students
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 12
    Contributor: Smith, Jennifer (HerausgeberIn); Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: c2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich

    Anorexic / Eavan Boland -- An Arundel tomb / Philip Larkin -- The base stealer / Robert Francis -- The Czar's last Christmas letter. A barn in the Urals / Norman Dubie -- Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop -- For Jean Vincent D'abbadie, Baron... more

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    Anorexic / Eavan Boland -- An Arundel tomb / Philip Larkin -- The base stealer / Robert Francis -- The Czar's last Christmas letter. A barn in the Urals / Norman Dubie -- Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop -- For Jean Vincent D'abbadie, Baron St.-Castin / Alden Nowlan -- A grafted tongue / John Montague -- Having a Coke with you / Frank O'Hara -- Hope is a tattered flag / Carl Sandburg -- The lamb / William Blake -- maggie and milly and molly and may / e. e. cummings -- My mother pieced quilts / Teresa Palomo Acosta -- On freedom's ground / Richard Wilbur -- The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope -- A tall man executes a jig / Irving Layton -- Wilderness gothic / Al Purdy. Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism

     

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  21. Poetry for students
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry ; Volume 11
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: c2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich

    Beowulf / Richard Wilbur -- Chocolates / Louis Simpson -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Go down, Moses / Anonymous -- The hospital window / James Dickey -- Island of the three Marias / Alberto Rios -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The... more

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    Beowulf / Richard Wilbur -- Chocolates / Louis Simpson -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Go down, Moses / Anonymous -- The hospital window / James Dickey -- Island of the three Marias / Alberto Rios -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The milkfish gatherers / James Fenton -- A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson -- Overture to a dance of locomotives / William Carlos Williams -- Paradoxes and oxymorons / John Ashbery -- To a child running with outstretched arms in Canyon de Chelly / N. Scott Momaday -- Tonight I can write / Pablo Neruda -- A valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne -- The war against the trees / Stanley Kunitz -- The weight of sweetness / Li-Young Lee. Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism

     

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  22. Novels for students
    presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 12
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: c2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich

    The ambassadors / Henry James -- Animal dreams / Barbara Kingsolver -- Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya -- The bride price / Buchi Emecheta -- The edible woman / Margaret Atwood -- Little women / Louisa May Alcott -- Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf --... more

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    The ambassadors / Henry James -- Animal dreams / Barbara Kingsolver -- Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya -- The bride price / Buchi Emecheta -- The edible woman / Margaret Atwood -- Little women / Louisa May Alcott -- Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf -- The octopus / Frank Norris -- The painted bird / Jerzy Kosinski -- Pilgrims in Aztlan / Miguel Mendez -- Rabbit, run / John Updike -- Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier -- The slave dancer / Paula Fox -- Too late the phalarope / Alan Paton -- The world according to Garp / John Irving. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781414428055; 1414428057
    Series: Gale eBooks
    Subjects: Fiction; Fiction; Fiction; Literature
    Other subjects: James, Henry (1843-1916): Ambassadors; Kingsolver, Barbara: Animal dreams; Anaya, Rudolfo A: Bless me, Ultima; Emecheta, Buchi: Bride price; Atwood, Margaret Eleanor (1939-): Edible woman; Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888): Little women; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941): Mrs. Dalloway; Norris, Frank (1870-1902): Octopus; Kosinski, Jerzy (1933-1991): Painted bird; Mendez M., Miguel: Peregrinos de Aztlan; Updike, John: Rabbit, run; Du Maurier, Daphne Dame (1907-1989): Rebecca; Fox, Paula: Slave dancer; Paton, Alan: Too late the phalarope; Irving, John (1942-): World according to Garp
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 375 p), ill., photos
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    Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  23. Novels for students
    presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 11
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: c2001
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich

    The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara -- Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison -- Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange -- Body and soul / Frank Conroy -- Cane / Jean Toomer -- The clan of the cave bear / Jean Auel... more

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    The age of innocence / Edith Wharton -- Appointment in Samarra / John O'Hara -- Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison -- Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange -- Body and soul / Frank Conroy -- Cane / Jean Toomer -- The clan of the cave bear / Jean Auel -- The crazy horse electric game / Chris Crutcher -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The grass dancer / Susan Power -- Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis -- The return of the native / Thomas Hardy -- A room with a view / E.M. Forster -- The stone angel / Margaret Laurence -- Watership down / Richard Adams. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781414428048; 1414428049
    Series: Gale eBooks
    Subjects: Fiction; Fiction; Fiction; Literature
    Other subjects: Wharton, Edith (1862-1937): Age of innocence; O'Hara, John (1905-1970): Appointment in Samarra; Allison, Dorothy: Bastard out of Carolina; Shange, Ntozake: Betsey Brown; Conroy, Frank (1936-2005): Body and soul; Toomer, Jean (1894-1967): Cane; Auel, Jean M: Clan of the cave bear; Crutcher, Chris: Crazy horse electric game; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894): Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Power, Susan (1961-): Grass dancer; Ellis, Bret Easton: Less than zero; Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928): Return of the native; Forster, E. M (1879-1970): Room with a view; Laurence, Margaret: Stone Angel; Adams, Richard (1920-): Watership down
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 381 p), ill., photos
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    Guest foreword "The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan

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  24. Nonfiction classics for students
    presenting analysis, context, and criticism on nonfiction works
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn); Smith, Jennifer (HerausgeberIn); Galens, David (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: c2001-2003
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich

    vol. 1. Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt -- Aspects of the novel / E. M. Forster -- Black boy / Richard Wright -- Darkness visible / William Styron -- The education of Henry Adams / Henry Brooks Adams -- The journalist and the murderer / Janet Malcolm... more

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    vol. 1. Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt -- Aspects of the novel / E. M. Forster -- Black boy / Richard Wright -- Darkness visible / William Styron -- The education of Henry Adams / Henry Brooks Adams -- The journalist and the murderer / Janet Malcolm -- Lindbergh / A. Scott Berg -- The making of the atomic bomb / Richard Rhodes -- My brother / Jamaica Kincaid -- Paula / Isabel Allende -- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard -- A preface to morals / Walter Lippmann -- Silent spring / Rachel Carson -- The souls of Black folk / W. E. B. Du Bois -- A study of history / Arnold J. Toynbee. vol. 2. Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl / Anne Frank -- Cadillac desert: the American West and its disappearing water / Marc Reisner -- Design for dying / Timothy Leary -- The double helix / James D. Watson -- Eleanor Roosevelt, volume one, 1884-1933 / Blanche Wiesen Cook -- Good-bye to all that / Robert Graves -- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- In cold blood / Truman Capote -- Madame Curie / Eve Curie -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself / Frederick Douglass -- Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen -- Profiles in courage / John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- The story of my life / Helen Keller -- Undaunted courage / Stephen E. Ambrose. vol. 3. The affluent society / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Autobiographies / William Butler Yeats -- The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X -- Backlash: the undeclared war against American women / Susan Faludi -- Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody -- Hunger of memory: the education of Richard Rodriguez / Richard Rodriguez -- The interpretation of dreams / Sigmund Freud -- I remain in darkness / Annie Ernaux -- I will bear witness: a diary of the Nazi years, 1933-1941 / Victor Klemperer -- News of a kidnapping / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Operating instructions / Anne Lamott -- Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Shadow and act / Ralph Ellison -- A theory of justice / John Rawls -- Walden / Henry David Thoreau. vol. 4. The American language / H. L. Mencken -- The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / Gertrude Stein -- The autobiography of Mark Twain / Mark Twain -- Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia / Rebecca West -- The diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys -- Elizabeth the Great / Elizabeth Jenkins -- Eminent Victorians / Lytton Strachey -- The Gnostic gospels / Elaine Pagels -- In the American grain / William Carlos Williams -- Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in apartheid South Africa / Mark Mathabane -- Night / Elie Wiesel -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- On growth and form / D'Arcy Thompson -- The promise of American life / Herbert Croly -- Speak, memory: an autobiography revisited / Vladimir Nabokov. vol. 5. Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation / E. H. Gombrich -- The basketball diaries / Jim Carroll -- A boy called H / Kappa Senoh -- Bury my heart at Wounded Knee / Dee Brown -- The elements of style / William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White -- The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan -- The golden bough / James Frazer -- The liars' club / Mary Karr -- The lost daughters of China / Karin Evans -- A mathematician's apology / G. H. Hardy -- Selected essays, 1917-1932 / T. S. Eliot -- Shame / Annie Ernaux -- Steal this book / Abbie Hoffman -- The varieties of religious experience / William James. Provides critical overviews on the most frequently studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs. Includes discussions of literary format, themes, and structure

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn); Smith, Jennifer (HerausgeberIn); Galens, David (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780787692797; 0787692794
    Series: Gale eBooks
    Subjects: Nonfiction novel; Prose literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (5 v), ill
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  25. Drama for students
    presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas ; Volume 13
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Gale, Detroit, Mich

    Amadeus / Peter Shaffer -- The cocktail party / T.S. Eliot -- Da / Hugh Leonard -- Dinner with friends / Donald Margulies -- The Jew of Malta / Christopher Marlowe -- The misanthrope / Molière -- The purple flower / Marita Bonner -- The raft / John... more

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    Amadeus / Peter Shaffer -- The cocktail party / T.S. Eliot -- Da / Hugh Leonard -- Dinner with friends / Donald Margulies -- The Jew of Malta / Christopher Marlowe -- The misanthrope / Molière -- The purple flower / Marita Bonner -- The raft / John Pepper Clark -- Seascape / Edward Albee -- Six degrees of separation / John Guare -- Sleuth / Anthony Shaffer -- Sticks and bones / David Rabe -- The teahouse of the August moon / John Patrick -- Travesties / Tom Stoppard -- Wit / Margaret Edson. Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary

     

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