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This volume is intended to make Dante's Inferno more accessible to inquiring students. Essays include a close reading of Dante, a chapter comparing and contrasting Dante's Inferno to his other writing, a history of the critical response to his work, and a chapter on the cultural and historical context of the poem.

The purpose of this collection of sixteen essays on William Faulkner's multi-faceted novel is to provide the reader who has read or is about to read Absalom, Absalom! with as much of a multi-faceted perspective as possible. Each essay is limited by its premise, but that very limitation enables the critic to focus the reader's attention upon an aspect of this multifaceted novel.

Provides broad coverage of Cheever and his work. Original essays discuss the basic facts of Cheever's life and critical reputation. The work explores his complicated personal life and discusses his decorous style and fragmented structure, and his fascination with language.

Camus attracted the interest of scholars from many disciplines- specialists in literature, theater, philosophy, theology, political science, history, psychology, medicine, and law. This volume offers original contributions, while also reprinting a sampling of some of the more trenchant earlier essays about the man and his work.

Edited and with an introduction by M. Keith Booker, this volume in the Critical Insights series brings together a wide variety of criticism on Achebe's seminal novel. In the opening section of the volume, Booker's introduction reflects on Achebe's pioneering achievement, and Petrina Crockford evaluates the enduring, international popularity of Things Fall Apart.

Maya Angelou's ""I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"" took the world by storm when it was published in 1969. Despite controversy over its frank depiction of sexual abuse, the autobiography is widely read in high schools and colleges across the country. This title includes discussions of Maya Angelou's novel.

Analyses the evolution of magical realism, as well as its manifestations in different cultures. Several essays discuss the struggle between the hegemonic imposition of western modernity and subaltern, ethnicized, non-western conceptualizations in the Third World. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited", along with endnotes.

Original essays in this volume are a wide-ranging set of perspectives on one of Shakespeare's greatest works. Reprinted classics add to this rich collection of critical views.