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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158991703321

Titolo

Novels for students . Volume 28 : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels / / Ira Mark Milne, project editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, Mich. : , : Gale, , 2009

ISBN

978-0-7876-8685-7

978-1-4144-3832-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 349 pages) : illustrations, photos

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

809.3

Soggetti

Fiction - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

Fiction - Study and teaching (Secondary) - United States

Fiction - History and criticism

Literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"ISSN 1094-3552."

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy -- Cannery row / John Steinbeck -- Cat's cradle / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- The dew breaker / Edwidge Danticat -- The good soldier / Ford Madox Ford -- The hound of the Baskervilles / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Hullabaloo in the guava orchard / Kiran Desai -- Nervous conditions / Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen -- Notes from underground / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- So far from the bamboo grove / Yoko Kawashima Watkins -- Sweetgrass / Jan Hudson -- The waves / Virginia Woolf -- White Noise / Don DeLillo.

Sommario/riassunto

Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance.