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Essays include a discussion of the social and historical context of Updike's work and a consideration of Updike's recurrent Jewish-American character, the blocked writer, Henry Bech.

When it premiered, ""Death of a Salesman"" received immediate critical praise and popular attention. Miller set out to change the face of American Drama and succeeded. The play won the Pulitzer Prize, and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. This volume brings together some of the best essays written on Miller's most accomplished play.

Edited and with an introduction by Gary Hoppenstand, this volume in the Critical Insights series brings together a variety of perspectives on Stephen King's contribution to American literature and popular culture. Hoppenstand's introduction situates King within the horror genre and American popular and literary fiction.

This volume is an effort to introduce O'Connor to a new generation of readers by including previously published essays that clarify her religious ideas, her narrative technique, her use of humour, and the regional and social context of her fiction.

The Metamorphosis is certainly Franz Kafka's most famous novella. Essays include a new, lengthy biography of the author. Other essays include a discussion of the cultural and historical context of the work, the structure and function of self-alienation, Kafka's metaphor for extreme alienation, and a selective survey of the critical reception of The Metamorphosis.

As Eric Carl Link writes in his introduction to this volume in the Critical Insights series, Red Badge is much more than a war novel - it is a drama of the human psyche, a pinnacle of American naturalism and impressionism, a precursor to modernism, and a brilliant comment on the relations between human beings and our universe.

Edited and with an introduction by Don Noble, this volume in the Critical Insights series brings together a variety of classic and contemporary essays on this American author. Countering some of the more severe criticisms leveled against Steinbeck, Noble's introduction argues that readers have good reason to respect the Nobel laureate's accomplishments.

This volume in the Critical Insights series collects a variety of old and new essays on Fitzgerald and continues the work of rehabilitating his reputation and re-examining his work.

Perhaps no figure is more central to the myth and promise of America than Benjamin Franklin. A true Renaissance man, Franklin conducted scientific experiments, wrote political satires and treatises, and is credited with numerous inventions. This title examines several facets of America's most famous polymath.

Widely celebrated during his lifetime as the greatest living American poet, Robert Frost remains one of the few poets whose work is enjoyed by scholars and general readers alike. This title presents discussions of his life and works.

Garcia Marquez, a trained journalist, made his indelible mark on literature with the 1967 publication of ""One Hundred Years of Solitude"" which heralded what was later dubbed ""El Boom"", the Latin American literary movement that came to define Latin American literature. This title presents discussions of his life and works.

Presents an array of scholarship on a novel that is becoming a modern classic, Amy Tan's ""The Joy Luck Club"". This title emphasizes the artistic excellence of Tan's text. It features Critical Contexts section that presents four survey essays that provide the reader with a useful framework for studying Tan's novel.

A collection of essays examining the short stories and life of the 19th century American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Presenting some of the best of a broad range of critical perspectives from the psychoanalytical to the postcolonial, it offers an introduction to Poe's tales and the critical conversation surrounding them.

Representing a variety of critical approaches, this collection focuses on one of the most widely taught works of American literature - ""Gatsby"". It explores the deceptive simplicity of the plot and the complex underpinnings of what makes the novel a true masterpiece.

Nathaniel Hawthorne remains one of the most studied authors in the English language. This volume in the ""Critical Insights"" series brings together some of the high points of the last half-decade of Hawthorne criticism. It offers a suitable starting point for those interested in studying this 19th century American literary master.