Part of a series of scholarly interpretations of recent works by contemporary North American authors, this collection is intended for advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students. Authors explore
In this critical collection, well-known Atwood scholars offer original readings and critical re-evaluations of three Atwood masterpieces—The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake. Provi
US and British scholars of literature examine three recent works by American novelist Roth (b. 1933). Their topics include subverting history, and the racial and national uncanny in American Pastoral;
Toni Morrison features a collection of ten new essays by noted Morrison scholars, including recipients of the Toni Morrison Society Book Award. Focusing upon Morrison's most recently published novels
`Fascinating and provocative, these essays illuminate what one contributor calls the "terrible beauty" of three of Cormac McCarthy's best-known and more recent "primal fictions". With Sara Spurgeon's
This collection of new critical perspectives on three of Cormac McCarthy's most widely-studied novels provides a wide-ranging introduction to the different interpretations of his work. Introductions t
Offering a world full of traumatized characters trapped in a consumerist society where men, women, sex and gender have become unstable commodities, Chuck Palahniuk has become one of the most controver
