Ben Siegel

Forty-eight reviews and nine essays trace the critical reputation of E.L. Doctorow's literary works.

Critical Essays on E.L. Doctorow

Melvin J. Friedman

Traditions, Voices, and Dreams offers the interested reader ample testimony that the American Novel is alive, well, and steadily breaking new ground. These collected essays also provide a new text for Contemporary American Novel classes. Teachers and students should find useful and stimulating a book that puts into perspective such contemporary masters as John Barth, Saul Bellow, E. L.

The American Novel Since the 1960s

Traditions, Voices, and Dreams

Jay L. Halio

The essays in this book focus on a wide and representative variety of Jewish American women writers, including Cynthia Ozick, Anne Roiphe, Erica Jong, Pauline Kael, Allegra Goodman, Norma Rosen, Adrienne Rich, Lynn Sharon Schwartz, and others. In every instance the contributors have tried to deal not only with the Jewish content of their work but also with its literary quality and other major themes.

Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers

Daughters of Valor

This study is the first critical biography in English of Sholem Asch, who did little in his lifetime to make such a task an easy one. Asch was not a "tidy" writer. He lived in many cities and countries, wrote tirelessly, and kept little record of his numerous novels, stories, and essays—much less of the countless Yiddish, Hebrew, and European periodicals and newspapers (most of them now long defunct), or editions and translations, in which his writings appeared.

An Introduction to His Fiction

The Controversial Sholem Asch

Comparative Literary Dimensions, like its companion volume American Literary Dimensions, honors the memory of Melvin J. Friedman. The authors studied include James Joyce, Robert Graves, and Virginia Woolf. A wide range of classical and modern writers and literary themes and concepts are discussed by international scholar-critics such as Haskell Block, Zack Bowen, and Owen Aldrich. The volume concludes with Jackson Bryer's detailed bibliography of Melvin Friedman's singular contribution to the study of modern literature.

Essays in Honor of Melvin J. Friedman

Comparative Literary Dimensions

Santiago Juan-Navarro

Theodore Robert Young

Essays on Iberian views of the age of conquest through literature and cinema

Reinventing the Encounter in Iberian/Iberian American Literature and Film

A Twice-told Tale

Comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Sun Also Rises, containing early and modern reviews, three commissioned especially for this volume, and an introduction that provides an overview of critical reaction to the novel since its first publication in 1926.

Ben Siegel

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