Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

Sir William Golding

Essays discuss themes, style, narrative strategies, and biographical influences in Flaubert's masterpiece

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary

Harold Bloom

The theatre / Eric Bentley - Shaw / Louis Kronenberger -- Man and superman and the duel of sex / Martin Meisel -- Heaven, hell, and turn-of-the-century London / Frederick P.W. McDowell -- Don Juan in hell / Louis Crompton -- The play of ideas in Act 3 of Man and superman / Charles A. Berst -- Man and superman / Mau rice Valency -- Ann and superman : type ana archetype / Sally Peters Vogt -- Co medy and dialectic / Nicholas Grene.

George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman

Contains a representative selection of criticism on the work of E.M. Forster.

E.M. Forster

A collection of critical essays on the novels of George Eliot, arranged in chronological order of original publication.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Brings together the best criticism yet devoted to The Portrait of a Lady--analyzes James's high mode of comedy, explores the Portrait's relation to Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, examines the thematic changes brought about by James's 1908 revision, and presents an acute and advanced rehetorical analysis of the novel's allegories.

Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady

Contains a representative selection of critical essays upon the novels of Anthony Burgess.

Anthony Burgess

A collection of seven critical essays discussing Tolstoy's novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

A selection of critical essays on Franz Kafka's novel "The Trial."

Franz Kafka's The Trial

Trying to understand Endgame / Theodor W. Adorno -- Life in the box / Hugh Kenn er -- Hamm, Clov, and the dramatic method in Endgame / Anthony Easthope -- Endi ng the waiting game / Stanley Cavell -- Beckett / Richard Gilman Symbolic struc ture and creative obligation in Endgame / Paul Lawley -- The play that was rewr itten / Ruby Cohn -- Endgame / Sidney Homan.

Samuel Beckett's Endgame

William Makepeace Thackeray

On Vanity fair / Dorothy van Ghent -- Art and nature / Barbara Hardy -- The reader in the realistic novel / Wolfgang Iser -- Vision and satire / Robert E. Lougy -- The triumph of Clytemnestra -- The comedy of shifting perspectives.

Sir William Golding

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