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INDEXES:
General Index
wit & humor
quotations
reviews
analysis:
novels
stories
poems
plays
films
KEY TERMS
irony
metaphor
symbol
archetype
allegory
obj. correlative
iceberg principle
dissociation
individuation
puritan
pastoral
transcendental
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Abbey, Edward, The Monkeywrench Gang (1975): analysis
Abish, Walter, How German Is It (1980): analysis
Adler, Renata, Speedboat (1976): analysis
Alcott, Louis May, Little Women (1868,69): how radical Feminists revised Little Women
46 brief responses to Little Women
Amis, Kingsley (British), Stanley and the Women (1985): 3 reviews
Anderson, Sherwood, Winesburg, Ohio (1919), story cycle: analysis by story
30 critics discuss Winesburg, Ohio
Poor White (1920): analysis by 7 critics
Dark Laughter (1925): analysis by 5 critics
Atwood, Margaret, Surfacing (1972): analysis
Banks, Russell, Continental Drift (1985): analysis
Barnes, Djuna, Nightwood (1936): analysis by 8 critics
Barth, John, Giles Goat Boy (1966): analysis by 5 critics
Baum, Lyman Frank, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900): analysis by 2 critics
Bellamy, Edward, Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888): analysis
Bellow, Saul, Dangling Man (1944): analysis by 6 critics
The Victim (1947): analysis by 7 critics
The Adventures of Augie March (1953): analysis by 11 critics
Seize the Day (1956): analysis by 4 critics
Henderson the Rain King (1959): analysis by 11 critics
Herzog (1964): analysis by 4 critics
Mister Sammler's Planet (1970): analysis by 2 critics
Humboldt’s Gift (1975): analysis by 4 critics
The Dean’s December (1982): analysis
Bowles, Paul, The Sheltering Sky (1949): analysis by 10 critics
Boyle, T. Coraghassen, Water Music (1982): analysis
Brackenridge, Hugh H., Modern Chivalry (1792-1815): analysis by 7 critics
Brautigan, Richard, Trout Fishing in America (1967): analysis by 2 critics
Brown, Charles Brockden, Wieland (1798): analysis by 4 critics
Brown, William Wells, Clotel; or, The President's Daughter (1853): commentary
Burroughs, William, Naked Lunch (1959): review
Capote, Truman, Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948): analysis by 9 critics
In Cold Blood (1965): analysis by 3 critics
Castaneda, Carlos, Journey to Ixtlan (1972): commentary by 11 critics
Cather, Willa, O Pioneers! (1913): analysis by 12 critics
The Song of the Lark (1915): analysis by 6 critics
My Antonia (1918): analysis by Wallace Stegner
10 critics discuss My Antonia
One of Ours (1922): analysis by 2 critics
A Lost Lady (1923): analysis by 9 critics
The Professor’s House (1925): analysis by chapter
12 critics discuss The Professor’s House
My Mortal Enemy (1926): analysis by 3 critics
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927): analysis by 9 critics
Chicchinelli, Eugene, Underwater Rodeo: The Saga of a Deep Sea Diver (2000): review
Chopin, Kate, The Awakening (1899): analysis by chapter
The Awakening: concise analysis
37 critics discuss The Awakening
46 critics differ over the ending of The Awakening
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, The Ox-Bow Incident (1940): analysis by 3 critics
Cooper, James Fenimore, The Leatherstocking Saga (1823-41): overview
The Prairie (1827): analysis in detail
Crane, Stephen, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893): analysis by 28 critics
The Red Badge of Courage (1895): analysis by chapter
36 critics discuss The Red Badge of Courage
Davis, H. L., Honey in the Horn (1935): analysis
DeForest, John W., Miss Ravenel’s Conversion (1867): analysis by 4 critics
DeLillo, Don, The Names (1982): analysis by 7 critics
White Noise (1985): analysis by chapter
30 critics discuss White Noise
Feminist misreading of White Noise debunked
Libra (1988): analysis by 4 critics
Underworld (1997): analysis by 2 critics
summaries of 10 novels by DeLillo: commentary by 3 critics
Didion, Joan, Play It As It Lays (1970): analysis by 3 critics
Dos Passos, John, Three Soldiers (1921): analysis by 4 critics
Manhattan Transfer (1925): analysis by 6 critics
U.S.A. trilogy (1930-36): analysis by 14 critics
Doulis, Thomas, The Open Hearth (2000): review
Dreiser, Theodore 24 critics discuss Sister Carrie
An American Tragedy (1925): analysis by 12 critics
Duncan, David James, The River Why? (1983): 7 reviews
Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man (1952): analysis by chapter
Invisible Man: review by Saul Bellow
40 critics discuss Invisible Man
Erdrich, Louise, Love Medicine (1984,1993): analysis by 5 critics
The Beet Queen (1986): analysis by 2 critics
Tracks (1988): analysis by 4 critics
summaries of 8 novels by Erdrich: commentary
Faulkner, William, Soldier’s Pay (1926): analysis by 4 critics
Mosquitoes (1927): analysis by 4 critics
Sartoris (1929): analysis by 4 critics
The Sound and the Fury (1929): analysis by section
50 critics discuss The Sound and the Fury
As I Lay Dying (1930): analysis by 15 critics
Sanctuary (1939): analysis by 15 critics
Light in August (1932): analysis by 15 critics
Absalom, Absalom (1936): analysis by 21 critics
The Wild Palms (1939): analysis by 6 critics
The Hamlet (1940): analysis by 11 critics
Go Down, Moses (1942): analysis by 4 critics
The Bear (1942): analysis by 15 critics
Intruder in the Dust (1948): analysis by 5 critics
A Fable (1954): analysis by 15 critics
The Snopes Trilogy commentary
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, This Side of Paradise (1920): analysis by 8 critics
The Beautiful and Damned (1922): analysis by 3 critics
The Great Gatsby (1925): analysis by chapter
50 critics discuss The Great Gatsby
why Gatsby is great
The Great Gatsby, best film adaptation (2000): analysis
Tender Is the Night (1936): analysis by 12 critics
The Last Tycoon (1941): analysis by 12 critics
Ford, Richard, The Sportswriter (1986): analysis
Gaddis, William, The Recognitions (1955): analysis by 3 critics
JR (1975): analysis
Gaines, Ernest J., The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971): analysis by 3 critics
Garry, Patrick, In the Shadow of War (2006): review
Saving Faith (2007): review
Gordon, Caroline Penhally (1931) analysis
Aleck Maury Sportsman (1934) analysis
Garden of Adonis (1937) analysis
None Shall Look Back (1937): analysis in detail
Green Centuries (1941) analysis
The Women on the Porch (1944): analysis by 22 critics
The Strange Children (1951): analysis by 15 critics
The Malefactors (1956) analysis
The Glory of Hera (1972): analysis by 31 critics
Guthrie, A. B., The Big Sky (1947): commentary
Hardwick, Elizabeth, The Ghostly Lover (1945): analysis by 4 critics
The Simple Truth (1955): analysis by 4 critics
Afterword The Simple Truth
Sleepless Nights (1979): analysis in detail
Sleepless Nights: analysis by 17 critics
Sleepless Nights: review by Joan Didion
Sleepless Nights: biographical analysis
Hawkes, John, Second Skin (1964): analysis
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter (1850): analysis by chapter
The Scarlet Letter: concise analysis
50 critics discuss The Scarlet Letter
The House of the Seven Gables (1851): analysis
The Blithedale Romance (1852): analysis
The Blithedale Romance fictional film adaptation (2005): analysis
The Marble Faun (1860): analysis
Heller, Joseph, Catch-22 (1961): analysis by 7 critics
Hemingway, Ernest, In Our Time (1925): linear analysis by story
The Sun Also Rises (1926): analysis by chapter
30 critics discuss The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms (1929): analysis by 21 critics
To Have and to Have Not (1937): analysis by 10 critics
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940): analysis by 13 critics
For Whom the Bell Tolls film adaptation (1943): analysis
Across the River and into the Trees (1950): analysis by 9 critics
The Old Man and the Sea (1952): analysis in detail
The Old Man and the Sea: review by William Faulkner
16 critics discuss The Old Man and the Sea
The Garden of Eden (1985), edition censored by Feminists: analysis by 10 critics
Howells, William Dean, The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885): analysis by 12 critics
Irving, John, The World According to Garp (1978): analysis
The Hotel New Hampshire (1981): analysis by 3 critics
The Cider House Rules (1985): analysis by 2 critics
A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989): analysis by 2 critics
James, Henry, Daisy Miller (1879): analysis by chapter
Washington Square (1881): analysis of best film adaptation (1997)
The Portrait of a Lady (1881): analysis by 16 critics
The Bostonians (1886): analysis by 12 critics
The Bostonians film adaptation (1984): analysis
The Turn of the Screw (1898): analysis by 20 critics
The Wings of the Dove (1902): analysis by 10 critics
The Ambassadors (1903): analysis by 12 critics
The Golden Bowl (1904): analysis by 6 critics
Jewett, Sarah Orne, The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896): analysis by 9 critics
Jones, James, From Here to Eternity (1951): analysis by 4 critics
Joyce, James (Irish), Ulysses (1922): commentary
Kerouac, Jack, On the Road (1958): analysis
Kesey, Ken, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962): analysis by 15 critics
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest film adaptation (1975): analysis
Sometimes a Great Notion (1964): analysis by 2 critics
Kingston, Maxine Hong, The Woman Warrior (1976), blended genres: analysis by 21 critics
China Men (1980): analysis by 6 critics
Tripmaster Monkey (1989): analysis by 4 critics
Kosinkski, Jerzy, Being There (1970): analysis
LeGuin, Ursula K., The Lathe of Heaven (1971): analysis
Lesley, Craig Winterkill (1984) review
Lewis, Sinclair, Main Street (1920): analysis by 10 critics
Babbitt (1922): analysis by 12 critics
Arrowsmith (1925): analysis by 7 critics
Elmer Gantry (1927): analysis by 2 critics
Dodsworth (1929): analysis by 5 critics
It Can’t Happen Here (1935): analysis by 4 critics
London, Jack, The Call of the Wild (1903): analysis by 3 critics
The Sea Wolf (1904): analysis by 4 critics
Martin Eden (1909): analysis by 6 critics
Lytle, Andrew, The Velvet Horn (1957): analysis
Mailer, Norman, The Naked and the Dead (1948): analysis by 5 critics
The Deer Park (1955): analysis by 6 critics
Malamud, Bernard, A New Life (1961): analysis by quotation
McCarthy, Cormac, The Orchard Keeper (1965): analysis by 5 critics
Outer Dark (1968): analysis by 6 critics
Child of God (1973): analysis by 7 critics
Suttree (1979): analysis by 11 critics
Blood Meridian (1985): analysis by 20 critics
All the Pretty Horses (1992): analysis by 12 critics
No Country for Old Men (2005): analysis by 4 critics
The Road (2006): analysis in detail
God in The Road: analysis by 4 critics
McCarthy, Mary, The Company She Keeps (1942): analysis by 17 critics
The Oasis (1949): analysis by 20 critics
The Groves of Academe (1952): analysis by 19 critics
A Charmed Life (1955): analysis by 13 critics
The Group (1963): analysis by 23 critics
Birds of America (1965): analysis by 8 critics
Cannibals and Missionaries (1979): analysis by 7 critics
McElroy, Joseph, Plus (1977): analysis by 2 critics
McCullers, Carson, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1949): analysis by 18 critics
McGuane, Thomas, Panama (1978): analysis
Melville, Herman, Typee (1846): analysis by 9 critics
Omoo (1847): analysis by 5 critics
Mardi (1849): analysis by 8 critics
Redburn (1849): analysis by 3 critics
White-Jacket (1850): analysis by 3 critics
Moby-Dick (1851): analysis in detail
30 key metaphors in Moby-Dick: concise analysis
50 critics discuss Moby-Dick
21 different interpretations of the white whale: brief quotations
Pierre (1852): analysis by 7 critics
Pierre fictional film adaptation (2005): analysis
Benito Cereno (1855): analysis by 16 critics
The Confidence-Man (1857): analysis by 8 critics
Billy Budd (1891): analysis by chapter
Billy Budd: general analysis
Billy Budd: analysis of film adaptation (1962)
Momaday, N. Scott, House Made of Dawn (1968): analysis by 4 critics
The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969), mixed genres: analysis by 20 critics
Morris, Wright, The Field of Vision (1956): analysis by 2 critics
Morrison, Toni, The Bluest Eye (1970): analysis by 25 critics
Sula (1973): analysis by 25 critics
Song of Solomon (1977): analysis by 21 critics
Song of Solomon: review by Reynolds Price
Tar Baby (1981): analysis by 17 critics
Tar Baby: review by John Irving
Beloved (1987): analysis by 23 critics
Beloved: review by Margaret Atwood
Jazz (1992): analysis by 7 critics
Jazz: review by Edna O’Brien
Paradise (1998): analysis
Norris, Frank, McTeague (1899): analysis by 17 critics
The Octopus (1901): analysis by 15 critics
Oates, Joyce Carol, Black Water (1992): analysis
O’Brien, Tim, Going after Cacciato (1979): analysis by 2 critics
The Things They Carried (1990): analysis
O’Connor, Flannery, Wise Blood (1952): analysis by chapter
Wise Blood: commentary by O’Connor
36 critics discuss Wise Blood
Wise Blood film adaptation (1979): analysis
The Violent Bear It Away (1960): analysis in detail
The Violent Bear It Away Commentary by O'Connor
33 critics dicuss The Violent Bear It Away
Paulson, A. B., Watchman Tell Us of the Night (1987): 2 reviews
Percy, Walker, The Moviegoer (1961): analysis
The Last Gentleman (1966): analysis by 10 critics
Love in the Ruins (1971): analysis by 7 critics
Lancelot (1977): analysis by 8 critics
The Second Coming (1980): analysis by 4 critics
The Thanatos Syndrome (1987): analysis by 3 critics
Plath, Sylvia, The Bell Jar (1963): analysis
Poe, Edgar Allan, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838): analysis by chapter
Porter, Katherine Anne, Old Mortality (1937, 1939): analysis by 26 critics
Noon Wine (1937, 1939): analysis by 28 critics
Noon Wine: The Sources (1956): commentary by Porter on creative process
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939): analysis by 28 critics
Ship of Fools (1962): analysis in detail
42 critics discuss Ship of Fools
Pynchon, Thomas, V (1963): analysis by 18 critics
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966): analysis by chapter
25 critics discuss The Crying of Lot 49
Gravity’s Rainbow (1973): analysis by 34 critics
Reed, Ishmael, Reckless Eyeballing (1986): analysis
Robbins, Tom, Another Roadside Attraction (1972), adolescent hippie cartoon: countercultural fiction
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, The Time of Man (1926): analysis by 6 critics
My Heart and My Flesh (1927): analysis by 5 critics
Jingling in the Wind (1928): analysis by 5 critics
The Great Meadow (1930): analysis by 6 critics
A Buried Treasure (1931): analysis by 5 critics
He Sent Forth a Raven (1935): analysis by 5 critics
Black Is My Truelove's Hair (1938): analysis by 5 critics
Robinson, Marilynne, Housekeeping (1981): analysis by chapter
3 critics discuss Housekeeping
Gilead (2004): 6 reviews
Home (2008): 6 reviews
Lila (2014): 10 reviews
Roth, Philip, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969): analysis by 2 critics
American Pastoral (1997): analysis
Salinger, J. D., Catcher in the Rye (1951): analysis by 21 critics
Silko, Leslie Marmon, Ceremony (1977): analysis
Sontag, Susan, Death Kit (1967): analysis
Sorrentino, Gilbert, Mulligan Stew (1979): analysis
Stafford, Jean, Boston Adventure (1944): analysis by 10 critics
The Mountain Lion (1947): analysis by 13 critics
The Catherine Wheel (1952): analysis by 12 critics
Stegner, Wallace, The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943): analysis by 10 critics
The Preacher and the Slave (1950); retitled Joe Hill (1969): analysis by 3 critics
Genesis (1959): analysis by 5 critics
Wolf Willow (1962), blended genres: analysis by 4 critics
All the Little Live Things (1967): analysis by chapter
Angle of Repose (1971): analysis by 13 critics
The Spectator Bird (1976): analysis
Crossing to Safety (1987): review
Steinbeck, John, Tortilla Flat (1935): analysis by 4 critics
In Dubious Battle (1936): analysis by 7 critics
Of Mice and Men (1937): analysis by 8 critics
The Red Pony (1938): analysis
The Grapes of Wrath (1939): analysis by 30 critics
The Grapes of Wrath film adaptation (1940): analysis
Cannery Row (1944): analysis by 4 critics
East of Eden (1953): analysis by 7 critics
Stone, Robert, Dog Soldiers (1974): analysis
Children of Light (1985): review
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852): analysis by 4 critics
Styron, William, Lie Down in Darkness (1951): analysis by 3 critics
Set This House on Fire (1960): analysis
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967): analysis by 6 critics
Sophie’s Choice (1979): analysis by 3 critics
Tate, Allen, The Fathers (1938): analysis by 16 critics
Taylor, Peter, A Woman of Means (1950): analysis by 4 critics
Thoreau, Henry David, Walden (1854): analysis by chapter
40 critics discuss Walden
Toole, John Kennedy, A Confederacy of Dunces (1980): commentary by 3 critics
Toomer, Jean, Cane (1923): analysis by 5 critics
Twain, Mark, Roughing It (1872): analysis by 8 critics
Huckleberry Finn (1884): analysis by chapter
rebuttals to 12 aesthetic and racial criticisms of Huckleberry Finn
further defense of the ending of Huckleberry Finn
themes, motifs & patterns in Huckleberry Finn
pastoral structure of Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889): analysis by 10 critics
Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894): analysis by 20 critics
Tyler, Royall, The Algerine Captive (1797): commentary
Updike, John, The Witches of Eastwick (1984): analysis by chapter
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five (1969): analysis
Wallace, David Foster, Infinite Jest (1996): analysis by 2 critics
Warren, Robert Penn, All the King’s Men (1946): analysis by 14 critics
Welch, James, Winter in the Blood (1974): review
The Death of Jim Loney (1979): review
Fools Crow (1986): review
The Indian Lawyer (1990): review
Welty, Eudora, The Robber Bridegroom (1942): analysis
Delta Wedding (1946): analysis by 4 critics
The Ponder Heart (1953): analysis by 4 critics
Losing Battles (1970): analysis by 4 critics
The Optimist’s Daughter (1973): analysis by 5 critics
West, Nathanael, The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931): analysis
Miss Lonelyhearts (1933): analysis by 5 critics
A Cool Million (1934): analysis
The Day of the Locust (1939): analysis by chapter
7 critics discuss The Day of the Locust
Wharton, Edith, The House of Mirth (1905): analysis by chapter
The House of Mirth film adaptation (2000): analysis
Ethan Frome (1911): analysis by 8 critics
The Age of Innocence (1925): analysis by 6 critics
Wilder, Thornton, The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927): analysis by 6 critics
Heaven’s My Destination (1935): analysis by 3 critics
The Ides of March (1948): analysis by 2 critics
Wilson, Harriet E., Our Nig (1859): commentary
Wister, Owen, The Virginian (1902): analysis by 5 critics
Wolfe, Thomas, Look Homeward, Angel (1929): analysis by 6 critics
Of Time and the River (1935): analysis by 4 critics
The Web and the Rock (1939): analysis by 3 critics
You Can’t Go Home Again (1940): analysis by 3 critics
Wolfe, Tom, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968): analysis
Wright, Richard, Native Son (1940): analysis in detail by 10 critics
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