Literary Criticism
Cliffs Notes: Vonnegut's Major Works
Kurt Vonnegut takes on many aspects of life and America, science and fantasy. He points a camera at society and individuals, obscures certain elements of narrative device, and then reveals a twisted, yet recognizable picture.
Latin American Women Dramatists
Contributors discuss the works of 15 Latin American playwrights and delineate the artistic lives of these women dramatists.
The Modern Construction of Myth
Andrew Von Hendy offers an integrated critical account of the career of myth in modernity.
A Schnittke Reader
This compilation assembles previously published and unpublished essays by Schnittke and supplements them with an interview with cellist and scholar Alexander Ivashkin. The book is illustrated with musical examples, many of them in Schnittke's own hand.
Derrida and Husserl
What is the nature of the relationship of Jacques Derrida and deconstruction to Edmund Husserl and phenomenology? Is deconstruction a radical departure from phenomenology or does it trace its origins to the phenomenological project?
Aspects of the Novel
The Clark Lectures, sponsored by Trinity College of the University of Cambridge, have had a long and distinguished history and have featured remarks by some of England's most important literary minds. Leslie Stephen, T.S. Eliot, F.R. Leavis, William Empson and I.A.
Cliffs Notes: McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses is the first novel in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy.
Cliffs Notes: Rand's Atlas Shrugged
Who is John Galt? This famous rhetorical question rings through Ayn Rand's best-selling novel as the people's anthem of despair in depressed economic times.
Cliffs Notes: Zola's Nana
Zola's heroine Nana is a prostitute in Napoleon III's France for whom rich men give up their fortunes, and poor men their lives, yet Nana squanders fortunes and her life ends in squalor.
Cliffs Notes: Racine's Phaedra & Andromache
This concise supplement to Jean B. Racine's Phaedra and Andromache helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author.