This seminal work by the renowned Russian folklorist presents his groundbreaking structural analysis of classic fairytales and their genres.

The book as a whole raises directly issues that have been only implicit in Jameson's earlier work, namely the relationship between dialectics and structuralism, and the tension between the German and the French aesthetic traditions.

J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century is “a triumph” (Chicago Sun-Times) that not only gives readers a deeper understanding of Tolkien and his work, but also serves as an entertaining introduction to some of the most influential novels ...

The author relates her theories of literary criticism to the total aesthetic experience.

An award-winning play from one of America’s most brilliant writers about a murder in a small Southern town, loosely based on the 1955 killing of Emmett Till. • "A play with fires of fury in its belly, tears of anguish in its eyes, a ...

Maya Angelou's poetry -- lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful -- speaks of love, longing and partings.

This collection of essays and reviews from the Book-of-the-Month Club offers a unique literary history of American readership in the twentieth century.

Examines seven types of ambiguity, providing examples of it in the writings of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and T.S. Eliot.

Woolf cites the two keys to a woman's freedom: an independent income and a room with a lock on the door.

"As the biographer of both Henry Miller (one of Mailer's heroes) and the radical journalist Louise Bryant, Dearborn is uniquely sensitive to Mailer's best and worst sides."--BOOK JACKET.