Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, & Other Creative Wri

by Scott Peacock

Book Overview

This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists, poets, playwrights and literary theorists, of 1900 to 1999 -- the era most frequently studied in high schools.

Each volume presents overviews of four to eight authors with chronologically arranged criticism representing the entire range of response to each author. A typical excerpt is prefaced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787611727
• ISBN13: 9780787611729
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Gale Cengage