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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 27
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English
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Tracing the social and political developments leading to the Dust Bowl, Owens clearly explains how the novel represents Steinbeck's indictment of the Promised Land myth.
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 77
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English
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An examination and study of the novel Native son and why it holds a singular position in American literature.
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 20
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English
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A study of James Joyce's 1914 novel, "Dubliner", with critical commentary and an analysis of the text.
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 106
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English
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Study of the Lord of the Flies within the Swiftian traditions describing its role in the corrupted innocence.
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 4
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English
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Unravels the complex interplay of the realistic, the grotesque, and the sublime, and discusses the multiplicity of meanings held within narrative and poetic forms.
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 31
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English
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An informative and thoughtful consideration of Willa Cather's novel with close textual reading and a comprehensive survey of criticism.
The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants, Ántonia Shimerda, who are each brought as children to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century. Both the pioneers who first break the prairie sod for farming, as...
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 3
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English
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Provides a critical reading of the text and includes discussion of the work's influence, historical context, and critical reception in addition to a chronology, bibliography, and index.
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