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Burton Barr Central Library
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813.52 W935nYRi
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On Shelf
- (Checked in: Apr 18 2010 )
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Summary:
"Let Yale University professor Harold Bloom--author of The Western Canon and a leading authority on literature--help develop your understanding of the world's great literary works. Unlike other study guides, Bloom's ReViews offers a wide selection of critical analyses by renowned scholars, as well as concise biographical and bibliographical information and a comprehensive thematic discussion of the plot--all in one handbook." "The ideal aid to all students, Bloom's ReViews is a definitive guide for independent study and a single source for footnoting essays and research papers. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
"Comprehensive research & study guides".
Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-84) and index.
Contents:
- Editor's Note
- Biography of Richard Wright
- Thematic and Structural Analysis
- List of Characters
- Critical Views
- The Book as a Message for America / Malcolm Cowley
- Bigger Thomas as a Descendant of Uncle Tom / James Baldwin
- Narrative Drive and Symbolism in the Book / Robert Bone
- The Book as an Attack on Both Whites and Blacks / Irving Howe
- A Discussion of Wright, Baldwin, and Howe / Ralph Ellison
- The Critical Reception of the Book / Dan McCall
- Wright's Vision of Race and Social Change / Edward Margolies
- Reality and Blindness in the Book / Roger Rosenblatt
- The Emotional Impact of the Book / Dorothy S. Redden
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- The Book and African-American Literature / Sherley Anne Williams
- Narrative Devices in the Book / A. Robert Lee
- The Dramatization of the Book / Judith Giblin Brazinsky
- Bigger's World of Silence / Louis Tremaine
- Bigger Thomas and Mary / Robert James Butler
- Max and the Communist Party / Joyce Ann Joyce
- Use of Language in the Book / Laura E. Tanner
- Misogyny in the Book / Alan W. France
- Surrealism in the Book / Eugene E. Miller
- Existentialism in the Book / Jean-Francois Gounard
- Richard Wright in Paris / James Campbell
- Works / Richard Wright
- Works about Richard Wright and the Book
- Index of Themes and Ideas.
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