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Ideal for students and theatre enthusiasts alike, this lively and authoritative guide presents key information, clearly set out, on all Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works, covering plots and people, sources, context, performance history and major themes. Ordered alphabetically for easy reference, each play entry features a 'key facts' box providing informative and revealing statistics, including a breakdown of each play's major roles.

This title offers a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature. This volume -- the only reference work devoted exclusively to African American fiction of the last 35 years -- presents a wealth of factual and interpretive information about the major authors, texts, movements, and ideas that have shaped contemporary African American fiction.

In this volume, the editors have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary Black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies.

Accessible and jargon-free, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory provides lucid, concise explanations of myriad approaches to literature that have arisen over the past forty years.

This six-volume set explores the history of women and feminism throughout literature, from classical antiquity to modern times. Topics covered include misogyny and women's social roles in ancient civilizations, 16th-century women's devotional literature, 17th- and 18th-century women's captivity narratives, the women's suffrage movement in 19th-century America, women writers of the Lost Generation, lesbian literature, modern feminist theory, criticism and scholarship and much more.

For too long U.S. Latino literature has not been thought of as an integral part of the overall shared American literary landscape, but that is slowly changing. This dictionary aims to rectify some of those misconceptions by proving that Latinos do fundamentally express American issues, concerns and perspectives with a flair in linguistic cadences, familial themes, distinct world views, and cross-cultural voices. The book contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has cross-referenced entries on U.S. Latino/a authors, and terms relevant to the nature of U.S. Latino literature in order to illustrate and corroborate its foundational bearings within the overall American literary experience.

This book examines 24 of the most popular and culturally significant topics within African American literature's long and immensely fascinating history.

This text is a reference work which arises as a response to the transitions in literary studies. As such, it provides readers with an array of traditional and essential literary concepts and period terms while also enumerating a wide variety of concepts associated with the advent of "high theory" and the emergence of poststructuralist and postmodernist thought.

This book introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing how to perform literary analysis and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories.

This text presents over 40 essays by leading and emerging international scholars of Latino/a literature and analyses, covering regional, cultural and sexual identities in Latino/a literature; worldviews and traditions of Latino/a cultural creation; Latino/a literature in different international contexts; the impact of differing literary forms of Latino/a literature; and the politics of canon formation in Latino/a literature.

A comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present .

With the literary canon consisting mostly of works created by and about men, the central perspective is decidedly male. This unique reference offers alternate approaches to reading traditional literature, as well as suggestions for expanding the canon to include more gender sensitive works.