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Coverage of more than 34,000 special libraries and information centers includes detailed contact and descriptive information on subject-specific resource collections maintained by various government agencies, businesses, publishers, educational and nonprofit…
Criticism and evaluations of both new and established authors who are living or who have died since 1959. Each volume in this series contains approximately 500 individual critical excerpts (about…
The Contemporary Literary Criticism series provides criticism and evaluations of both new and established authors who are living or who have died since 1959. This text provides an index to…
This text is part of a series that presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and non-fiction writers of 1900 to 1959.
This volume covers post-1945 American novelists. Like other volumes in the series, it discusses the lives and careers of individual authors and summarizes critical responses to their work, from initial…
Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 of the greatest writers and thinkers of the late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Restoration periods by providing full-text or excerpted…
This is one of a series of volumes providing critical excerpts and biographical information on eight to ten major poets from all eras. Each entry provides an introductory biographical sketch…
Critical evaluations of the principal works of authors from the period 1900-1959. The entries contain excerpts from criticism representing the entire range of critical response to an author or to…
Provides excerpts from criticism of the works of authors who died between 1400 and 1800. Designed to complement literature courses, each volume focuses on a specific literary/history topic. Topics covered…
Provides excerpts from criticism of the works of authors who lived between 1400 and 1800. Designed to complement literature courses, each volume focuses on a specific literary/history topic. Topics covered…
This volume presents substantial exercepts from the best criticism on major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists, poets, playwrights, scientists and literary theorists of 1900 to 1959.
Turn to this authoritative international resource for complete critical coverage of the careers and works of the greatest writers and thinkers of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the…
The author profiles contained in this volume have been revised and updated, and they completely replace the original Contemporary Authors entries. A softcover cumulative index is published twice per year…
This text presents data on the world’s most popular authors presenting a resource suitable for professionals such as librarian to identify what patrons are reading and who they’ll be studying…
Biographical entries on twenty-first-century American novelists –
A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book –Title page.
Contains biographical entries on twenty-first-century Brazilian writers –
Treats the sources and inspirations, writing, reception, and cultural influence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, including its adaptation to stage and screen. Also includes a timeline on events in Shelley’s life…
Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of all sorts–poets, playwrights, chroniclers, philosophers, religious figures, and writers from other genres–from every region…
