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Resources for Literary Analysis: Individual Authors or Works

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By Author

Here's just a sample of books we have that are about authors. Be sure to also search the Library Catalog as well as articles in Literature Resource Center and Academic Search Complete.

Conversations with Sherman Alexie
Call Number: STACKS: PS 3551 .L35774 Z46 2009
Critical Insights: Sherman Alexie
Call Number: STACKS: PS3551 .L35774 Z85 2012
Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays
Call Number: STACKS: PS3551 .L35774 Z87 2010
Understanding Sherman Alexie
Call Number: STACKS: PS3551 .L35774 Z67 2005
Critical Insights: Isabel Allende
Call Number: STACKS: PQ8098.1 .L54 Z696 2011
Isabel Allende: A Critical Companion
Call Number: STACKS: PQ8098.1 .L54 Z66 2003
Julia Alvarez: A Critical Companion
Rudolfo A. Anaya: A Critical Companion
Maya Angelou: A Critical Companion
Call Number: STACKS: PS3551.N464 Z7578 1998
Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion
Bloom's Modern Critical Views: James Baldwin
Call Number: PS3552 .A45 Z7235 2007
Critical Insights: James Baldwin
Call Number: STACKS: PS3552 .A45 Z72355 2011
Amiri Baraka
Biography and criticisms of individual works.
Amiri Baraka: Poet and Playwright
Call Number: STACKS: PS 3552 .A583 1991
Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual
Call Number: STACKS: PS3552 .A583 Z93 2001
Ray Bradbury: A Critical Companion
Conversations with Octavia Butler
Call Number: STACKS PS3552 .U827 Z46 2010
The Stories of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study
Call Number: STACKS: PS3553.A7894 Z78 1995
Reading Michael Chabon
Bloom's Modern Critical Views: Kate Chopin
Call Number: STACKS: PS1294 .C63 Z73 2007
Lucille Clifton: Her Life and Letters
Critical Companion to Dante
Call Number: STACKS PQ4335 .R88 2008
Critical Insights: Emily Dickinson
Call Number: STACKS PS1541 .Z5 E385 2011
An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia
Call Number: REF PS1541.Z49 E47 1998
Bloom's Major Poets: Emily Dickinson
Call Number: STACKS: PS1294.C63 A6434 1999
The Critical Response to Ralph Ellison
Call Number: STACKS: PS3555.L625 Z635 2000
Louise Erdrich: A Critical Companion
Call Number: STACKS: PS3555.R42 Z87 1999
William Faulkner A to Z
Call Number: PS3511.A86 Z459 2002
Faulkner's Place
Call Number: PS3511 .A86 Z8945 1997
Ernest J. Gaines: A Critical Companion
Call Number: STACKS: PS3557 .A355 Z62 1998
Critical Insights: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Call Number: STACKS: PQ8180.17 .A73 Z67346 2010
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Critical Companion
Critical Insights: Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: STACKS: PS3515 .E37 Z586555 2010
Reading Khaled Hosseini
Call Number: STACKS: PS3608 .O832 Z87 2009
The Inside Light: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston
Student Companion to Zora Neale Hurston
The Zora Neale Hurston Companion
Call Number: REF PS3515 .U789 Z464 2002
Barbara Kingsolver: A Critical Companion
Call Number: STACKS: PS3561.I496 Z64 1999
Critical Insights: Barbara Kingsolver
Call Number: STACKS: PS3561 .I496 Z59 2010
Reading Barbara Kingsolver
Call Number: STACKS: PS3561 .I496 Z69 2009
Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion
Call Number: STACKS: PS3561 .I52 Z695 2001
Ursula K. LeGuin: A Critical Companion
Call Number: STACKS: PS3562 .E42 Z54 2006
David Mamet: A Research and Production Sourcebook
Gender & Genre: Essays on David Mamet
Call Number: STACKS: PS3563.A4345 Z77 2001
Understanding Melville's Short Fiction: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Bloom's Modern Critical Views: Arthur Miller
Call Number: STACKS: PS3525 .I5156 Z5145 2007
Critical Response to Arthur Miller
Call Number: STACKS PS3525 .I5156 Z623 2006
Student Companion to Arthur Miller
Critical Insights: Toni Morrison
Call Number: REF PS3563 .O8749 Z8945 2010
Reading Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison: A Biography
Toni Morrison: A Critical Companion
Call Number: STACKS: PS3563.O8749 Z75 1998
The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia
Call Number: REF PS3563 .O8749 Z913 2003
The Fiction of Alice Munro: An Appreciation
Tim O'Brien: A Critical Companion
A Trauma Artist: Tim O'Brien and the Fiction of Vietnam
Call Number: STACKS: PS3565.B75 Z65 2001
Flannery O'Connor: A Biography
The Poe Encyclopedia
Call Number: REF PS2630 .P58 1997
Shakespeare A to Z
Call Number: REF PR2892 .B69 1991
Bloom's Major Poets: Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems
Call Number: STACKS: PR2848 .B58 1999
The Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guide
Shakespeare's Language
Student Companion to John Steinbeck
Kurt Vonnegut: A Critical Companion
Alice Walker: A Critical Companion
Conversations with David Foster Wallace by Stephen J. Burn (Editor)
The Legacy of David Foster Wallace by Samuel Cohen (Editor); Lee Konstantinou (Editor)
The Cambridge Companion of August Wilson
Call Number: STACKS: PS 3573 .I45677 Z6 2007
Student Companion to Richard Wright
Social Issues in Literature: Racism in the Autobiography of Malcolm X
Call Number: STACKS: BP223 .Z8 L5767 2009

By Work

Here's just a sample of books we have that are about individual works by authors. Be sure to also search the Library Catalog as well as articles in Literature Resource Center and Academic Search Complete.

The Awakening: An Authoritative Text, Biographical and Historical Contexts, Criticism
Call Number: STACKS: PS1294.C63 A6 1994
Kate Chopin's work
Bloom's ReViews: Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Call Number: STACKS: PS1294.C63 A6434 1999
Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Casebook
Call Number: STACKS: PS 3563 .O8749 B438 1999
Norton Critical Edition: Beowulf
Call Number: STACKS: PR1583 .D6 2002
New Essays on Billy Budd
Call Number: STACKS: PS2384 .B7 N49
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony: A Casebook
Call Number: STACKS: PS3569 .I44 C45 2002
Understanding Ceremony: A Student Casebook on Issues, Sources and Historical Documents
Bloom's ReViews: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Call Number: STACKS: PS3525.I5156 D433 1999
Critical Insights: Death of a Salesman
Call Number: STACKS: PS3525 .I5156 D4337 2010
Interpretations: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Call Number: STACKS: PS3525 .I5156 D433 2006
Suicide in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Call Number: STACKS: PS3525 .I5156 D4375 2008
Don Quijote: A New Translation, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism
Call Number: STACKS: PQ6329 .A2 1999
Miguel De Cervantes' work
Bloom's Modern Critical Views: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Call Number: STACKS: PR5397 .F73 M38 2007
Critical Insights: Grapes of Wrath
Call Number: PS3537 .T3234 Z712 2011
The Grapes of Wrath: Text and Criticism
Call Number: RESERVES: PS3537.T3234 G8 1997
Critical Insights: The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Call Number: STACKS: PR9199.3 .A8 H3163 2010
Hard Times--An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
Call Number: STACKS: PR4561 .A2 K36 2001
Charles Dickens' work
Heart of Darkness: An Authoritative Text, Background and Sources, Criticism
Call Number: STACKS: PR6005 .O4 H4 1988
Joseph Conrad's work
Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Sandra Cisnero's The House on Mango Street
Call Number: STACKS: PS 3553 .I78 H633 2010
Critical Insights: The House on Mango Street
Call Number: STACKS: PS3553 .I78 H627 2011
Critical Insights: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Call Number: STACKS: PS3551 .N464 Z695 2010
Norton Critical Edition: The Importance of Being Earnest
Call Number: STACKS: PR5818 .I4 2006
Critical Insights: The Inferno
Call Number: STACKS: PQ4443 .I525 2012
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Call Number: STACKS PS3555 .L625 I5365 2004
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Reference Guide
Critical Insights: The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan
Call Number: STACKS: PS3570 .A48 J6346 2010
The Norton Critical Edition: Kafka's Selected Stories
Call Number: STACKS: PT2621 .A26 A226 2007
Understanding King Lear: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, Historical Documents
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition
Call Number: STACKS PS3204 .M66 2002
Vladimir Nabakov's Lolita: A Casebook
Call Number: STACKS: PS3527 .A15 L638 2003
Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook
Call Number: STACKS PS3555 .R42 L635 2000
Norton Critical Edition: Macbeth
Call Number: STACKS: PR2823 .AZ M3 2003
Critical Insights: The Metamorphosis
Call Number: STACKS: PT2621 .A26 V435 2012
Critical Insights: Mrs. Dalloway
Call Number: STACKS: PR6045 .O72 M737 2012
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Text and Criticism
Call Number: STACKS: PS3561.E667 O6 1977
Ken Kesey's work
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Casebook
Call Number: STACKS PQ8180.17 .A73 C5323 2002
Critical Insights: Slaughterhouse-Five
Call Number: STACKS: PS3572 .O5 S638 2011
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: A Casebook
Call Number: STACKS PS3563 .O8749 S64 2003
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook
Call Number: STACKS: PS 3515 .U789 T639 2000
Bloom's Modern Critical Views: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
Call Number: STACKS: PS3565 .B75 T56 2005
Walden, and Reistance to Civil Government: Authoritative Texts, Thoreau's Journal, Reviews, and Essays in Criticism
Call Number: STACKS: PS3048 .A1 1992
White Noise: Text and Criticism
Call Number: STACKS: PS3554.E4425 W48 1998
Don Dellilo's work
Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: A Casebook
Call Number: STACKS E184 .C5 K5 2005