One hundred years of homosexuality

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Suzanne Keen

"This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions. Beginning with an updated survey of major theorists and approaches, and using clearly defined terms, Narrative Form explains critical vocabulary and offers a variety of strategies for analyzing the formal qualities of narrative. Narrative Form shows how to use the language of formal analysis accurately and innovatively when discussing fictional and nonfictional narratives in a variety of media: stories, novels, films, graphic narratives, and video games"--

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Maxine Lavon Montgomery

In this exploration of the relationship between biblical apocalypse and black fiction, Maxine Montgomery argues that American writers see apocalyptic events in an intermediate and secular sense, as a tenable response to racial oppression. This work analyzes the characters, plots, and themes of seven novels that rely on the apocalyptic trope.

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edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

This book, a collection of contemporary criticism on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," contains essays by Michael Moorcock, Jane Chance, Michael N. Stanton, Mark T. Hooker, Jared Lobdell, Marjorie Burns, Andrew Lynch, Sue Zlosnik, Verlyn Flieger, Mary R. Bowman, and Nancy Enright.

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Stanley Aronowitz

An innovative blend of first-person experience and original scholarship, Aronowitz traces the historical development of the American working class from post-Civil War times and shows why radical movements have failed to overcome the forces that tend to divde groups of workers from one another. The rise of labor unions is analyzed, as well as their decline as a force for social change. - Duke University Press, describing its 1991 release of this title.