Native Americans have produced some of the most powerful and lyrical literature ever written in North America. This volume examines some of the finest Native American writers, including Joy Harjo, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Sherman Alexie, N. Scott Momaday, Samsom Occom, Zitkala-Sa, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Yale literature professor Harold Bloom introduces this new edition, which also features a bibliography, a chronology, and an index for easy reference. This title presents a well-rounded critical portrait of an influential group of writers by examining their body of work through full-length essays.

AMERICAN WRITERS, Supplement VI

This volume is mostly about contemporary writers, many of whom have received little sustained attention from critics. For example, William Gass, Charles Johnson, Irving Howe, Susan Minot, Grace Paley, Reynolds Price, Stanley Elkin, and Jane Smiley have been written about in the review pages of newspapers and magazines, but their work has yet to attract significant scholarship.

Aldous Huxley (New Edition) (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Aldous Huxley has been called the 20th century's answer to the Renaissance thinker. He gained fame from his utopian and dystopian fiction, including Brave New World, Point Counter Point, Crome Yellow, and Ape and Essence. Learn more about Huxley through the work of respected critics included in this text.

American Modernism, 1914-1945 (Research Guide to American Literature)

American Modernism: 1914–1945 covers American literature during the time of war and Depression in the first half of the 20th century. This new research guide brings this important literary period to life, providing students with strategies for studying and writing.