From her earliest collection of poetry (Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie, LJ 10/15/71) to her latest (On the Pulse of Morning, delivered at the inauguration of President Clinton on January 20, 1993), Angelou's work never fails to grip the imagination. In this anthology, she comments on love, traveling, and aging.
Maya Angelou is an author who is as popularly received as she is critically praised. Her memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice in American letters, noteworthy for its meditation on identity and how notions of race, ethnicity, and gender contribute to and complicate journeys of self-actualization and self-discovery. How to Write about Maya Angelou encourages students to sharpen their critical-thinking skills when writing essays about this venerable author. Bibliographies, an index, and an introduction from esteemed scholar Harold Bloom round out this title.
This clear, succinct primer for literary theory provides students with a useful guide to contemporary theory and methodologies. Theoretical overviews summarize each literary approach for clarification and Application Essays by well-known scholars, on works by authors such as Shakespeare, Austen, Melville, Faulkner, and Angelou, represent the stated principles.
The Heart of a Woman is an autobiography by African-American writer Maya Angelou, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in 1997. The book is the fourth installment in Angelou's series of six autobiographies, thus enlarging the autobiography in both form and content, something critic Mary Jane Lupton calls "a narrative structure unsurpassed in American autobiography". The title is taken from a poem by Harlem Renaissance poet Georgia Douglas Johnson, which connects Angelou with other African American female writers for the first time. Lupton also calls this book Angelou's "most introspective".[
Maya Angelou (Bloom's Major Poets)A literature of black women's courage and experience is at the heart of Angelou's writing.
This title, Maya Angelou, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Maya Angelou through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Maya Angelou, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
