This addition to the Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series focuses on Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Gathered here is a collection of well-respected critical essays on the text, discussing topics such as the philosophical background of the work, satire, and more.
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.
Rat (Animal series) by Jonathan BurtThe rat has been described as the shadow of the human. In this fascinating account of the rat in history, myth, and culture, Jonathan Burt traces the contradictory human relationship with rats from the first archaeological finds to the genetically engineered rats of the present day. He explores the representation of rats in the arts and sciences, religion and myth, and psychoanalysis and medicine, and shows the complex range of human attitudes that the rodent provokes.
Added by: Cheramie | Karma: 275.78 | Fiction literature | 27 December 2009
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The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections is a novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. It revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the mid-twentieth century to "one last Christmas" together near the turn of the millennium.
Added by: Cheramie | Karma: 275.78 | Fiction literature | 22 December 2009
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Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) is an American author best known for his novels Everything is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) and Eating Animals (2009).
