This reference work includes alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 150 fictional detectives, with an emphasis on contemporary figures. The volume provides coverage of familiar and less familiar detectives; male and female protagonists and figures from a wide range of historical, cultural, and geographical settings. Entries discuss the various novels in which the detective appears; the character's locale and time period; the detective's associates, adversaries, and significant others; and the character's investigative techniques.
How well do you really know your favorite author? Ace literary detective turned quizmaster John Sutherland challenges readers to find out. Starting with easy, factual questions that test how well you remember a novel and its characters, the quiz progresses to a level of greater difficulty, demanding close reading and interpretative deduction. What really motivates the characters, and what is going on beneath the surface of the story? Entertaining and diverting, the questions and answers take the reader on an imaginative journey into the world of Thomas Hardy.
Included are chapters on: Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"; E.M. Forster's "Howards End"; James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; D.H. Lawrence's "Women in Love"; T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Wasteland"; and, Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway". Each chapter provides biographical information; a plot summary; an analysis of themes, style, symbols, and characters; and a discussion of the work's historical and cultural contexts.
The Talking Heads were developed to introduce grammar charts on the CD-ROM that accompany the book. I wanted to find a way to speak directly to students who were using a computer program. To do this, I came up with the solution of creating grammar characters, animated cartoon characters named for aspects of English grammar. I affectionately call them Talking Heads.
—Betty Azar
Each Talking Head animation talks about a grammar point.
The Talking Heads were developed to introduce grammar charts on the CD-ROM that accompany the book. I wanted to find a way to speak directly to students who were using a computer program. To do this, I came up with the solution of creating grammar characters, animated cartoon characters named for aspects of English grammar. I affectionately call them Talking Heads.
—Betty Azar
Each Talking Head animation talks about a grammar point.
