Authors:Jackson R.Bryer, Jackson R.Bryer, Walter B.Rideout, B
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: vol, authors, american, modern, sixteen
Number of Pages: 831
Published: 1989
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 082231018X
ISBN-13: 9780822310181

Praise for the earlier edition:“Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to Fifteen Modern American Authors (1969) as an indispensable guide to significant scholarship and criticism about twentieth-century American writers. In its new form—Sixteenth Modern American Authors—it will continue to be indispensable. If it is not a desk-book for all Americanists, it is a book to be kept in the forefront of the bibliographical compartment of their brains.”—American Studies“An indispensable research took (has) maintained and even increased its indispensability. No r

Authors:F. Scott Fitzgerald,  Jackson R. Bryer Bryer,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, paradise
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0199546215
ISBN-13: 9780199546213

Fitzgerald’s first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman’s Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920.F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise, made him instantly famous, and prefigured the themes and characters in later works such as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. A thinly disguised ac

Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: conversations, series, literary, hellman, lillian
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 1986-10-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0878052933
ISBN-13: 9780878052936

This volume includes twenty-six conversations with Lillian Hellman, ranging from early newspaper interviews on the occasions of the Broadway openings of her plays through extended talks with her which appears in the Paris Review, Esquire, and Rolling Stone, down to her last interviews in the early 1980s.In all these interviews, Miss Hellman gives her own account of her eventful and exciting life, her evaluations and analyses of her plays and accounts of how and why they came to be written. Throughout, her views are expressed with the pungency, directness, honesty, and wit which made Lillian He

Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: conversations, series, literary, wilder, thornton
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0878055142
ISBN-13: 9780878055142

Known today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably America’s most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever to be honored with Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. This collection of interviews with Wilder covers the full range of his sixty-year career as one of America’s leading men of letters. In addition to American interviews, this book includes translations of interviews published originally in French and German that have never appeared in English previously. It includes a transcription of a rare radio interview conducted by Rex St

Authors:Jackson R. Bryer, Jackson R. Bryer,
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Keywords: approaches, teaching, literature, world, fitzgerald, gatsby
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2009-01-30
List price: $19.75
ISBN-10: 1603290214
ISBN-13: 9781603290210

"Who is this Gatsby anyhow?" Answering that question, voiced by one of the book s characters, is fundamental to teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald s The Great Gatsby. Although there is no simple answer, classroom analysis of this classic American novel can lead to a rich exploration of the colorful yet contradictory period Fitzgerald dubbed the Jazz Age. The novel also prompts considerations of novelistic technique, specifically point of view, characterization, and narrative structure.This volume aims to give instructors of The Great Gatsby multiple tools and strategies for teaching the novel and fo

Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: Lenox Hill Pub
Keywords: critical, tradition, american, reception, scott, fitzgerald
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 1978-10
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0891021116
ISBN-13: 9780891021117

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: G. W. Dillingham Co. Subjects: American wit and humor Humor / General Literary Collections / American / General Literary Criticism / American / General Reference / Bibliographies

Authors:Jackson R. Bryer, Mary C. Hartig,
Publisher: Facts on File
Keywords: companion, literature, drama, american, facts, file
Number of Pages: 642
Published: 2010-04
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0816077487
ISBN-13: 9780816077489

One volume of a series of companion works to genres of American literature. The Facts On File Companion to American Drama is an encyclopedic guide to American dramatic literature. It contains approximately 650 entries, ranging in length from 500 to 1,500 words, that cover playwrights of the pre-20th century up through contemporary ones, major plays, important theater companies and movements, and influential directors and critics. With contributions from a collection of scholars, this volume presents the full history of the genre, with emphasis on 20th-century dramatic literature. Many entries