Table of Contents
Guest Foreword
"The Informed Dialogue: Interacting with Literature" by Anne Devereaux Jordan...ix
Introduction...xi
Literary Chronology...xv
Acknowledgments...xvii
Contributors...xix
Charming Billy
(by Alice McDermott)...
Author Biography...1
Plot Summary...2
Characters...4
Themes...6
Style...7
Historical Context...7
Critical Overview...8
Criticism...8
Further Reading...19
The English Patient
(by Michael Ondaatje)...20
Author Biography...21
Plot Summary...21
Characters...23
Themes...26
Style...29
Historical Context...30
Critical Overview...31
Criticism...31
Further Reading...51
Gravity's Rainbow
(by Thomas Pynchon)...52
Author Biography...53
Plot Summary...53
Characters...56
Themes...61
Style...62
Historical Context...63
Critical Overview...64
Criticism...65
Further Reading...70
Hotel du Lac
(by Anita Brookner)...71
Author Biography...72
Plot Summary...72
Characters...74
Themes...76
Style...78
Historical Context...78
Critical Overview...80
Criticism...81
Further Reading...88
The Hours
(by Michael Cunningham)...89
Author Biography...89
Plot Summary....90
Characters...93
Themes...94
Style...95
Historical Context...95
Critical Overview...96
Criticism...97
Further Reading...106
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
(by Joanne Greenberg)...107
Author Biography...108
Plot Summary...109
Characters...113
Themes...116
Style...117
Historical Context...118
Critical Overview...120
Criticism...120
Further Reading...131
Kaddish for a Child Not Born
(by Imre Kertész)...132
Author Biography...132
Plot Summary...133
Characters...137
Themes...138
Style...140
Historical Context...140
Critical Overview...142
Criticism...142
Further Reading...154
Middlemarch
(by George Eliot)...155
Author Biography...155
Plot Summary...157
Characters...161
Themes...166
Style...168
Historical Context...170
Critical Overview...171
Criticism...172
Further Reading...175
Midnight's Children
(by Salman Rushdie)...176
Author Biography...176
Plot Summary...177
Characters...179
Themes...182
Style...184
Historical Context...185
Critical Overview...187
Criticism...187
Further Reading...190
Paradise of the Blind
(by Duong Thu Huong)...192
Author Biography...192
Plot Summary...193
Characters...195
Themes...198
Style...200
Historical Context...200
Critical Overview...203
Criticism...203
Further Reading...214
The Razor's Edge
(by W. Somerset Maugham)...215
Author Biography...216
Plot Summary...216
Characters...218
Themes...220
Style...221
Historical Context...222
Critical Overview...223
Criticism...224
Further Reading...245
The Stone Diaries
(by Carol Shields)...246
Author Biography...246
Plot Summary...247
Characters...253
Themes...256
Style...259
Historical Context...260
Critical Overview...261
Criticism...263
Further Reading...271
The Ugly American
(by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick) 272
Author Biography...273
Plot Summary...274
Characters...276
Themes...279
Style...281
Historical Context...282
Critical Overview...284
Criticism...285
Further Reading...293
Winter in the Blood
(by James Welch)...295
Author Biography...295
Plot Summary...297
Characters...298
Themes...299
Style...301
Historical Context...301
Critical Overview...303
Criticism...304
Further Reading...322
Glossary...323
Cumulative Author/Title Index...335
Cumulative Nationality/Ethnicity Index...343
Subject/Theme Index...349
