books by Ross C. Murfin

books by Ross C. Murfin

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Ross C. Murfin

The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories (Signet Classics)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Signet Classics, 2006

SKIP THE RAILROAD AND GET TO THE REAL STORIES
This is a nice pocket book edition of some of Nathaniel Hawthorne's greatest short stories. It's just the right size to carry around in your back pocket to read whenever you're stuck somewhere waiting for whatever it is. Hawthorne, with his Puritan ancestry, was ...

The Scarlet Letter (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

The Scarlet Letter (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005

What Good Or Healthy Things Will You Sacrifice To Please Your Community?
I like the cover of this publication of the novel and related writings because it places the focus where the focus should be - on an abandoned mother and an innocent child. It does not focus on the community's over zealous, unwarranted, and destructive symbol of shame ...

Heart of Darkness: a Case Study in Contemporary Criticism

Joseph; Murfin, Ross C.(ed) Conrad

St. Martin's Press, 1989

"Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works
I read this book for a graduate Humanities course. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 is a seminal work about the ills of colonialism, as well as a postmodern look at the subject of mankind. Conrad's book had a crucial influence on five important ...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Mark Twain

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

This critical edition is designed for "teaching the conflicts" surrounding Mark Twain's classic novel. It reprints the 1885 text of the first American edition (with a portfolio of illustrations) along with critical essays representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work. In addition to several new critical essays, the ...

Heart of Darkness (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)

Joseph Conrad

Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996

Colonialism/Antin-colonialism
Joseph Conrad is an amazing writer; he uses the English language of the late 19th and early 20th centuries beautifully, he describes the colonial world at its apogee, he tells engrossing stories but even his seemingly potboiler plots (such as The Secret Sharer) raise ...

The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms

Ross C. Murfin, Supryia M. Ray

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006

comprehensive and lucid
This glossary is one of the best I have seen, combining both exhaustive and detailed enteries as well as a wide range of coverage. Literary periods from Old English to the Postmodern are discussed in detail - the article on postmodernism is almost six pages. Critical ...