Social issues in literature
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Women's issues in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
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Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Provides background on the life of American author John Steinbeck and the influences that shaped his life and work, features critical essays that explore industrialism as portrayed in his novel "The Grapes of Wrath," and examines issues of industrialism in the twenty-first century.
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Male and female roles in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
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Racism in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
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Racism in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Suicide in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
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Civil rights in Richard Wright's Native Son
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Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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Contemporary perspectives on depression. Provides background on the life of author J.D. Salinger and the influences that shaped his work, features twelve articles that explore depression as portrayed in his novel "The Catcher in the Rye," and examines issues of depression in the twenty-first century.
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Genocide in Elie Wiesel's Night
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Race relations in Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country
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War in Joseph Heller's Catch-22
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Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Provides background on the life of English novelist George Orwell and his influences, features eleven articles that explore the abuse of power in his novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," and examines issues of the abuse of power in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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The American dream in John Steinbeck's of Mice and men
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Bioethics in Aldous Huxley's Brave new world
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Corruption in William Shakespeare's Hamlet
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The environment in Henry David Thoreau's Walden
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Freedom of thought in Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee's Inherit the wind
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Gender in Lorraine Hansberry's a Raisin in the Sun
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Mental illness in Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest
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Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Discussions include how the protagonist's female gender affects reaction to the book's coming-of-age message, how themes of oppression and marginalization play out among the characters, and what Esperanza's personality says about her relationships to males in the novel. --from publisher description
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Politics in George Orwell's Animal farm
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Social and psychological disorder in the works of Edgar Allan Poe
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Censorship in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
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Class conflict in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
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The environment in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
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Genocide in Anne Frank's the Diary of a young girl
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Race in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man
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Tyranny in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
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Provides background on the life of American novelist Tim O'Brien and his influences, features twenty-three articles that explore war in his novel "The Things They Carried," and examines issues of war in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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Depression in Sylvia Plath's The bell jar
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Peer-pressure and teen violence in S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders
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Poverty in John Steinbeck's The pearl
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Race in William Shakespeare's Othello
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Women's issues in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale
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Women's issues in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God
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Coming of age in Sue Monk Kidd's The secret life of bees
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Family dysfunction in William Faulkner's As I lay dying
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War in Erich Maria Remarque's All quiet on the Western front
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Death in Ernest Hemingway's The old man and the sea
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Sexuality in the comedies of William Shakespeare
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Sexuality in William Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream
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Violence in Burgess' Clockwork Orange
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Violence in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy
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War in Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to arms
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Wildness in Jack London's The call of the wild
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