Transformation in the form of rebirth and renewal has long been a central theme in literature. This volume explores this theme as found in 'Crime and Punishment', 'Heart of Darkness', 'The Tempest', 'Their Eyes Were Watching God', and many more works.
Rebirth and Renewal provides about 20 explanatory essays and critical analyses from which students studying literature can gain valuable insights.
CONTENTS
Series Introduction by Harold Bloom: Themes and Metaphors
Volume Introduction by Harold Bloom
- The Aeneid, "Book 6" (Virgil)
- The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
- Beloved (Toni Morrison)
- Beowulf
- Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky)
- Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
- Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)
- The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
- The Holy Sonnets (John Donne)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
- King Lear (William Shakespeare)
- "Little Gidding" from Four Quartets (Thomas Stearns Eliot)
- The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
- Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
- The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
- The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Acknowledgments
Index
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