Toni Morrison: The Essential Guide (Vintage Living Texts, 14) - Softcover

Reynolds, Margaret; Noakes, Jonathan; Joyner, Louisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 009943766X ISBN 13: 9780099437666

Publisher: Vintage, 2003

Synopsis

In Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Toni Morrison. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Toni Morrison, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Morrison's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for the novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, extracts from reviews, a biography, bibliography and a glossary of literary terms.

Whether a teacher, student or general reader, Vintage Living Texts gives you the chance to explore new resources and enjoy new pleasures.

About this title

About the Author

Margaret Reynolds is a writer, academic, critic and broadcaster. Her critical edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize. Other books include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion, Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology (with Angela Leighton) and a series of study guides on contemporary writers, Vintage Living Texts. She is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's long running 'Adventures in Poetry'.

From the Inside Flap

In Vintage Living Texts, students, teachers, and general readers will find essential guides to some of the most exciting works in contemporary literature. Each guide focuses on three or four works by a major novelist; the series is unique in that it offers exclusive in depth interviews with the authors relating specifically to the texts under discussion. Readers are introduced to the writers themes, genres, and narrative techniques, and a close reading of the guides provides a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Each of these outstanding books is complete with detailed reading plans for the novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative readings, extracts from reviews, and a biography, bibliography, and glossary of literary terms.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 009943766X
• ISBN 13: 9780099437666
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224