In this book, Mark Jancovich concentrates on the works of three leading American writers - Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate - in order to examine the development of the New Criticism during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and its establishment within the academy in the late 1930s[...]
Why are some contemporary television shows so compelling? "The Sopranos", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Friends", and "ER" are examples among many of a new era of the 'must-see' program. These shows and others, like "The X-Files" and "Ally McBeal", have a compulsiveness, a depth of characterization a[...]