Sources for Writing about Drama and Novels
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Sources for Writing about Drama
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Brown, Lloyd W. “Lorraine Hansberry as Ironist: A Reappraisal of A Raisin in the Sun.” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 4, no. 3, 1974, pp. 237–47, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2783655.
Carter, Steven R. “Commitment amid Complexity: Lorraine Hansberry’s Life in Action.” MELUS, vol. 7, no. 3, 1980, pp. 39–53, https://doi.org/10.2307/467027.
Devereaux, Michelle D., and Rebecca Wheeler. “Code-Switching and Language Ideologies: Exploring Identity, Power, and Society in Dialectally Diverse Literature.” The English Journal, vol. 102, no. 2, 2012, pp. 93–100, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23365404.
Gordon, Michelle. “‘Somewhat like War’: The Aesthetics of Segregation, Black Liberation, and A Raisin in the Sun.” African American Review, vol. 42, no. 1, 2008, pp. 121–33, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40301308.
Higashida, Cheryl. “To Be(Come) Young, Gay, and Black: Lorraine Hansberry’s Existentialist Routes to Anticolonialism.” American Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 4, 2008, pp. 899–924, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40068555.
Murray, William. “The Roof of a Southern Home: A Reimagined and Usable South in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun.” The Mississippi Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 1–2, 2015, pp. 277–94, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26468027 .
Wang, Qun. “Race, Gender and Class: Lyrics of American Ethnic Literature and Cultures.” Race, Gender & Class, vol. 7, no. 2, 2000, pp. 7–37, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41674935.
Wilkerson, Margaret B. “The Sighted Eyes and Feeling Heart of Lorraine Hansberry.” Black American Literature Forum, vol. 17, no. 1, 1983, pp. 8–13, https://doi.org/10.2307/2904160.
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
Dukore, Bernard F. “Karl Marx’s Youngest Daughter and A Doll’s House.” Theatre Journal, vol. 42, no. 3, 1990, pp. 308–21, https://doi.org/10.2307/3208077.
O’Dwyer, Shaun. “Ibsen’s Nora and the Confucian Critique of the ‘Unencumbered Self.’” Hypatia, vol. 31, no. 4, 2016, pp. 890–906, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44076544.
Rogers, Katharine M. “A Woman Appreciates Ibsen.” The Centennial Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 1974, pp. 91–108, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23738068.
Sasser, Patricia Puckett. “‘To Think and Judge Independently’: The Birgit Krohn Albums and Amateur Music Making in Late-Nineteenth-Century Norway.” Notes, vol. 74, no. 3, 2018, pp. 372–93, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26397511.
Templeton, Joan. “The Doll House Backlash: Criticism, Feminism, and Ibsen.” PMLA, vol. 104, no. 1, 1989, pp. 28–40, https://doi.org/10.2307/462329.
Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
Earnest, Robert Stephen. “An Enemy of the People and Current Environmental Issues.” Ibsen News and Comment, vol. 12, 1991, pp. 20–20, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26578403.
Lindholdt, Paul. “Greening the Dramatic Canon: Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2001, pp. 53–65, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41206990.
McConnell, Terrance. “Moral Combat in An Enemy of the People: Public Health versus Private Interests.” Public Health Ethics, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 80–86, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26644809.
Nagle, Angela. “Enemies of the People: How Hatred of the Masses Bridges Our Partisan Divide.” The Baffler, no. 34, 2017, pp. 44–49, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44466489.
Van Laan, Thomas F. “Generic Complexity in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.” Comparative Drama, vol. 20, no. 2, 1986, pp. 95–114, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41153226.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Cook, Amy. “Staging Nothing: Hamlet and Cognitive Science.” SubStance, vol. 35, no. 2, 2006, pp. 83–99, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4152885.
Dollimore, Jonathan. “Shakespeare, Cultural Materialism, Feminism and Marxist Humanism.” New Literary History, vol. 21, no. 3, 1990, pp. 471–93, https://doi.org/10.2307/469122.
Finkelstein, Richard. “Differentiating Hamlet: Ophelia and the Problems of Subjectivity.” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, vol. 21, no. 2, 1997, pp. 5–22, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43445106.
Fischer, Sandra K. “Hearing Ophelia: Gender and Tragic Discourse in Hamlet.” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 1–10, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43444750.
Keener, Joe. “Evolving Hamlet: Brains, Behavior, and the Bard.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 2012, pp. 150–63, https://doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.14.2.0150.
Levin, Richard. “Feminist Thematics and Shakespearean Tragedy.” PMLA, vol. 103, no. 2, 1988, pp. 125–38, https://doi.org/10.2307/462429.
Rooks, Amanda Kane. “The ‘New’ Ophelia in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet.” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 2, 2014, pp. 475–85, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43798981.
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Diamond, Catherine. “Four Women in the Woods: An Ecofeminist Look at the Forest as Home.” Comparative Drama, vol. 51, no. 1, 2017, pp. 71–100, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26312005.
Hendricks, Margo. “‘Obscured by Dreams’: Race, Empire, and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 1, 1996, pp. 37–60, https://doi.org/10.2307/2871058.
Hunt, Maurice. “A Speculative Political Allegory in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Comparative Drama, vol. 34, no. 4, 2000, pp. 423–53, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41154056.
Montrose, Louis Adrian. “‘Shaping Fantasies’: Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture.” Representations, no. 2, 1983, pp. 61–94, https://doi.org/10.2307/2928384.
Sanchez, Melissa E. “‘Use Me But as Your Spaniel’: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Early Modern Sexualities.” PMLA, vol. 127, no. 3, 2012, pp. 493–511, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41616842.
August Wilson, Fences
Koprince, Susan. “Baseball as History and Myth in August Wilson’s Fences.” African American Review, vol. 40, no. 2, 2006, pp. 349–58, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40033723.
McCormick, Stacie. “August Wilson and the Anti-Spectacle of Blackness and Disability in Fences and Two Trains Running.” CLA Journal, vol. 61, no. 1–2, 2017, pp. 65–83, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26559629.
Shannon, Sandra G. “The Fences They Build: August Wilson’s Depiction of African-American Women.” Obsidian II, vol. 6, no. 2, 1991, pp. 1–17, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44485235.
Wattley, Ama S. “August Wilson’s Visibly Scarred Characters.” CLA Journal, vol. 54, no. 2, 2010, pp. 121–38, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44325783.
Wattley, Ama. “Father-Son Conflict and the American Dream in Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ and August Wilson’s ‘Fences.’” The Arthur Miller Journal, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 1–20, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42909022.
Sources for Writing about Novels
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, OH
Love, Glen A. “Winesburg, Ohio and the Rhetoric of Silence.” American Literature, vol. 40, no. 1, 1968, pp. 38–57, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2923697
Murphy, George D. “The Theme of Sublimation in Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 1967, pp. 237–46, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26278583
Ciancio, Ralph. “‘The Sweetness of the Twisted Apples’: Unity of Vision in Winesburg, Ohio.” PMLA, vol. 87, no. 5, 1972, pp. 994–1006, https://www.jstor.org/stable/461177
Fludernik, Monika. “‘The Divine Accident of Life’: Metaphoric Structure and Meaning in Winesburg, Ohio.” Style, vol. 22, no. 1, 1988, pp. 116–35, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42945689
Pichaske, David R. “Dave Etter: Fishing for Our Lost American Souls.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 23, no. 3-4, 2000, pp. 393–427, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3831666 .
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Reesman, Jeanne Campbell. “Dark Knowledge in The Handmaid’s Tale.” CEA Critic, vol. 53, no. 3, 1991, pp. 6–22, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44377063 .
Ketterer, David. “Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: A Contextual Dystopia.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, 1989, pp. 209–17, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4239936 .
Hooker, Deborah. “(Fl)Orality, Gender, and the Environmental Ethos of Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 52, no. 3, 2006, pp. 275–305, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20479773 .
Myrsiades, Linda. “Law, Medicine, and the Sex Slave in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” Counterpoints, vol. 121, 1999, pp. 219–45, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42975486 .
Filipczak, Dorota. “Is There No Balm in Gilead? Biblical Intertext in The Handmaid’s Tale.” Literature and Theology, vol. 7, no. 2, 1993, pp. 171–85, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23924862.
Gotsch-Thomson, Susan. “The Integration of Gender into the Teaching of Classical Social Theory: Help from The Handmaid’s Tale.” Teaching Sociology, vol. 18, no. 1, 1990, pp. 69–73, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1318234.
Shapira, Yael. “Hairball Speaks: Margaret Atwood and the Narrative Legacy of the Female Grotesque.” Narrative, vol. 18, no. 1, 2010, pp. 51–72, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25609384.
Parker, Emma. “You Are What You Eat: The Politics of Eating in the Novels of Margaret Atwood.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 41, no. 3, 1995, pp. 349–68, https://doi.org/10.2307/441857.
Rule, Lauren A. “Not Fading into Another Landscape: Specters of American Empire in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 54, no. 4, 2008, pp. 627–53, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26287437.
Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
Lepschy, Wolfgang, and Ernest J. Gaines. “A MELUS Interview: Ernest J. Gaines.” MELUS, vol. 24, no. 1, 1999, pp. 197–208, https://doi.org/10.2307/467914
Magill, David E. “‘Make Him a Man’: Black Masculinity and Communal Identity in Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying.” Studies in the Literary Imagination, vol. 49, no. 1, 2016, pp. 61–76. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1353/sli.2016.0005
Thompson, Carlyle V. “From a Hog to a Black Man: Black Male Subjectivity and Ritualistic Lynching in Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying.” CLA Journal, vol. 45, no. 3, 2002, pp. 279–310, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44325105
Teutsch, Matthew. “‘Mr. Joe Louis, Help Me’: Sports in the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines.” MELUS, vol. 42, no. 3, 2017, pp. 176–200, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26566073
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Ako, Edward O. “Ernest Hemingway, Derek Walcott, and Old Men of the Sea.” CLA Journal, vol. 48, no. 2, 2004, pp. 200–12, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44325260
Reising, Bob. “Revisiting Ernest Hemingway and Baseball: Sanity, Success, and Suicide.” The Journal of American Culture, vol. 39, no. 2, June 2016, pp. 165–76. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.12529
Espiner, Seonaid. “Hunting Out Latour’s Collective in Leigh and Hemingway: Nonhuman Presence in The Hunter and The Old Man and the Sea.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 26, no. 1, 2019, pp. 111–24. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isy082
Melling, Philip. “Cultural Imperialism, Afro-Cuban Religion, and Santiago’s Failure in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.” The Hemingway Review, vol. 26, no. 1, 2006, pp. 6–24. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1353/hem.2006.0050
Maier, Kevin. “Hemingway’s Ecotourism: ‘Under Kilimanjaro’ and the Ethics of Travel.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 18, no. 4 (2011): 717–36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44087038
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Alexander, Allen. “The Fourth Face: The Image of God in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” African American Review, vol. 32, no. 2, 1998, pp. 293–303, https://doi.org/10.2307/3042126.
Cormier-Hamilton, Patrice. “Black Naturalism and Toni Morrison: The Journey Away from Self-Love in The Bluest Eye.” MELUS, vol. 19, no. 4, 1994, pp. 109–27, https://doi.org/10.2307/468206.
Graves, Brain. “You Are What You Beat: Food Metaphors and Southern Black Identity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature and Goodie Mob’s ‘Soul Food.'” Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 38, no. 1, Oct. 2015, pp. 123–37. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.44259588&site=eds-live.
Long, Lisa A. “A New Midwesternism in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 59, no. 1, 2013, pp. 104–25, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24247112.
Mahaffey, Paul Douglas. “The Adolescent Complexities of Race, Gender, and Class in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” Race, Gender & Class, vol. 11, no. 4, 2004, pp. 155–65, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43496824.
Roye, Susmita. “Toni Morrison’s Disrupted Girls and Their Disturbed Girlhoods: The Bluest Eye and A Mercy.” Callaloo, vol. 35, no. 1, 2012, pp. 212–27, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41412505.
Vásquez, Sam. “In Her Own Image: Literary and Visual Representations of Girlhood in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John.” Meridians, vol. 12, no. 1, 2014, pp. 58–87, https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.12.1.58.
Vickroy, Laurie. “The Politics of Abuse: The Traumatized Child in Toni Morrison and Marguerite Duras.” Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, 1996, pp. 91–109, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44029748.
Zebialowicz, Anna, and Marek Palasinski. “Probing Racial Dilemmas in The Bluest Eye with the Spyglass of Psychology.” Journal of African American Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 2010, pp. 220–33, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41819247.
Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
Farrell, Susan. “Tim O’Brien and Gender: A Defense of The Things They Carried.” CEA Critic, vol. 66, no. 1, 2003, pp. 1–21, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44377572.
Vernon, Alex. “Salvation, Storytelling, and Pilgrimage in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.” Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, vol. 36, no. 4, 2003, pp. 171–88, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44030002.
Wells, Linda. “The Things They Carried: Character, Narrative, and the Liberal Arts.” The Journal of Education, vol. 182, no. 2, 2000, pp. 45–54, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42743969.
Blumenthal, Michael. “The Things They Still Carry: A Post-Vietnam Story.” Agni, no. 38, 1993, pp. 146–71, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23007244.
MacLean, Alair. “The Things They Carry: Combat, Disability, and Unemployment among U.S. Men.” American Sociological Review, vol. 75, no. 4, 2010, pp. 563–85, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20799477.
George Orwell, 1984
Thorp, Malcolm R. “The Dynamics of Terror in Orwell’s 1984.” Brigham Young University Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 1984, pp. 3–17, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43041004.
Connors, James. “‘Do It to Julia: Thoughts on Orwell’s 1984.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 16, no. 4, 1970, pp. 463–73, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26279230.
Blakemore, Steven. “Language and Ideology in Orwell’s 1984.” Social Theory and Practice, vol. 10, no. 3, 1984, pp. 349–56, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23556571.
Makovi, Michael. “George Orwell as a Public Choice Economist.” The American Economist, vol. 60, no. 2, 2015, pp. 183–208, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43664863.
Newsinger, John. “‘2+2=5’: Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the New Left.” Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left, 2018, pp. 135–57, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt21kk1wk.11.
Ricks, Thomas E. “Best Defense: We Are (Still) Living in an Orwellian World.” Foreign Policy, no. 225, 2017, pp. 80–81, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44842837.
Sacalcau, Ana. “The Paradoxes of Political Correctness.” Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, vol. 15, no. 4, 2020, pp. 53–59, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26955974.
Kurt, Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Edelstein, Arnold. “Slaughterhouse-Five: Time out of Joint.” College Literature, vol. 1, no. 2, 1974, pp. 128–39, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25111023.
Brown, Kevin. “The Psychiatrists Were Right: Anomic Alienation in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.” South Central Review, vol. 28, no. 2, 2011, pp. 101–09, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41261491.
Kunze, Peter C. “For the Boys: Masculinity, Gray Comedy, and the Vietnam War in Slaughterhouse-Five.” Studies in American Humor, no. 26, 2012, pp. 41–57, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23823831.
Veix, Donald B. “Teaching a Censored Novel: Slaughterhouse Five.” The English Journal, vol. 64, no. 7, 1975, pp. 25–33, https://doi.org/10.2307/815302.
Berlina, Alexandra. “Religion and War Made Strange: ‘Ostranenie’ in Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.” Amerikastudien / American Studies, vol. 62, no. 1, 2017, pp. 19–34, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44982303.
Yazdizadeh, Abdolali. “Tralfamadorian Utopia and the Logic of the Consumer Society: A Cultural Study of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.” Australasian Journal of American Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, 2017, pp. 101–18, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26532911.
Ansu Louis. “The Economy of Desire in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.” Symplokē, vol. 26, no. 1–2, 2018, pp. 191–205, https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.26.1-2.0191.
H. G. Wells, War of the Worlds
Alberro, Heather. “H.G Wells, Earthly and Post-Terrestrial Futures.” Futures, vol. 140, June 2022, p. 102954, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.102954
Downing, Crystal. “Deconstructing Herbert: ‘The War of the Worlds’ on Film.” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, 2007, pp. 274–81. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43798746. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
Gailor, Denis. “‘Wells’s War of the Worlds,’ the ‘Invasion Story’ and Victorian Moralism.” Critical Survey, vol. 8, no. 3, 1996, pp. 270–76. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41556021. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
Gürova, Ercan. “Investigation of Apocalyptic Features in the War of the Worlds by Wells.” Journal of Cultural Studies / Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 19, Dec. 2023, pp. 248–61. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.46250/kulturder.1368437.
Miller, Davis Worth, and Brevard, Katherine McLean. H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds: A Graphic Novel. Stone Arch Books, 2008. Google Books. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_War_of_the_Worlds/8OkWBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1. 1 December 2024.
Potter, Lee Ann. “Jitterbugs” and “Crack-pots.” Letters to the FCC about the “War of the Worlds” Broadcast.” Prologue Magazine, Fall 2003, Vol. 35, No. 3, National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/fall/war-of-worlds.html Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
Tonguette, Peter. “The Fake News of Orson Welles: The War of the Worlds at 80.” Humanities: The Magazine for the National Endowment for the Humanities, https://www.neh.gov/article/fake-news-orson-welles-war-worlds-80. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
Worth, Aaron. “Imperial Transmissions: H. G. Wells, 1897–1901.” Victorian Studies, vol. 53, no. 1, 2010, pp. 65–89. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.53.1.65. Accessed 20 Nov. 2024.
