Critical Insights: To Kill a Mockingbird

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2009

ISBN13

9781587656194

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

Overview essays consider the cultural contexts surrounding the novel and the critical reception of Lee's work. Other essays offer a close examination of the novel as wisdom literature and consider the lessons being taught in the novel, and a consideration of narrative strategies in both the novel and the film versions.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
The Book and Author.
1: On To Kill a Mockingbird.
2: Biography of Harper Lee.
3: The Paris Review Perspective.
Critical Contexts.
4: To Kill a Mockingbird: Successes and Myths.
5: Mockingbird in Context.
6: “Were You Ever a Turtle?”: To Kill a Mockingbird— Casting the Self as the Other.
7: To Kill a Mockingbird as an Introduction to Faulkner.
Critical Readings.
8: The Rise and Fall of Atticus Finch.
9: Lawyers, Ethics, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
10: Growing Up Good in Maycomb.
11: Atticus Finch and the Mad Dog: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
12: The Margins of Maycomb: A Rereading of To Kill a Mockingbird.
13: “Fine Fancy Gentlemen” and “Yappy Folk”: Contending Voices in To Kill a Mockingbird.
14: Telling It in Black and White: The Importance of the Africanist Presence in To Kill a Mockingbird.
15: The Female Voice in To Kill a Mockingbird: Narrative Strategies in Film and Novel.
16: “When You Finally See Them”: The Unconquered Eye in To Kill a Mockingbird.
17: Harper Lee and the Destabilization of Heterosexuality.
Resources.
18: Chronology of Harper Lee's Life.
19: Works by Harper Lee.
20: Bibliography.
Critical Insights.
About the Editor.
About The Paris Review.
Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
The Book and Author.
1: On To Kill a Mockingbird.
2: Biography of Harper Lee.
3: The Paris Review Perspective.
Critical Contexts.
4: To Kill a Mockingbird: Successes and Myths.
5: Mockingbird in Context.
6: “Were You Ever a Turtle?”: To Kill a Mockingbird— Casting the Self as the Other.
7: To Kill a Mockingbird as an Introduction to Faulkner.
Critical Readings.
8: The Rise and Fall of Atticus Finch.
9: Lawyers, Ethics, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
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