From School Library Journal
Grade 10 Up-Composed of one biographical and three critical essays, this title offers a glimpse into Hurston's impetus to write and the praise and criticism she received as an author. Norma Jean Lutz discusses the resurgence of interest in Hurston's writing, propelled by Alice Walker's article "Looking for Zora" published in Ms. magazine in 1975. While Lutz is thorough in her biographical essay, she discounts material from the writer's autobiography, making the point that Hurston often did not tell the truth concerning her own life. Lutz also cites Robert Hemenway's biography so many times that his name might as well have been included instead of hers. All three critical essays concentrate on Hurston's most heralded novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, with some notice to Mules and Men and her folkloric writings. Each essay also assesses the criticism that Hurston received from her contemporaries. This title is well researched and well organized, but narrow in scope. The critical essays are limited in explication and overlap considerably. For a book with a wider scope and more in-depth coverage of various works, try Josie P. Campbell's Student Companion to Zora Neale Hurston (Greenwood, 2001).Delia Fritz, Mercersburg Academy, PACopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Zora Neale Hurston was a flamboyant individual who loathed any attempt to subsume her work under any category whatsoever. Long ignored, her work is now widely read, studied, and praised, including her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Learn more about Hurston with this text, which includes an extensive biography of the author, literary criticism, a list of works by and about the author, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School; preeminent literary critic of our time. The lives of the greatest writers of the world are explored in the new series Bloom’s BioCritiques. In addition to a lengthy biography, each book includes an extensive critical analysis of the writer’s work, as well as critical views by important literary critics throughout history. These volumes are the perfect introduction to critical study of the important authors currently read and discussed in high schools, colleges, and graduate schools.
Zora Neale Hurston FROM THE CRITICS
School Library Journal
Gr 10 Up-Composed of one biographical and three critical essays, this title offers a glimpse into Hurston's impetus to write and the praise and criticism she received as an author. Norma Jean Lutz discusses the resurgence of interest in Hurston's writing, propelled by Alice Walker's article "Looking for Zora" published in Ms. magazine in 1975. While Lutz is thorough in her biographical essay, she discounts material from the writer's autobiography, making the point that Hurston often did not tell the truth concerning her own life. Lutz also cites Robert Hemenway's biography so many times that his name might as well have been included instead of hers. All three critical essays concentrate on Hurston's most heralded novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, with some notice to Mules and Men and her folkloric writings. Each essay also assesses the criticism that Hurston received from her contemporaries. This title is well researched and well organized, but narrow in scope. The critical essays are limited in explication and overlap considerably. For a book with a wider scope and more in-depth coverage of various works, try Josie P. Campbell's Student Companion to Zora Neale Hurston (Greenwood, 2001).-Delia Fritz, Mercersburg Academy, PA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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