These essays utilize common critical approaches to further analyze the author's work. The essays aim to provide a background to the title and author that is an historical, cultural, and biographical foundation for the reader. These essays are followed by an historical background chapter. "About this Volume" and "On The Outsiders," written by the editor, M.
The beginning of the book aims to looks at the title as a whole, including how it was received when it was first published, as well as its 40th and 50th anniversary. While the novel is often recognized for its maturation themes and its novelty as a young adult work, it also explores ideas such as free will versus determinism and the definition of heroism.Įach Critical Insights is divided into four sections: This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of Hinton's groundbreaking novel about teen aged "greasers" by exploring concepts of the Other, the portrait of Ponyboy Curtis as an artist, and The Outsiders as a postmodern work, among other topics.
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