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[This entry was updated by Catherine E. Lewis (University of South Carolina) from the entry by Denise Heinze (Western Carolina University) in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series.] Toni Morrison became a novelist for the ages when...

Toni Morrison is one of America's most important writers of fiction. She has received critical acclaim, most notably the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987), the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon (1977), and the eighteen-thou...

When her picture appeared on the cover of Newsweek in 1981 and her fourth novel, Tar Baby, was on the year's best-seller list, Toni Morrison was an anomaly in two respects: she is a black writer who has achieved national prominence and popularity, and sh...

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Toni Morrison was born in Lorraine, Ohio, in 1931 as Chloe Anthony Wofford. An avid reader, Morrison studied literature, earning a bachelor’s degree at Howard University followed by a master’s degree in...

Song of Solomon is a 1977 novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American male living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood. This book won the National Books...

Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon. Edited by J. Robert Wright. Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Old Testament 9. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2005, xxix + 434 pp., $40.00. The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture makes available resources in early Christian exegesis from Clement of...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Song of Solomon Introduction. The true title of this lovely work is "The Song of Songs" - i.e., "The most beautiful of all songs." The nature of the "Song" has been disputed for centuries. There was opposition to its inclusion...

A few words about the wayward production of Mother Courage and Her Children in the Park, starring Meryl Streep: Ms. Streep, at least, is wonderfully wayward! She appears to be kicking the entire production into heroic life, though the now-mythic Mother Courage alone cannot carry...

A few words about the wayward production of Mother Courage and Her Children in the Park, starring Meryl Streep: Ms. Streep, at least, is wonderfully wayward! She appears to be kicking the entire production into heroic life, though the now-mythic Mother Courage alone cannot...

In the following prologue to his commentary, written in 240, Origen ascribes the Song of Songs to Solomon, noting the importance of a cautious distinction between "passionate love" and "charity" to an interpretation of the dramatic poem's "secret metaphors."

In the following essay originally published in 1952, Rowley provides a brief historical survey of scholarship on the Song of Songs, outlining the allegorical, historical, Christian, and dramatic readings of the work, and considering its function and meaning.

In the following essay, Alter conducts a close formal analysis of the Song of Songs as poetry, exploring the work's imagery and metaphor. Alter finds the Song a rare instance in biblical poetry of "uninhibited self-delighting play" and "elegant aesthetic form."

About the development of Milkman in the novel "Song of Solomon."

This is an essay about the character of Milkman in the book Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison.  It is an essay about his journey to discover his ancestry and himself.

Explores themes in Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison. Analyzes the character Guitar and his motives for belonging to the Days, and for trying to kill Milkman. Questions how does he justify violence. Discusses if Morrison's novel enables us to see Guitar's point of view and justify his actions.