Author: Horatio SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780231014915
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 899
Book Description
Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Author: Horatio SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780231014915
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 899
Book Description
Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Author: Jean Albert BédéPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231037174
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
With more than 1800 critical entries on the writers and literatures of 33 languages, this work presents the entire range of modern European writing -- from the symbolist and modernist works rooted in the last decades of the nineteenth century; through the avant-garde and existentialist movement to Barthes, Blanchot, Breton, and continental thought pertinent today.
Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Author: Horatio SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Author: The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism
Author: Joseph ChildersPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231072434
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics.
Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Author: A Dictionary of Maqiao
Author: Han ShaogongPublisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0385339356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
From the daring imagination of one of China’s greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality–the story of a young man “displaced” to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries, A Dictionary of Maqiao is a novel of bold invention–and a fascinating, comic, deeply moving journey through the dark heart of the Cultural Revolution. Entries trace the wisdom and absurdities of Maqiao: the petty squabbles, family grudges, poverty, infidelities, fantasies, lunatics, bullies, superstitions, and especially the odd logic in their use of language–where the word for “beginning” is the same as the word for “end”; “little big brother” means older sister; to be “scientific” means to be lazy; and “streetsickness” is a disease afflicting villagers visiting urban areas. Filled with colorful characters–from a weeping ox to a man so poisonous that snakes die when they bite him–A Dictionary of Maqiao is both an important work of Chinese literature and a probing inquiry into the extraordinary power of language.
A Study Guide for Selma Lagerlof's "The Outlaws"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410354873
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
A Study Guide for Selma Lagerlof's "The Outlaws," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. MarcusePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2816
Book Description
1960
Author: Al FilreisPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023155429X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In 1960, when World War II might seem to have been receding into history, a number of artists and writers instead turned back to it. They chose to confront the unprecedented horror and mass killing of the war, searching for new creative and political possibilities after the conservatism of the 1950s in the long shadow of genocide. Al Filreis recasts 1960 as a turning point to offer a groundbreaking account of postwar culture. He examines an eclectic group of artistic, literary, and intellectual figures who strove to create a new language to reckon with the trauma of World War II and to imagine a new world. Filreis reflects on the belatedness of this response to the war and the Holocaust and shows how key works linked the legacies of fascism and antisemitism with American racism. In grappling with the memory of the war, he demonstrates, artists reclaimed the radical elements of modernism and brought forth original ideas about testimony to traumatic history. 1960 interweaves the lives and works of figures across high and popular culture—including Chinua Achebe, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Paul Celan, John Coltrane, Frantz Fanon, Roberto Rossellini, Muriel Rukeyser, Rod Serling, and Louis Zukofsky—and considers art forms spanning poetry, fiction, memoir, film, painting, sculpture, teleplays, musical theater, and jazz. A deeply interdisciplinary cultural, literary, and intellectual history, this book also offers fresh perspective on the beginning of the 1960s.