Author: George Thomas Kurian Publisher: ISBN: 9780816041978 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 457
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Which authors were contemporaries of Charles Dickens? Which books, plays, and poems were published during World War II? Who won the Pulitzer Prize in the year you were born? Timetables of World Literature is a chronicle of literature from ancient times through the 20th century. It answers the question "Who wrote what when?" and allows readers to place authors and their works in the context of their times. A chronology of the best in global writing, this valuable resource lists more than 12,000 titles and 9,800 authors, includes all genres of literature from more than 58 countries, and covers 41 languages. It is divided into seven sections, spanning the Classical Age (to 100 CE), the Middle Ages (100–1500 CE), and the 16th through the 20th centuries. Comprehensive in scope, Timetables of World Literature provides students, researchers, and browsers with basic facts and a worldwide perspective on literature through time. Four extensive indexes by author, title, language/nationality, and genre make research quick and easy. Features include: Birth and death dates as well as nationalities of authors and other literary figures Winners of major literary prizes and awards, such as the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prizes, for each year Brief discussions of literary developments in each period or century, and the relationship of literature to the social and political climate Timelines of key historical events in each century.
Author: Laurence Urdang Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743202619 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 548
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Stretching from the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 to the state of affairs in America in the year 2000, these timetables present a panoramic perspective on the nation's significant events of the second millennium. Line drawings throughout.
Author: Wai Chee Dimock Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400829526 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 258
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What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox archive--ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and Sanskrit to folk art, paintings by Veronese and Tiepolo, and the music of the Grateful Dead--Dimock constructs a long history of the world, a history she calls "deep time." The civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China, and West Africa, as well as Europe, leave their mark on American literature, which looks dramatically different when it is removed from a strictly national or English-language context. Key authors such as Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Gary Snyder, Leslie Silko, Gloria Naylor, and Gerald Vizenor are transformed in this light. Emerson emerges as a translator of Islamic culture; Henry James's novels become long-distance kin to Gilgamesh; and Black English loses its ungrammaticalness when reclassified as a creole tongue, meshing the input from Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Throughout, Dimock contends that American literature is answerable not to the nation-state, but to the human species as a whole, and that it looks dramatically different when removed from a strictly national or English-language context.
Author: Adam Barrows Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520260996 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 224
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Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature. As representatives from twenty-four nations argued over adopting the Prime Meridian, and thereby measuring time in relation to Greenwich, England, writers began experimenting with new ways of representing human temporality. Barrows finds this experimentation in works as varied as Victorian adventure novels, high modernist texts, and South Asian novels—including the work of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, H. Rider Haggard, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad. Demonstrating the investment of modernist writing in the problems of geopolitics and in the public discourse of time, Barrows argues that it is possible, and productive, to rethink the politics of modernism through the politics of time.
Author: Clint Twist Publisher: Random House Reference Publishing ISBN: 9780375722264 Category : Chronology, Historical Languages : en Pages : 0
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The perfect, portable reference for students and history buffs alike. Presents over 10,000 major events from ancient times to the present, including fascinating facts about famous people and places.
Author: Filippo Menozzi Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030416984 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 218
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Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and literary reading, this research explores the times other than the present that seem to haunt an era of capitalist globalisation: nostalgic feelings about bygone ideals of identity and community, appeals to Golden Ages, returns of the repressed and anxious anticipations of global extinction and catastrophe. The term non-synchronism explored in this book captures these dislocations of the present, while offering a critical lens to grasp the politics of time of an era marked by the continuing expansion of capitalist modernity. Most importantly, non-synchronism is a dialectical paradigm charged with antagonistic political valences. The literary analysis presented in the volume hence connects the literary manipulation of time to discourses on extinction, accumulation, nostalgia, modernity and survival in global politics and literature.
Author: piero scaruffi Publisher: ISBN: 9780976553175 Category : Languages : en Pages : 227
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A book of poems, essays and places. The poems of "Synthesis" present the author's reinterpretation of ancient poetic forms (odes, cantos, epigrams, haikus, ghazals and a romance) and of ancient themes from a plethora of cultures and ages. Or viceversa: ancient forms and themes from all over the world revisiting the author's poetry. Another book within this book deals with about 40 "places" of the mind (some of them geographic) that the author considers special. A series of philosophical essays constitute a third book within the book, dealing with topics that range from Art to Identity.
Author: Irene M. Franck Publisher: Harper Perennial ISBN: Category : Chronology, Historical Languages : en Pages : 680
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From ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti to Attorney General Janet Reno, this illustrated guide presents the fascinating history of women and their achievements through time. Arranged chronologically by era and by year, each entry is divided into four major categories: Politics/Law/Medicine; Religion/Education/Everyday Life; Science/Technology/Medicine; and Arts and Literature. 105 photos.
Author: H. Faye Christenberry Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 081088383X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 279
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Postcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors whose lands were formerly colonized. This book is a research guide to postcolonial literatures in English, specifically from former British colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. While this volume focuses exclusively on Anglophone literatures, it does not address those from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand as they have already been covered in previous volumes in the series.
Author: George Thomas Kurian
Author: Laurence Urdang
Author: Wai Chee Dimock
Author: Bernard Montoneri
Author: Adam Barrows
Author: Clint Twist
Author: Filippo Menozzi
Author: piero scaruffi
Author: Irene M. Franck
Author: H. Faye Christenberry