Author: Coeli Fitzpatrick Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp ISBN: 9780787681845 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 0
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This volume provides background material for the debate initiated by the publication of the late Edward W. Said's Orientalism (1978), in which Said contended that the scholarly study of Eastern society is not value-neutral.
Author: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning ISBN: 9780810318182 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 2506
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Annotation Covers only the American authors most frequently studied in high school and college literature courses. Each volume is devoted to a single historical period, covering 30-40 representative writers from all genres. The supplement to the 6-vol. Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, Modern American Writers, provides additional information on 20th-century authors featured in the original volumes.
Author: Linda K. Hughes Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: 0821416294 Category : Poets, English Languages : en Pages : 424
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Rosamund Marriott Watson was a gifted poet, an erudite literary and art critic, and a daring beauty whose life illuminates fin-de-siècle London and the way in which literary reputations are made--and lost. A participant in aestheticism and decadence, she wrote six volumes of poems noted for their subtle cadence, diction, and uncanny effects. Linda K. Hughes unfolds a complex life in Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters, tracing the poet's development from accomplished ballads and sonnets, to avant-garde urban impressionism and New Woman poetry, to her anticipation of literary modernism. Despite an early first divorce, she won fame writing under a pseudonym, Graham R. Tomson. The influential Andrew Lang announced the arrival of a new poet he assumed to be a man. She was soon hosting a salon attended by Lang, Oscar Wilde, and other 1890s notables. Publishing to widespread praise as Graham R., she exemplified the complex cultural politics of her era. A woman with a man's name and a scandalous past, she was also a graceful beauty who captivated Thomas Hardy and left an impression on his work. At the height of her success she fell in love with writer H. B. Marriott Watson and dared a second divorce. Graham R. combines the stories of a gifted poet, of London literary networks in the 1890s, and of a bold woman whose achievements and scandals turned on her unusual history of marriage and divorce. Her literary history and her uncommon experience reveal the limits and opportunities faced by an unconventional, ambitious, and talented woman at the turn of the century.
Author: Alice Walker Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 9780813520766 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
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Presents the text of Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use"; contains background essays that provide insight into the story; and features a selection of critical response. Includes a chronology and an interview with the author.
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