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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
St. James Reference Guide to English Literature: 20th Century Drama
Author: Reference Guide to Short Fiction
Author: Noelle WatsonPublisher: Saint James Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Devoted to those practitioners of the art of short fiction, this new 2nd edition offers thorough coverage of approximately 375 authors and 400 of their works. In a single volume, Reference Guide to Short Fiction features often-studied authors from around the world and throughout history, all selected for inclusion by a board of experts in the field. Reference Guide to Short Fiction is divided into two sections for easy study. The first section profiles the authors and offers personal and career details, as well as complete bibliographical information. A signed essay helps readers understand more about the author. These authors are covered: -- Sandra Cisneros -- Nikolai Gogol -- Ernest Hemingway -- Langston Hughes -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Salman Rushdie -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Edith Somerville -- Eudora Welty -- And others Section two helps readers gain deeper understanding of the authors and the genre with critical essays discussing 400 important works, including: -- "The Hitchiking Game", Milan Kundera -- "The Swimmer", John Cheever -- "The Dead", James Joyce -- "A Hunger Artist", Franz Kafka -- "How I Met My Husband", Alice Munro -- "Kew Gardens", Virginia Woolf This one-stop guide also provides easy access to works through the title index.
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. MarcusePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520079922
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
This text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The Reference Guide covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.
Twentieth-century Literary Criticism
Author: Gale Research CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.
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Author: James Pigot (and co.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation
Author: Robin HealeyPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802008008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.
Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1981-1990
Author: Charles A. CarpenterPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
A selective list of publications for the period, offering some 25,200 entries (no annotations) arranged by nationality and linguistic groups. Most entries concern literary currents in drama since the last third of the 19th century, playwrights who lived at least part of their lives in the 20th century, noted directors, and performance theory. For students and scholars of modern dramatic literature. While annual supplements of recent publications appear in the journal Modern Drama, new compilers took a publication date of 1991 as their starting point for listings, leaving some 2,000 items collected after 1992 appearing only in this volume. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Contemporary Authors Cumulative Index 03
Author: Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780787690571
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
St. James Guide to Biography
Author: Paul E. SchellingerPublisher: Saint James Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Supplies bibliographical and critical analysis of available biographies in English.
Contemporary Authors Cummulative Index
Author: Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
ISBN: 9781414400297
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description