The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English
Title | The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Stringer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 774 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN | 0192122711 |
Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English
Title | The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Hamilton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN | 9780198608431 |
This guide to modern poetry in English celebrates poets -- offer intriguing views on their fellow poets, such as Tom Paulin on Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney on Robert Lowell, and Anne Stevenson on Sylvia Plath. 1,500 poets are covered from W.H. Auden to Benjamin Zephaniah. There is worldwide coverage, including America, Britain and Ireland, New Zealand, Trinidad and Zimbabwe. There are also entries on magazines, movements, and critical terms.
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
Title | The Oxford Companion to English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Dinah Birch |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 1184 |
Release | 2009-09-24 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0192806874 |
Written by a team of more than 150 contributors working under the direction of Dinah Birch, and ranging in influence from Homer to the Mahabharata, this guide provides the reader with a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature.
The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Robert L. Caserio |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 299 |
Release | 2009-04-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139828339 |
The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists. It demonstrates continuities in novel-writing that bridge the century's pre- and post-War halves and presents leading critical ideas about English fiction's themes and forms. The essays examine the endurance of modernist style throughout the century, the role of nationality and the contested role of the English language in all its forms, and the relationships between realism and other fictional modes: fantasy, romance, science fiction. Students, scholars and readers will find this Companion an indispensable guide to the history of the English novel.
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
Title | The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Stringer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 774 |
Release | 1996-09-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191516473 |
This is a unique new reference book to English-language writers and writing throughout the present century, in all major genres and from all around the world - from Joseph Conrad to Will Self, Virginia Woolf to David Mamet, Ezra Pound to Peter Carey, James Joyce to Amy Tan. The survivors of the Victorian age who feature in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English - writers such as Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, Rabindranath Tagore, Henry James - could hardly have imagined how richly diverse `Literature in English' would become by the end of the century. Fiction, plays, poetry, and a whole range of non-fictional writing are celebrated in this informative, readable, and catholic reference book, which includes entries on literary movements, periodicals, and over 400 individual works, as well as articles on some 2,400 authors. All the great literary figures are included, whether American or Australian, British, Irish, or Indian, African or Canadian or Caribbean - among them Samuel Beckett, Edith Wharton, Patrick White, T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, D. H. Lawrence, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, Wole Soyinka, Sylvia Plath - as well as a wealth of less obviously canonical writers, from Anaïs Nin to L. M. Montgomery, Bob Dylan to Terry Pratchett. The book comes right up to date with contemporary figures such as Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Carol Shields, Tim Winton, Nadine Gordimer, Vikram Seth, Don Delillo, and many others. Title entries range from Aaron's Rod to The Zoo Story; topics from Angry Young Men, Bestsellers, and Concrete Poetry to Soap Opera, Vietnam Writing, and Westerns. A lively introduction by John Sutherland highlights the various and sometimes contradictory canons that have emerged over the century, and the increasingly international sources of writing in English which the Companion records. Catering for all literary tastes, this is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to modern (and postmodern) literature.
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English
Title | The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Noel-Tod |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 727 |
Release | 2013-05-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0199640254 |
This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.
Longman Companion to Twentieth Century Literature
Title | Longman Companion to Twentieth Century Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Charles Ward |
Publisher | Harlow : Longman |
Total Pages | 616 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | English literature |
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