Author: Mary Bruccoli
Publisher: Gale
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography covers only the American authors most frequently studied in high school and college literature courses. It extracts and fully updates essays in their entirety from the much larger Dictionary of Literary Biography series.The 6-vol. set begins each entry with a helpful chart that instantly shows the important places, influences and relationships; literary movements; major themes; cultural and artistic influences; and social and economic influences that most affected the featured author's work. The set is organized chronologically.Each volume is devoted to a single historical period, covering 30-40 representative writers from all genres. They include:Colonization to the American Renaissance, 1640-1865Realism, Naturalism, and Local Color, 1865-1917The Twenties, 1917-1929The Age of Maturity, 1929-1941The New Consciousness, 1941-1968Broadening Views, 1968-1988The Supplement to the 6-vol. set, Modern American Writers, provides additional information on 20th-century authors featured in the original volumes.
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.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Robert Richards
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442233850
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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This dictionary was designed, not simply for the scholar, but for the general reader who needs more enlightenment about a specific American author or movement than a mere catalogue of facts can give him. The scholar has read whole books about Walt Whitman, and uses the dictionary merely to refresh his memory concerning a title or a date. The general reader wants a concise account of how Whitman lived, what he was like as a person, what prompted him to write poetry, why this poetry is now considered to be important, and a history of Whitman appraisals. On the other hand, the average reader would prefer not be confused by meaningless facts, obscure data, or scholastic debate. The scholar or the student, the editor or the teacher, will find in this dictionary almost any fact concerning American literature that he will ever need. The general reader will find, in addition to facts, valuable apprehensions concerning our American literary heritage.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1273
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Author: Marianne Stecher-Hansen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780787668372
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 593
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Author: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli
Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780810318182
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 2506
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Book Description
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: C. D. Rose
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 161219379X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the world’s leading authority on the subject. Compiled in one volume by C. D. Rose, a well-educated person universally acknowledged in parts of England as the world’s pre-eminent expert on inexpert writers, the book culls its information from lost or otherwise ignored archives scattered around the globe, as well as the occasional dustbin. The dictionary amounts to a monumental accomplishment: the definitive appreciation of history’s least accomplished writers. Thus immortalized beyond deserving and rescued from hard-earned obscurity, the authors presented in this historic volume comprise a who’s who of the talentless and deluded, their stories timeless litanies of abject psychosis, misapplication, and delinquency. It is, in short, a treasure.
Author: Matthew J. Bruccoli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Contains biographical information about American authors between 1640-1988, with bibliographies of primary and secondary materials relating to each author and critical remarks about the works of each writer.
Author: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli
Publisher: Gale
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Contains biographical information about American authors between 1640 and 1988, with bibliographies of primary and secondary materials relating to each entry and critical remarks about the works of each writer.
