[PDF] World Authors 1900 1950 Saki Zweig eBook

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Page : 3005 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literature, Modern
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Provides almost 2700 articles on twentieth-century authors from all over the world who wrote in English or whose works are available in English translation.

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Page : 744 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 1996
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Provides almost 2700 articles on twentieth-century authors from all over the world who wrote in English or whose works are available in English translation.

Author : H.W. Wilson Company
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Page : 1266 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Best books
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Each vol. is divided into 2 parts 1st-7th ed.: Dictionary catalog and Classified catalog; 8th-9th ed. have 3rd. part: Directory of publishers.

Author : Juliette Yaakov
Publisher : H. W. Wilson
Page : 1464 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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In librarian's office.

Author : Paul John Eakin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 1992-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1400820642

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Paul John Eakin's earlier work Fictions in Autobiography is a key text in autobiography studies. In it he proposed that the self that finds expression in autobiography is in fundamental ways a kind of fictive construct, a fiction articulated in a fiction. In this new book Eakin turns his attention to what he sees as the defining assumption of autobiography: that the story of the self does refer to a world of biographical and historical fact. Here he shows that people write autobiography not in some private realm of the autonomous self but rather in strenuous engagement with the pressures that life in culture entails. In so demonstrating, he offers fresh readings of autobiographies by Roland Barthes, Nathalie Sarraute, William Maxwell, Henry James, Ronald Fraser, Richard Rodriguez, Henry Adams, Patricia Hampl, John Updike, James McConkey, and Lillian Hellman. In the introduction Eakin makes a case for reopening the file on reference in autobiography, and in the first chapter he establishes the complexity of the referential aesthetic of the genre, the intricate interplay of fact and fiction in such texts. In subsequent chapters he explores some of the major contexts of reference in autobiography: the biographical, the social and cultural, the historical, and finally, underlying all the rest, the somatic and temporal dimensions of the lived experience of identity. In his discussion of contemporary theories of the self, Eakin draws especially on cultural anthropology and developmental psychology.

Author : Pascale Casanova
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674013452

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The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements--a world of letters relatively independent from economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance. Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary "melting pot," Casanova exposes an emerging regime of inequality in the world of letters, where minor languages and literatures are subject to the invisible but implacable violence of their dominant counterparts. Inspired by the writings of Fernand Braudel and Pierre Bourdieu, this ambitious book develops the first systematic model for understanding the production, circulation, and valuing of literature worldwide. Casanova proposes a baseline from which we might measure the newness and modernity of the world of letters--the literary equivalent of the meridian at Greenwich. She argues for the importance of literary capital and its role in giving value and legitimacy to nations in their incessant struggle for international power. Within her overarching theory, Casanova locates three main periods in the genesis of world literature--Latin, French, and German--and closely examines three towering figures in the world republic of letters--Kafka, Joyce, and Faulkner. Her work provides a rich and surprising view of the political struggles of our modern world--one framed by sites of publication, circulation, translation, and efforts at literary annexation.