[PDF] The Oxford Companion To English Literature eBook

Author : Margaret Drabble
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
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Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this revised edition, existing entries have been fully updated and 60 new entries have been added on contemporary writers, such as Peter Acroyd,Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, and Jeanette Winterson. Detailed new appendices include a chronology of English literature, and a listing of major literary prize-winners.

Author : Margaret Drabble
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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This book, containing new survey articles on genres and literary theory, is a definitive guide to English literature and examines in detail the influences that have shaped the on-going evolution of English literature.

Author : Andrew Hass
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
Page : 909 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199271976

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A defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology.

Author : James David Hart
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers. Now this acclaimed work has been completely revised and updated to reflect current developments in the world of American letters.For the sixth edition, editors James D. Hart and Phillip Leininger have updated the Companion in light of what has happened in American literature since 1982. To this end, they have revised the entries on such established authors as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Joyce Carol Oates, and they have added more than 180 new entries on novelists (T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich, Don De Lillo), poets (Rita Dove, Weldon Kees), playwrights (Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson), popular writers (Stephen King, Louis L'Amour), historians (James M. McPherson, David Herbert Donald, William Manchester), naturalists (Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey), and literary critics (Camille Paglia, Richard Ellmann). In addition, the Companion boasts more women's, African-American, and ethnic voices, with new entries on such luminaries as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, M.F.K. Fisher, William Least Heat-Moon, Ursula Le Guin, and Oscar Hijuelos, among many others.These additions represent only some of the revisions for the new edition. Of course, the basic qualities of the Companion that readers have grown to know and love over the years are as superb as ever. With over 5,000 total entries, The Oxford Companion to American Literature reflects a dynamic balance between past and contemporary literature, surveying virtually every aspect of our national literature, from the Pulitzer Prize to pulp fiction, and from Walt Whitman to William F. Buckley, Jr. There are over 2,000 biographical profiles of important American authors (with information regarding their styles, subjects, and major works) and influential foreign writers as well as other figures who have been important in the nation's social and cultural history. There are more than 1,100 full summaries of important American novels, stories, essays, poems (with verse form noted), plays, biographies and autobiographies, tracts, narratives, and histories. The new edition provides historical background and astute commentary on literary schools and movements, literary awards, magazines, newspapers, and a wide variety of other matters directly related to writing in America. Finally, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced and features an extensive and fully updated index of literary and social history.Ranging from Captain John Smith to John Updike, and from Anne Bradstreet to Anne Rice, the sixth edition of The Oxford Companion to American Literature is up to date, accurate, and comprehensive, a delight for both the casual browser and the serious student.

Author : Thomas Burns McArthur
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192806378

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From Sanskrit to Scouse, this book provides a single-volume source of information about the English language. The guide is intended both for reference and and for browsing. The international perspective takes in language from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Zummerzet, Estuary English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Beowulf to Ebonics, Chaucer to Chomsky, Latin to the World Wide Web. There is coverage of a wide range of topics from abbreviation to Zeugma, Shakespeare to split infinitive and substantial entries on key subjects such as African English, etymology, imperialism, pidgin, poetry, psycholinguistics and slang. Box features include pieces on place-names, the evolution of the alphabet, the story of OK, borrowings into English, and the Internet. Invaluable reference for English Language students, and fascinating reading for the general reader with an interest in language.

Author : James David Hart
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 1948
Category : American literature
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A classic reference to the authors and writings, past and present, popular and polite that is embraced by American literature.

Author : Dinah Birch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199608210

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This book provides a compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this edition, existing entries have been updated and new entries have been added on contemporary writers such as Jim Crace and Pat Barker.

Author : Peter Hainsworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198183327

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Embracing the whole of Italian literature, from the early thirteenth century to the present, The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature takes a broad view of what constitutes literature, covering historical writing, travel writing, theatre, and philosophy as well as the novel, poetry, literary dialogues, and critical theory. Providing generous coverage of canonical figures - from Dante and Petrarch to Montale and Calvino - it also contains a wealth of short entries on significant minor figures. The Companion also explores Latin literature written by Italian authors - a major feature of Renaissance culture - and Italian dialect literature; and highlights articles which place the writers and their works in their wider social, historical, artistic, and political context. The 2,400 alphabetically-arranged entries provide clear, up-to-date coverage of Italian literature, making this an essential reference for specialists and non-specialists alike. Written by expert contributors, the entries reflect the current state of international scholarship, which has developed in many different and exciting directions in recent years.

Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780192800428

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Searchable database of information culled from the 1996 paperback edition of the Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English.