Arcole Publishing, 2019. — 309 p. — ISBN: 978-1789123937. John W. Aldridge is one of the few young critics of importance to appear on the literary scene since World War II. In After the Lost Generation he discusses with acumen and discernment the most important works of the young post-war writers of the Forties — Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, John Horne Burns, Truman Capote, Gore...
Mango Media, 2020. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1-64250-122-3, 978-1-64250-123-0. A packed timeline of the greatest women writers: From the first recorded writer to current bestsellers, Becca Anderson takes us through time and highlights women who have left their mark on the literary world. This expansive compilation of women writers is a chance to delve deeper into the lives and works...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 476 p. A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each essay examines an author's use of, and contributions to, the genre and also engages...
Routledge, 2011. — 252 p. The term ‘science fiction’ has an established common usage, but close examination reveals that writers, fans, editors, scholars, and publishers often use this word in different ways for different reasons. Exploring how science fiction has emerged through competing versions and the struggle to define its limits, this Concise History: provides an...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century, but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus, and Shakespeare. In this Very Short Introduction Richard Bradford explores the history of the genre, by considering the various definitions of "crime fiction" and looking at...
Oxford University Press, 1994. — 624 p. The first and only comprehensive work of its kind, The Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English charts the development of poetry from 1900 to the present, across the whole of the English-speaking world, from the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland to New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Trinidad and Zimbabwe--anywhere where poets...
Oxford University Press, 1985. — 763 p. — ISBN: 0–19-500206-7. This book is an outline of the chief ways in which Greek and Latin influence has moulded the literatures of western Europe and America. The Greeks invented nearly all the literary patterns which we use: tragedy and comedy, epic and romance, and many more. In the course of their two thousand years of writing they...
New York: Perigee Books, 2013. — 198 p. — ISBN10: 0399159940; ISBN13: 978-0399159947. Every great writer has a unique way of setting a story to paper. And, it turns out, many of these writers used methods that were just as inventive as the works they produced. Odd Type Writers explores the quirky writing habits of renowned authors, including Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, and...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 224 p. An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophiles Alberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 560 p. In this book, leading international scholars explore the major ideas and debates that have made the study of modernist literature one of the most vibrant areas of literary studies today. The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature offers a comprehensive guide to current research in the field, covering topics including: · The modernist...
Sussex Academic Press, 2021. — 188 p. Scholars in disciplines from architecture and the fine arts, to the various branches of history and social studies, will find this study timely given contemporary European controversies over what constitutes national identity and what parts are played by race, philosophy and religion, economics, immigration, and invasion. Many major...
Publisher: First Scribner, 2002. — 140 p. — ISBN: 0-7432-3736-6. An assemblage of reflections on the nature of writing and the writer from one the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. Throughout Hemingway's career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing--that it takes off "whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement...
De Gruyter, 2010. — 470 p. Since the 1990s, following the end of postmodernism, literary theory has lost much of its dynamics. This book aims at revitalising literary theory exploring two of its historical bases: German poetics and aesthetics. Beginning in the 1770s and ending in the 1950s, the book examines nearly 200 years of this history, thereby providing the reader with a...
Third Edition, Icon Books, 2006. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848311168, ISBN13: 9781848311169. Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and the avant-garde theatre of...
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 464 p. — ISBN: 978-0-674-42574-3. One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades’ worth of Helen Vendler’s essays, book reviews, and occasional prose ― including the 2004 Jefferson...
Учеб. пособие для филол. спец. ун-тов и пед. ин-тов. — Алексеев М. П., Жирмунский В. М., Мокульский С. С., Смирнов А. А. — 3-е изд. — М.: Высшая школа, 1978. — 527 с.: ил. Настоящая книга является третьим изданием учебника по истории западноевропейских литератур периода средних веков и Возрождения. Ее авторы — крупнейшие советские ученые: акад. М. П. Алексеев, акад. В. М....
Пер. с англ.: Инна Кушнарева. — М.: Издательство Института Гайдара, 2014. — 264 с. — ISBN 978-5-93255-394-7. В этой книге выдающийся итальянский литературовед Франко Моретти подробно исследует фигуру буржуа в европейской литературе Нового времени. Предлагаемая Моретти галерея отдельных портретов переплетена с анализом ключевых слов – «полезный» и «серьезный», «эффективность»,...
Пер. с итал.: Алексей Вдовин, Артем Шеля, Олег Собчук. — М.: Издательство Института экономической политики имени Е.Т. Гайдара, 2016. — 350 с. — ISBN 978-5-93255-446-3. В последней книге Франко Моретти собраны работы автора за последние 20 лет (1994–2011). Объединяя под одной обложкой исследования разных текстов (пьесы Шекспира, европейский роман XVIII–XIX вв., викторианская...
Пер. с английского Инна Кушнарева. — М.: Институт Гайдара, 2014. — 257 с. В этой книге выдающийся итальянский литературовед Франко Моретти подробно исследует фигуру буржуа в европейской литературе Нового времени. Предлагаемая Моретти галерея отдельных портретов переплетена с анализом ключевых слов - "полезный" и "серьезный", "эффективность", "влияние", "комфорт", "roba" [добро,...
М.: Рипол Классик, 2019. — 160 с. — (ЛекцииPRO-mini). — ISBN: 978-5-386-12570-7. Искусство рассказывать страшные истории совершенствовалось веками, постепенно сформировав пласт западноевропейской культуры, представленный широким набором жанров и форм, от фольклорной былички до мистического триллера. В «Четырех лекциях о литературе ужасов» Оксана Разумовская, специалист по...
Выходные данные не указаны, 2014. — 298 с. Современный взгляд на эпоху Возрождения. Теоретические предпосылки "Эпоха, которая нуждалась в титанах"? Насколько нов и историчен "новый историзм"? Жанровая поэтика Ренессанс и современность Возрождение: Культурные факторы эпохи Эпохальный отсчет времени О Ренессансе и "ренессансах" Новый человек – кто он? Петрарка о путешествии...
Учебное пособие. — Пермь, 2000-2006. — 387 с. Учебно-методический комплект предназначен для студентов гуманитарного профиля, изучающих дисциплину "История зарубежной литературы XIX века. Романтизм". Пособие представляет прозу немецкого романтизма трех этапов его развития в жанровом ее разнообразии. Романтизм рассматривается как эстетическая система, в которой идет становление...
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