Literary category: 117525 books
Trinity of Passion
The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The second of three volumes by Alan Wald that track the political and personal lives of several generations of U.S. left-wing writers, Trinity of Passion carries forward the chronicle launched in Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. In this volume Wald...
Books Are Made Out of Books
A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that "books are made out of books," but he has been famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary...
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, May Byron, William Hazlitt
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: “Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Complete Illustrated Edition)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who,...
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
Edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through Hughes’s...
Life as a Literary Device
A Writer's Manual of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Life as a Literary Device: A Writer's Manual of Survival is both a summation and a new beginning for Vitaliev, Life as a Literary Device is an analysis of how literature has bound his life and an exploration of how to survive in the modern world. Vitaliev is the Ukranian-born cultural commentator...
The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada
Making Books and Mapping Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Fifth Business and Alligator Pie. Stephen Leacock, Grey Owl, and Morley Callaghan: these treasured Canadian books and authors were all nurtured by the Macmillan Company of Canada, one of the country's foremost twentieth-century publishing houses. The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada...
Sir Charles God Damn
The Life of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1986
A new era in Canadian poetry began in 1880 with the publication of Charles G.D. Roberts’ Orion and Other Poems. He was just twenty years old. Roberts was soon acknowledged as leader of the so-called Confederation Poets—Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Archibald Lampman. During his long...
Reading 1759
Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British “year of victories” during the Seven Years’ War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics....
James Arbuckle
Selected Works
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
James Arbuckle (c.1700–1742), poet and essayist, was born in Belfast to a Presbyterian merchant family of Scottish origin and educated at Glasgow University (1717–1723). In Glasgow, his poetry, influenced by Pope and the Latin classics, won praise from leading members of Scotland’s literary...
by Eloise Millar, Sam Jordison
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
A fascinating guide to the best literary landmarks in London that takes the reader into publishing houses and along paths of inspiration, revealing the stories behind the stories. * One of the world’s greatest literary cities, London has streets full of stories and buildings steeped in history....
Mexican Literature
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Mexico has a rich literary heritage that extends back over centuries to the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective. More than merely a catalog of names and titles, it examines in detail the literary...
Exiles from a Future Time
The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers' intimate lives and heartfelt...
by M. Keith Booker
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Literary works have often engaged political issues, and many political writings give close attention to literary concerns. This encyclopedia explores the complex relationship between literature and politics through detailed entries written by expert contributors on authors, historical figures, major...
by James M. Hutchisson
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American original-a luminous literary theorist, an erratic genius, and an analyst par excellence of human obsession and compulsion. The scope of his literary achievements and the dramatic character of Poe's life have drawn readers and critics to him in droves. ...