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Pub. Date
1986
Description
Includes, concerning the Spanish Civil War, statements personal accounts, fiction, essays, and poetry by W. H. Auden, John Dos Passos, Louis MacNeice, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, William Carlos Williams, Federico Garcia Lorca, Thomas Mann, Antoine De Saint-Exupery, George Orwell, Kenneth Rexroth, Arthur Koestler, Wyndham Lewis, John Steinbeck, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Samuel Beckett, Luis Bunuel, I. F. Stone, Pablo...
Pub. Date
[1992]
Appears on list
Description
This companion volume to Masterpieces of World Literature (1989) highlights the literary achievements of African-American authors from the 18th century to the present with individual articles on 149 major works of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. Each article contains the important facts and dates of authorship along with analyses of characters, settings, themes, and plots. A unique & vital guide that summarizes, explains, & evaluates the...
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Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Humanism, in both its rhetoric and practice, attempted to transform the relationships between men that constituted the fabric of early modern society. So argues Alan Stewart in this ground-breaking investigation into the impact of humanism in sixteenth-century England. Here the author shows that by valorizing textual skills over martial prowess, humanism provided a new means of upward mobility for the lowborn but humanistically trained scholar: he...
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