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subject:"Literature and history" from books.google.com
The 1999 centennial of Ernest Hemingway's birth marks a time for the re-evaluation of his position as America's premier modernist writer. The previously unpublished essays discuss biographical details of his personal and professional life.
subject:"Literature and history" from books.google.com
These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with "romance," the story told of and by the ...
subject:"Literature and history" from books.google.com
Contributors to this book focus on the serious political questions posed by the problems of strangeness, "the other," in the present climate of accelerating social change and global shifts in political power.
subject:"Literature and history" from books.google.com
The fruit of five years of meticulous research, this is the first substantially new biography of Tolkien since 1977, distilled from his personal wartime papers and a multitude of other sources.
subject:"Literature and history" from books.google.com
Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on classical literature.
subject:"Literature and history" from books.google.com
The rhyming verses are accompanied by a prose version and a commentary, which makes the text enjoyable reading for anyone with an interest in medieval texts and the classic works of chivalry.
subject:"Literature and history" from books.google.com
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
subject:"Literature and history" from books.google.com
Examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in the writings of several familiar figures in antebellum US literary history.
subject:"Literature and history" from books.google.com
Burgess challenges Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger, often overlooked context of the entire body of the Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age.
subject:"Literature and history" from books.google.com
This is a translation of Jorge de Montemayor's 16th-century Spanish pastoral romance which is recognized as being important in the history of the development of the novel. Notes accompany this translation.