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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 The previously unpublished essays discuss biographical details of his personal and professional life.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
In The Fall of Troy, Quintus Smyrnaeus (Fourth century CE?) seeks to continue in Homerâe(tm)s style the tale of Troy from the point at which the Iliad closes.
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
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
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
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
subject:"Literature and history" from books.google.com
This work shows that he was not just a mythmaker and writer of escapist fantasy but a man whose relationship to his own century was troubled and critical.
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.