Author : Bernard D. N. Grebanier
Publisher :
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN :
Author : Bernard D. N. Grebanier
Publisher :
Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN :
Author : E. R. Kostro
Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
English literature is the mother lode to English-language speakers and deservedly so. The English have a rich history of writing with lights so bright they bedazzle the student: Shakespeare, Byron, Keats, Bronte, Shelly, Dickens, Chaucer and on and on. Yet English literature also competed with French, Russian, Chinese and many other literatures on the world stage. How has the language effected the literature? Does the English speaker feel drawn to Shakespeare the same as a Russian does to Pushkin? Did England fully share in the literary movements of the day? Can a small country possess the literary firepower to keep up with the giants? Does it matter? This new book presents an overview of the entire field of English literature as well as a selective bibliography indexed by subject, author and title for easy access.
Author : Ronald Carter
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780415243179
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
Author : Samuel Butler
Publisher : LA CASE Books
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel." Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butler's scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century domestic life was hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement."
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 1949
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Copyright
ISBN :
Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393334155
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
Author :
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486111105
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.
