The rise of modernism marked one of the major transitional periods in contemporary literature. The American modernist poets created a rich legacy in their verse explorations of a world touched by war, rapid industrialization, and the growing perceived alienation of the individual. The innovators featured in this volume include Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Carl Sandburg and their abiding influences. Critical essays examine these poets and their works, with a chronology, bibliography, index, and an introductory essay by master scholar Harold Bloom completing the title.
Realism and Regionalism, 1865-1914 (Research Guide to American Literature)
Realism and Regionalism: 1865–1914 covers American literature from the second half of the 19th century up to the start of World War I. Informative study guides provide necessary background information on this time period, suggest helpful areas of research, and list the best secondary sources.
'The Tempest', 'The Winter's Tale', 'Measure for Measure', and 'All's Well That Ends Well' have fascinated scholars for centuries for, among other aspects, the ways they resist an obvious genre classification. While these stories of love and familial recognition bear elements of romantic conflict, Shakespeare integrated aspects of the comedic and tragic as well in these complex works. Renowned Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom introduces this volume of critical essays about the Bard and his romantic plays, and a chronology of his life, a bibliography, and an index will be helpful to researchers.
This book introduces readers to the evolution of modern fiction in Spanish-speaking Latin America. # Presents Latin American fiction in its cultural and political contexts. # Introduces debates about how to read this literature. # Combines an overview of the evolution of modern Latin American fiction with detailed studies of key texts. # Discusses authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Isabel Allende. # Covers nation-building narratives, ‘modernismo’, the New Novel, the Boom, the Post-Boom, Magical Realism, Hispanic fiction in the USA, and more.
Lost Libraries - The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity
This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
