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From:Yearbook of English Studies (Vol. 36, Issue 2)This article reviews a dozen new editions of Victorian texts published by Broadview Press (Peterborough, Canada) and another by Oxford University Press in its World's Classics series. Consideration of the various...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)A tiny incident, but a significant one, is carefully planted by Ibsen at the start of this play which is a masterpiece of characterization, even if its meticulous craftsmanship, in an almost classical dramatic style,...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Cervantes was 58 when Part One of Don Quixote was first published in Madrid in 1605, and 68 by the time Part Two was brought out. By then he had had a varied life that might have provided him with all the inspiration...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionDer Tod in Venedig ("Death in Venice"), which was made into a highly successful film starring Dirk Bogart by Luchino Visconti in 1976 and was brilliantly adapted by Myfanwy Piper to provide Benjamin Briten with the...
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"L'Hôte" ("The Guest") is one of the six short stories comprising the collection L'Exil et le royaume (Exile and the Kingdom), the last major work the Nobel prize-winning novelist, dramatist, and essayist Albert Camus...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)The title Second-Class Citizen which Buchi Emecheta chose for one of her most successful novels constitutes a very fair summary of the major theme which she explores. She always feels for the oppressed and presents their...
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From:Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn April of 1945 Yoshida Mitsuru (1923-1979) (1) was an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) assigned to the battleship IJN Yamato. He took part in Yamato's final sortie against American forces in Okinawa and was...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Around the World in Eighty Days is striking testimony to the heroic age of applied science, civil engineering, and above all, innovation in transport. Railways and steamships seemed to be making the world a far smaller...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)`So much for Caligula the Emperor; the rest of this history must needs deal with Caligula the monster'. So writes Suetonius at the start of the 22nd chapter (out of 60) of the book devoted to this particular ruler in his...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionFirst published in the daily newspaper Le Gaulois on 17 February 1884 and then included in 1885 in Contes du jour et de la nuit (Stories of Day and Night), "La Parure" ("The Necklace") is rightly one of the most famous...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionThough Simone de Beauvoir has no doubt made her most lasting contribution to modern thought with Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex), her very influential study of the female condition, and her sequence of brilliant...
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From:Journal of European Studies (Vol. 22, Issue 88) Peer-ReviewedThe Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England mounted a major exhibition entitled 'The Art of Death: Objects from the English Death Ritual, 1500-1800' in 1992. The purpose was to present how the public's attitude...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionGuy de Maupassant was born and educated in Normandy, and though he excelled in the depiction of Parisian life in the last two decades of the 19th century and in his evocations of the great horrors of the German invasion...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionAnton Chekhov probably had the first idea for "Skripka Rotshil'da" ("Rothschild's Violin") in 1892, but it was not published until 6 February 1894 in the newspaper Russiye Vedomosti (Russian Bulletins). It first appeared...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Jules Verne wrote novels that captured the essence of the mid- to late-19th century in more ways than were perhaps apparent to the youngsters who were their first enthusiastic readers, not only in France, but throughout...
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From:TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMiles Davis was one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century because he was able to draw out of other musicians a 'sense of the possible.' He worked within an improvisational format, but had set...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)`In eloquence and in military skill Julius Caesar equalled or even surpassed the most famous'. This was the judgement of Suetonius, a biographer not given to excessive praise, and what is particularly noteworthy is that...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)When Cyrano de Bergerac was first performed in 1897 in Paris at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, famous for its spectacular shows, with Constant Coquelin, the greatest male actor of the age, playing the lead, it...
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"Une Passion dans le désert" ("A Passion in the Desert") was first published in the 26 December 1830 issue of the Revue de Paris, a literary magazine whose policy was to encourage young writers, which had started...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)A man who made distinguished contributions in the sphere of politics in Africa during the era of decolonisation as well as in the world of literature, Léopold Senghor reveals in his literary works the complex interplay...