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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)It was Alphonse de Lamartine who created the image, in France, of the Romantic poet. The publication of his first collection, Méditations poétiques (Poetical Meditations), in 1820 was undoubtedly a landmark in French...
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From:Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers (3rd ed.)Some 40 green chunky novels, gold-lettered and dignified, by Hugh Walpole, made a familiar clutch on pre-war shelves. On both sides of the Atlantic they sold in their thousands, several being made into films. His...
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From:Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers (3rd ed.)One of Canada's most successful novelists today, Timothy Findley began his career as an actor and scriptwriter, working on various stage, television, and radio productions. By 1962 he began to write full-time resulting...
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From: The Historical Novel and Other Essays[An American critic, playwright, and novelist, Matthews wrote extensively on world drama and served for a quarter century at Columbia University as professor of dramatic literature; he was the first to hold that title at...
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From: Studies in Canadian Literature[(essay date 1999) In this essay, Wyile considers Urquhart's postcolonial reading of the Irish immigration to Canada in Away, suggesting that the novel offers an engaging critique of Canadian identity.] In a time of...
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From: Mud-Swamp" of Japan." Fides et Historia[(essay date winter-spring 1994) In the following essay, Burkman addresses Endō's artistic handling of the incompatibility of Western religion with Japanese culture.] The National Christian Council of Japan in 1991...
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From: Mexico in Its Novel: A Nation's Search for Identity[(essay date 1966) In the following essay, Brushwood studies the fragmented sense of national identity evidenced in nineteenth-century Mexican novels.] The Reform can be described, with a considerable degree of...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersIrving Stone claimed that he wrote "bio-history." He identified the genre as "bringing history to life in terms of the tremendous human stories that have made history." For each of his books, Stone did extensive...
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From: Modern Fiction Studies[(essay date spring 1999) In the following essay, Elias maintains that Pushing the Bear explores the "dual role of formal fragmentation in Native American contemporary literature and its difference from seemingly similar...
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From:Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers (3rd ed.)The pretext for Susan Sontag's monumental yet exquisitely compassionate historical romance, The Volcano Lover, is a re-telling of the lives of Sir William Hamilton, Emma Hamilton, and Lord Nelson, primarily as they were...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Redgauntlet is one of the most important works of Sir Walter Scott's later career. In it, he returns to a subject raised in Waverley, his first novel: the Jacobite uprisings of the 18th century. Unlike the 1745 rebellion...
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From: Akutagawa: An Introduction[(essay date 1976) In the following essay, Yu examines major themes in Akutagawa's short stories, focusing on "The Nose" as the starting point of his fiction career.] 1 Of Akutagawa's early writings, only a...
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From:Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers (3rd ed.)Although Robert Graves denigrated his own historical fiction, saying that `all I really care about is poetry', it is an ironic fact that his novels are now more widely read and acclaimed both by critics and the general...
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From:Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers (3rd ed.)R.F. Delderfield's novels are not so much classic love stories as family sagas punctuated by strong romantic impulses. In The Avenue Goes to War, for instance, the hard-bitten, self-seeking Elaine abandons affluence and...
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From: Flaubert's Salammbô: The Ancient Orient as a Political Allegory of Nineteenth-Century France[(essay date 2002) In the following excerpt, Durr dissects the critical consensus regarding Salammbô, contending that most readings of the work are flawed. Durr also illustrates the ways in which Flaubert subtly draws...
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From: The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)[In this excerpt from his 1903 survey of modern Hebrew literature, Slouschz examines the importance of Mapu's historical novels to the development of Eastern European Jewish culture.] Romantic fiction in Hebrew, which...
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From:Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers (3rd ed.)William Golding's fiction embraces a time-span that ranges from the world of Neanderthal man (The Inheritors) to more contemporary times (The Paper Men), and includes three novels (Free Fall, The Pyramid, and Darkness...
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From:Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers (3rd ed.)The historian in Irving Stone co-habited with the artist through a dozen or so novels, and although the public sanctioned the arrangement by purchasing and reading the offspring books, the union is neither literarily nor...
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From:Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers (3rd ed.)Edith Wharton's relation to popular traditions has been both over- and under-played. On the one hand her reputation has suffered in the usual way of the woman writer from the identification of her work with the romantic...
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From: Studies in Scottish Literature[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Smith contends that Scott synthesized the modern historical novel in Waverley by grafting "dialectical rhetoric" and "anthropological historicism" to the existing elements of...