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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)James Wright's poems are notable for their range of intense emotions and for the way both form and theme develop in the work. Wright's early style was characteristic of the 1950s in its rhetorical literariness and use of...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionWith comic seriousness, "The Saint," the title story of V.S. Pritchett's 1966 collection, recounts an adolescent boy's progress from an illusory disregard for catastrophe to a realization of humanity's mortal fate. But...
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"Signs and Symbols" was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, and later collected in Nabokov's Dozen. The story describes a Friday afternoon and night of an elderly Jewish immigrant couple in an American city. This...
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From: Relations and Relationships in Seventeenth-Century French Literature[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, O’Hara compares The Death of Mithridates with a lesser-known contemporary work, Monléon’s tragedy Thyeste (1638). The two plays, O’Hara argues, are alike, not only in their...
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From: Nineteenth-Century Fiction[(essay date 1973) In the following essay, Elbers argues that The Antiquary is not simply a collection of anecdotes, as critics have often asserted, but rather a unified work of art, organized around a series of thematic...
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From:Children's Literature Review (Vol. 101. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS:Louisa May AlcottLittle Women (young adult novel) 1869Hans Christian AndersenFairy Tales and Stories (fairy tales) 1887William ArmstrongSounder [illustrations by James Barkley] (juvenile fiction)...
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From: Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale
Authenticity, Postmodernity, and Translation: The Debates around Han Shaogong’s Dictionary of Maqiao
[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Iovene attempts to show how the debate over whether Han had plagiarized the idea for A Dictionary of Maqiao both “revealed the anxiety concerning foreign influences on Chinese... -
From:Poetry Criticism (Vol. 61. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:PoetryRenascence [published in the anthology The Lyric Year] 1912Renascence and Other Poems 1917A Few Figs from Thistles 1920; expanded edition, 1922Second April 1921The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionPerhaps the best introduction to the fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer is reading the autobiographical stories that appear in the collection called In My Father's Court. There one sees the effect of characters and events...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Richard Brautigan once stated that he had written poetry for seven years to learn how to write a sentence because he wanted to write novels and thought that he could not write a novel until he could write a sentence: "I...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Winesburg, Ohio originated in observations of an actual place. Sherwood Anderson wrote, "I made last year a series of intensive studies of people of my home town, Clyde, Ohio" (letter, 14 November 1916). Yet the stories...
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From: Hispanófila[(essay date 1982) In the following essay, Sava summarizes early critical responses to The Gaucho Martín Fierro and The Return of Martín Fierro. Sava notes the shifting political climate in which the poem was received,...
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From: Close Readings: Analyses of Short Fiction[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Durrer, Magaw, Johnson, and Skowronski offer several brief interpretations of “Guests of the Nation,” and another O’Connor story, “The Bridal Night.” Each interpretation...
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"A Horse and Two Goats," by R.K. Narayan appeared, in a somewhat different form, in The New Yorker in 1965. It was first published in its present form in the collection A Horse and Two Goats (1970), and was later...
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From: Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Baker discusses the political implications of Coryate’s travel writing, especially with regard to the expansion of the English empire. Baker contends that Coryate’s rhetoric of...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionSinger's best work is found in his short fiction, and "Gimpel the Fool" is one of his masterpieces. It features a kind of character associated with Singer—"the wise or sainted fool," in Irving Howe's phrase. Singer...
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From: Journal of Narrative Technique[(essay date 1973) In the following essay, Pickering examines Trollope’s claim that novelists, like preachers, are responsible for expounding clear and consistent ethics. Tracing historical views of the moral duties of...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionThe short stories published by Ezekial (Es'kia) Mphahlele between 1946 and 1967 raise issues inherent in the production of literature by black South Africans in the early years of grand apartheid. The short story was a...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionAlthough Lygia Fagundes Telles has written four novels, she is better known for her short stories. In the 1940's she published what she later called "impulses of a literary adolescence:" the volumes of short stories...
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"Julia Cahill's Curse" is a frequently anthologized story from George Moore's seminal 1903 collection, The Untilled Field (it was first published in Gaelic in 1902). In addition to being a finely crafted story in its own...