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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)It is not often that a writer has the opportunity to create a literary fashion and even a new genre, but theatrical thrillers and mysteries can legitimately be divided into pre-Sleuth and post-Sleuth, indicating more...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 162. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (autobiography) 1861; also published as Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Seven Years Concealed in Slavery, 1861, and The...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 141. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself (autobiography) 1845Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, by Frederick Douglass, July 5th, 1852...
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From: CommentaryGrace Paley believes that art has a practical function—to make “justice in the world.” And for that reason, she adds, “it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.” Like certain other writers who started out...
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From:Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (Vol. 62. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Alf Layla wa-Layla [A Thousand and One Nights] (short stories) c. 9th century-10th centuryPrincipal English TranslationsThe Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights'...
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From:Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (Vol. 50. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:La Chanson de Roland [The Song of Roland] c. 1170 Principal English TranslationsThe Song of Roland (translated by Dorothy L. Sayers) 1957The Song of Roland (translated by Robert Harrison) 1970The...
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From: CommentaryHow did E. M. Forster manage to elude the Nobel Prize in Literature? He published his last novel, A Passage to India, at the age of forty-five in 1924 and died at the age of ninety-two in 1970. He must have been passed...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 154. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Buch Annette (poetry) 1767Die Laune des Verliebten (play) 1767Neue Lieder (poetry) 1769Rede Zum Schäkespears Tag (criticism) 1771Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand [Goetz of Berlichingen...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 177. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:*The Fall of Robespierre [with Robert Southey] (play) 1794Poems on Various Subjects (poetry) 1796; revised as Poems, 1797Ode on the Departing Year (poetry) 1797†Osorio (play) 1797; revised as...
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From: Papers on Language and LiteratureA meronym, such as gray, is an “image of parts,” one which can encompass seeming opposites and can be applied to any balance or blend of its components—all of which are coterminous. Thus gray must always be a balance of...
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From:Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (Vol. 69. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Principal English TranslationsThe Bible (American Standard Version) 1901The Bible (New Revised Standard Version) 1952New Century Bible: Commentary on Exodus (translated by J. Philip Hyatt) 1971The...
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From: Film Comment[(essay date March/April 1985) In the following essay, which includes an interview with the Coen brothers and Barry Sonnenfeld, their cinematographer, Hinson discusses the making of Blood Simple.] In his novel Red...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 135. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Madame Bovary, mours de province. 2 vols. (novel) 1857Salammbô [Salambo] (novel) 1862L'Éducation sentimentale, histoire d'un jeune homme [Sentimental Education: A Young Man's History]. 2 vols....
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From:Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (Vol. 54. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Principal English EditionsSir Gawain and the Green Knight [translated by Brian Stone] 1959The Complete Works of the Gawain-Poet [translated by John Gardner] 1965Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 158. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Fanshawe: A Tale (novel) 1828Twice-Told Tales (sketches and short stories) 1837Biographical Stories for Children (biography) 1842Twice-Told Tales second series (sketches and short stories)...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 143. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire [as Victor; with Elizabeth Shelley] (poetry) 1810Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholsen, Being Poems Found amongst the Papers of That Noted Female Who...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 149. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Hours of Idleness (poetry) 1807English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (satire) 1809Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt (poetry) 1812The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish Tale (poetry) 1813The Giaour: A...
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From: A Dark Night's Dreaming[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Bosky examines Straub's body of work.] Peter Straub's fiction is notable for its combination of unity and variety: the continuing exploration of specialized themes and a...
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From: “Deep Play”—John Gay and the Invention of Modernity[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Dugaw describes the “allusive bite” of the melodies used in The Beggar’s Opera and its sequel, Polly, noting that Gay’s airs often share their tunes with multiple popular...
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From: The Cultural Heritage of the Italian Renaissance: Essays in Honour of T. G. Griffith[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Griffiths provides a detailed comparison of The Faithful Shepherd to Torquato Tasso’s earlier pastoral drama, Aminta. Griffiths argues that Guarini’s awareness of the changing...