Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2009
Genre: African American poets
ISBN: 1438115369

Provides a biography of Langston Hughes along with critical views of his poetry and prose.

Bloom's How to Write about Langston Hughes

Bloom's How to Write about Langston Hughes
Author: James B. Kelley
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1438128703

Offers advice on writing essays about the works of Langston Hughes and lists sample topics.

The Worlds of Langston Hughes

The Worlds of Langston Hughes
Author: Vera M. Kutzinski
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2012-10-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0801466245

The poet Langston Hughes was a tireless world traveler and a prolific translator, editor, and marketer. Translations of his own writings traveled even more widely than he did, earning him adulation throughout Europe, Asia, and especially the Americas. In The Worlds of Langston Hughes, Vera Kutzinski contends that, for writers who are part of the African diaspora, translation is more than just a literary practice: it is a fact of life and a way of thinking. Focusing on Hughes's autobiographies, translations of his poetry, his own translations, and the political lyrics that brought him to the attention of the infamous McCarthy Committee, she shows that translating and being translated—and often mistranslated—are as vital to Hughes's own poetics as they are to understanding the historical network of cultural relations known as literary modernism.As Kutzinski maps the trajectory of Hughes's writings across Europe and the Americas, we see the remarkable extent to which the translations of his poetry were in conversation with the work of other modernist writers. Kutzinski spotlights cities whose role as meeting places for modernists from all over the world has yet to be fully explored: Madrid, Havana, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and of course Harlem. The result is a fresh look at Hughes, not as a solitary author who wrote in a single language, but as an international figure at the heart of a global intellectual and artistic formation.

The Quote Sleuth

The Quote Sleuth
Author: Anthony W. Shipps
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1990
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780252016950

The tracer's goals are to identify the source of a quotation, to find or to produce detailed citation based on a reliable edition of the work, to find an authoritative text of the passage being traced, and to do all this in the shortest time possible and with the least possible amount of effort.

African American Literature

African American Literature
Author: Hans Ostrom
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 571
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This essential volume provides an overview of and introduction to African American writers and literary periods from their beginnings through the 21st century. This compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cover the most influential and highly regarded African American writers, including novelists, playwrights, poets, and nonfiction writers. The book covers key periods of African American literature—such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and the Civil Rights Era—and touches on the influence of the vernacular, including blues and hip hop. The volume provides historical context for critical viewpoints including feminism, social class, and racial politics. Entries are organized A to Z and provide biographies that focus on the contributions of key literary figures as well as overviews, background information, and definitions for key subjects.

Critical Essays on Langston Hughes

Critical Essays on Langston Hughes
Author: Edward J. Mullen
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1986
Genre: African Americans in literature
ISBN:

Contains a collection of reviews and essays on the work of Langston Hughes.

English Author Dictionaries (the XVIth – the XXIst cc.)

English Author Dictionaries (the XVIth – the XXIst cc.)
Author: Olga M. Karpova
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2011-01-18
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1443828211

This book is devoted to the description of typical trends in development, formation and the present state of English Author Lexicography, the roots of which go back to concordances to the Bible and glossaries of the complete works of Chaucer (xvi c.). Part I, “Linguistic Dictionaries to English Writers,” presents lexicographic analysis of old and new concordances, indices, glossaries and lexicons of famous English writers with special reference to Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, and Dickens. It presents a modern scene of author glossaries for unfamiliar words, terms and other groups of writers’ vocabulary (e.g. Shakespeare’s insults and his erotic language). The reader is offered a detailed review of author concordances, glossaries and lexicons on the Internet, along with criticism of printed dictionaries. Part II, “Encyclopedic Reference Works to English Writers,” deals with English author encyclopedic reference books, i.e. encyclopedias, guides and companions; dictionaries of characters and place names; quotations and proverbs, and Internet encyclopedic resources. The book also provides a comprehensive list of references on author lexicography and an Index of Dictionaries to the English Writers (xvi–xxi cc.), including 300 titles of linguistic and encyclopedic dictionaries, which is a reliable user guide in the world of English author lexicography.

Legacies of Power in American Music

Legacies of Power in American Music
Author: Judith A. Mabary
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2022-10-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1000687007

This volume honors and extends the contributions of educator and scholar Dr. Michael J. Budds to the field of musicology, particularly the study of American music. As the longtime editor of two book series for the College Music Society, Budds nurtured a wide range of scholarship in American music and had a lasting impact on the field. This book brings together scholars who worked with Budds as a colleague, editor, or mentor to carry on his legacy of passionate engagement with America’s rich and varied musical heritage. Ranging through jazz, gospel, Americana, and film music to American classical, and addressing music’s social contexts and analytical structure, the research gathered here attests to the diversity of the mosaic that is American music and the numerous scholarly approaches that have been taken to the subject.