South slavic writers since world war II

South slavic writers since world war II
Author: Vasa D. Mihailovich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1997
Genre: Authors, Southern Slavic
ISBN:

Essays on authors who found themselves in totally different situations from those before World War II. Yugoslavia and Bulgaria embraced the communist system as dictated by the Soviet army in Bulgaria. Writers were ordered to accept the new regime and those accused of collaboration with the enemy were liquidated. Some writers were prevented from publishing and a small number immigrated to other countries.

South Slavic Writers Since World War II

South Slavic Writers Since World War II
Author: Vasa D. Mihailovich
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

An eclectic view of the book and manuscript collecting and bibliographical activity during nineteenth century Britain is presented. Subjects range from the wealthy, bibliographically knowledgeable members of the aristocrats to others who impoverished themselves and their families in their obsession. Discusses how these collections were instrumental in the advocacy of the public library movement.

South Slavic Writers Before World War II

South Slavic Writers Before World War II
Author: Vasa D. Mihailovich
Publisher: Detroit [Mich.] : Gale Research
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Covers five literatures - Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Slovenian. The writers chosen serve indirectly as a history of each of these literatures in all genres.

American Short-story Writers Since World War II.

American Short-story Writers Since World War II.
Author: Patrick Meanor
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Focuses on how the declining market for short-story writers after World War II saw the migration of these writers to universities where they not only continued to write, but established creative writing classes that would in turn inspire and develop new generations of writers of various genres.

Russian Prose Writers After World War II

Russian Prose Writers After World War II
Author: Christine Rydel
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Whether the writers in this period described the war, the Great Terror, the gulag experience, exile, repression, or simply everyday life in the city or in the country, they generally turned to a "major theme of Russian literature since the Revolution the fate of the individual human being in a mass state." In the literature often the state won, due to its power; at other times individuals triumphed, because of their moral convictions. The same can be said of these writers.

Japanese Fiction Writers Since World War II

Japanese Fiction Writers Since World War II
Author: Van C. Gessel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1997
Genre: Japanese fiction
ISBN:

Essays on post World War II Japanese fiction writers. Novelists who participated in literary activity after 1945 shaped the direction of postwar Japanese fiction. Freed from censorship, significant war literature was written in the decade after the conflict. Established writers were able to resume work interrupted by the war and demands to write propaganda. Female authors would emerge to define the new role of their gender in this post-war period.

American Poets Since World War II.

American Poets Since World War II.
Author: Joseph Mark Conte
Publisher: Detroit, MI : Gale Research
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1998
Genre: American poetry
ISBN:

Bibliographical, biographical, and evaluative commentary of contemporary American poets who published since 1945.

Twentieth-century Swedish Writers After World War II

Twentieth-century Swedish Writers After World War II
Author: Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Essays on Swedish authors of the twentieth-century include prominent Swedish writers from different decades, movements, genres and gender, with preference given to authors published in English translation. Fenno-Swedish writers have also been included since they write in Swedish and are part of the Swedish cultural history. Discusses the establishment of the Nobel Prizes, as well as poets of lyrical modernism, proletarian realists, autodidacts, and contemporary poetry.