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Encyclopaedia Britannica
| Author | : Hugh Chisholm |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1090 |
| Release | : 1910 |
| Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
| ISBN | : |
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story
| Author | : Andrew Maunder |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 545 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0816074968 |
A comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth. With approximately 450 entries, this A-to-Z guide explores the literary contributions of such writers as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Amis, and others.
"What is Literature?" and Other Essays
| Author | : Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780674950849 |
What is Literature? challenges anyone who writes as if literature could be extricated from history or society. But Sartre does more than indict. He offers a definitive statement about the phenomenology of reading, and he goes on to provide a dashing example of how to write a history of literature that takes ideology and institutions into account.
The Matter of the Facts
| Author | : Miguel Tamen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0804734321 |
"The author is not taken by the universalizing claims of hermeneutics that everything is reducible to interpretation, but he is not interested in quarreling directly with those claims either. And with respect to the notion of invention - that things don't simply exist but are produced, made up - he likewise is interested neither in the objections usually brought against it nor in the strength of that notion in resisting them.
The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry
| Author | : R. Victoria Arana |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 545 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1438108370 |
The Facts On File Companion to World Poetry : 1900 to the Present is a comprehensive introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.
The Facts on File Companion to 20th-century American Poetry
| Author | : Burt Kimmelman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 572 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780816046980 |
Includes more than six hundred A-to-Z entries which provide concise information on particular poems, poets, and subjects which have contributed to this literary form.
Facts are Subversive
| Author | : Timothy Garton Ash |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 510 |
| Release | : 2010-01-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0300161352 |
Timothy Garton Ash is well known as an astute and penetrating observer of a dazzling array of subjects, not least through his many contributions to the New York Review of Books. This collection of his essays from the last decade reveals his knack for ferreting out exceptional insights into a troubled world, often on the basis of firsthand experience. Whether he is writing about how “liberalism” has become a dirty word in American political discourse, the problems of Muslim assimilation in Europe, Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, Günter Grass’s membership in the Waffen-SS, or the angry youth of Iran, Garton Ash combines a gimlet eye for detail with deep knowledge of the history of his chosen subjects. Running through this book is the author’s insistence that, whatever some postmodernists might claim, there are indeed facts—and we have both a political and a moral duty to establish them. By practicing what it preaches, Facts Are Subversive shows why Timothy Garton Ash is one of the world’s leading political writers. “The best and most perceptive political writer of our time . . . This book shines the clearest of lights on an entire decade.”—John Simpson “One of the most reliable and acute observers of the past present, able to report on events as a witness and, simultaneously, assess them with a coolness of judgment that almost always holds up over time.”—George Packer, New York Times Book Review “One of the most enjoyable political books you’ll read this year.”—GQ
A History of the Modern Fact
| Author | : Mary Poovey |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 446 |
| Release | : 2009-11-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0226675181 |
How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. She shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced government, how numerical representation became the privileged vehicle for generating useful facts, and how belief—whether figured as credit, credibility, or credulity—remained essential to the production of knowledge. Illuminating the epistemological conditions that have made modern social and economic knowledge possible, A History of the Modern Fact provides important contributions to the history of political thought, economics, science, and philosophy, as well as to literary and cultural criticism.
Fascinating Facts about Famous Fiction Authors and the Greatest Novels of All Time
| Author | : Dave Astor |
| Publisher | : Daveastorwrites.com |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2017-03-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780692851487 |
If you love classic literature and reading novels from famous fiction authors then you are going to love this book! In Fascinating Facts, literary trivia expert and author Dave Astor provides 100-plus short chapters which contain anecdotes, oddities, coincidences, and of course great trivia about the greatest authors who have ever put pen to paper.It's no surprise that the best writers have interesting facts surrounding them, because famous authors have to be pretty fascinating themselves in order to create the literature we cherish and enjoy so much. Here is a sample of some of the many interesting informational nuggets and gems you will discover: * The phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" originally referred to the wealthy family in which novelist Edith Wharton (nee Jones) grew up. * Edward Bellamy predicted debit cards in his novel Looking Backward - published in 1888! * The 1950s "Cat in the Hat" character created by Dr. Seuss looks like a feline version of the Uncle Sam character drawn by that same writer for his 1940s editorial cartoons. * Shakespeare and Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes died on almost the same day in 1616. * Dorothy Parker bequeathed her money to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. * O. Henry coined the term "banana republic." Whether you are a bibliophile wanting to know everything about famous authors or just want to wow your friends and amaze your relatives with interesting and entertaining literary trivia, Fascinating Facts is a fun book that you'll return to over and over again. Order your copy today!
