Encyclopedia of the Essay

Encyclopedia of the Essay
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1032
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1135314101

This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies

Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature

Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Author: Jean Albert Bédé
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 932
Release: 1980
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780231037174

With more than 1800 critical entries on the writers and literatures of 33 languages, this work presents the entire range of modern European writing -- from the symbolist and modernist works rooted in the last decades of the nineteenth century; through the avant-garde and existentialist movement to Barthes, Blanchot, Breton, and continental thought pertinent today.

Revival: A History of Spanish Literature (1930)

Revival: A History of Spanish Literature (1930)
Author: Ernest Merimee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351349317

The present English version, authorized by the publishers and heirs of M. Merimee, is based on the third French Edition. New material of two sorts has been added, however. First, the translator has been allowed to utlize an annotated, interleaved copy of the Precis, 1922, in which the author, and after his death his son Henri, himself a distinguished Hispanist, had set down material for the next revision. This accounts for many inserted names and phrases, and some paragraphs. Second, the translator has rewritten and added with some freedom.