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Concise Dictionary of American Literature

Author : Robert Richards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442233850
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Concise Dictionary of American Literature written by Robert Richards and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1955-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary was designed, not simply for the scholar, but for the general reader who needs more enlightenment about a specific American author or movement than a mere catalogue of facts can give him. The scholar has read whole books about Walt Whitman, and uses the dictionary merely to refresh his memory concerning a title or a date. The general reader wants a concise account of how Whitman lived, what he was like as a person, what prompted him to write poetry, why this poetry is now considered to be important, and a history of Whitman appraisals. On the other hand, the average reader would prefer not be confused by meaningless facts, obscure data, or scholastic debate. The scholar or the student, the editor or the teacher, will find in this dictionary almost any fact concerning American literature that he will ever need. The general reader will find, in addition to facts, valuable apprehensions concerning our American literary heritage.

Concise Dictionary of American Literature

Author : Robert Fulton Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Concise Dictionary of American Literature written by Robert Fulton Richards and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Concise Dictionary of American Biography

Author : American Council Learned Soc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Concise Dictionary of American Biography written by American Council Learned Soc and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater

Author : Wenying Xu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538157322
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater by : Wenying Xu

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater written by Wenying Xu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Library Journal Best Reference Book of 2022 This book represents the culmination of over 150 years of literary achievement by the most diverse ethnic group in the United States. Diverse because this group of ethnic Americans includes those whose ancestral roots branch out to East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Western Asia. Even within each of these regions, there exist vast differences in languages, cultures, religions, political systems, and colonial histories. From the earliest publication in 1887 to the latest in 2021, this dictionary celebrates the incredibly rich body of fiction, poetry, memoirs, plays, and children’s literature. Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on genres, major terms, and authors. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this topic.

Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography

Author : Matthew Joseph Bruccoli
Publisher : Gale / Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780810318182
Total Pages : 2506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography written by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and published by Gale / Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1987-04-15 with total page 2506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Covers only the American authors most frequently studied in high school and college literature courses. Each volume is devoted to a single historical period, covering 30-40 representative writers from all genres. The supplement to the 6-vol. Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, Modern American Writers, provides additional information on 20th-century authors featured in the original volumes.

Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography

Author : Mary Bruccoli
Publisher : Gale
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography written by Mary Bruccoli and published by Gale. This book was released on 1987 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography covers only the American authors most frequently studied in high school and college literature courses. It extracts and fully updates essays in their entirety from the much larger Dictionary of Literary Biography series.The 6-vol. set begins each entry with a helpful chart that instantly shows the important places, influences and relationships; literary movements; major themes; cultural and artistic influences; and social and economic influences that most affected the featured author's work. The set is organized chronologically.Each volume is devoted to a single historical period, covering 30-40 representative writers from all genres. They include:Colonization to the American Renaissance, 1640-1865Realism, Naturalism, and Local Color, 1865-1917The Twenties, 1917-1929The Age of Maturity, 1929-1941The New Consciousness, 1941-1968Broadening Views, 1968-1988The Supplement to the 6-vol. set, Modern American Writers, provides additional information on 20th-century authors featured in the original volumes.

Concise Dictionary of American Biography

Author : American Council of Learned Societies
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concise Dictionary of American Biography written by American Council of Learned Societies and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-volume abridgment of the Dictionary of American biography contains concise versions of all 18,110 biographies contained in the original work and the eight supplement volumes. It also includes 1,026 biographies of figures who died between 1961 and 1970, as well as a 170-page listing of all subjects by occupation (in some 1,000 fields of endeavor). Edited under the sponsorship of the American Council of Learned Societies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography

Author : Matthew Joseph Bruccoli
Publisher : Gale / Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780810318182
Total Pages : 2506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (181 download)

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American Authors, 1600-1900

Author : Stanley Kunitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book American Authors, 1600-1900 written by Stanley Kunitz and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198031750
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature by : William L. Andrews

Download or read book The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature written by William L. Andrews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels), such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, Sula Peace, as well as on character types such as Aunt Jemima, Brer Rabbit, John Henry, Stackolee, and the trickster. Icons of black culture are addressed, including vivid details about the lives of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman. Here, too, are general articles on poetry, fiction, and drama; on autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of related topics. Compact yet thorough, this handy volume gathers works from a vast array of sources--from the black periodical press to women's clubs--making it one of the most substantial guides available on the growing, exciting world of African American literature.

The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style

Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195135084
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style written by Bryan A. Garner and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers basic grammar, punctuation, spelling, and idiomatic phrases of American English.

The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature

Author : James D. Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192570412
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature written by James D. Hart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly half a century, James D. Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature has offered a matchless guided tour through American literary culture, both past and present, with brief biographies of important authors, descriptions of important literary movements, and a wealth of information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the present day. In this second edition of the Concise version, Wendy Martin and Danielle Hinrichs bring the work up to date to more fully reflect the diversity of the subject. Their priorities have been, foremost, to fully represent the impact of writers of color and women writers on the field of American literature, and to increase the usefulness of the work to students of literary theory. To this end, over 230 new entries have been added, including many that cover women authors; Native American, African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and other contemporary ethnic literatures; LGBT, trans, and queer studies; and recent literary movements and evolving areas of contemporary relevance such as eco-criticism, disability studies, whiteness studies, male/masculinity studies, and diaspora studies.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199208271
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature

Author : James D. Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195047710
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature written by James D. Hart and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise version contains brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries of individual works, descriptions of important literary movements, and a wealth of information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the modern era.

Concise Oxford American Dictionary

Author : Oxford Languages
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1160 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Concise Oxford American Dictionary written by Oxford Languages and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Concise Oxford American Dictionary is a brand-new concise dictionary, offering Oxford authority in a handy desktop size. In addition to thorough coverage of the core English vocabulary, including new words and senses, with definitions that are concise and easy to understand, the Concise Oxford American Dictionary also includes more than a thousand word histories that illuminate the lives of words. Features: more than 180,000 entries and definitions; hundreds of word histories about the fascinating lives of words; more than 300 carefully chosen illustrations; Ready Reference section with information about weights and measures, chemical elements, U.S. states and presidents, punctuation, frequently misspelled words, and much more."--BOOK JACKET.

Concise Dictionary of American History

Author : Thomas Childs Cochran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (219 download)

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Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology

Author : Robert K. Barnhart
Publisher : Collins Reference
ISBN 13 : 9780062700841
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology written by Robert K. Barnhart and published by Collins Reference. This book was released on 1995-09-15 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As all lovers of language know, words are the source of our very understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Often, however, our use of language is so automatic that we neglect to consider where those words came from and what they assume. What are the implications, beyond the simple dictionary definitions, of using words such as privilege, hysteria, seminal, and gyp? Browsing through the pages of The Barhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology is like exploring the historical, political, and rhetorical wonderland of our linguistic heritage. We see the evolution of ideas, as rootword connections that now seem arbitrary are traced to schools of thought from the past. We also find an opportunity to examine how the sometimes backwards, sometimes hilarious, and sometimes illuminating ideologies built into our language affect our modern thinking. Written in a fresh, accessible style, this book provides the derivations of over 21,000 English-language words without resorting to the use of abbreviations, symbols, or technical terminology. Drawing on the most current American scholarship, and focusing on the core words in contemporary English, The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology is both a diverting browse and a thinking person's Bible.