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Author : Bobby Ellen Kimbel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810345829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 102 written by Bobby Ellen Kimbel and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Aiello
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807175986
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Trouble in Room 519 written by Thomas Aiello and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At approximately seven o’clock in the evening on May 7, 1950, Gordon Malherbe Hillman filled an empty bottle with water, capped it, and walked into his mother’s room in the pair’s fifth-floor suite at Boston’s luxurious Copley Plaza Hotel. He then edged up behind the semi-invalid woman and bludgeoned her to death. Hotel staff had planned to evict the two the following day after several weeks of unpaid rent. Mounting debts had finally broken the fifty-year-old Hillman, a now-struggling author of mixed success, but it had not always been that way, as Thomas Aiello shows in his study of the life and work of this forgotten midcentury figure. As a youth, Hillman attended the prestigious Noble and Greenough School near Boston. Pursuing a career as a writer, he published several dozen pieces of short fiction and a critically acclaimed novel, Fortune’s Cup (1941). Hollywood studios purchased the rights to two of his stories and made them into films, The Great Man Votes (1939) and Here I Am a Stranger (1940). But Hillman remained, for the most part, a middling magazine writer like the majority of fiction authors working during the Depression. Although most did not resort to acts of manic violence, Hillman’s tenuous position in literary circles, along with his gradual descent into financial ruin, proved a far more common tale than the stories of literary success often pored over by critics and historians of this period. In The Trouble in Room 519: Money, Matricide, and Marginal Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century, Aiello weaves a compelling true crime narrative into his exploration of the economics of magazine fiction and the strains placed on authors by the publishing industry prior to World War II. Examining Hillman’s writing as exemplary of Depression-era popular fiction, Aiello includes eight stories written by Hillman and originally published in prominent midcentury American magazines, including Collier’s, Liberty, and McCall’s, to provide additional context and insight into this trying time and tragic life.
Author : Matthew Joseph Bruccoli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780787631284
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography written by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136593411
Total Pages : 2992 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The 20th Century A-GI written by Frank N. Magill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 2992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.
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Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 7 written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Darren Harris-Fain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (715 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography written by Darren Harris-Fain and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James A. Kaser
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810857407
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book The Washington, D.C. of Fiction written by James A. Kaser and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The Washington, D.C. of Fiction: A Research Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for nearly four hundred works published between 1822 and 1976 and bibliographic information for hundreds more published since. Plot summaries, names of major characters, and location lists are also presented. Although this book was written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries have enough detail for general readers so they can develop an understanding of the way attitudes toward Washington, and what the city symbolizes, have changed over the years. Similarly, the biographical section demonstrates the wide range of journalists, politicians, society women, and freelance writers who were motivated to write about the city."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : M. Thomas Inge
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469616645
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture written by M. Thomas Inge and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape previous traditions, southern literature has broadened and deepened its connections not just to the American literary mainstream but also to world literatures--a development thoughtfully explored in the essays here. Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the original Encyclopedia, this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to contemporary writers and other individuals who have not been widely covered in previous scholarship.
Author : Joseph Rosenblum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780787618421
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography written by Joseph Rosenblum and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam G. Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810353961
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography written by Sam G. Riley and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keneth Kinnamon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476609128
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Richard Wright written by Keneth Kinnamon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his searing autobiography (Black Boy) and fiction (Native Son). By 1947 he felt so unwelcome in his homeland that he exiled himself and his family in Paris. But his writings changed American culture forever, and today they are mainstays of literature and composition classes. He and his works are also the subjects of numerous critical essays and commentaries by contemporary writers. This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of those essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging from unpublished dissertations to book-length studies of African American literature and literary criticism. Also included as an appendix are addenda to the author's earlier bibliography covering the years from 1934 through 1982. This is the exhaustive reference for serious students of Richard Wright and his critics.
Author : Joseph Rosenblum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810353992
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 140 written by Joseph Rosenblum and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. S. Gwynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810375970
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 120 written by R. S. Gwynn and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert M. Coates
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 194795122X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (479 download)
Download or read book The Eater of Darkness written by Robert M. Coates and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by many to be one of the most unique, avant-garde works published by the Lost Generation, The Eater of Darkness is hailed as the first Dada novel published by an American. Previously out of print for more than fifty years, this new edition has been updated with a new introduction and contemporary material that pays homage to the groundbreaking life and career of author Robert M. Coates. “One of the cleverest tours de force ever contrived by the pen of a wit.” Young, charming, and fresh from a passionate jaunt in France, Charles Dograr leaves behind his French lover and returns to America to spend a year in New York City. Eager to make his year in New York one to remember, Charles leaves his boarding house room one night in search of an adventure. As he wanders, Charles stumbles into the living quarters of Picrolas, an eccentric, crazed scientist who refers to himself as “the Eater of Darkness.” Picrolas reveals his prized invention: a remote-control x-ray machine, designed to electrocute and kill at random by shooting “x-ray bullets” into the brains of Picrolas’ intended targets. Tricked by Picrolas into releasing the trigger, Charles is instantly taken by the machine and the power it holds. After a string of murders ensue, Charles agrees to help Picrolas plot an elaborate bank heist, using the x-ray bullets to kill the bank’s guards and any unlucky witnesses that happen to be on the street during the heist. As the city is terrorized by these mysterious murders, Charles becomes entangled in the fallout. Characters disappear and reappear; events spiral in a disorienting, antirealistic fashion; and genres collide in an unpredictable, dreamlike conclusion. Often compared to Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman, The Eater of Darkness is many things: both an acclaimed crime novel and a study in surrealist fiction; an experimentation of style, structure, and syntax; and an innovative, avant-garde concoction from an author who wrote years ahead of his time.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410341275
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Study Guide for Richard Wright's "Big Black Good Man" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780810317024
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James A. Kaser
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810892049
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The New Orleans of Fiction written by James A. Kaser and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of New Orleans in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on New Orleans-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The New Orleans of Fiction: A Research Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 500 works of fiction significantly set in New Orleans and published between 1836 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction—as well as literary fiction—are included.
