• In conclusion, the literature was highly affected by the events of the first half of the 20th century. (scorpiones.pl)
  • Modern period in the English literature begins with the 20th century and remain till 1965. (scorpiones.pl)
  • In northeastern Thailand's Isan region, authors write primarily in Thai, but it is possible nonetheless to identify an Isan literature, which played a significant and at times pivotal role in the development of Thai literature in the second half of the 20th century, as authors grappled with how their origins and experiences related to the Thai centre. (nus.edu.sg)
  • Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Other leading figures include narrative writer Gottfried Keller , poet Conrad Ferdinand Meyer , and novelist Robert Walser , and many exemplify the literary critic Karl Schmid's remark that the leitmotiv of 20th-century Swiss literature is "the malaise of a small nation. (britannica.com)
  • Between the medieval period and the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Belarus, including Kievan Rus' , the Principality of Polotsk , the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , and the Russian Empire . (wikipedia.org)
  • Through Martin Buber's translation, his teaching is thought to have influenced some 20th century writers, including Franz Kafka . (wikipedia.org)
  • Sarmiento's conception of Spanish Latin America as barbaric has in the 20th century found new expressions in the works of writers such as Jorge Luis Bor-ges and his, by Anglo-Saxon culture inspired, literature. (lu.se)
  • both won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Spitteler in 1919 and Hesse in 1946. (britannica.com)
  • In Poland, where his books are banned and must be smuggled in, Milosz has long been widely read and admired, but he had relatively few readers in the West until he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980, the year of the Solidarity uprising. (nybooks.com)
  • Themes in American Literature: Eat This! (sc.edu)
  • Editor) My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African-American Literature, Running Press (Philadelphia, PA), 2001. (encyclopedia.com)
  • She is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, where her work considers memory and language in Jewish mysticism. (berkeley.edu)
  • Old Things Considered: Museum Objects and the Study of 19th-Century Italian Literature (2023). (mtholyoke.edu)
  • In the National Student Survey 2023, 98% of students in the Department of Languages and Cultures and 94% of students in the Department of English Literature said our teaching staff were good or very good at explaining things. (reading.ac.uk)
  • Books by Jamal Saeed, Christina Sharpe, Angela Sterritt, Emily Urquhart and John Vaillant have been shortlisted for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. (cbc.ca)
  • The winners will be announced at the Writers' Trust awards gala on Nov. 21, 2023. (cbc.ca)
  • Lila Lee-Morrison, researcher at the Department of Sociology, was recently awarded the prestigious Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant 2023 in the books category. (lu.se)
  • Platt's considerable attention to the lives and struggles of writers offers a sense of what it was both to write from a regional perspective and to be an Isan writer during the twentieth century. (nus.edu.sg)
  • Her scholarly interests include nineteenth and early twentieth-century Italian public intellectuals, Luigi Pirandello, and the material culture of literature. (mtholyoke.edu)
  • He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindustani writers of the early twentieth century. (getjar.com)
  • Liao Yiwu is an outspoken writer, poet, , novelist, oral historian, and musician who went to prison for four years after writing a strongly-worded poem called "Massacre" about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. (factsanddetails.com)
  • The novelist Salman Rushdie called him one of "the few people who are the real writers" around the world. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Attention is drawn to the idea of the bunjin as a 'person of letters' and a more realistic assessment is provided of how writers have engaged with ideas - not labelled a 'novelist' or 'poet', but a 'writer' who may at one time or another choose to write in various forms. (routledge.com)
  • Martin Platt's account of Isan literature is an important first step toward a broader study of regional literatures in Thailand, and shapes a model that has relevance for examining literary works in other Asian countries. (nus.edu.sg)
  • The book provides an overview of major authors and genres by situating them within broader themes that have defined the way writers have produced literature in modern Japan, as well as how those works have been read and understood by different readers in different time periods. (routledge.com)
  • In a first moment, the teacher will introduce theoretical and analytical approaches and offer a historical overview of Italian writers and their relation to cinema. (uclouvain.be)
  • The range of subjects is remarkable, as are the approaches taken by these talented authors,' said Charlie Foran, executive director of Writers' Trust, in a statement, 'What all the books share is great passion matched by great prose. (cbc.ca)
  • The collection contains the founding works of modern sciences such as botany, anatomy and astrology, together with accounts of travel, exploration and warfare, and influential works of literature, philosophy and humanist thought. (lu.se)
  • Romansh literature stretches from its origins in medieval ecclesiastical writing to the late modern contributions of anthropologist Caspar Decurtins, poets Peider Lansel , Jon Guidon, and Artur Caflisch, and fiction writer Giachen Michel Nay. (britannica.com)
  • Find details about every creative writing competition-including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more-that we've published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. (pw.org)
  • Research more than one hundred agents who represent poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, plus details about the kinds of books they're interested in representing, their clients, and the best way to contact them. (pw.org)
  • If you are running into one dead end after another, not sure which way to turn, Poets & Writers can demystify the process and help you reach your destination-publication. (pw.org)
  • Since our founding in 1970, Poets & Writers has served as an information clearinghouse of all matters related to writing. (pw.org)
  • Now available: The Poets & Writers Guide to Publicity and Promotion, The Poets & Writers Guide to the Book Deal, The Poets & Writers Guide to Literary Agents, The Poets & Writers Guide to MFA Programs, and The Poets & Writers Guide to Writing Contests. (pw.org)
  • Poets & Writers lists readings, workshops, and other literary events held in cities across the country. (pw.org)
  • Get the Word Out is a new publicity incubator for debut fiction writers and poets. (pw.org)
  • Well over ten thousand poets and writers maintain listings in this essential resource for writers interested in connecting with their peers, as well as editors, agents, and reading series coordinators looking for authors. (pw.org)
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  • This handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian Studies, Literature, Sociology, Critical Theory, and History. (routledge.com)
  • A novel writer, story writer and dramatist, he has been referred to as the 'Upanyas Samrat' by some Hindi writers. (getjar.com)
  • For many years the only Western anthologies of Japanese literature have been W.G. Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, published in 1899, and Michel Revon, Anthologie de la Littérature Japonaise, about 1930. (bopsecrets.org)
  • Japanese literature is unquestionably one of the world s great traditions. (bopsecrets.org)
  • In Anthology of Japanese Literature he really gets across the meaning and flavor of Japanese writing, in each example and as a whole. (bopsecrets.org)
  • Certainly there is no better introduction to Japanese literature in any language except Japanese, and few better in that. (bopsecrets.org)
  • Modern Japanese Literature is, as a job of editing, equally judicious, equally comprehensive, with the same high standards of translation. (bopsecrets.org)
  • Classical Japanese literature has one very conspicuous lack guts. (bopsecrets.org)
  • This is the besetting sin of most modern Japanese literature derived from the native tradition. (bopsecrets.org)
  • The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive overview of how we study Japanese literature today. (routledge.com)
  • Rather than taking a purely chronological approach to the content, the chapters survey the state of the field through a number of pressing issues and themes, examining the ways in which it is possible to read modern Japanese literature and situate it in relation to critical theory. (routledge.com)
  • The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature draws from an international array of established experts in the field as well as promising young researchers. (routledge.com)
  • The Routledge Handbook is particularly refreshing because it does not tackle Japanese literature from an exclusively chronological perspective. (routledge.com)
  • Their work and outlook deeply influence literature, aesthetics, as well as modern attitudes towards feminism, sexuality, and even interior design. (tate.org.uk)
  • The Bible is about human beings, human families-in comparison with other ancient literatures the realism of the Bible is utterly remarkable-so we can bring our own feelings to bear in the reading of it. (macmillan.com)
  • For At the End of the World , Scheuer explores how apocalyptic imaginary of the Hebrew Bible and early Jewish literature shaped conceptions of gender and otherness. (lu.se)
  • JULIA CUNNINGHAM is a queer, disabled writer from Los Angeles currently based in the Bay Area. (berkeley.edu)
  • He holds degrees in literature and creative writing, and his poems have found homes in Beyond Queer Words, Tahoma Literary Review, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Angel Rust Magazine, and others. (berkeley.edu)
  • I know that I will be told that the haiku writers of the Yeddo Period had this especially Bashô and Issa. (bopsecrets.org)
  • Choose a full- or part-time schedule of online and in-person coursework consisting of your choice of fascinating literature electives to achieve any career ambition. (ucmo.edu)
  • Editor) 20: The Best of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 2001. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Study a modern language, and explore a variety of writers from across the globe, with our BA Modern Languages and English Literature degree. (reading.ac.uk)
  • This highly flexible degree enables you to study a modern language - choosing from our core languages of French, German, Italian and Spanish - alongside your studies in English literature. (reading.ac.uk)
  • Innovative, authoritative, and comprehensive, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature embodies a consistently fresh approach to the study of literature and literary history. (broadviewpress.com)
  • Barbara McCormack is Librarian to the Royal Irish Academy , founded in 1785 to promote the study of science, polite literature, and antiquities. (qub.ac.uk)
  • Our study contributes to literature on entrepreneurship education for non-business students, and specifically for nursing students by suggesting empowerment as a useful lens and outcome measure. (lu.se)
  • He studies modern European philosophy and religious thought, as well as theories and methods in the study of religion. (lu.se)
  • Dunér's study will diachronically trace the origin of modern-day space apocalyptic motifs - that is, motifs from futuristic and science-fictional depictions of life in space - to the deep history of apocalyptic thinking. (lu.se)
  • The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. (broadviewpress.com)
  • Ulrika Dahl is Professor at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, and an anti-racist fem(me)inist writer. (lu.se)
  • Because of these strengths, the book is an important starting point into studies of Thai literature and a necessary contribution to the ongoing conversations about what it means to be Isan. (nus.edu.sg)
  • This work is a testament to Katouzian's uncanny ability to synthesize society, literature, politics, and a literary persona in a particularly important century in Iran's turbulent and experimental history. (bloomsbury.com)
  • as editor of one of the country's few important general magazines, he outranks the ordinary piece-writer. (nybooks.com)
  • The country's small population and four official languages have worked to make it difficult for any single writer to enjoy widespread success or, perhaps more important, significant income, and most Swiss writers are little recognized elsewhere in Europe . (britannica.com)
  • In this issue we present Part 2 of the feature on Syrian Literature, and look forward to continuing it in the Autumn/Winter issue with a number of equally important authors. (banipal.co.uk)
  • This is an extraordinary situation, for not only is Japanese one of the world s most important literatures, it is one of the most engaging. (bopsecrets.org)
  • Harvard University Press is honored to renew James Loeb's vision of accessibility and presents an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. (lu.se)
  • It is also important to remember that the Old Testament was written by people who lived long before our modern religions took their present shape. (lu.se)
  • Says Deeya Nayar, Editor of Tulika Books, Chennai: 'Tulika's association with Suniti Namjoshi started when Sandhya Rao, our Senior Editor, met her during a Readers' and Writers' Festival at Birmingham, UK, in 1998. (boloji.com)
  • Guilty Pleasures in Children's Literature," in The Cambridge Companion to Food and Literature , ed. (sc.edu)
  • But when the author is a feminist, this part adventure, part fantasy tale is more than just a book: It's a bold trend in children's literature. (boloji.com)
  • In author Suniti Namjoshi's Aditi series - the fifth soon to hit the stands - we have children's literature of a different kind, part adventure, part fantasy, but set in a contemporary world. (boloji.com)
  • Her research interests focus on the history and theory of the picturebook, postwar German children's literature and culture, canon processes in children's literature and the impact of the Avant-garde on children's literature and children's films. (lu.se)
  • Several joint papers with Jörg, dealing with a comparison between West German (FRG) and East German (GDR) children's literature, are in the pipeline. (lu.se)
  • Milosz's early poetry was shaped by the circle of young Wilno writers called "catastrophists" because of what Milosz calls their "vision of massive convulsions, cataclysms, of a crisis of cosmic proportions and of unspecified duration. (nybooks.com)
  • In this introduction to literary studies course, we will be reading poetry and fiction from fifteen British and American writers, with a focus on modern and contemporary literature. (fau.edu)
  • In this course, we will be reading poetry and fiction in English from seven contemporary Asian writers: Agha Shahid Ali, Quan Barry, Ted Chiang, Haruki Murakami, Ruth Ozeki, Anthony Vesana So, and Ocean Vuong. (fau.edu)
  • She has been published in Berkeley Poetry Review (Issue 51), and she has hosted "Writin' Rhythm - A Writers Workshop" for Sundress Publications. (berkeley.edu)
  • Lists English-language articles, books, doctoral dissertations and reviews published since 1920 anywhere in the world pertaining to bibliography, English language, traditional culture and English Literature. (google.com)
  • Covers English, American and Commonwealth writers. (google.com)
  • You'll be taught by experts from the Department of Languages and Cultures and the Department of English Literature , both of which prioritise learning in small seminar groups. (reading.ac.uk)
  • In this discussion a theory that English loanword nouns are utilised when the writer wants to project a trendy or modern image is presented. (lu.se)
  • More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease. (lu.se)
  • Archaisms and modernities have taken the form of oppositions such as that between Indian and European culture, between European colonial thought and revolutionary nationalistic thought, between conservative and liberal thought, between scholastic and modern phi-losophy, between provincial culture and urban culture, etc. (lu.se)
  • He was a writer, whose poetic sensitivity found its they use. (cdc.gov)
  • In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. (broadviewpress.com)
  • Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. (broadviewpress.com)
  • With the publication of the Broadview Anthology of British Literature , teachers and students in survey and upper-level undergraduate courses have a compelling alternative to the established anthologies by Norton and Longman. (broadviewpress.com)
  • His goal, he once stopped to paint Mediterranean ports and scenery, immor- said, was to make "modern people, in their essential traits, talizing the French coast in watercolors painted en plein move about as if on friezes, and place them on canvases or- air . (cdc.gov)
  • Spanish America is a geographical area within which the power struggle between archaic and modern traits stands out very clearly. (lu.se)
  • 100% of our research is of international standing (Research Excellence Framework 2021, combining 4*, 3* and 2* submissions - Modern Languages and Linguistics). (reading.ac.uk)
  • Throughout most of its history modern-day Slovakia was not an independent country. (everyculture.com)
  • One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature, Kurt Vonnegut, has died aged 84 in New York. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Homer was taken to have great moral significance, as the Koran surely does, so there is nothing random in the choices civilizations make when literatures are sacred to them. (macmillan.com)
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  • The mission of the Loeb Classical Library , founded by James Loeb in 1911, has always been to make Greek and Latin literature accessible to the broadest range of readers. (lu.se)
  • The story, which describes a world in which machines have taken over, led to the author being dismissed as a science fiction writer. (bbc.co.uk)
  • It was conceived, the author tells us, as "an act of perfect freedom," the "personal whim" of a writer who decided to let us eavesdrop on a longstanding and personal dispute with a phantom audience, an audience that perhaps has very little to do with most of us. (nybooks.com)
  • Previous winners of the award include Hindi author Ashok Vajpeyi, Gujarati author Chandrakant Topiwala and Odiya writer Sitakant Mahapatra. (thehindu.com)
  • Jack London was a US writer and journalist and author of classic novels including The Call of the Wild and White Fang. (cdc.gov)
  • In particular, the author focused his attention on behavioral responses to a pandemic, showing the emergence of fear, irrationality, and selfishness in a previously civilized and modern society. (cdc.gov)
  • If the writer refers to several works by the same author, the title (or a short version thereof) is provided in the parenthetical reference. (lu.se)
  • The ILF award for Madhorubhagan is a modern recognition given to Tamil, a classical language with a long and unbroken literary tradition. (thehindu.com)
  • By exploring the motif of the plague, a consistent and well-spread theme in literature, London's novel is part of a long literary tradition, inviting the reader to reflect on the ancestral fear of humans toward infectious diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • This is a Life which inevitably tells more about Iran's sufferings in the modern world than many other books do. (bloomsbury.com)
  • The novel is a satire on modern science which, according to Vonnegut, promises progress while bringing about the end of the world. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Let the world know about your work by posting your events on our literary events calendar, apply to be included in our directory of writers, and more. (pw.org)
  • Much of the borders of Belarus took their modern shape in 1939, when some lands of the Second Polish Republic were reintegrated into it after the Soviet invasion of Poland , and were finalized after World War II. (wikipedia.org)
  • Her research interests include apocalyptic and messianic motifs in modern Western philosophy and political thinking. (lu.se)
  • Association of American Rhodes Scholars (member of board of directors and of state and national selection committees), American Studies Association (council, 1980-81), Modern Language Association, American Academy of Arts and Sciences , Phi Beta Kappa . (encyclopedia.com)
  • The MLA (Modern Language Association) was formed in the United States in 1883 as a professional association for scholars within the fields of literature and language. (lu.se)
  • Dr. Ulrike Hogg is Curator for Gaelic, Medieval, Early Modern and Music Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland . (qub.ac.uk)
  • which we excerpt, tells, through different narrators, of the life and complexity of tensions in an Omani town whose inhabitants want a modern life. (banipal.co.uk)
  • This award for Madhorubhagan is a recognition of how a writer and his insider-outsider act of writing could serve the society and connect its histories with its contemporary realities and dreams," Rakesh Kacker, festival director said. (thehindu.com)
  • In 1960 after less than happy years in Europe he arrived in America where he has lived ever since, teaching Slavic literature at the University of California at Berkeley. (nybooks.com)
  • Tamil writer Perumal Murugan will be honoured with the fourth Indian Languages Festival (ILF) 'Samanvay Bhasha Samman', organisers said on Monday. (thehindu.com)
  • It encompasses works in all major European languages, printed in the cities which led the explosion of the print industry in the early modern era, such as Nuremberg, Basel, Leiden, Paris and Venice. (lu.se)
  • Broadview's are better, with greater clarity and comprehension, as well as emphasis upon how the language and literature develop, both reacting or responding to and influencing or modifying the cultural, religious/philosophical, political, and socio-economic developments of Britain. (broadviewpress.com)
  • For him exile can take several different shapes: it can be the personal exile of a poet from his native land, the historical condition of an entire society or nation, or the philosophical predicament of modern man. (nybooks.com)
  • Can the modern writer build an adequate bridge between the two universes of literature and science? (harpers.org)
  • He was interested in science, literature, and are defending here, nor with the technique of divisionism politics. (cdc.gov)
  • But he also emphasises the uniqueness and universality of his ideas that have both influenced and set Hedayat apart from other Iranian writers of the period and that have given him a mystique that has been instrumental in his posthumous success with acclaimed works such as The Blind Owl . (bloomsbury.com)
  • This paper examines the symbolic construction of Brazilian urban experience, analyzing the representations of the city in a selection of fictional works in the perspective of a literature of subtraction (FARIA, 1999). (bvsalud.org)
  • We discuss how these works elaborate disenchanted perceptions associated with the loss of the dreamt modern city. (bvsalud.org)
  • Modern writers provided freshness in the content and also elicit the spirits of readers.The famous writers of modern periods are David Herbert Lawrence, James Joyce, Thomas Stearns Eliot, George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, etc. (scorpiones.pl)
  • Even though it was published more than a century ago, The Scarlet Plague feels contemporary because it allows modern readers to reflect on the worldwide fear of pandemics, a fear that remains very much alive. (cdc.gov)
  • The leading figure in modern French-Swiss literature is Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz . (britannica.com)
  • Other writers in French include Guy de Pourtalès, Blaise Cendrars , Denis de Rougemont, Anne Perrier, and Yves Laplace. (britannica.com)
  • Regional characteristics and regional language feature prominently in discussions of Thai identity, but there is little mention of regional literatures. (nus.edu.sg)
  • While estranging his own time and space, the writer unfolds the losses, ruins and pathologies of urban life in late modern times. (bvsalud.org)