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Literature and Reality
Book by Howard Fast; International Publishers, 1950
Subjects: American Literature--20th Cent--History And Criticism, Literature, Modern--20th Cent--History And Criticism, Literature--Philosophy, Realism In Literature
...relationship of literature to reality...of them do in mind, as...the type of realism upon which...before in the history of English and American literature have the...all the history of American literature, I know of...
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The Failure of Theology in Modern Literature
Book by John Killinger; Abingdon Press, 1963
Subjects: Christianity In Literature, Literature, Modern--20th Cent--History And Criticism
...structure. Is there a point in history between, say, Dante and modern...mutability in seventeenth-century literature -- a motif usually associated...Randall Stewart, in his book American Literature and Christian Doctrine...and it is the motto of 90 per cent of contemporary writers. It...often a neglected factor in criticism, is nevertheless a very determinative...man is just behind the veil of history. But then we remember Hawthorne...the two greatest corpora of American literature have come from the two special...7 American Literature and Christian Doctrine , p...
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A History of American Literature since 1870
Book by Fred Lewis Pattee; Century, 1915
Subjects: American Literature--19th Cent--History And Criticism, American Literature--20th Cent--History And Criticism
...the most picturesque eras in the history of Western America...literary career. He received now helpful criticism. In a letter written in after years...preparation in Mark Twains life. A new American author had arrived. III...been created unique in American literature, for where, save in the California...with his own eyes. This genuine American, with his training on the river and...was a blow at the whole school of American travel writers; it marked the passing...
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An Assessment of Twentieth-Century Literature
Book by J. Isaacs; Secker & Warburg, 1951
Subjects: Literature, Modern--20th Cent--History And Criticism
...that no age of English literature has produced such a high level of penetrating criticism, and America proudly claims...are already part of the history of English criticism. But...century is the fact that the American critics are turning from...England. Collections of such criticism, whether of poetry or of...some significance for the history of the second half of this...In assessing a period of literature it is always important...Revolution, and of the great American slump. No decade of the...Albert Halper and other American proletarian novelists explored...ours, of psychology and criticism, of science and politics...half-centurys progress in literature. The impression I wanted...a part of the literary history of our time as the literature...
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Book by W. Somerset Maugham; New Home Library, 1943
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...see Daniel Cottom. Social Figures: George Eliot, Social History, and Literary Representation (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota...Squiress Adam Bede and the Locus Amoenus." Studies in English Literature 13 (1973): 670-76. Squires reads Fir-tree Grove as a literary...aristocratic droit du seigneur" in Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia Univ. Press...
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It's Unreal: How Phony Realism in Film and Literature Is Corrupting and Confusing the American Mind
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REALISM , in literature in literature, an approach that attempts to describe life without idealization or romantic subjectivity. Although realism is not limited to any one century or group of writers, it is most often associated with the...
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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French Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...10- to 12-syllable lines rhyming in groups of varied lengths (see chansons...performed by nonclerics. French prose literature began with the writings of the chroniclers...Francois Marmontel . Romanticism, Realism, and Other Movements: The Nineteenth...
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Criticism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CRITICISM the interpretation and evaluation of literature and the arts. It exists in a variety of literary forms: dialogues (Plato, John Dryden), verse (Horace, Alexander Pope), letters (John...
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Spanish Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The famous early classic of Spanish literature, the sober and unornamented epic poem...Vivar, called the Cid Campeador. In the 13th cent. many other epic poems...intimately associated with naturalism and realism. Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century...
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