Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook
Added by: annabelle_lee | Karma: 428.14 | Non-Fiction, Literature Studies | 5 July 2010
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Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook
This is an authoritative presentation and discussion of the most basic thematic elements universally found in folklore and literature. The reference provides a detailed analysis of the most common archetypes or motifs found in the folklore of selected communities around the world.
The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and the Fiction of Mobilization
In this groundbreaking work of literary and historical scholarship, Keith Gandal shows that Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner were motivated not by their experiences of the horrors of war but rather by their failure to have those experiences.
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Volume 200
A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Field
Contemporary Authors (CA)Series provides information on approximately 135,000 writers in a wide range of media, including:
Current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama Prominent print and broadcast journalists, editors, photojournalists, syndicated cartoonists, graphic novelists, screenwriters, television scriptwriters
Supplement XVI focuses on contemporary writers of fiction, many of whom have received little sustained attention from critics. We also examine the work of several important writers in the tradition of nonfiction—one of those widely used terms that never seems quite specific enough. A number of classic writers are treated here as well. The critics writing in this collection represent a catholic range of backgrounds and critical approaches, although the baseline for inclusion was that each essay should be accessible to the non-specialist reader or beginning student.
Reorienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East
This book explores how the Renaissance entailed a global exchange of goods, skills and ideas between East and West. In chapters ranging from Ottoman history to Venetian publishing, from portraits of St George to Arab philosophy ... the authors interrogate what all too often may seem to be settled certainties.
