The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction by Brian W. Shaffer, Patrick O'Donnell, David W. Madden, Justus PDF

By Brian W. Shaffer, Patrick O'Donnell, David W. Madden, Justus Nieland, John Clement Ball

ISBN-10: 1405192445

ISBN-13: 9781405192446

This Encyclopedia is an indispensible reference consultant to twentieth-century fiction within the English-language. With approximately 500 participants and over 1 million phrases, it's the such a lot entire and authoritative reference advisor to twentieth-century fiction within the English language.Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 phrases written in lucid, jargon-free prose, through a world forged of major scholarsArranged in three volumes protecting British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and global Fiction, with every one quantity edited through a number one pupil within the fieldEntries disguise significant writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ng?g? Wa Thiong’o) and their key worksCovers the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English around the 20th century (including crime fiction, sci fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avante garde novel) in addition to the foremost events, debates, and rubrics in the box (censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the movie undefined, and the fiction of migration, Diaspora, and exile)

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Paris: Hours. Aldington, R. (1932). Soft Answers. London: Chatto and Windus. Aldington, R. (1933). All Men are Enemies. London: Chatto and Windus. Aldington, R. (1934). Women Must Work. London: Chatto and Windus. Aldington, R. (1937). Very Heaven. London: Heinemann. (c) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 10 AMIS, KINGSLEY Aldington, R. (1938). Seven against Reeves. London: Heinemann. Aldington, R. (1939). Rejected Guest. London: Heinemann. Aldington, R. (1946). The Romance of Casanova.

Yeats, “The Second Coming,” in Collected Poems (New York: Macmillan, 1956), p. 184. 7 Karl Marx, “Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Introduction,” in Robert C. ), Marx–Engels Reader, 2nd edn. (New York: Norton, 1978), p. 54. 8 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (New York: Vintage, 1974), p. 181. 9 Sigmund Freud, Future of an Illusion (New York: Norton, 1961), pp. 53, 49. 10 Orwell, “Inside the Whale,” p. 228. 11 For more on this see Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (New York: Norton, 1961), pp.

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