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Author : David Cutler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000065182358
A comprehensive reference for all things literary in the nation's capital.
Author : Patrick Allen
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781595341259
The public face of Washington-the gridiron of L'Enfant's avenues, the buttoned-down demeanor Sloan Wilson's archetypal "Man in the Grey Flannel Suit," the monumental buildings of the Triangle-rarely gives up the secrets of this city's rich life. But, beneath the surface there are countless stories to be told. From the early swamp days to the Civil War, the "gilded age" to the New Deal and McCarthy eras, as the center of world power to its underlying multicultural social fabric, Washington is a writer's town. While this is surprising to some, it is not news to the close observer. Alan Cheuse, in his foreword to Literary Washington, D.C. comments: "Part of this peculiar city's sense of place is that it serves as a capital for people who have no permanent sense of place. . . . War has brought us here, peace has brought us here, love has kept us here, and love or loss of love will give some of us reason to leave again. Which makes Washington, D.C. exactly like most other places in the rest of the country and the rest of the world-only more so." In fact, D.C. has been a magnet for great writers for centuries. Including novelists, poets, journalists, essayists, and politicians and patriots, finally, in Literary Washington D.C., the story of the capital of world power is finally told.
Author : Kim Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813941172
"The site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation's most acclaimed writers. From the city's founding to the beginnings of modernism, literary luminaries including Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Henry Adams, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston have lived and worked at their craft in our nation's capital ... Part walking tour, part anthology, [this book] is organized into five sections, each corresponding to a particularly vibrant period in Washington's literary [history]"--Amazon.com.
Author : Edith Nalle Schafer
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781557090812
In this walking tour of the city's literary history, Schafer explores Washington's culture, authors, bookstores, colleges, and literary meeting places.
Author : Kim Roberts
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813941189
The site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation’s most acclaimed writers. From the city’s founding to the beginnings of modernism, literary luminaries including Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Henry Adams, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston have lived and worked at their craft in our nation’s capital. In A Literary Guide to Washington, DC, Kim Roberts offers a guide to the city’s rich literary history. Part walking tour, part anthology, A Literary Guide to Washington, DC is organized into five sections, each corresponding to a particularly vibrant period in Washington’s literary community. Starting with the city’s earliest years, Roberts examines writers such as Hasty-Pudding poet Joel Barlow and "Star-Spangled Banner" lyricist Francis Scott Key before moving on to the Civil War and Reconstruction and touching on the lives of authors such as Charlotte Forten Grimké and James Weldon Johnson. She wraps up her tour with World War I and the Jazz Age, which brought to the city some writers at the forefront of modernism, including the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Sinclair Lewis. The book’s stimulating tours cover downtown, the LeDroit Park and Shaw neighborhoods, Lafayette Square, and the historic U Street district, bringing the history of the city to life in surprising ways. Written for tourists, literary enthusiasts, amateur historians, and armchair travelers, A Literary Guide to Washington, DC offers a cultural tour of our nation's capital through a literary lens.
Author : C. D. Rose
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781612193793
A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the world’s leading authority on the subject. Compiled in one volume by C. D. Rose, a well-educated person universally acknowledged in parts of England as the world’s pre-eminent expert on inexpert writers, the book culls its information from lost or otherwise ignored archives scattered around the globe, as well as the occasional dustbin. The dictionary amounts to a monumental accomplishment: the definitive appreciation of history’s least accomplished writers. Thus immortalized beyond deserving and rescued from hard-earned obscurity, the authors presented in this historic volume comprise a who’s who of the talentless and deluded, their stories timeless litanies of abject psychosis, misapplication, and delinquency. It is, in short, a treasure.
Author : Andrea Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443809221
As ecofeminism continues to gain attention from multiple academic discourses, the field of literary criticism has been especially affected by this philosophy/social movement. Scholars using ecofeminist literary criticism are making new and important arguments concerning literature across the spectrum and issues of environment, race, class, gender, sexuality, and other forms of oppression. The essays in New Directions in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism highlight the intersections of these oppressions through the works of different authors including Barbara Kingsolver, Ruth Ozeki, Linda Hogan and Flora Nwapa, and demonstrate the expansion of ecofeminist literary criticism to a more global scale as well as important connections with the field of environmental justice. This collection offers fresh insight and expands the important discussion surrounding the field of ecofeminism and literature.
Author : John Boyne
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385692922
The new novel from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Heart's Invisible Furies, a seductive Highsmithian psychodrama following one brilliant, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of fame. If you look hard enough, you can find stories pretty much anywhere. They don't even have to be your own. Or so would-be writer Maurice Swift decides very early on in his career. A chance encounter in a West Berlin hotel with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann gives him an opportunity to ingratiate himself with someone more powerful. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell. Whether or not he should do so is another matter. Once Maurice has made his name, he sets off in pursuit of other people's stories. He doesn't care where he finds them--or to whom they belong--as long as they help him rise to the top. Stories will make him famous but they will also make him beg, borrow and steal. They may even make him do worse. A psychological drama of cat and mouse, A Ladder to the Sky shows how easy it is to achieve the world if you are prepared to sacrifice your soul.
Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015033678213
Author : Jonathan Rose
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300206234
“An interesting and at times surprising account of Churchill's tastes as a reader…many of [these] nuggets will be new even to Churchill junkies.”—TheWall Street Journal This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we haven’t known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores Churchill’s careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theater on Churchill’s personal, carefully composed grand story and the decisions he made throughout his political life. In this expansive literary biography, Rose provides an analysis of Churchill’s writings and their reception (he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 and was a best-selling author), and a chronicle of his dealings with publishers, editors, literary agents, and censors. The book also identifies an array of authors who shaped Churchill’s own writings and politics: George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Margaret Mitchell, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, and many more. Rose investigates the effect of Churchill’s passion for theater on his approach to reportage, memoirs, and historical works. Perhaps most remarkably, Rose reveals the unmistakable influence of Churchill’s reading on every important episode of his public life, including his championship of social reform, plans for the Gallipoli invasion, command during the Blitz, crusade for Zionism, and efforts to prevent a nuclear arms race. Finally, Rose traces the significance of Churchill’s writings to later generations of politicians—among them President John F. Kennedy as he struggled to extricate the U.S. from the Cuban Missile Crisis. “Immensely enjoyable…This gracefully written book is an original and textured study of Churchill’s imagination.”—The Washington Post
Author : Caroline Bock,Jona Colson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1941551254
An anthology of new fiction and poetry from the DC-MVA region
Author : James Russell Lowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090072570
Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : American literature
ISBN : NWU:35556000524272
Author : Christopher Sten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0820338362
A compelling portrait of Washington, D.C. through the work of seventy authors ranging from early Americans such as Abigail Adams and Washington Irving to contemporaries such as Edward P. Jones and Joan Didion.
Author : Mary Washington
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231152709
Examines African American writers and artists of the 1950s, tracing leftist ideas and activism within their work, recounts the events of the 1959 Black Writers' Conference and explores the ongoing influence of the Black Popular Front.