Perspectives on contemporary literature. Volume 14, Literature & the historical process /
In all parts of the world and in every age, many of the greatest works of literature have been shaped or inspired by the swirl of historical events. The wars, holocausts, and mushroom clouds of our own era haunt the pages of many twentieth-century writers; events of the past, even the remote past, a...
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[Lexington, Kentucky] :
University Press of Kentucky,
[1988]
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015. |
| Series: | Perspectives on contemporary literature ;
Volume 14, 1988. |
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Table of Contents:
- To purge Auschwitz : the poets' view / Katiiy Rugoff
- Ghelderode's use of history in Christophe Colomb / Douglas Radcliff-Umstead
- Alienation and form in Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy / Huck Guiman
- Reimagining the arts of war : language and history in Elizabeth Bowen's The heat of the day and Rose Macaulay's The world my wilderness / Phyllis Lassner
- Nature, history, and art in Elizabeth Bishop's "Brazil, January 1, 1502" / Barbara Page
- From a far country : history, myth, and fiction in Anthony Burgess's The Malayan trilogy / Anne Ricketson Zahlan
- The historical context of Yeats's Byzantium / David Roessel
- The officer-figure aestheticized : some biographical speculations on Hofmannsthal's "Reitergeschichte" / Thomas A. Kamla
- II ruolo della politica nel canzoniere di Pavese Lavorare Stanca / Fabio Girelli-Carasi
- Clinging to words : Czeslaw Milosz and the catastrophist era / Judith A. Dompkowski
- "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan" : un cuento de la guerra / Daniel Balderston
- Ghosts of the past : the return of Maximilian and Carlotta in two contemporary Mexican short stories / Cynthia K. Duncan
- El rescate de la historia/intrahistoria salvadorefia en Un dia en la vida de Manlio Argueta / Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez.
