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J Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English Trudier Harris

In African-American literary history, one of the most striking phenomena has been the tremendous outpouring of poetry since the mid-1950s. Since the first successful boycotts of the Civil Rights movement, young black writers were in the forefront of political activism and social commitment. Poetry became the genre that could immediately connect the familiar oral tradition, including spirituals and sermons of the black church, with both the dynamic sociopolitical activity of the day and the written literary heritage of blacks. The new African-American poets - more than 50 are profiled in this DLB volume-aroused feelings of nationalism in black people throughout the United States, encouraging viewpoints of black pride and 'Black is beautiful.' The entries include: Samuel W. Allen, Jayne Cortez, Margaret Esse Danner, Nikki Giovanni, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, May Miller, Sonia Sanchez, Gil Scott-Heron and Tom Weatherly.For research as well as neighborhood libraries it is a must, and it is recommended to those college, community college, and secondary school libraries collecting the DLB.

Afro-American Poets Since 1955

Essays on German fiction writers who established their literary reputations between the mid 1950s and the mid 1970s. The biographies and discussions of their works reflect the political, social and cultural developments in Germany, and the clash between the restrictions of socialist realism and the urge for artistic freedom.

First series

Contemporary German Fiction Writers

Essays on Russian prose writers from the Napoleonic to the Crimean Wars. During this period Russian culture and prose literature emerged as an autonomous phenomenon, no longer dependent on the patronage of the state. Includes discussion of the impact writing during this period had on the ever-widening abyss between the government and the literate public, the search for a national identify, the Decembrist Revolt and the resurgence of freemasonry.

Prose

Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol

This new volume in the series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, contains biographic and bibliographic information about American writers from 1948 to 1950-60. They are known as "beats" or "beatniks" and include Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Ferlinghetti. ISBN 0-8103-1148-8 (set).

The Beats, Literary Bohemians in Postwar America

The history of Rome is essentially the history of one nation imitating another, namely Greece. The Romans invented only one genre, the satire. Roman writers borrowed their subject matter from the Greeks in all but one respect, history. Several of these Roman authors were slaves or came from slave families. It was the Greek-speaking early-freed slaves that taught the Romans to give their literature subjectivity.

Ancient Roman Writers

Covers five literatures - Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Slovenian. The writers chosen serve indirectly as a history of each of these literatures in all genres.

South Slavic Writers Before World War II

Essays on Swedish writers of the early twentieth-century that provides context and an outline of major events and movements that influenced these writers. Discusses literary trends including proletarian realists, often referred to as the autodidacts, the modernists, the variety of literary styles and genres, including literature for children and young adults, the impact of motion pictures and television, and the impact of various political and global issues.

Twentieth-century Swedish Writers Before World War II

Whether the writers in this period described the war, the Great Terror, the gulag experience, exile, repression, or simply everyday life in the city or in the country, they generally turned to a "major theme of Russian literature since the Revolution the fate of the individual human being in a mass state." In the literature often the state won, due to its power; at other times individuals triumphed, because of their moral convictions. The same can be said of these writers.

Russian Prose Writers After World War II

Discusses the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau, 19th century American intellectual. Includes reviews of his work and evaluates his influence.

A Documentary Volume

Henry David Thoreau

Embraces the work of writers working in theatrical traditions ranging from the classic well-made play to the most radical avant-garde pieces. This variety is indicative of the fact that this period is one of the most important in British drama, comparable to the late-Elizabethan/Jacobean and post-Restoration eras in terms of the quantity and quality of new work and surpassing both of them in the sheer variety of theatrical offerings.

Fourth series

British and Irish Dramatists Since World War II.

Essays on German fiction writers whose works are representative of the pre-World War I Germany and Austria through the decade after the end of World War II. Focuses on writers of prose fiction as well as poets and dramatists who also wrote significant prose fiction. Frequently includes previously unavailable information on these writers.

German Fiction Writers, 1885-1913

Spans much of the modern history of the mystery genre and, along with it, many of the political and social changes from the classical detective story, the World War II spy story, and the Cold War thriller to postmodern detective and spy adventures and the politics of terrorism and confrontation of the twenty-first century.

British Mystery and Thriller Writers Since 1960

Matthew J. Bruccoli

Provides researchers basic materials useful in studying The Maltese Falcon: background readings related to Hammett's life; composition of the novel; reception of the novel, including reviews and critical response; and the various media adaptations of this classic complex story.

Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon

The Great Gatsby is regarded as the most widely taught and read American literary classic. This volume is intended to help readers fully enjoy and understand this work that continues to become part of the equipment of educated people. Also provides information on the author's intentions in writing this work and the knowledge, values, standards and biases of the public at the time of its initial publication.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

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Bruccoli-Clark Layman

Essays on authors of the German Baroque period, defined in varied ways to include the expression of a worldview that stresses extremes, the formulation of tension between desires, the Counter-Reformation, and the art of courtly culture. Discusses the further developments of the genres of the first half of the seventeenth century, including lyric poetry, tragedies, school plays and novels.

German Baroque Writers, 1661-1730

Essays on Swedish authors of the twentieth-century include prominent Swedish writers from different decades, movements, genres and gender, with preference given to authors published in English translation. Fenno-Swedish writers have also been included since they write in Swedish and are part of the Swedish cultural history. Discusses the establishment of the Nobel Prizes, as well as poets of lyrical modernism, proletarian realists, autodidacts, and contemporary poetry.

Twentieth-century Swedish Writers After World War II

Devoted to literature produced by writers of Mexican descent born in the United States, living here permanently, or having lived in the territory which until 1848 was part of Mexico.

Second series

Chicano Writers

Essays on authors of the short story that had its origins in the mid-nineteenth century and reached its maturity in England in the twentieth century. The modern British short story grew slowly following by nearly fifty years the origins of this form in the United States, France and Russia. Discusses why several features of nineteenth-century English life may have delayed the development of this literary form.

British Short-fiction Writers, 1915-1945

Essays on some of the most prominent Eastern European writers from the twentieth-century from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Discusses the contributions of these authors who played a significant role in the growth, development, and preservation of their respective literatures. This rich and diverse literary history of Eastern Europe mirrors the depth and complexity of its social and political history.

Third series

Twentieth-century Eastern European Writers

Essays on Italian novelists, poets and playwrights, new forms of expression through experimentation, as well as avant-guarde groups, including young and idealistic literati that called themselves Gruppo 63 and later Gruppo 93. Covers feminist writers, the inauguration of the postmodern narratives often called metafictions, and the "new novel."

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