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In literature, this feature often reveals itself in the use of derelict and decaying settings, or rural, agricultural settings. An example of a particularly recent text which embodies all the discussed stylistic aspects of Southern Literature is the 2014 American television series True Detective, created by Nic Pizzolato.
The main body of The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature, however, is focused upon an overview of the classic canon of English literature extending from Beowulf to Evelyn Waugh. There is another chapter after this discussing American literature from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Flannery O'Connor. Each chapter has:
Stedman edited, with Ellen M. Hutchinson, A Library of American Literature (eleven volumes, 1888–90); and, with George E. Woodberry, the Works of Edgar Allan Poe (ten volumes, 1895). After the death of James Russell Lowell, Stedman had perhaps the leading place among American poets and critics.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956), who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley or E. Clerihew Bentley, was an English novelist and humorist, and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.
The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature is an encyclopaedic bibliography of literature in English published by the Cambridge University Press. It was first published in the 1940s, and a revised edition was issued from 1969 with the prefix New. [1] A third series was launched in 1999, without the prefix, but by 2022 only volume 4 had ...
September 15 – Agatha Christie, English mystery writer (died 1976) [16] September 24 – A. P. Herbert, English humorist and novelist (died 1971) October 1 – Blanche Oelrichs, American poet and playwright (died 1950) October 13 – Conrad Richter, American novelist (died 1968) November 2 – Moa Martinson, Swedish author (died 1964) [17]
January 1 – The Dictionary of National Biography begins publication in London under the editorship of Leslie Stephen. [1]February 18 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published in the United States for the first time, in New York by the author's own publishing house, Charles L. Webster, illustrated by E. W. Kemble, the first impression having been delayed for replacement of ...
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature is a 1975 book of critical literary theory by the critic Jonathan Culler. First published by Routledge & Kegan Paul , [ 1 ] it won the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association of America in 1976 for an outstanding book of criticism. [ 2 ]