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The Prague school or Prague linguistic circle [1] is a language and literature society. [2] It started in 1926 as a group of linguists , philologists and literary critics in Prague . Its proponents developed methods of structuralist literary analysis [ 3 ] and a theory of the standard language and of language cultivation from 1928 to 1939.
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:
This collection proceeded from a series of other anthologies including English Literature and Poetry. It was first published in 1979 by W. W. Norton & Company and is notable for the series' 2003 Shorter Sixth Edition. [1] The current general editor of the series is literary scholar Robert S. Levine of the University of Maryland, College Park. [2]
The first edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, printed in 1962, comprised two volumes.Also printed in 1962 was a single-volume derivative edition, called The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Major Authors Edition, which contained reprintings with some additions and changes including 28 of the major authors appearing in the original edition.
Fifth 'Drabble' edition Cover art: Gwen John, A Lady Reading, 1909–11. The Oxford Companion to English Literature first published in 1932, edited by the retired diplomat Sir Paul Harvey (1869–1948), was the earliest of the Oxford Companions to appear. It is currently in its seventh edition (2009), edited by Dinah Birch.
The sculptures represent in turn literature, sculpture, music, philosophy, drama and architecture. The façade area is clad in Gorizia sandstone and divided by simple cornices. The tympanum above the left side entrance in the arcade, leading to the residence of the Mayor of Prague, has a sculptural decoration with the emblems of the city of Prague.
Fischerová was born on November 5, 1963, and grew up in Olomouc. [1] She studied French at a language school in Brno, and in 1983 began studies in Philosophy at the Charles University Faculty of Arts in Prague and Physics at the CU Faculty of Mathematics and Physics; in 1985 she transferred to Classical Philology at the same university, where in 1991 she received her M.A., writing her thesis ...
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 ...