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Book Contemporary American Authors

Download or read book Contemporary American Authors written by Fred Benjamin Millett and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contemporary American authors  a critical survey and 219 bio biblio

Download or read book Contemporary American authors a critical survey and 219 bio biblio written by Fred Benjamin Millet and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contemporary American Authors

Download or read book Contemporary American Authors written by Fred Benjamin Millett and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Noble Lives

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  • Author : Marc E. Vargo
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-29
  • ISBN : 1317712587
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Noble Lives written by Marc E. Vargo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the cost of being gay (or perceived as gay) for three historical figures Noble Lives examines how sexual orientation affected the careers of two historical figures generally accepted as gay, and a third whose sexual identity was in constant question during his lifetime. This unique book features comprehensive biographical accounts of Jazz Age author Glenway Wescott, Academy Award-winning composer Aaron Copland, and Nobel Peace Laureate Dag Hammarskjöld, addressing the relationship between their sexuality and their achievements in literature, the social sciences, musical composition, diplomacy, and global politics. Noble Lives is the first English-language text to thoroughly—and objectively—explore the troubled sexuality of Sweden's Hammarskjöld, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations. Noble Lives is a colorful and concise read that puts a historical perspective on the public and private lives of three important twentieth-century figures: Glenway Wescott—Author and political progressive, he used his life to enlighten society through his persistent efforts to enhance the public’s awareness and acceptance of homosexuality. Though his early work (The Grandmothers, The Pilgrim Hawk) was well-received, Wescott’s career suffered from his inability to write honestly from his own experiences as a gay man, and his output was limited by the unwillingness of English-language publishers to release literary works having same-sex themes. He published his last novel in 1945 and for the next 40 years was something of an elder statesman of American literature, dealing with censorship laws, defending controversial members of the literary community, and advancing ideals of freedom of thought and expression. He worked closely in the 1950s with Alfred Kinsey, Director of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, to develop objective research into gay sexuality. Aaron Copland—Hailed by The New York Times as “the pioneer of American music,” he lived an openly gay life without regret in an era when the general public held neither his sexual orientation nor his Jewish background in high esteem. Copland was accused of promoting gay musicians based on their sexuality rather than their ability and was rumored to be part of a fraternity of gay composers—a “Homintern”—but overcame the discrimination he faced to receive a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, and presidential medals from three administrations. In the years following his persecution by Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Copland produced his most personal work—The Tender Land, a musical drama thought by most to be the autobiographical account of a gay man living in conservative times and perceived as a "coming-out tale." Dag Hammarskjöld—Despite holding a position of public prominence as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in 1961, he managed to withhold even the most minor details of his personal life from the world. Even his posthumously published journal, Markings, shies away from any mention of his private life. Possibly asexual, probably homosexual, Hammarskjöld was unable to accept his sexuality and lived an unhappy, frustrated life of sexual abstinence, suffering slurs from political figures and the international media. But though he couldn’t resolve his own internal conflicts, he was masterful at settling external conflicts as he worked to solve disputes in Palestine, Vietnam, Egypt, and the Congo. Noble Lives is an invaluable reference source for LGBT readers, providing an understanding and appreciation of those who paved the way during an unenlightened and unforgiving time. It’s also an excellent resource for mainstream readers with an interest in biography and the history of the twentieth

Book How to Find Out About Literature

Download or read book How to Find Out About Literature written by G. Chandler and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Find Out About Literature aims to provide a general survey of literatures and a general indication of the dates of these literatures. The book first elaborates on how to study and appreciate literature and how to trace literary works, including exercises and universal and national bibliographies. The text then examines how to trace poetry, drama, novels, and prose, foreign and subject bibliographies, library and sale catalogues, and guides to libraries, and literary information on general reference books and encyclopedias. The manuscript discusses how to trace literary information in handbooks and concordances to poetry and drama, handbooks and reference books on novelists and prose writers, dictionaries and guides to the English language and specialized subjects, essays, theses, and periodical articles. The text ponders on how to trace periodical articles and literary abstracts. The book is a valuable reference for students and researchers in their studies.

Book Bibliography and Modern Book Production

Download or read book Bibliography and Modern Book Production written by Percy Freer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography and Modern Book Production is a fascinating historic journey through the fields of print history, librarianship and publishing. It covers key developments from 1494 to 1949 in bibliography and book production from the history of scripts and paper manufacture to the origins of typefaces and printing. Although not a textbook, the book was a guide for library students in the 1950s on the essential literature of librarianship. As the first librarian appointed to Wits University in 1929, Percy Freer’s near encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject of bibliography enabled him to develop a key resource for relevant library examinations in South Africa and abroad. Due to its immense value as a historic record, and to acknowledge Freer’s contributions as scholar, librarian and publisher, it is being reissued as part of the Wits University Press Re/Presents series to make it accessible to scholars in book histories, publishing studies and information science.

Book A Concise Bibliography for Students of English

Download or read book A Concise Bibliography for Students of English written by Arthur Garfield Kennedy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Reference Guide for English Studies

Download or read book A Reference Guide for English Studies written by Michael J. Marcuse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 2816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U S A

Download or read book Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U S A written by Clarence Gohdes and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth revised edition features approximately 1,900 items, most of which are annotated. It addresses several interdisciplinary studies that have become prominent in the last decade, especially on popular culture, racial and other minorities, Native Americans and Chicanos, and literary regionalism. It allots more space to computer aids, science fiction, children's literature, literature of the sea, film and literature, and linguistic studies of American English and includes a new section on psychology. The appendix lists the biography of each of 135 deceased American authors. ISBN 0-8223-0592-5 : $22.50 (For use only in the library).

Book Contemporary Authors

Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Hal May and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Josephine Herbst s Short Fiction

Download or read book Josephine Herbst s Short Fiction written by Barbara Wiedemann and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native of Iowa and long-time resident of Pennsylvania, Josephine Herbst (1892-1969), well known and highly regarded in the 1930s, was the author of seven novels, twenty-seven short stories, a biography, and numerous journal and newspaper articles. In the current study, the first on Herbst's short fiction, the author provides a critical discussion of each of Herbst's stories, including relevant biographical and historical data.

Book Collier s Encyclopedia

Download or read book Collier s Encyclopedia written by Frank Webster Price and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of Bibliography

Download or read book Bulletin of Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selective Bibliography for the Study of English and American Literature

Download or read book Selective Bibliography for the Study of English and American Literature written by Richard Daniel Altick and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1963 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Basic Book Collection for High Sschools  Complied by a Joint Committee of the American Library Association  National Education Associatin and National Council of Teachers of English  Jessie Boyd  Chairman

Download or read book A Basic Book Collection for High Sschools Complied by a Joint Committee of the American Library Association National Education Associatin and National Council of Teachers of English Jessie Boyd Chairman written by Joint Committee of the American Library Association, National Education Association and National Council of Teachers of English and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: