World Literature: 1800 To the Present (College Review Series) - Softcover

Bell, Arthur H.; Hopper, Vincent F.; Grebanier, Bernard D. N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812018125 ISBN 13: 9780812018127

Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc, 1994

Synopsis

"World Literature: 1800 to the Present" is a survey of major world writing from the dawn of the Romantic movements in the nineteenth century to the present day. It begins with figures such as Rousseau, Goethe, and Schiller, and concludes with major contemporary works including writing from Third World Culture. As the nineteenth century opened, the European literary consciousness was dominated by the towering figure of Goethe and by Romantic poets such as Schiller. The rise of the continental European novel encompassed figures such as Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Balzac, and Flaubert, while major dramatists included Ibsen and Chekhov. The twentieth century witnessed radically new techniques and ideas through such writers as Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett, and Jean Genet. This volume brings the literary picture up to the present with discussions of post-modernists, third-World writers such as Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, and voices from Africa, India, China and Japan. ● ToC: Chronology. Works at a Glance. Topic Summaries. Glossary. Suggested Readings. Review Questions. ● Baron's College Review volumes make excellent supplements to college survey courses. Their broad overviews of subject material also make them fine brush-up texts for students preparing for standardized tests. The layout of the books in this series is organized in such a way that it makes it very easy for the reader, to go through the entire contents of the book. Each volume presents chronologies, works at a glance, topic summaries, glossaries, suggested readings, review questions, and indexes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0812018125
• ISBN 13: 9780812018127
• Binding: Paperback