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Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann , 1862-1946, German dramatist, novelist, and poet. He showed the influence of the theories of Zola and the plays of Ibsen in his play Before Dawn (1889, tr. 1909), which inaugurated the naturalistic movement in the German theater and won overnight fame. His other realistic plays ... Read more
belles-lettres
belles-lettres [from the French for literature, literally "fine letters" ], literature that is appreciated for the beauty, artistry, and originality of its style and tone rather than for its ideas and informational content. Earlier the term was synonymous with literature, referring particularl... Read more
children's literature
children's literature writing whose primary audience is children. See also children's book illustration . The Beginnings of Children's Literature The earliest of what came to be regarded as children's literature was first meant for adults. Among this ancient body of oral literatur... Read more
modern Greek literature
modern Greek literature literature written in Greek in the modern era, primarily beginning during the period of rebellion against the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The Rebirth of Greek Literature Under Turkish rule, Greek literature virtually ceased, except in Crete. In the late 18th cent. ... Read more
Russian literature
Russian literature literary works mainly produced in the historic area of Russia, written in its earliest days in Church Slavonic and after the 17th cent. in the Russian language. Early Literature Russian literature was first produced after the introduction of Christianity from Byzantium ... Read more
Paul Elmer More
Paul Elmer More 1864-1937, American critic, educator, and philosopher, b. St. Louis. More taught Sanskrit and classical literature and then was a newspaper editor until 1914, after which he wrote and lectured. Associated with Irving Babbitt in the movement called the New Humanism, More became an ... Read more
Vernon Louis Parrington
Vernon Louis Parrington 1871-1929, American literary historian and scholar, b. Aurora, Ill. His cultural interpretation of American literature was an expression of his belief in democratic idealism. His Main Currents in American Thought (3 vol., 1927-30) greatly influenced subsequent literary cri... Read more
Sanskrit literature
Sanskrit literature literary works written in Sanskrit constituting the main body of the classical literature of India. Introduction The literature is divided into two main periods—the Vedic (c.1500-c.200 BC), when the Vedic form of Sanskrit generally prevailed, and the Sanskrit (c.... Read more
Indian literature
Indian literature Oral literature in the vernacular languages of India is of great antiquity, but it was not until about the 16th cent. that an extensive written literature appeared. Chief factors in this development were the intellectual and literary predominance of Sanskrit until then (except in ... Read more
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan 1866-1945, American zoologist, b. Lexington, Ky., Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1890. He was professor of experimental zoology at Columbia (1904-28) and from 1928 was director of the laboratory of biological sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He is noted for his ingenious... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "1928 in literature"

Sendak, Maurice (b. 1928)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society Sendak, Maurice (b. 1928) Maurice Sendak, one of the...called Brooklyn," on June 10, 1928, the son of Polish-Jewish...He also has illustrated adult literature, most notably a 1995 edition...resource "Maurice Sendak (1928 – )." Available...
Sigrid Undset
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...vol., 1925-27; tr. The Master of Hestviken, 1928-30). Her later works include tales of contemporary...before returning home in 1945. She was awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her work fell into obscurity during the latter...
Russian Association of Proletarian Writers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...of proletarian literature in the Soviet Union...Cultural Revolution (1928 – 1932...Episode in Russian Literature, 1928 – 1932...Intelligentsia, 1928 – 1939...Virgin Soil: Soviet Literature in the 1920s,
Kalidasa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...heroism unparalleled in Sanskrit literature. The lyric "elegy" Meghaduta...1924) and A History of Sanskrit Literature (1928), whose critical commentary...De, A History of Sanskrit Literature, vol. 1 (1962), which also...
Institute of Red Professors
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...students. Four more departments were added in 1928 that concerned party history, law, literature, and the natural sciences. After an abortive...the so-called cultural revolution between 1928 and 1932 further divided the IKP. Although...
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the Judicial Process (1921), The Growth of the Law (1924), and The Paradoxes of Legal Science (1928). He also wrote Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses (1931). Bibliography: See the selection of his writings edited by...
children's literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Flowering of Children's Literature Contrasting with the didactic...which produced a body of literature that genuinely belonged to...Bambi (tr. from the German, 1928); Antoine de Saint-Exup...achieving a distinct place in literature for children's books, and...
gay and lesbian literature
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...Katherine Philips , lesbian literature was born among the...fiction. But homosexual literature proper dates from the...Well of Loneliness (1928), homosexual/bisexual...Woolf's Orlando (1928) and the fiction of...s A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition...
modern Greek literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...other forms in modern Greek literature. The Ionian poets of the...general, 20th-century Greek literature reflects the evolution of...received the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1963 and 1979, respectively...including Victoria Theodorou (1928-), Angeliki Paulopoulou...
Brazilian literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...considered the father of Brazilian literature. The dualism of European...year, and the children's literature of José Bento Monteiro...work Macunaíma (1928, tr. 1984) made pioneer...repression, prominent in Brazilian literature since the late 1960s, run...

Dictionary entries related to "1928 in literature"

Kneser, Adolf
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...kleinsten Wirkung von Leibniz bis zur Gegenwart (1928). BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Origional Works. A bibliography...Wirkung von Leibniz bis zur Gegenwart (Leipzig, 1928). II. Secondary Literature. See Zur Erinnerung and Adolf Kneser (Brunswick...
Brunhes, Jean
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...monde nouveau. Tableau g é n é ral de g é ographie politique universells (Paris, 1928). II. Secondary Literature. Biographies of Brunhes are A. Allix, in Les é tudes rhodaniennes , 6 (1930), 340 –...
Varda, Agnès
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers VARDA, Agnès Nationality: Belgian. Born: Brussels, 30 May 1928. Education: Studied literature and psychology at the Sorbonne, Paris; studied art history at the Ecole du Louvre; studied photography at night school. Family...
Oppenheim, Samuel
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Wissenschaften in Wien, 137 (1928). Besides, there are about...113 (1886), to 232 (1928), and in other periodicals. II. Secondary Literature. See W. E. Bernheimer...ge zur Geophysik, 20 (1928), in Forschungen und Fortschritte...
Bergson, Henri Louis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...xE9; rieure. His main studies were mathematics, literature, and philosophy; and his academic record was brilliant...hysaise in 1914, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928, and received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor...
Burnside William
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...probability, Theory of Probability (Cambridge, 1928), which was published posthumously. II. Secondary Literature The only article dealing with Burnside...Proceedings of the Royal Society , 117A (1928), xi-xxv; the emphasis is upon Burnside...
Brill, Alexander Wilhelm von
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Vorlesungen ü ber allgemeine Mechanik (1928) and Vorlesungen ü ber algebraische...Mechanik (Munich – Berlin, 1928). For a more complete list see Poggendorff. II. Secondary Literature. See S. Finsterwalder, “...
Individuation (Analytical Psychology)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...practice. Also, from his publication of The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious , in 1928, and with the help of his analyses of alchemical literature and iconography, Jung explored the diverse stages that mark the individuation process...
Rolland, Romain Edmé Paul-émile (1866-1944)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...musical to the core and the seven volumes of his Beethoven the Creator were published between 1928 and 1943. He was awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize for literature for his novel Jean-Christophe . A politically engaged intellectual from the time of the...
Marchiafava, Ettore
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...infezione malarica (Milan, 1903); La perniciosita della malaria (Rome, 1928); and La eredit à in patologia (Turin, 1930). II. Secondary Literature. Works about Marchiafava include G. Bompiani, “ Ettore Msrchiafava...

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Vale Bruce Beaver (1928-2004).(Literature)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; BRUCE BEAVER, whose funeral took place at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium on February 24, was not only one of Australia's most valued contemporary poets but one of its most inspirational. In the heady days of the "poetry wars", particularly in Sydney, it was Bruce Beaver who acted as a mentor to
'correcting nature's mistakes': TRANSFORMING THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOVIET CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, 1928-1941
Magazine article from: Environmental History; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Soviet children's literature was not at all exceptional...became Party leader in 1928 and began his consolidation...modes of children's literature mirrored these pronouncements...into World War II (1928-1941). I argue that as much as children's literature promoted the radical...
World literature in 1928.(Reflections)(Column)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...especially given that most of this literature was in languages known to...Bushman folklore. The oral literature arguably most accessible to...African American, but in 1928 Zora Neale Hurston had scarcely...held against them. Colonial literature such as Kipling went under...
DEATH OF A LEGEND: JOHN B KEANE 1928-2002: MODEST GENIUS WAS GIANT OF IRISH LITERATURE.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 5/31/2002; 498 words ; ...unrivalled way of describing the layers of ordinary detail in people's lives. He was born in Church Street, Tralee, Co Kerry, in 1928, the fourth son of teacher William and Hannah. He went to school at St Michael's College in Listowel where he was severely...
Essential books: nature writing.(literature goes green)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod, by Henry Beston (1928) A year on the Great Beach of Cape Cod: one of our literature's classic evocations of just what a year might naturally mean.
Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition, 1800-1928.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...taken the story only up through 1928--a second volume, to cover...people in the UK between 1800 and 1928 (the period of this study...addition to the theoretical literature on colonial regimes, surveillance...seems to be that policy before 1928 was "driven by mistakes and...
Princeton in the Nation's Service: Religious Ideals and Educational Practice, 1868-1928.
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Educational Practice, 1868-1928. By P. C. Kemeny. New York...During the years from 1910 to 1928 growing tension between religious...to speak on the campus. In 1928 a dean of the chapel was appointed...sources and the relevant secondary literature. It is well documented, although...
Estimating income inequality from tax data with a priori assumed income distributions in Hungary, 1928-41.(Perfecting Data)
Magazine article from: Historical Methods; 6/22/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...inequality in Hungary between 1928 and 1941, on the basis of official...inequality in Hungary between 1928 and 1941 on the basis of official...income inequality dominate the literature, the evolution of income inequality...changed considerably between 1928 and 1941. First, in the late...
Raymond Queneau. Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays 1928-70.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...NUMBERS, FORMS: ESSAYS 1928-70. TRANS. JORDAN...and whose vision of literature and its potential continues to shape progressive literature in key ways, more than...of the essays deal with literature, either in practical...
Book reviews: FLOURISHING: LETTERS 1928-1946: A brilliant mind comes into bloom
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 3/28/2004; ; 700+ words ; FLOURISHING: LETTERS 1928-1946 Isaiah Berlin Chatto & Windus...collection of Berlin's letters from 1928, when he was 19 and up at Oxford...lives of the great writers of Russian literature. Through a light, gossipy, yet powerfully...