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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...
Russian Association of Proletarian Writers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...members argued that Soviet literature needed to be proletarian...Cultural Revolution (1928 – 1932...Proletarian Writers) until May 1928, when it changed its...complete politicization of literature spearheaded by RAPP...Literary Intelligentsia, 1928 – 1939. London...
Kalidasa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...unparalleled in Sanskrit literature. The lyric "elegy" Meghaduta...Sanskrit and related Indic literatures. (The Meghaduta alone drew...and A History of Sanskrit Literature (1928), whose critical commentary...De, A History of Sanskrit Literature, vol. 1 (1962), which...
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...
children's literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition children's literature writing whose primary audience...Beginnings of Children's Literature The earliest of what came...regarded as children's literature was first meant for adults...tr. from the German, 1928); Antoine de Saint...
modern Greek literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition modern Greek literature literature written in Greek in the modern era...Ottoman Empire. The Rebirth of Greek Literature Under Turkish rule, Greek literature...including Victoria Theodorou (1928-), Angeliki Paulopoulou (1930...
gay and lesbian literature
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature gay and lesbian literature consists of texts by homosexual...controversy in the defining of gay literature concerns Shakespeare's...The Well of Loneliness (1928), homosexual/bisexual...Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928) and the fiction of R...
Brazilian literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Brazilian literature the writings of both the...the new land. Brazilian literature began with the letter of...the father of Brazilian literature. The dualism of European...Macunaíma (1928, tr. 1984) made pioneer...
Swiss literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Swiss literature The literature of Switzerland is written in German...German predominating. The extensive literature in Romansh dialect (see Rhaeto...novelist Heinrich Federer (1866-1928) and Albert Steffen, leader of the...
Slovak literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Slovak literature The earliest documents written in the Slovak...Martin Kukučín (1860-1928), by the village novels of Elena Marothy...1969); J. Noge, An Outline of Slovakian Literature (tr. 1968).

Dictionary entries related to "1928 in literature"

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...
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 –...
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...
Oppenheim, Samuel
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Nachrichten, 113 (1886), to 232 (1928), and in other periodicals. II. Secondary Literature. See W. E. Bernheimer, in Beitr ä ge zur Geophysik, 20 (1928), in Forschungen und Fortschritte, 4 (1928), and in N
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...
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...
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...
Barlach, Ernst
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...the Munich Academy in 1925, and in 1924 was awarded the Kleist Prize (for literature). His autobiography, Ein selbsterzähltes Leben , was published in 1928 and his 60th birthday in 1930 was marked by a large exhibition of his work...

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'correcting nature's mistakes': TRANSFORMING THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOVIET CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, 1928-1941
Magazine article from: Environmental History; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...nature in Stalinist children's literature encompassed not only crude...early Soviet children's literature demonstrated the limitations...Stalin became Party leader in 1928 and began his consolidation...Soviet entry into World War II (1928-1941). I argue that as...
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
World literature in 1928.(Reflections)(Column)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Columbia University Course in Literature came to Africa, eventually...to the beginning university literature courses in my own life. I...education to learn about world literature. World literature it actually...African American, but in 1928 Zora Neale Hurston had scarcely...
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; 451 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...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: creator of the magic realism movement in Latin-American Literature.(BOOK WORLD)
Magazine article from: World and I; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...official recognition with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1928 (although his father contended that it...Caribbean Sea. As the time would have it, 1928 was the last year of the banana boom in...
Wallace Carroll Dies; Journalist's Editorial Turned Vietnam Policy
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/30/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...military solution to the quagmire. Mr. Carroll was a 1928 literature graduate of Marquette University in his native Milwaukee. He joined United Press in Chicago in 1928 and was assigned to Europe the next year. He reported...
Predominant Use of Windthrows by Nesting Eastern Woodrats (Neotoma floridana) in the South Carolina Coastal Plain
Magazine article from: The American Midland Naturalist; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...exists from the South Carolina coastal plain where woodrats are reported from "wooded swamps" (Chamberlain, 1928). Literature and field guide descriptions routinely include stick houses as a standard feature of eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana...
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...
Readings from The Crisis 1928: Our Negro "intellectuals"
Magazine article from: The New Crisis; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...This essay was published in August 1928. For nearly ten years, our Negro...old, romantic delusion of "racial literatures," which goes back beyond Taine all...to the broader current of American literature. Mr. Waldo Frank, Mr. Scott Fitzgerald...to me seem to live. What American literature ...