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Oe Kenzaburo
Kenzaburo Oe Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe (born 1935) is considered the leading contemporary writer in his language. A 1994 Nobel Prize winner in literature for a body of work that often makes reference to his developmentally disabled son Hikari, Oe has also been a vociferous critic of modern... Read more |
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Agatha Christie
A GATHAC HRISTIE Born: September 15, 1890 Torquay, England Died: January 12, 1976 Wallingford, England English author and playwright Agatha Christie was the best-selling mystery writer of all time. She wrote ninety-three books and... Read more |
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Technical Writer
Technical Writer A technical writer (sometimes called a technical communicator) designs, writes, edits, and produces documents for scientific, technical, industrial, and government organizations. These documents can include technical reports, specifications, reference manuals, operating... Read more |
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Hannah Glasse
Hannah Glasse , fl. 1747, writer of a popular English cookbook, Art of Cookery (1747). She is also credited with writing The Compleat Confectioner and The Servant's Directory, both published in 1770.... Read more |
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Lord James Burnett Monboddo
James Burnett Monboddo, Lord 1714-99, English writer, b. Scotland. A pioneer in anthropology, he wrote Of the Origin and Progress of Language (6 vol., 1774-92), in which he anticipated Darwin and much of modern evolutionary theory. His Antient Metaphysics (6 vol., 1779-99) is a defense of Greek... Read more |
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Edmond Hoyle
Edmond Hoyle , 1672-1769, English writer on games, b. London. He codified the rules of whist in his book A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist (1742) and in successive editions of the book he added new material on whist together with treatises on quadrille, piquet, and backgammon. He wrote several... Read more |
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Thomas Mofolo
Thomas (Mokopu) Mofolo 1876–1948 Writer Novel Recounts Spiritual Journey A New Sotho Consciousness Chaka: Controversial Masterpiece Literary Ambitions Faded Selected writings Sources Literary scholars identify Thomas Mokopu Mofolo as one of the first writers of note in modern... Read more |
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Thomas Deloney
Thomas Deloney , c.1543-c.1600, English ballad writer, fiction writer, and pamphleteer. He was a silk weaver. Deloney's chief works are three prose narratives— Jack of Newbury, Thomas of Reading, and The Gentle Craft (all c.1597)—relating to the clothier's, weaver's, and shoemaker's... Read more |
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Yvonne Vera
Yvonne Vera 1964– Writer Educated Amidst Revolution and Sexism Became a Writer in Canada Speaking the Unspoken Became Director of Art... Read more |
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John Fowles
John Fowles 1926-2005, English writer, b. Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, grad. Oxford, 1950. A complex, cerebral writer and a superb storyteller, Fowles was interested in manipulating the novel as a genre. His central philosophical proccupation involved the conflict between free will and determinism. His... Read more |
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...foremost Congolese writer, filtering...American Modernist Writers; A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers; A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers , each by ... |
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PROBING CHAPLIN'S COMIC GENIUS
...World: The American Modernist Writers." That book is the first in...12.95). Last year's "A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers" inspired a mixed response...Of "A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish ... |
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"Nothing's going to change my world": narrating memory and selfhood with the...
...take a look? --The Beatles, "Paperback Writer" The Beatles unashamedly believe in a form...with a lingering nostalgia for the past. In Sinking Island." The Modern English Writers (1988), Hugh Kenner identifies nostalgia... |
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REPRISING THE ESSAYS VIRGINIA WOOLF WROTE
...381 pp. $22.95. In "A Sinking Island," his recently published survey of "The Modern English Writers," Hugh Kenner more than meets...an outpouring and revelation to English-speaking readers, they were... |
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Hugh Kenner, 1923-2003.(Notebook)
...American Modernist Writers." Hugh Kenner...England. The English he could not...twentieth-century English literature, A Sinking Island, where his distaste...chatting with the English translators of...in his having ... |
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Sinking His Teeth Into the Role; Howard Shalwitz Gets Back to His Roots in...
...with its interest in Jewish writers and themes, and Woolly, with...Genius," another in Canadian writer George F. Walker's "Suburban...crash survivor on a desert island and his encounter with the...15th St. NW) will showcase modern poets working in Spanish ... |
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Michael Dirda
...Colder Eye and A Sinking Island. These last...digressiveness of a modern-day Robert...American, Irish and English modernists...impresario of modern letters told...then-blind writer laboriously composed...the Oxford ... |
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WRITERS REMEMBER WWII WITH WITH AND CLARITY.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
...an account of the sinking of the USS Bristol...on duty do not. Writers of this stature...currently a professor of English at the University...The subtitle: Modern American Writers Remember Their Naval...Rabaul is the island ... |
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In An Island Out of TIme...Uncritical writers (including a...of Elizabethan English--as if utterances...encountered by the modern, mainland ear...vowel sounds of English that regionality...in danger of sinking; and a ... |
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Save us from TVs bland bombshells! As a new team of TV weathergirls threatens...
...weather forecasting blunder of modern times - failing to warn Britain...Englanders with a wary eye on this island's fickle climate. Yet at...there has been a heart-sinking pronouncement from ITN that...Irish politicians and pundits, English ones are a ... |
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