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Adalbert Stifter
Adalbert Stifter , 1805-68, Austrian writer, b. Bohemia. Learned in law, mathematics, and science and accomplished as an artist, he was a tutor to important families and, later, a school inspector. His tales of the Bohemian Forest were widely read in his time and are still acclaimed for their... Read more |
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Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey (Giles Lytton Strachey), 1880-1932, English biographer and critic, educated at Cambridge. He was one of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group . Strachey is credited with having revolutionized the art of writing biography. In reaction to the copious dull scholarship and the... Read more |
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John Galt
John Galt 1779-1839, Scottish novelist. He went to Canada as secretary for the Canada Company, founding there in 1827 the town of Guelph and encouraging Canadian immigration. He wrote poems, blank-verse tragedies, and travel books, but he is known chiefly for his novels of Scottish country life,... Read more |
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Bix Beiderbecke
Bix Beiderbecke (Leon Bismarck Beiderbecke) , 1903-31, American jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer, b. Davenport, Iowa. Mainly self-taught, he was influenced by recordings of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and by the music of King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Jimmie Noone. His cornet playing,... Read more |
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Edwin Markham
Edwin Markham 1852-1940, American poet, b. Oregon City, Oreg. He grew up in California and later taught school there. In 1899 he achieved widespread popularity for the poem "The Man with the Hoe." Inspired by Millet's famous painting, the poem was a protest against the degradation and... Read more |
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Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir , 1894-1979, French film director and writer, b. Paris; son of Pierre Auguste Renoir. He made his first film in 1926. Gathering around him a devoted coterie of actors and technicians, Renoir developed a collective approach to filmmaking, favoring improvisational acting, open-air... Read more |
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Albert Brisbane
Albert Brisbane , 1809-90, American social theorist, b. Batavia, N.Y. After studying with Charles Fourier in Paris, he returned to the United States as an enthusiastic advocate of Fourierism. His Social Destiny of Man (1840) aroused widespread interest, especially that of Horace Greeley, who... Read more |
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William Sharp
William Sharp pseud. Fiona Macleod , 1855-1905, Scottish poet and man of letters. Under his own name he wrote literary biographies; poems, including the volume Earth's Voices (1884); and novels, notably Silence Farm (1899). With his wife he compiled the anthology Lyra Celtica (1896). Under... Read more |
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Richard Savage
Richard Savage 1697?-1743, English poet. The now discredited story of his illegitimate descent from a noble line and of his persecutions, which are set forth in a biography by Samuel Johnson, won him a reputation that his works scarcely merited. His output includes two poems, The Bastard (1728)... Read more |
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Giambettino Cignaroli
Cignaroli, Giambettino (b Verona, 4 July 1706; d Verona, 1 Dec. 1770). Italian historical, religious, and decorative painter, active mainly in and around Verona. Cignaroli was the leading artist of his period there, working in an elegantly classical style. He was also a writer; in 1749 he... Read more |
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The Private William Faulkner
WILLIAM FAULKNER The Man and the Artist By Stephen B...writing dramatic biographies of dramatic figures...unsuitable. William Faulkner was the great...the heels of biographies of, among others...a `pure' ... |
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Aesthetic ideology in Faulkner's Mosquitoes: A cultural history
...of being William Faulkner's worst novel...the role of the artist in modern society...of Faulkner the artist as a young man.1 So, critics...ideas or to his biography. My interest here...the role of the artist ... |
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William Faulkner: American Writer.
WILLIAM FAULKNER: AMERICAN WRITER...Blotner's massive biography exhaustively detailed...mythologising ordinary man. "Faulkner the artist", he writes...maintains that both Faulkner's lies and, initially...For instance, ... |
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The other voice -- Book places focus on Joan Williams in her romance,...
...about in "William Faulkner and Joan Williams...s two- volume biography of Faulkner (1974...are "Old Powder Man" (1966...existing Faulkner biographies. That was scant...were written by men and the focus ... |
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William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape
...two-volume biography and the letters, to relate the artist himself to his...The Portable Faulkner (1946) cast...guiding light on Faulkner's imaginary...major phase of Faulkner scholarship...Faulkner the man ... |
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James Murry Faulkner, 1923-2001 remembering Jimmy Faulkner.(includes "Note on...
...son of wniter-artist John Faulkner and...of the William Faulkner collection at Tulane...consistently through both biographies. And I knew that...Across the Creek: Faulkner Family Stories...Talking About William Faulkner, ... |
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Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural...
...between history, biography, cultural theory...works to highlight Faulkner's insightful engagement...of the claim that Faulkner's experimental...further examine Faulkner's work as reflective...changing role of the artist amidst a new ... |
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Plagiarism Ruling Has It Both Ways; Debate Over Historian's Books Continues
...sources for his biographies of Nat Turner...and William Faulkner, has been found...Faulkner: A Biography," published...where Billy {Faulkner} had just lost...William Faulkner: The Man and the ... |
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Split verdict for historian on charge of plagiarism
...other works in his popular biographies of William Faulkner, Rev. Martin Luther King...writing his own Lincoln biography, "With Malice Toward...of phrases in "William Faulkner: The Man and the Artist"; "Let the Trumpet ... |
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A Difficult Portrait of the Artist.(Book Review)
...lacked a definitive biography--and in some ways...correspondence and biographies of other writers in...Penn Warren, and even Faulkner and Hemingway have...the Tolson and Samway biographies of Percy, two collections...Joseph Blotner massive ... |
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