San Antonio College Library

This reference work is comprised of two volumes treating the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, three volumes on the Romantics, and four volumes dealing with twentieth century authors. Scholar's new to literary history and criticism should find the balanced, well written essays on included authors a solid introduction.

"It is well known that the author of Alice in Wonderland was the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, writing under the name of Lewis Carroll, but how many people know what Louisa May Alcott wrote for an adult audience under the name of A.M. Barnard; that another riverboat pilot used the name Mark Twain before Samuel Langhorne Clemens; that George Eliot (real name Mary Ann Evans) also wrote under the pseudonym Felix Holt; that Doris Lessing published...

"A monumental achievement of scholarship, Genius examines 100 of the most creative and literary minds in history. From the Bible to Socrates, through the transcendent achievements of Shakespeare and Dante, down through the ages to Hemingway, Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison, Bloom discusses the numerous influences of his chosen geniuses and the kinships among them over the centuries. He also offers revealing excerpts from their works that continue to surprise,...

Profiles the lives and accomplishments of over 400 individuals whose contributions to literature, art, film, dance, music, and theater helped shape international twentieth-century culture.

"This reference tracks the development of speculative fiction influenced by the advancement of science and the idea of progress from the eighteenth century to the present day. It provides an account of the major authors of works marketed under the genre label, various subgenres perceptible within the commercial genre, significant sf magazines and their editors, and neologisms coined by genre writers. Included are entries on authors of works of science-based...

International authors from Angelou to Zenophon.

"This is the first book to look at the relationship between author and reader in terms of a 'game'. It directs attention to the various means by which an author will 'play' with his reader, and gives examples of the different degrees to which authors of all countries and of all ages have sought to puzzle, to intrigue, or to vex."--Back cover.