Author: Julian Patrick
Translator: Jae-sung Kim
Publisher: Mujintree
640 pages
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About This Book
Product Description
Entertaining and informative, this collection of brief, informal
biographies spans the centuries from Sophocles in ancient Greece to
Harper Lee in America's Deep South. Along the way, readers will enjoy
pithy biographical sketches of existentialists Albert Camus and
Jean-Paul Sartre, French satirist Voltaire and Edwardian satirist Oscar
Wilde, dramatists from William Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett and Harold
Pinter, poets from Dante to William Wordsworth and T.S. Eliot, and
novelists who include Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, James Joyce,
Virginia Woolf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Toni Morrison, John Updike, and
hundreds more. Each biographical entry includes an assessment of the
writer's literary innovations and cultural impact, supplemented with a
list of the author's major works, fascinating quotes, and intriguing
asides. This book covers a broad range of literary artists who have
shaped the course of fiction, poetry, drama, and philosophical thought
across a span of more than 2,500 years. Both a handy quick-reference
source and an inspiration for readers to delve into the world of the
literary arts, 501 Great Writers is certain to be opened and referred to
time and time again. Filled with photos and illustrations.
From the Inside Flap
This enthralling, in-depth guide to 501 outstanding novelists,
poets, playwrights, philosophers, and essayists spans the centuries as
it describes writers from around the world. 501 Great Writers presents
an informal illustrated history of the written word as it has been
practiced by leading figures from different eras and cultures. Each
biographical entry includes a critical appraisal of the artist's
standing in the canon of world literature and an assessment of his or
her literary innovations and cultural impact. An illustration
accompanying each entry presents a portrait of the writer, and a
supplementary list directs readers to recommended books by the author.
Enhanced with enlightening quotes and intriguing asides, each and every
entry is an entertaining and informative summary of the writer and his
or her achievement.
Compiled by Professor Julian Patrick and written by an international
team of literary critics, authors, teachers, and journalists, 501 Great
Writers provides a truly comprehensive guide to the giants of world
literature. Eclectic in its approach, this book describes a wide range
of authors who have shaped the course of fiction, poetry, and
philosophical thought, covering established figureheads as well as the
latest firebrands. A comprehensive reference to the literary world, 501
Great Writers encourages you to gain a deeper understanding of the men
and women behind many of the world's best-loved and most influential
literary works.
For the past 25 years Julian Patrick, professor of English and
Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, has directed the
Literary Studies program at Victoria College's historically innovative
program of world literature, translation, philosophy, and literary
theory. Educated at Toronto and Yale, he has edited books on Ben Jonson
and on literary theory, and has published articles on literature from
Shakespeare to Auden, as well as on psychoanalysis. His current research
involves the overlap between traditional mimesis and new-style
representation in early modern literature from Montaigne to La Princesse
de Cleves.
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