Themes in World Literature with A Guide to Writing About Literature

by George P. Elliott

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395489911
• ISBN13: 9780395489918
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 850 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.8" x 7.8"

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Writing Themes in World Literature

Themes covered include: 1) The Question of Truth (Cortazar, Crane, R. Graves, Ogden Nash, Montaigne, Hawthorne, Keats, Plato, Cervantes, Ibsen 2) The Nature of Justice (Pirandello, Housman, Lardner, Shapiro, Joyce, G. Manley Hopkins, G. Meredith, Aristotle, Dante) 3) The Meaning of Greatness (Thurber, Yevtushenko, Shelley, Camus, Updike, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carlyle, Spender, Langston Hughes, Flaubert) 4) Fate and Free Will (Tolstoy, Frost, Paton, Snyder, Gupta, Yeats, Chekhov, Sophocles) 5) Man and Nature (Lessing, Tagore, Dylan Thomas, Wordsworth, Emerson, Whitman, Kizer, Tilburg Clark, Rousseau, Stephen Crane, Pushkin) 6) Good and Evil (E.B. White, Heine, de Maupassant, D.H. Lawrence, Akutagawa, Nietzsche, John Milton, Jeffers, Thomas Mann) 7) Love and Hate (Frank O'Connor, Ranaivo, Roethke, Francis Bacon, Strindberg, Lorca, William Blake, Robert Browning, Yu Ta-fu, John Donne, Shakespeare, Faulkner) 8) Question of Identity (Cather, Voznesensky, James Stephens, James Baldwin, Okara, John Ciardi, W.H. Auden, Kafka, T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad)