Perspectives on Contemporary Literature: Literature and the Historical Process Volume 14 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813152493)

In all parts of the world and in every age, many of the greatest works of literature have been shaped or inspired by the swirl of historical events. The wars, holocausts, and mushroom clouds of our own era haunt the pages of many twentieth-century writers; events of the past, even the remote past, also inspire many authors, though their work is contemporary in every way. And if we agree with the poet Czeslaw Milosz that "historicity may reveal itself in a detail of architecture, in the shaping o

Author: David Hershberg
ISBN-10: 0813152496
ISBN-13: 9780813152493
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 116
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.28d