注記 | "Substantially enlarged and updated, this new edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English confirms its status as the most authoritative survey of its subject now available in a single volume. Its coverage of novelists, poets, playwrights and their works embraces both the established classics of English literature and a wealth of contemporary figures from all over the English-speaking world, such as Saul Bellow, Adrienne Rich, Les Murray, Wole Soyinka, R. K. Narayan, Janet Frame, Mordecai Richler, Joseph Brodsky, J. M. Coetzee and Ben Okri." "Under Ian Ousby's editorship over a hundred contributors provide detailed biographical and critical articles, not only about writers and works of literature, but also about the critics, philosophers, historians and biographers who have influenced or reacted to literature. Substantial coverage is given to popular genres such as science fiction, detective novels and children's literature, with entries on, for example, Dr. Seuss, Margaret Mahy, Roald Dahl, Isaac HTTP:URL=http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam025/93007941.html Information=Publisher description HTTP:URL=http://www.xreferplus.com/letter_picker.jsp?vol=95 HTTP:URL=http://www.xreferplus.com/letter%5Fpicker.jsp?vol=95 |