This is intended as a critical, rather than encyclopaedic, history of literature on both sides of the Atlantic between the end of World War I and the political... Læs mere
From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan
Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment in the following century.
Ernest Hemingway, best-known to layman and aficionado alike, in his fiction described bullfighting, or toreo, as a cross between romantic risk and a drunken party, or as an elaborate substitute for war, ending in wounds or death
Critics of fiction have long been aware that the romantic movement in Europe and America gave a powerful impulse to the art of fiction
Since World War II critics have been predicting the decline of the novel