The handbook proper is an alphabetical listing of words and phrases pertaining to the study of English And American literature. The listings concentrate on definition, explanation, and illustration, with no attempt to be exhaustive or complete, and provides selected references for the more important, difficult, or controversial entries. This edition also includes a new feature, the Index of Proper Names, which attempts to list names of all actual persons mentioned in the body of the Handbook proper. The index gives the title (or short title) of the articles in which the person is mentioned.

A handbook to literature

Literature & Fiction

Holman, C. Hugh

History & Criticism

Collier/Macmillan

A reference guide to literature features more than 1,800 literary entries, updated to cover women, ethnic minorities, and film studies, and includes a complete listing of Nobel Prize winners for Literature and Pulitzer Prize winners for Fiction, Poetry, and Drama.

A Handbook to Literature

Harmon, William

wiley

The definitive, contemporary reference on literature and literary criticism in English, this handbook provides an alphabetical listing of more than 2,000 important terms and facts in literature, linguistics, rhetoric, criticism, printing, bookselling, and information technology. Covers a wide range of terms, most centered in literature, but extending into other areas, such as film, radio, TV, printing, linguistics and literary theory, music, graphic arts, classical studies, and computing and information science terms. For anyone interested in literature and literary criticism.

A Handbook to Literature (Handbook to Literature)

Pearson College Div

Provides clear explanations of English literary terms for all types of study. The book is divided into three sections - terms and their definitions, an outline of literary history and an index of names. The terms have been updated to reflect modern and ethnic usages.

Handbook to Literature, A

Thrall, William Flint

Hibbard, Addison

Reference

Prentice Hall College Div.

A Handbook to Literature [hardcover] Holman, C. Hugh [Jan 01, 1972]

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.

A handbook to literature: Based on the original edition by William Flint Thrall and Addison Hibbard

The fourth edition of "A Handbook to Literature" edited by C. Hugh Holman. An indispensable reference work for all students of literature, especially those in English and American literature.

Bobbs-Merrill Education Pub

The definitive  reference on literature in English, this handbook provides an alphabetical listing of more than 2,000 important terms and facts in literature, linguistics, rhetoric, criticism, printing, bookselling, and information technology.  The Web site (www.prenhall.com/harmon) offers a handy glossary of key terms, a pronunciation key for select terms, pre- and post-tests on the terms, flash cards for key terms, and a literary timeline. 

Odyssey Press

At the heart of the southern riddle you will find a union of opposites, a condition of instability, a paradox. Calm grace and raw hatred. Polished manners and violence. An intense individualism and intense group pressures toward conformity. A reverence to the point of idolatry of self-determining action and a caste and class structure presupposing an aristocratic hierarchy. A passion for political action and a willingness to surrender to the enslavement of demagogues. A love of the nation intense enough to make the South's fighting men notorious in our wars and the advocacy of interposition and of the public defiance of national law. A region breeding both Thomas Jefferson and John C. Calhoun. If these contradictions are to be brought in focus, if these ambiguities are to be resolved, it must be through the 'reconciliation of opposites.' And the reconciliation of opposites, as Coleridge has told us, is the function of the poet.So begins the first of these seventeen penetrating essays drawn from long and fruitful reflection of southern life and art by C. Hugh Holman. Professor Holman maintains that there is a congeries of characteristics identifiably present in much southern writing, and he astutely defines them in this collection.William Gilmore Simms, Ellen Glasgow, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor are treated at length. Among the other authors considered in terms of their roles in the making of the southern mind are James Branch Cabell, T.S. Stribling, Erskine Caldwell, and Robert Penn Warren. The essays strike a fine balance between general overview and specific analysis, and they are so arranged as to make a unified study which forms a significant chapter in the intellectual history of the South.Professor Holman asserts that "out of the cauldron of the South's experience, the southern writer has fashioned tragic grandeur and given it as a gift to his fellow Americans. It is possible that no other southern accomplishment will equal it in enduring importance. As urbanization and industrialism conspire to write an 'Epitaph for Dixie,' its greatest contribution to mankind may well be the lesson of its history and the drama of its suffering." In these superb essays the author makes a convincing argument for that position.

The Roots of Southern Writing: Essays on the Literature of The American South

University of Georgia Pr., [

The Immoderate Past deals with the southern writer's preoccupation with history, concentrating on representative novelists from three major periods. Finding the origins of this preoccupation in the antebellum period, when most American novelists wrote in the mode of Sir Walter Scott, C. Hugh Holman examines the Revolutionary romances of William Gilmore Simms. With the coming of realism to American fiction after the Civil War, the southern writer turned to a combination of the realistic method with the novel of manners in order to describe the way of life in the South during the nineteenth century. The Civil War replaced the American Revolution as the crucial event in the novels of this second period and was seen as disrupting the quality and texture of antebellum southern life. To illustrate the southern novel in the realistic tradition, Holman discusses Ellen Glasgow's The Battleground, DuBose Heyward's Peter Ashley, Stark Young's So Red the Rose, Allen Tate's The Fathers, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, and Margaret Walker's Jubilee. Since the 1930s writers in the region have experimented with modernistic techniques distorting reality in order to make special statement about the nature and meaning of the southern experience. To illustrate this latest development in southern writing, Holman turns to William Faulkner's Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!; Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, World Enough and Time, Brother to Dragons, and Wilderness; and William Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner. The Immoderate Past closes with a consideration of the extent to which southern novelists have persisted in using time as a major dimension in their fiction, whereas time has tended to be displaced by space in the standard American novel.

The Immoderate Past: The Southern Writer and History

University of Georgia Press

Within the general region designated as "The South," there are three societies only shadowily defined at their outer limits but distinct and sharp at their centers. In these essays C. Hugh Holman suggests ways in which race, geography, climate, and religion have contributed to the formation of these relatively definite sub-regions. He also shows that continuing literary traditions and social attitudes have shaped, qualified, and, to some extent, defined the artistic methods and forms which writers in these regions used. To demonstrate his thesis he has chosen Ellen Glasgow as spokesman for the Tidewater South, Thomas Wolfe for the Piedmont South, and William Faulkner for the Deep South. A thorough scholar-critic, Holman approaches his subject positively, presenting the impact of these sub-regions on three great Southern novelists and showing the distinctively different views of the South which each novelist embodies in his work. These essays will prove a useful tool to any student who wishes to understand the nature, quality, and meaning of the South, both as a literary subject and as a personal and often tragic experience.

Three Modes of Modern Southern Fiction: Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures)

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A handbook to literature

A Handbook to Literature

A Handbook to Literature (Handbook to Literature)

Handbook to Literature, A

A Handbook to Literature

A handbook to literature: Based on the original edition by William Flint Thrall and Addison Hibbard

A Handbook to Literature

The Roots of Southern Writing: Essays on the Literature of The American South

The Immoderate Past: The Southern Writer and History

Three Modes of Modern Southern Fiction: Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures)