Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, 1914-2000

Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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2004

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9780313039393

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Traces the reading habits and intellectual development of the cultural giants of the 20th century. Includes entries on people from a broad range of fields, including scientists, politicians, business figures, writers, religious leaders, figures from the performing arts and popular culture.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1: Achebe, Chinua (1930- ).
2: Adams, Gerald (1948- ).
3: Addams, Jane (1860-1935).
4: Adenauer, Konrad (1876-1967).
5: Aitken, William Maxwell, First Baron Beaverbrook (1879-1964).
6: Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna (1889-1966).
7: Ali, Muhammad (1942-).
8: Allende, Isabel (1942- ).
9: Amado, Jorge (1912-2001).
10: Andrić, Ivo (1892-1975).
11: Angelou, Maya (1928- ).
12: Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918).
13: Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975).
14: Armstrong, Louis (1901-1971).
15: Arp, Jean (1887-1966).
16: Asturias, Miguel Angel (1899-1974).
17: Attlee, Clement (1883-1967).
18: Atwood, Margaret Eleanor (1939-).
19: Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973).
20: Baeck, Leo (1873-1956).
21: Baker, Josephine (1906-1975).
22: Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895-1975).
23: Baldwin, Stanley (1867-1947).
24: Barth, Karl (1886-1968).
25: Barthes, Roland (1915-1980).
26: Baruch, Bernard Mannes (1870-1965).
27: The Beatles.
28: De Beauvoir, Simone Lucie-Ernestine-Marie-Bertrand (1908-1986).
29: Beckett, Samuel Barclay (1906-1989).
30: Bell, Daniel (1919- ).
31: Benda, Julien (1867-1956).
32: Beneš, Edvard (1884-1948).
33: Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973).
34: Bergman, Ingmar (1918- ).
35: Bergson, Henri Louis (1859-1941).
36: Berlin, Irving (1888-1989).
37: Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990).
38: Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von (1856-1921).
39: Bloch, Marc (1886-1944).
40: Bohr, Niels Henrik David (1885-1962).
41: Bojaxhiu, Agnes Gonxja (1910-1997).
42: Böll, Heinrich (1917-1985).
43: Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945).
44: Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986).
45: Bourke-White, Margaret (1904-1971).
46: Bradbury, Ray (1920- ).
47: Brancusi (Brâncuşi), Constantin (1876-1957).
48: Brandeis, Louis Dembitz (1856-1941).
49: Brandt, Willy (1913-1992).
50: Braque, Georges (1882-1963).
51: Braudel, Fernand (1902-1985).
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