Columbia Dictionary of Modern European LiteratureWith more than 1800 critical entries on the writers and literatures of 33 languages, this work presents the entire range of modern European writing -- from the symbolist and modernist works rooted in the last decades of the nineteenth century; through the avant-garde and existentialist movement to Barthes, Blanchot, Breton, and continental thought pertinent today. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 75 |
Section 3 | 132 |
Section 4 | 184 |
Section 5 | 242 |
Section 6 | 281 |
Section 7 | 429 |
Section 8 | 443 |
Section 9 | 479 |
Section 10 | 499 |
Section 11 | 588 |
Section 12 | 653 |
Section 13 | 799 |
Section 14 | 826 |
Section 15 | 834 |
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