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Longman Anthology of World Literature The Twentieth Century

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ISBN-10: 0205625940

ISBN-13: 9780205625949

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: David Damrosch, David L. Pike, April Alliston, Marshall Brown, Sabry Hafez

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The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume Foffers a fresh presentation of the varieties of world literature from the 20th Century.The editors of the anthology have sought to find economical ways to place texts within their cultural contexts, and have selected and grouped our materials in ways intended to foster connections and conversations across the anthology, between eras as well as regions. The anthology includes epic, lyric poetry, drama, and prose narrative, with many works in their entirety. Classic major authors are presented together with more recently recovered voices as the editors seek to suggest something of the full literary dialogue of each region and period. Engaging…    
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List price: $100.20
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Longman Publishing
Publication date: 7/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1096
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English

David Damrosch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of "The Narrative Covenant" and "We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University" and the general editor of "The Longman Anthology of British Literature".

The Twentieth Century
Perspectives: The Art of the Manifesto
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944)
The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism
Tristan Tzara (1896-1963)
Unpretentious Proclamation
Andr� Breton (1896-1966)
The Surrealist Manifesto
Mina Loy (1882-1966)
Feminist Manifesto
Yokomitsu Riichi (1898-1947)
Sensation and New Sensation
Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954)
Cannibalist Manifesto
Andr� Breton (1896-1966)
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Diego Rivera (1886-1957)
Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art
Hu Shi (1891-1962)
Some Modest Proposals for the Reform of Literature
Crosscurrents
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Preface to the Nigger of the Narcissus
Heart of Darkness
Resonances
Joseph Conrad:fromCongo Diary
Sir Henry Morton Stanley:from
Address to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce
PREMCHAND (1880-1936)
My Big Brother
LU XUN (1881-1936)
Preface to A Call to Arms
A Madman's Diary
A Small Incident
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)
Dubliners
Araby
The Dead
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Mrs
The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection from A Room of One's Own
Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927)
RashMmon
In a Grove
A Note Forwarded to a Certain Old Friend
Perspectives: Modernist Memory
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of
The Waste Land
Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933)
Days of 1908
Ithaka
Claude McKay (1890-1948)
The Tropics in New York
Flame Heart
Outcast
Federico Garc�a Lorca (1898-1936)
Unsleeping City
Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987)
In the Middle of the Road
Emile Habiby (1922-1998)
from The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist
Octavio Paz (1914-1998)
A Wind Called Bob Rauschenberg
Central Park
Crosscurrents
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
The Metamorphosis
Parables
The Trees
The Next Village
The Cares of a Family Man
Give it Up!
On Parables
Translations: Kafka
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
The Muse
I am not with those
Boris Pasternak
Why is this century worse
Requiem
Resonance
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)
To A.A.A. (Akhmatova)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Who Goes with Fergus?
No Second Troy
The Wild Swans at Coole
Easter 1916
Resonance
Proclamation of the Irish Republic
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
Byzantium
Under Ben Bulben
Perspectives: Poetry About Poetry
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
A Pact
Eugenio Montale (1896-1981)
Rhymes
Poetry
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
This
Today I read nearly two pages
The ancients used to invoke
Translations:Pessoa's Autopsychography
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
Tonight I can write the saddest lines
Ars Poetica
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Anecdote of the Jar Of Modern Poetry Of Mere Being
Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963)
Regarding Art
Bei Dao (b 1949)
He Opens Wide a Third Eye
Old Snow
Daniel David Moses (b 1952)
The Line
Crosscurrents
Bertolt Brecht
Mother Courage And Her Children
Perspectives: Echoes of War
Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)
I Beg You, Brother: Do Not Die
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
Peace
The Soldier
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Strange Meeting
Dulce et Decorum Est
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
Patriotism
Primo Levi (1919-1987)
The Two Flags
Paul Celan (1920-1970)
Death Fugue
Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998)
Report from the Besieged City
Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
Like the Night
Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963)
Giaconda and Si-Ya-U
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973)
Youth in an Austrian Town
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)
Seven Laments for the War-Dead
Little Ruth
Crosscurrents
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Endgame
Perspectives: Cosmopolitan Exiles
C�sar Vallejo (1892-1938)
Agape
Our Daily Bread
Good Sense
Black stone on a white stone
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
An Evening of Russian Poetry
Czeslaw Milosz (b 1911)
Child of Europe
Encounter
Dedication
Fear-Dream
V.S. Naipaul (b 1972)
from Prologue to an Autobiography
Adonis
A Mirror to Khalida
Crosscurrents
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
The Garden of Forking Paths
The Library of Babel
Borges and I
Cult of the Phoenix
The Web
Resonance
Gabriel Garc�a Marquez: I Sell My Dreams
NAGIB MAHFOUZ (b 1911)
Zaabalawi
Arabian Nights and Days
Shahriyar
Shahrzad
The Sheikh
The Cafe of the Emirs
Sanaan al-Gamali
Perspectives: The 1001 Nights in the Twentieth Century
G�neli G�n (b 1944)
from On the Road to Baghdad
John Barth (b 1930)
Dunyazadiad
Italo Calvino (1923-1985)
fromInvisible Cities
Assia Djebar (b 1936)
from A Sister to Sheherazade
Crosscurrents
L�lpold S�dar Senghor (1906-2001)
Letter to a Poet
Nocturne (She Flies She Flies)
Black Woman
To New York
Correspondence
AIM�
C�SAIRE (b 1913)
Notebook of a Return to a Native Land
Gerald Vizenor (b 1934)
Ice Tricksters
Shadows
Perspectives: Indigenous Cultures in the Twentieth Century
Oodgeroo of the Tribe Noonuccal (1920-1993)
We Are Going
Archie Weller (b 1957)
Going Home
Paula Gunn Allen (b 1939)
Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe
Taking a Visitor to See the Ruins
Leslie Marmon Silko (b 1948)
Yellow Woman
N. Scott Momaday (b 1934)
from
The Way to Rainy Mountain
Louise Erdrich (b 1954)
Dear John Wayne
Ibrahim Al-Kuni (b 1948)
The Golden Bird of Misfortune
Crosscurrents
Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang), (1920-1995)
Stale Mates
Mahasweta Devi (b 1926)
Breast-Giver
Perspectives: Gendered Spaces
Clarice Lispector (1925-1977)
Preciousness
Fatima Mernissi (b 1940)
The Harem Within
Ama Ata Aidoo (b 1942)
No Sweetness Here
Hanan Al-Shaykh (b 1945)
A Season of Madness
Juan Goytisolo (b 1931)
from Makbara
Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez (b 1928)
Artificial Roses
Jamaica Kincaid (b 1949)
My Mother
Crosscurrents
Chinua Achebe (b 1930)
Things Fall APart
fromThe African Writer and the English Language
Resonances
Ngugi wa Thiong'o:fromThe Language of African Literature
Mbwil a M. Ngal:from
Giambatista Viko or, The Rape of African Discourse
Jeremy Cronin: To learn how to speak
Wole Soyinka (b 1934)
Death and the King's Horseman
Perspectives: Post-Colonial Conditions
Nadine Gordimer (b 1923)
The Defeated
Fadwa Tuqan (b 1917)
In the Aging City
In the Flux
Face Lost in the Wilderness
Mahmoud Darwish (b 1941)
A Poem Which Is Not Green, from My Country
Diary of a Palestinian Wound
Sirhan drinks his coffee in the cafeteria
Birds die in Galilee
Resonance
Agha Shahid Ali: Ghazal
Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984)
Black Out
No Sign of Blood
Solitary Confinement
Reza Baraheni (b 1935)
The Unrecognized
Answers to an Interrogation
Farough Faroghzad (1935-1967)
A Poem for You
Derek Walcott (b 1930)
A Far Cry from Africa
Volcano
The Fortunate Traveller
Salman Rushdie (b 1947)
Chekov and Zulu
Crosscurrents
Perspectives: Literature, Technology, and Media
Mario Vargas Llosa (b 1936)
fromThe Storyteller
Christa Wolf (b 1929)
from
Accident: A Day's News
Abdelrahman Munif (b 1933)
from
Cities of Salt
Murakami Haruki (b 1949)
TV People
William Gibson ( b 1948)
Burning Chrome
Crosscurrents
Bibliography
Credits
Index