Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature. Stanley J. Kunitz , Howard Haycraft

1943 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred B. Millett
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Biographical Dictionary

Wilson, Edmund (1895–1972)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Imaginative Literature ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Cultural Taste ◽  
Formal Properties

American literary critic, editor, playwright, novelist and journalist Edmund Wilson’s key critical texts trace the development of twentieth-century Anglo-American writing. Wilson’s Axel’s Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930 (1931), through which a ‘generation discovered modern literature’ (Dabney 158), was the culmination of his first and most influential period as an arbiter of cultural taste. Charting its authors’ absorption of symbolist technique, particularly their privileging of image and the formal properties of music, and its consequent impact on readership, Wilson found aesthetic unity in writing which eschewed the narrative connectives that readers of prose and poetry had come to expect.

scholarly journals A Permanent and Significant Contribution: The Life of May Hill Arbuthnot

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Sharon McQueen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Children's Services ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
Biographical Dictionary ◽  
Children’S Services

May Hill Arbuthnot (1884–1969) was not a children’s librarian, nor did she teach children’s librarianship. She was not a scholar of children’s librarianship. How, then, did she come to have an entry in the biographical dictionary Pioneers and Leaders in Library Services to Youth among the pantheon of youth services legends that included Anne Carroll Moore, Augusta Baker, Mildred Batchelder, and Charlemae Rollins? Why did American Libraries include her among one hundred of the most important leaders of librarianship in the twentieth century? And why did ALA’s Children’s Services Division (now ALSC) agree to administer a lecture series named in Arbuthnot’s honor?

scholarly journals Denominational Reception of Literary Modernity in Hungary Before 1920

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Zoltán Szénási
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Bases ◽  
Religious Morality

Christian denominations generally viewed the social and ideological changes that occurred throughout the nineteenth century as crises and therefore perceived modern literature as a manifestation of decadence. Due to their diverse rootedness within Hungary’s social and political life, each denomination reacted distinctively to the phenomena of the modern. This paper describes the different reactions of the Catholic and Protestant Churches and examines their social background by analyzing the denominational and literary conditions of Hungary at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. Obviously, both the Catholic and Protestant Churches needed to modernize their social and cultural institutions in order to regain their former social bases: until 1920, however, this effort yielded no valuable results, primarily because their attempts to create a denominational version of modern literature was subordinated to the requirements of religious morality and thus was not capable of achieving artistic autonomy.

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