politics and literature

Contains entries that explore the relationship between literature and politics around the world, from ancient Greece to the early twenty-first century, covering authors, critics, theorists, historical figures, major literary works, national literatures, literary movements, and specific themes, concepts, and genres; arranged alphabetically from S to Z.

Contains entries that explore the relationship between literature and politics around the world, from ancient Greece to the early twenty-first century, covering authors, critics, theorists, historical figures, major literary works, national literatures, literary movements, and specific themes, concepts, and genres; arranged alphabetically from H to R.

Explores the socially conscious verse of radical women poets and the contributions they made toward the development of political poetry from 1910 to 1945.

Looks at the lives, careers, and relationships of the two writers focusing on their active roles in American literary, political, and social circles and examining their nontraditional yet long-term love affair.

Reveals how William Shakespeare used the same common code many sixteenth-century dissident writers used to comment on the state of England in the sixteenth century.

In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout visited Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the original manuscript of Dr. Zhivago. Pasternak believed his novel was unlikely ever to be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as an irredeemable assault on the 1917 Revolution. But Pasternak thought it stood a chance of being published and read in the West. From Italy it made its way around the world to earn Pasternak the 1958 Pulitzer Prize in Literature. Copies were sold in Moscow and Leningrad on the Black Market and when Pasternak died in 1960 in Russia his funeral was attended by thousands of admirers who defied their government to bid him farewell.

An analysis of George Orwell's 1944 novel "Animal Farm, " featuring early reviews of the book, a range of essays discussing the social and political meaning of the story, and biographical information about the author.