The Western lit Survival kit : : an Irreverent Guide to the Classics, From Homer to Faulkner
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Greece: cradle of Greek civilization -- Rome: when the world was ruled by Italians -- The Middle ages and points between -- The Renaissance: back to the future -- William "look at me, I get my own chapter" Shakespeare -- Here come the Puritans: parade, meet rain -- France and England in the seventeenth century: the shallows -- The age of reason or: when people wised up and started believing what we believe -- The romantics: the author as (the author's) hero -- We also begin to have Americans -- Nice realism: the novel novel -- Unwelcome realism: the French and Russians team up to depress mankind -- The messy twentieth: finally over.
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New York : Gotham Books, c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: xii, 280 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781592406944
1592406947
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