Biographies

Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American writer, mainly of short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. That work's influence on American fiction was profound^[1], and its literary voice can be heard in Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell and others.

Brush Katharine (August 15, 1902 - June 10, 1952) was a United States author. Her short story Birthday Party appeared on the 2005 Advanced Placement English Literature Exam; the story was originally published in The New Yorker's Fiction section in 1946. Brush's Connecticut home was featured on an episode of HGTV's "If Walls could Talk".

According to her autobiographical collection of works, This Is On Me (1940), Katharine Brush was born Katharine Ingham in Middletown, Connecticut. Ms. Brush did not attend college, but instead began working as a columnist for the Boston Traveler. During her career she published multiple short stories in serial magazines like College Humor and Cosmopolitan; the best known of these were collected in a book titled Night Club (1929). Brush's works are characterized by her involving narrative style and wit.

Cheever John (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's decorous social persona and inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict between two characters (often brothers) who embody the salient aspects of both – light and dark, flesh and spirit. Many of his works also express a nostalgia for a vanishing way of life, characterized by abiding cultural traditions and a profound sense of community, as opposed to the alienating nomadism of modern suburbia. A compilation of his short stories, The Stories of John Cheever, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. On April 27, 1982, six weeks before his death, Cheever was awarded the National Medal for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Chopin Kate (born Katherine O'Flaherty on February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a Louisiana Creole background. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century.

From 1869 to 1902, she wrote short stories for both children and adults which were published in such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, the Century, and Harper's Youth's Companion. Her major works were two short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Her important short stories included "Desiree's Baby," a tale of miscegenation in antebellum Louisiana (published in 1893); "The Story of an Hour" (1894), and "The Storm "(1898). "The Storm" is a sequel to "The 'Cadian Ball," which appeared in her first collection of short stories, Bayou Folk.

Chopin also wrote two novels: At Fault (1890) and The Awakening (1899), which is set in New Orleans and Grand Isle. The people in her stories are usually inhabitants of Louisiana. Many of her works are set about Natchitoches in north central Louisiana.

Greene Henry Graham (October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991) was an English writer best known as a novelist, but who also produced short stories, plays, screenplays, travel writing and criticism. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene combined serious literary acclaim with wide popularity.

Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a Catholic novelist rather than as a novelist who happened to be Catholic, Catholic religious themes are at the root of much of his writing, especially the four major Catholic novels: Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair and The Power and the Glory. Later works such as The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana and The Comedians also show an avid interest in the workings of international politics and espionage.

Greene suffered from bipolar disorder, which had a profound effect on his writing, and drove him to excess in his personal life. In a letter to his wife Vivien he told her that he had "a character profoundly antagonistic to ordinary domestic life", and that "unfortunately, the disease is also one's material".

Hemingway Ernest Miller (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation". He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure". Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature.

Parker Dorothy (August 22, 1893–June 7, 1967) was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.

From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group she later disdained. Following the breakup of that circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed as her involvement in left-wing politics led to a place on the infamous Hollywood blacklist.

Parker survived three marriages (two to the same man) and several suicide attempts, but grew increasingly dependent on alcohol. Dismissive of her own talents, she deplored her reputation as a "wisecracker". Nevertheless, her literary output and her sparkling wit have endured.

Paterson Andrew Barton "Banjo" (February 17, 1864 – February 5, 1941) was a famous Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include "Waltzing Matilda", "The Man from Snowy River" and "Clancy of the Overflow".

Woolf Adeline Virginia ( January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941 ), English author, feminist, essayist, publisher and critic. She wasregarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Zangwill Israel (January 21, 1864 – August 1, 1926) was an English-born humourist and writer.

Zangwill was born in London on January 21, 1864 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia (Moses Zangwill from what is now Latvia and Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill from what is now Poland), he dedicated his life to championing the cause of the oppressed. Jewish emancipation, women's suffrage, assimilationism, territorialism and Zionism (understood as a national liberation movement) were all fertile fields for his pen. His brother was also a writer, the novelist Louis Zangwill, and his son was the prominent British psychologist, Oliver Zangwill.

Список рекомендуемой литературы

1. Арнольд И. В. Стилистика современного английского языка. М., 1986.

2. Арнольд И.В. Интерпретация английского художественного текста. Л., 1983.

3. Арнольд И.В. Семантика. Стилистика. Интертекстуальность. Спб.,1999.

4. Ахманова О. С. Словарь лингвистических терминов. М., 1969.

5. Гальперин И.Р. Очерки по стилистике английского языка. М., 1958.

6. Кухаренко В.А. Интерпретация текста.

7. Кухаренко В.А. Практикум по интерпретации текста. М., 1987.

8. Разинкина Н.М. Функциональная стилистика. М., 1989.

9. Galperin I.R. Stylistics. Moscow,1977.

10. Kukharenko V.A. A Book of Practice in Stylistics. M., 1986.

11. Sosnovskaya V.B. Analytical Reading. M., 1974.

Дополнительная литература

1. Арнольд И. В. Читательское восприятие интертекстуальности и герменевти­ка // Интертекстуальные связи в художественном тексте. СПб., 1993.

2. Арнольд И. В. Проблемы диалогизма, интертекстуальности и герменевтики» интерпретации художественного текста: Лекции к спецкурсу. СПб., 1995.

3. Бахтин М. М. Вопросы литературы и эстетики. М., 1975.

4. Бахтин М. М. Эстетика словесного творчества. М., 1986.

5. Гальперин И. Р. Проблемы лингвостилистики //Новое в зарубежной лингви­стике. М., 1980. Вып. 9: Лингвостилистика.

6. Гринштейн А.С. Харьковская А.А. Guidelines to reading fiction: Уч. пособие. Самара, 2001.

7. Лотман 10. М. О семиосфере. Структура диалога как принцип работы семио­тического механизма //Труды по знаковым системам. Тарту. 1984. Вып. 17.

8. Скребнев Ю. В. Очерки по теории стилистики. Горький, 1975.

9. Смирнов 11. 11. Порождение интертекста. СПб., 1995.

10. Солганик Г. Я. Синтаксическая стилистика. М., 1991.

11. Хэндрикс У. Стиль и лингвистика //Новое в зарубежной лингвистике. М.,1980. Вып. 9: Лингвостилистика.