But the enduring aspect of "On The Road" is not its literary history but the music of its prose.
Or you could look into the work of local poets, whether they are contemporary writers or figures from literary history.
Dr Pagel, however, wanted to examine the question systematically and to include languages with no literary history in his analysis.
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The city's artistic and literary history, including the Beats and the Dead, feels very much alive in the big chain-resistant bookstore and cafe culture.
The Parisian-style cafe circuit, backed by an intriguing literary history, is paradise for bookish types and coffee lovers, and the edgy local fashion scene seduces design-minded travellers.
Given how thickly trafficked this corridor of English literary history has been in recent years, a writer like Hollinghurst can spin yards of this soft stuff practically in his sleep.
Despite Japan's rich literary history, few of its writers seem to achieve fame or recognition beyond its borders - an affliction that does not extend to the fields of film, music or fashion.
Cecil Valance stays only three days at Two Acres, the Sawle family house on the edge of North London, but the house party becomes a piece of literary history, because it is here that Cecil writes a poem for Daphne, which memorializes the house and its garden.
In a deviation from the book that amounts to a calumny against literary history, Nick, the author's surrogate, is discovered in a psychiatric hospital where, as an aging alcoholic, he struggles to comprehend the vanished figure at the center of the long-ago story, and finally completes his treatment by writing the novel.
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Literary alt-history is still relatively scarce, but it has begun a noticeable expansion.
Those things are at their mildest in Matt Lane, the librarian and archivist of the title: benign high-priest of literary hush, untouched by history (too late for the first world war and a non-combatant in the second), unproblematically Christian.
However, literary science fiction has a long history with examining the roles of gender in the future.
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And Elizabeth McHenry, assistant professor of English at New York University and author of Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies, joins the discussion to talk about literary societies.
Stanley Fish, a literary theorist, has suggested that the entire history of Western thought could be written as a history of the debate between Socrates and the sophists, namely that between philosophy and rhetoric.
Inferno will see Langdon drawn into "a harrowing world centred on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces".
That these anti-novelistic tricks are all, in fact, novelistic tricks, often borrowed from the history of the novel, does not muffle the pleasure of watching this literary freedom in action.
The other kind of fairy tale, the ancestor of the literary variety, is the oral tale, whose origins cannot be dated, since they precede recoverable history.
Although I had met Mr. Unsworth and heard him speak at the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar, I had known him long before as a historical novelist who changed the way I thought about history and fiction.
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