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This article presents an examination into the life and writings of Jorge Semprun, focusing on the impact of his imprisonment at the Nazi German Buchenwald concentration camp and his place within intellectual culture. Details are given noting the ways in which Semprun struggled to express his experiences in the camp through literature. Exploration into Semprun's personal sense of identity and close association with intellectualism and literary culture is also described.

This article provides an overview of the friendship of authors Hamlin Garland and William Dean Howells. Garland had first learned of Howells in 1881 when he bought from a shopkeeper a second-copy of the book "The Undiscovered Country," by Howell. Garland and Howells formally met in 1887 in Auburndale, Massachusetts. Over the years, Howells greatly aided Garland's career, while Garland has drawn all the assistance Howells cared to offer on his ambition to become a writer.

Provides information on the literary influences of "Gulliver's Travels" author Jonathan Swift on the animal stories of writer Franz Kafka. Dominant theme in "Gulliver's Travels" and the story of Kafka; Similarities between the animal characters in the works of Swift and Kafka; Overview of the elements of the literary works of the two authors that suggest disgust for the human body.

Discusses the numerous parallels between author Robert Walton and literary character Victor Frankenstein based on an analysis of the author's novel "Frankenstein" published in 1818. Characterization given by Laura Clardige to the two explorers of the unknown; Numerical symbolism of the month of November that started the reanimation of the amalgam of lifeless limbs and stilled organs; Reasons for Victor Frankenstein to conceal the project of creating a technological son to his mentors Professor Waldman and Krempe.

Discusses the relevance of Victorian author Walter Bagehot's commentary on literature, scholarship, and public life. Examination of his commentary on authors of imaginative literature; Analysis of his exposition of contemporaneous historical and political topics; Views on free market economics and the expansion of the franchise; Profile of the author.

Explores the anxiety, caused by a kind of sibling rivalry, experienced by two prominent authors from each of the traditional major phases of Western culture. Voltaire and Rousseau of France; Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding of England; Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky of nineteenth-century Russia.

Compares the literary works of writers Francis Mayes and D. H. Lawrence on Mediterranean travel. Opinion on Mayes' works such as the "Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy"; Difference of Mayes' style in writing from several literarists like D.H. Lawrence; Novels written by Lawrence.

Presents information on the influence of author William Faulkner to the work of Elias Canetti. Awards received by Canetti; Elements of his work that are anticipated in Faulkner's writing; Information on Canetti's theory of social interaction; Examples of Faulkner's novels.

Explores the Satanic and serpentine imagery surrounding the character in the book "The Confidence-Man," by Herman Melville. Comparison of the novel's protagonist with John Milton's Satan; Significance of Milton's book "Paradise Lost"; References to Milton in Melville's fiction.

Focuses on efforts of English writers from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods to counter the changing paradigms and perceptions in literature. Difference between the modernist and postmodernist literature; Growing number of postmodernist interpretation of the play's by William Shakespeare; Development of social modernism in the late 16th century.

Discusses the political attitudes of William Makepeace Thackeray as seen in `Irish Sketch Book.' Derogatory images as ironic comment on the excesses of Romanticism; Degrees of self-reflexivity in colonial texts; Text as public corrective to the discourse of public drunkenness.

Examines the professional association between writers Evelyn Waugh and Lance Sieveking, and Waugh's relationship with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Details of the dispute between Waugh and BBC; Information on some of Waugh's written works; Focus on the autobiography of Sieveking.

Discusses the impersonation of author Philip Roth by Nathan Zuckerman. List of the works of Roth; Decription of the works of Zuckerman.

Examines the influence of George Eliot on William Hale White as a novelist. Literary works of Eliot; Description of Eliot's relationship with Hale White; Information on the use of pseudonyms by both writers.

Evaluates the the literary work 'Paradise Lost,' by John Milton. Holistic view of Milton on human life; Main characters in the novel; Details on Milton's lack of cogency in the novel.

Introduces a series of articles which deals with William Styron's literary career.

Examines the work 'Finnegans Wake,' by Marion W. Cumpiano. Historical background of the nationalist movements in the Netherlands and Ireland; Interpretation of history by Cumpiano.

Examines the works of writer Jonathan Swift. Concept of persona; List of his critics; Metaphor of the persona.

Discusses the influence of writer Ernest Hemingway on playwright Harold Pinter. Confession of Pinter regarding his readings of the works of Hemingway; Similarities between the short story 'The Killers.' by Hemingway and the play 'The Birthday Party,' by Pinter; Personal similarities of the two writers.

Profiles gothic writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Professional background; List of his works; Influence of Dutch painter Godfrey Schalken on Le Fanu.

Examines the nature of the relationship between author Ezra Pound and the eponymous character of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. Comparison between Pound and Mauberley; Implication of Mauberley's representation as a literary character for Pound; Characteristics of the literary works of Pound.

Describes writer Heimito von Doderer and his novels. Background on the major works of Doderer; Issues emphasized in his works; Criticisms on his novels.

Discusses the varieties of vexatious experience in Jonathan Swift and other literary authors. Definition of entrapment; Factors that gave entrapment a wide spectrum of experience; Information on literary hoaxes.

Compares the theories of discontinuous form of literary style of authors Umberto Eco and Joseph Frank. Views of Eco on open work; Differences in the their theories; Information on Frank's theory of spatial form; Limitations of their theories.

Discusses the posthumous and uncollected work of author Evelyn Waugh. Response to the publication of the book 'Diaries'; Contents of the book; Way to regard the discovered materials written by Waugh.

Evaluates the absurdity and moral insanity in Joseph Heller's contemporary novel 'Catch-22.' Information on the world of the novel; Theme of the book; Main characters of the book.

Discusses the metaphor of the garden in the novel 'A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain,' by Daniel Defoe. Ideal landscape of the book; Information on Pope's rules for imitating Nature in literary works; Assessment on Pope's natural style of gardening.

Explores the theatrical world of the novel 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,' by historian Edward Gibbon. Basic narrative problems faced by Gibbon in writing the novel; Sources that contributed to the development of Gibbon's dramatic methods and outlook in the history; Advantage of treating historical characters through roles.

Focuses on the professional relationship between poet T.S. Eliot and author Ernest Hemingway. Resemblance in their literary work; Criticisms of Hemingway on the poems of Eliot; Style of Eliot adapted by Hemingway.

Pays tribute to William March, a writer of fiction, who died in 1954. Awards and achievements; Works and achievements; Information on his novels.

Explores the concept of several poets and authors of a home and a house. Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Henry David Thoreau.

Examines the application of an authoritative criterion for measuring the quality of an author's work, focusing on the literary works of Jane Austen. Number of submissions of her novel 'Pride and Prejudice'; Use of superfluity of words in her works; Defects in one of her introduction.

Highlights the literary works of author Raymond Williams. His educational background; His criticism style; Details of some of his works.

Examines the novel 'St. Mawr,' by D.H. Lawrence. Problem in the interpretation of the novel; Violation of Lawrence's own aesthetic principles in the novel; List of his critics.

Examines the works of author Heimito von Doderer. His artistic credo in his diaries 'Tangenten'; Circumstances that led to the writing of 'Die Strudelhofstiege'; Reason for stopping the writing of 'Die Damonen.'

Examines the parallels between authors Antolín Sánchez Paparrigópulos of Unamuno and Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo. Non-admiration of Unamuno for Pelayo; Source of the name elected by Unamuno; Comparison with the name of Pelayo.

Pays tribute to author Nicholas T. Joost, who died in 1980. View of Joost on truth; Joost's favorite poet.