📔 West-Running Brook is a collection of poetry by Robert Frost, written in 1923 and published by Henry Holt and Co. in 1928. Due to of this volume, Robert Frost is also known as "Home Spun Philosopher".
📔 Cultural materialism is an anthropological research orientation first introduced by Marvin Harris in his 1968 book The Rise of Anthropological Theory, as a theoretical paradigm and research strategy. To him, social change is dependent of three factors: a society's infrastructure, structure and superstructure.
📔 Mrs Dalloway (1925) centres on the efforts of Clarissa Dalloway, a middle-aged society woman who organises a party, even as her life is paralleled with that of Septimus Warren Smith, a working-class veteran who has returned from the First World War bearing deep psychological scars.
📔 The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, was published in 1915, by her half-brother's imprint, Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd. which was the novel originally titled Melymbrosia; but Woolf repeatedly changed the draft. An earlier version of The Voyage Out has been reconstructed by Louise DeSalvo and is now available to the public under the intended title. DeSalvo argues that many of the changes Woolf made in the text were in response to changes in her own life.
📔 Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre." Pirandello's works include: novels, short stories, and about forty plays, some of which were written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd.
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