Article: Ian McEwan

Article: Kristmann Guðmundsson
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      63 words ......to 1937 and wrote in both Norwegian and Icelandic. His sensitive novels and stories of love, remarkable for profound psychological insight, include The Bridal Gown (1927, tr. 1931), and Morning of Life (1929, tr. 1936). Among Guðmundsson's later works are...

Article: Frank Wedekind
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ......Die Elf Scharfrichter (Eleven Executioners). Wedekind's psychological insight into daydreams, emotions, and conversations among adolescents...Egliswyl (1905; The Fire of Egliswyl ), which reveals his psychological insight into the relationship between arson and sexual anxiety...

Article: Flaubert, Gustave
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      105 words ......first and best-known novel, Madame Bovary (1857), is one of the landmarks of 19th-cent. fiction, distinguished for its psychological insight, impersonal narrative method, and harmonious style: other works include Salammbô (1862), L'Éducation sentimentale...

Article: Thomas Smith, Captain
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      46 words ......Smith introduced baroque painting techniques into American art. He made use of chiaroscuro technique to render solid forms and reveal his psychological insight. His best-known work is his Self-Portrait (c.1690; Worcester Art Mus., Mass.).

Article: Heinrich Wölfflin
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      89 words ......Swiss art historian. Wölfflin's formal stylistic analysis of motifs and composition in art combined cultural history and psychological insight into the creative process to form a complete aesthetic system. His theory of form greatly influenced the development...

Article: Giacosa, Giuseppe
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre;      127 words ......of verismo . Although an accomplished craftsman and an alert observer of contemporary life, his range was narrow, his psychological insight limited, and his ideas essentially derivative; but, seeking to assert the value of middle-class morality, he unconsciously...

Article: Jo Davidson
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      71 words ......the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. He is known especially for his portrait busts, which display vigorous modeling and psychological insight. Davidson made likenesses of some of the leading figures of the 20th cent., including Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano...

Article: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      114 words ......literature. He is best known for his historical novellas, which are marked by a feeling for the spirit of past ages, keen psychological insight, and deep concern for ethical problems. Among these works are Das Amulett (1873), Jürg Jenatsch (1876), Der Heilige...

Article: Jean Renart
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      64 words ......L'Escoufle [the hawk] as well as Le Lai de l'ombre. These works contain realistic sketches of medieval life and are marked by psychological insight. Renart's use of traditional songs in his verse novels was widely imitated. Bibliography: See study by P. H. Beekman...

Article: Pashennaya, Vera Nikolayevna
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre;      124 words ......Tolstoy's Fruits of Enlightenment . Her conception of Vassya Zheleznova in Gorky's play of that name was characterized by psychological insight, and all her roles gave proof of dramatic force and inner concentration. In 1955 she celebrated her jubilee as an actress...

Article: Robert Beauchamp at David Findlay Jr.
Art in America;  October 1, 2004 ;     476 words ......York School, the real forebears of Robert Beauchamp (1923-1995) were painters who combined phantasmagoric visions with psychological insight, such as Ensor and Kokoschka, and those who delved darkly and mordantly into the grotesque, such as Goya and Bosch. Composed...

Article: General on power.(Worth reading)(Bibliography)
New Internationalist;  September 1, 2003 ;     116 words ...General on power: * Erich Fromm, The Fear of Freedom (Routledge Classics 2002) contains extraordinary psychological insight into power, authoritarianism and the human fear of true liberation. * Alex Begg, Empowering the Earth (Green Books...

Article: V. S. Naipaul
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      338 words ......known for his penetrating analyses of alienation and exile. In fiction and essays marked by stylistic virtuosity and psychological insight, he often focuses on his childhood and his travels beyond Trinidad. Writing with increasing irony and pessimism, he has...

Article: Augustine of Hippo, St
A Dictionary of World History;      138 words ......writings, perhaps his best-known work is the City of God . His theology has dominated all later Western theology, with its psychological insight, its sense of man's utter dependence on grace (expressed in his doctrine of predestination), and its conception of the...