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  German Literature - LoveToKnow Watches
The transition from this rigid ecclesiastic spirit to a freer, more imaginative literature is to be seen in the lyric poetry inspired by the Virgin, in the legends of the saints which bulk so largely in the poetry of the 12th century, and in the general trend towards mysticism.
The disturbing and disintegrating element in the literature of the 13th century was thus the substitution of a utilitarian.didacticism for the idealism of chivalry.
The literature of the middle of the century was not wanting in achievement, but there was nothing buoyant or youthful about it; most significant of all, the generation between 1848 and 1880 was either oblivious or indifferent to the good work and to the new and germinating ideas which it produced.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /German_Literature   (14472 words)

  
 Hebrew Literature - LoveToKnow Watches
As in other literatures, these popular elements form the foundation on which greater works are gradually built, and it is one function of literary criticism to show the way in which the component parts were welded into a uniform whole.
Very important for the study of Midrashic literature are the Yalgut (gleaning) Shim`oni, on the whole Bible, the Yalqut Mekhiri, on the Prophets, Psalms, Proverbs and Job, and the Midrash ha-gadhol, 2 all of which are of uncertain but late date and preserve earlier material.
Their literature, with which alone we are here concerned, is largely polemical and to a great extent deals with grammar and exegesis.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Hebrew_Literature   (8638 words)

  
 Wikinfo | French literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
French literature is literature written in the French language; and especially, literature written in French by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written in other languages of France.
Literature in the regional languages continued through to the 18th century, although increasing eclipsed by the rise of the French language and influenced by the prevailing French literary model.
Catalan literature and literature in the Basque language also benefit from the existence of a readership outside the borders of France.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=French_literature   (3465 words)

  
 History Channel Search Results
A somewhat later development of Old Norse literature is the saga, a prose epic or narrative.
In the 13th century the religious and courtly literature of continental Europe reached Norway through translations and adaptations of homilies, legends of saints, and tales of such heroes as Arthur, Charlemagne, and Theodoric.
Nationalism and romanticism led to the discovery of the oral popular literature, exemplified in the collection of folktales gathered by the poets Peter Christian Asbjørnsen (1812–85) and Jørgen Moe (1813–82).
www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..no063200.a   (1462 words)

  
 ipedia.com: French literature Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
French literature is literature written in the French language ; and especially, literature written in French by citizens of France ; see Francophone Literature for literature written in French by cit...
French literature is literature written in the French language; and especially, literature written in French by citizens of France; see Francophone Literature for literature written in French by citizens of other nations.
Literature in the Classical Period was essentially aristocratic in its outlook.
www.ipedia.com /french_literature.html   (3099 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Russian Language and Literature
To profane literature belong the "Testament" Vladimir Monomachus, written in 1099, in which its author gives a recital of his enterprises; and the celebrated account of the battle of Igor ("Slovo" or "Polku Igorevie"), which was found in 1795 in the library of Count Musin Pushkin.
The most important monument of the literature of the sixteenth century is the "Domostroi", attributed to Sylvester, a priest who was the contemporary of Ivan the Terrible; Sylvester was, however, the compiler rather than the author of the work.
Russian literature lost its ecclesiastical character and assumed a lay form; and in ecclesiastical literature itself there was effected a transformation towards the modern, due to the reforms of Peter the Great.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13265a.htm   (8653 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1643   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Ahmed II (in Arabic أحمد الثانى) (February 25, 1643 – 1695) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Anne Hutchinson on Trial by Edwin Austin Abbey Anne Hutchinson (July, 1591 – August 20, 1643) was the unauthorized Puritan preacher of a dissident church discussion group and a pioneer in Rhode Island and the Bronx.
The plain painted surfaces of harpsichords like the 1643 Ruckers were deemed insufficiently ornate for the pseudo-historical fantasies of 19th-century interior decoration, so its exterior surfaces and the area around the keyboard were redecorated with elaborate borders, vignettes, and garlands on a gold ground.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1643   (4177 words)

  
 American Literature: Prose - MSN Encarta
Given the Puritans’ sense of a direct relationship with God, it is not surprising that sermons and other religious writings dominated literature in America in the 1600s.
John Cotton, Thomas Hooker, Roger Williams, and John Winthrop were among the most prominent theologians in the first generation of settlers.
Her story became the model for a new genre of early American literature: captivity narratives.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564847_2/American_Literature_Prose.html   (1455 words)

  
 NATO Research Fellowships 1994-1996
Georgian secular literature of the 12th-13th centuries manifests early impulses of Renaissance thinking, providing important material for the study of the geographical and chronological boundaries of the inception of Renaissance culture.
In the 12th-13th centuries secular literature emerged in the Georgian language which, in its character (court poetry, chivalrous and romantic epics), evinces typological similarity with Eastern (Persian-Arabic) and Western (Byzantine and French) literatures of the same period.
The interest of European researchers in Georgian literature and in general, Georgian culture, and their scholarly progress in Kartvelian Studies was in almost all cases determined by their contacts with Georgia, Georgian public and scholars.
www.nato.int /acad/fellow/94-96/elguja/02.htm   (7955 words)

  
 Faculty List
Literature and political economy; literature and science; nineteenth-century women intellectuals; migration
Research Interests: Early cinema and cinema culture; Edwardian/Georgian literature and visual culture; menstruation and the history of the body; Modernism; the history of film theory; cinema as a cultural practice; intermediality; feminist theory.
Research Interests: Politics and literature in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century; Whig literary culture; women's writing; the development of poetics and the literary canon in the eighteenth century; Pope, Addison, Behn.
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 West De Pere High School
Because all of British literature cannot possibly be covered in one semester, the literary works chosen cover some of the greatest masterpieces and also enhance the theme of tracing the heroes of British writings.
Literature is studied both as a force in society and in the life of the individual.
Literature and the Media provides an opportunity for students to appreciate and understand the various forms of mass communication: print media (such as magazines or newspapers), electronic media, radio, television and film.
www.wdpsd.com /highschool/student_services/courses.htm   (11544 words)

  
 African American Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
But for those interested in the study of literature and the writing of literature, it is something you have to confront and think about.
Most of the literature we will encounter performed political work in the public sphere; that is, many of the authors we will read created their texts to shape and re-define American culture.
To see how postcolonial literature reflects and shapes the your world it is vital for you to witness this process in various contexts—museums, lectures, performances, films, etc. As they come up, other events will be announced in class and/or on the web version of your syllabus.
www.idbsu.edu /english/mnewman/english213.html   (4219 words)

  
 History Channel Search Results
Corneille was born on June 8, 1606, in Rouen, Normandy, the son of a government official.
These four plays, imbued with strength, dignity, and elegance, created the standards of French tragedy, which were further developed by his younger contemporary Jean Baptiste Racine.
Le menteur (The Liar, 1643) is considered the best French comedy before those of Molière.
www.historychannel.com /thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=206519   (393 words)

  
 Religio Medici
Reviews and observations on the work by Kenelm Digby forced Browne to provide a correct version of his text, and this appeared in 1643 with the author's endorsement that it was 'a full and intended copy of that piece which was most imperfectly and surreptitiously published before'.
Despite this assertion, it is likely that Browne was not entirely displeased at the earlier printing of his work, a supposition supported by the fact that he retained Crooke as the publisher of the authorized version.
Of the particular editions mentioned in the text of this article: Monro 1 is a copy of the first pirated edition; Monro 2 is a copy of the second pirated edition; Monro 3 and 4 are copies of the first authorised edition of 1643.
special.lib.gla.ac.uk /exhibns/month/july2002.html   (1519 words)

  
 Gavotte - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Gavotte, French dance in which pairs of dancers form a circle and dance to music in moderately fast ¹ time.
In 1643 Louis XIV became King of France, then the centre of world power.
Guides to more than 100 great works of literature.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Gavotte.html   (103 words)

  
 Projects | American Bar Founadation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
We present economic models that rationalize empirical specifications in the literature and we offer evidence on the validity of those specifications.
Widely used efficiency units models of labor services are inconsistent with evidence from the U.S. labor market.
Abstract : This essay critically examines the available evidence on the causes of fl economic advance in order to assess the contribution of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which forbids discrimination in employment.
jenni.uchicago.edu /home_page/abf.html   (1096 words)

  
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Also, since African-Americans were disproportionately employed in southern agriculture a decline in agricultural labor demand may have slowed fl progress relative to whites in the 1950s (on the fl-white gap, see Donahue and Heckman, 1991; Maloney, 1993).
The demise of the "Old South" was thus no minor affair, despite its neglect in the economic history literature compared to the region's earlier days.
This paper examines one of the most dramatic changes in the South after 1945, the fall of "King Cotton," symbol of the South's economy for well over a century before 1960.
www.eh.net /Clio/Conferences/ASSA/Jan_97/Heinicke.shtml   (2975 words)

  
 OmniSys World Literature (OWL) Collection
The OWL (OmniSys World Literature) Collections contain close to 100,000 titles from China, England, France, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, America and 13 other countries and cover a wide range of subjects, including drama, literature, exploration, science and religion.
This collection of Italian plays from the Renaissance to the present is based on the standard Italian bibliographies of literature and theater.
Humanistic literature from famous presses, early critical editions of classical writers and popular literature are some of the major subjects in this collection.
www.umi.com /products_umi/descriptions/World-Literature1.shtml   (2511 words)

  
 PAL: Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643)
August or September 1643, Pelham Bay, N.Y.), religious liberal who became one of the founders of Rhode Island after her banishment from Massachusetts Bay Colony.
After the death of her husband in 1642, she settled on Long Island Sound, near present Pelham Bay.
In 1643 she and all her servants and children save one were killed by Indians, an event regarded by some in Massachusetts as a manifestation of divine judgment.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap1/hutchinson.html   (707 words)

  
 MWP: Mississippi Writer Timeline ~ 1682
April 9: Following a journey down the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, claims the entire Mississippi River watershed for France and names it Louisiana in honor of King Louis XIV.
Born in Rouen, France, in 1643, La Salle had gone to Montreal in 1666 and opened a trading post.
After receiving an official commission to explore the Mississippi River, he began preparing for the journey in 1679.
www.olemiss.edu /depts/english/ms-writers/tl/1682.html   (189 words)

  
 The Claremont Institute: Our Literature of Extremes
To be sure, in blaming American literature for political trends he finds distasteful, Donoghue is far from unique.
Given how poor is his ability to make historical distinctions, one wonders why Donaghue does not include World War II in his catalogue of outrages.
To borrow from Gertrude Stein again: America is the oldest country because it is the first modern country.
www.claremont.org /writings/crb/spring2006/hart.html   (4502 words)

  
 Summary, House Bill 1643   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Elective study of the Bible in public high schools.
Requires school corporations beginning in the 2001-2002 school year to offer a total of two credits of elective high school instruction in: (1) the history of the Bible; and (2) the influence of the Bible in history and literature.
Provides that the instruction may not be devotional or promote religious beliefs or practices, and a student may not be required or influenced to elect to participate in the instruction.
www.in.gov /legislative/bills/1999/DGSTF/HB1643.DIG.html   (112 words)

  
 Graduate Library Subject Guides
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine literature, history, and archaeology.
Includes Greek and Latin literature in original and in translation, art and architecture images from museum collections, digitized reference books in classical studies, and much more.
Online version of the "Acta Sanctorum," a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day, and runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940.
www.lib.umich.edu /grad/guide/guide.php?id=58   (498 words)

  
 Hindi Language and Literature
Several dialects of Hindi have been used in literature.
800: Bulk of the Sanskrit literature after this time is commentaries.
1643: "Reeti" poetry tradition commences according to Ramchandra Shukla
pages.intnet.mu /tulsikrith/hindi.html   (795 words)

  
 Publications: Literature for Children and Young Adults
reference articlees, and (6) Articles on both children's and YA Literature.
A final section, called (7) Ongoing projects, combines works in progress in all these areas.
Items marked with an asterisk are available in a bound volume at Special Collections, in the College of Charleston Library.
www.cofc.edu /~huntc/Kidresearch.html   (900 words)

  
 PAL:Anne Bradstreet(1612?-1672)
"The Puritan Poetry of Anne Bradstreet," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 9 (1967): 317-331.
Berryman: The Ultimate Seduction." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 66:2 (June 1994): 353-66.
Is her assertion that she had a secondary and defective talent genuine, or was it a calculated, rhetorical pose designed to offset criticism?
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap1/bradstreet.html   (842 words)

  
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See Young adult literature Adolescents, A912; B1986, 2163, 2212, 2252.
See also Folklore, fl in series books, A1329; B208, 249, 1823 in picture books, B189, 193, 196-97, 241, 254 in young adult literature, B199, 202, 210, 220, 222, 233, 248 The Blacksmith of Vilno, A1342-43 Blake, Quentin, A290-91; B1534 Blake, William, A292, 1294, 2148; B1362 Bland, Edith Nesbit.
See Brunhoff Deenie, A299 Definitions of children's literature, A1043, 2217-18; B635-42 Defoe, Daniel, A741-43; B9, 1528, 1729.
www.unm.edu /~lhendr/txtfiles/index.txt   (1512 words)

  
 English 220:01 – Survey of American Literature I
We shall study the literature in a chronological/historical sequence.
We shall connect the authors and their literature to the appropriate ethnic, literary, geographical, and political environments within which they wrote; and the ideologies or religious beliefs that influenced their readers.
for some tips on how to write an essay on a piece of literature.
www.viterbo.edu /personalpages/faculty/GSmith/eng220.html   (1100 words)

  
 FERVENT MASONIC DESIRE TO REBUILD SOLOMON'S TEMPLE IS THE DRIVING FORCE IN THE EVENTS OF THE MID-EAST TODAY. ONCE ...
The new Solomon Temple is henceforth to be called the "house of Christ".
In the late 1800's, Masonic author and authority, Edward Waite, boldly stated that a secret plan does exist within Freemasonry to "build yet another temple at Jerusalem".
There is a time, however, to come, when the Holy One shall remember His people, Israel, and the Lord shall build the House." [Author, Edward Waite, p.
www.cuttingedge.org /news/n1643.cfm   (4564 words)

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