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	List of years in literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1810 in literature - The Houses of Osma and Almeria - Regina Maria Roche
		1795 in literature - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (to 1796) - Goethe
		1731 in literature - Insel Felsenburg (to 1743) - Johann Schnabel
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_years_in_literature (4113 words)

	German Literature - LoveToKnow 1911
		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 (14422 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		literature of the inhabitants of the Republic of Georgia.
		The earliest work to survive, The Martyrdom of the Saint Shushanik (474–84), and the thousands of palimpsests of the 5th, 6th, and 7th centuries indicate that at least the Gospels, the Epistles of Saint Paul, and about 150 Psalms had been translated into Georgian during that period.
		Much literature continued to be produced in the Georgian language, but it belonged to the cultural tradition of the USSR.
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..ge032900.a (337 words)

	American Literature: Prose - MSN Encarta
		American Literature: Prose, fiction and nonfiction of the American colonies and the United States, written in the English language from about 1600 to the present.
		Native American literatures, which were largely oral at the time of colonial settlement, stand apart as a separate tradition that is itself strong and varied.
		Legends, folktales, and other forms of literature were preserved in oral form and passed down from one generation to the next through ceremonies and other community gatherings, as well as within family groups and other informal settings.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564847/American_Literature_Prose.html (1156 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		The Golden Age of Dutch literature was coexistent with the establishment of the republic and a period of great commercial prosperity.
		After World War I, a reaction to the overintellectualized literature of the early 1900s was led by Hendrik Marsman (1899–1940), who championed the cause of “vitalism,” a form of expressionism, based on the concept that the poet is merely a member of, and speaks for, the masses.
		By the end of the war, the younger generation of writers had rejected many of the theories of their predecessors; and postwar Dutch literature reflected the disillusionment brought on by the atomic age, the new welfare state, and the cold war.
	www.historychannel.com /thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=208065 (1641 words)

	American Literature Lectures, Part I
		With the Renaissance vogue of travel literature the writings of Smith are intimately connected; to Renaissance poetic models the poetry of Anne Bradstreet owes at least its form and probably its existence.
		With unconcsious faithfulness this Puritan literature reflects the Puritan mind: its rigid Calvinism, its morbid consciousness of sin, its superstition, its austerity, its stoical bravery, its vein tenderness, its preference of morality to beauty, its contradictory tendencies toward orthodoxy and nonconformity.
		Puritan literature is antique in manner and often in matter; yet it treats profoundly a few subjects of universal and permanent importance, such as the relation between church and state, and the source and functions of governmental sovereignty.
	lonestar.texas.net /~mseifert/amlit1.html (6534 words)

	Online Course Description Guide v1
		Or it could be viewed as a course designed to illustrate the sweep of American literature: those characteristic features and persistent concerns that have defined the tradition from the colonial period to the contemporary period.
		The literature and art emerging from this period have come to be termed "modernist." Although we will begin with a working definition of "modernism," one of the tasks of the course will be to refine and redefine our sense of the term with each new text we read.
		Questions of narrative, of the relations between politics and literature, and of the representation of sexuality are constant concerns of the course.
	www.pitt.edu /~bdobler/english/timq/unlit.html (10557 words)

	Iberian Peninsula: Language, Literature and History
		The program's reputation was built on excellence in Peninsular literature -- historically, Latin America was less prominent -- and particularly on the literature of the Middle Ages and the Golden Age.
		The concept of literature has been broadened, too, to include significant interest in history, film, women's studies, and cultural studies Moreover, the program is one of the few in the nation that offers a specialization in Romance philology.
		At one time the Portuguese literature of the early modern period received some attention, but the current strategy is to acquire a small number of works from all periods.
	www.library.upenn.edu /collections/policies/iberian.html (852 words)

	English 241 - Early American Literature
		This is a literature of colonialism, of syncretic self-invention, and of insistent democracy.
		We shall be especially attentive to the historical contexts of American literature, to its roots in radical social alienations, and to the diversity of its writers and readers.
		Literature and its study are ongoing discussions that do not stop at the classroom door.
	www.public.asu.edu /~jlockard (2580 words)

	Research team Literary Studies: Dutch Literature
		Dutch literature: 19th and 20th century: textual criticism.
		COLLEX: A collocation-based approach to the acquisition of lexical competence in English.
		Historical review of the literature in the Netherlands during the seventheenth century.
	www.kuleuven.ac.be /research/researchdatabase/researchteam/50000311.htm (155 words)

	§6. New England; The Massachusetts Law of 1647. XXIII. Education. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The ...
		It was the colonists of New England, particularly those of Massachusetts, who had visions of a new education in a new society and who left us abundant written records of their purposes and achievements.
		Consequently this statute of 1647 constitutes the Magna Charta of the American public school system.
		The theory of education expounded may now seem narrow, but it was at least far more concrete, definite, and vitally connected with the life of the times than the worn-out theories used by later generations to justify the same narrow linguistic education.
	www.bartleby.com /227/1606.html (266 words)

	University of Pittsburgh
		This course surveys literature from 1500–1675, exploring how the social and ideological shifts of the age created an explosion of literary texts: lyric poetry, drama, epic, and prose.
		In examining the Realist tradition as articulated in contemporary American literature, the course begins with brief surveys of turn‑of‑the‑century American social writers and American Social Realists of the 1930s, followed by works of contemporary novelists and creative nonfiction writers.
		This course explores tragic literature from its Hellenic beginnings through the Renaissance and into the modern period, addressing issues about tragic heroes and their flaws, about fate and justice, and about understanding tragedy as a literary form as it changes through time and from culture to culture.
	www.umc.pitt.edu /bulletins/greensburg/upg-e-i.htm (6123 words)

	Undergraduate Catalog -- Full-time Day Programs -- Northeastern University
		Examines historically the discovery methods and models of literature and science, exploring one or more of the following areas: the relationship of the methods and models of literature and science; the treatment of scientific methods and models in literature; the use of literary devices, techniques, and traditions in scientific texts.
		Examines the realistic tradition in American literature, including local color and native humor, from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the century.
		Explores an important aspect of literature such as the writer and the audience, the tradition of the new feminism and the novel, or the canon and its revisions.
	www.neu.edu /registrar/courses0103/artsci/eng.html (3729 words)

	AMERICAN LITERATURE SURVEY
		You have chosen to take a literature course at an exciting time; in universities across the country, many of us in literary studies are in the process of asking ourselves what exactly we are supposed to do as critics of literature and how we engage people in our work.
		As a class, we will examine writers who are considered very important (or “canonical”) by most people, and we will try as well to look at some lesser known writers and what they have to contribute to our understanding of ourselves.
		This course is a survey of American Literature from 1492 to the present.
	www.auburn.edu /~wysshil/american_literature_survey.htm (1320 words)

	Web Catalogue One A-C
		Last of the classic writers, in style not impure, [...] in elevation of sentiment equal to any of the philosophers, and mingling a Christian sanctity with their lessons, he speaks from his prison in the swanlike tones of dying eloquence.
		The next twelve years were wholly spent either in bearing a share in the distresses of the royal family, or in labouring in their affairs." [] In 1656, he could endure exile no longer, and came over to London; he was arrested and for some time closely imprisoned.
		In 1647 had been published, in his absence, his famous and long-admired miscellany of lyrics, 'The Mistress;' he found himself, ten years later, the most popular living English poet.
	www.graybooksellers.com /webcat1/a-c.html (5302 words)

	German Literature, c. 1600-1740 quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		"This period of German literature is not well known, and this quiz includes some general background questions.
		The 1720s and 1730s are dominated in German literature by the name of Johann Gottsched (1700-66).
		He had virtually no lasting impact beyond being the target of several attacks in the second half of the 18th century.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=174144 (364 words)

	American Literature & History
		American literature, in its most basic structure, has it roots in British literature.
		The separation of British and American literature began from the first step onto what is now American soil, but rejoins moreso in this present era, as the ability to communicate and purchase books internationally increases.
		Literature is always conjoined to the circumstances it is written in, and is always influenced by the world around it.
	www.hungarianbookstore.com /americanliterature01.htm (1524 words)

	University of Delaware: FOUR DECADES OF LIBRARY SUPPORT
		Of particular note are holdings of the work of the British romantic poets, notably Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their circle, and nineteenth-century American fiction, including comprehensive collections for such authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and a host of others.
		The University of Delaware Library's holdings in twentieth-century literature are internationally-renowned and are consulted daily by students and scholars from throughout the world.
		Of particular interest are the Library's holdings in twentieth-century poetry and in contemporary Irish literature.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/udla/lit.htm (1320 words)

	Selected Literatures and Authors Pages - Ukrainian Literature
		Ukrainian Literature in English: Articles in Journals and Collections, 1840-1965.
		Ukrainian Literature in English, 1980-1989 An Annotated Bibliography.
		Russia and Ukraine - Literature and the Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times.
	learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/lit_authors_ukrainian.html (1015 words)

	Survey of American Literature, Professor Lucia Knoles
		Since we are studying literature as rhetoric this semester, it should be useful to think about how 19th century lecturers and debaters worked to gain control of their listeners, particularly when it came to controversial issues.
		If you view the digitized version of "The Wife of His Youth" available at the University of South Carolina's Documenting the American South, you can view the original cover and illustrations from the 1901 edition of the anthology of short stories published under the same title.
		Melville once used the publication of a work by Hawthorne to proclaim that it was time for critics to begin championing the works of American writers instead of always praising the English--or Americans who wrote in the manner of Englishmen.
	www.assumption.edu /users/lknoles/2001/amsurveysyl2001.html (6353 words)

	English Literature
		The sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature collection is a fortunate blend of books collected by the Garrett family and by the Tudor and Stuart Club of John Hopkins.
		Also included in the Garrett Collection are first editions of Jonson's Workes (1616), Beaumont and Fletcher's Comedies and Tragedies (1647), and Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620).
		In the Tudor and Stuart Club collection is a group of early editions of Spenser, including two variants of the first edition of the Faerie Queene (1590), and a number of works by Milton, including first editions of Paradise Lost (1668, 4th title page), and Paradise Regain'd (1671).
	www.library.jhu.edu /collections/specialcollections/collections/scenglit.html (648 words)

	BRITISH LITERARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
		`A bibliography of Hampstead and of allusions to Hampstead in various branches of literature' in The annals of Hampstead.
		The life of sir Thomas Bodley written by himself, together with the first draft of the statute of the public library at Oxon.
		(Literature of libraries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries).
	www.bibsocamer.org /BibSite/HowardHill/bibliography.htm (5752 words)

	ENGL 360: Gender & Literature (Spring 2005)
		Course description: Generally, this course serves as "An introduction to feminist approaches to the study of literature, including poetry, drama, fiction, and/or autobiography.
		Readings for this particular section cluster around three major units: gender and recent history; gender, literature and other arts; and a final unit to be developed in consultation with the class.
		Possibilities for this last unit include (a) canonical works of literature, such as Bronte's Jane Eyre or Hardy's Tess (b) postmodern understandings of gender, such as those in Butler's Dawn, or (c) a mix of shorter fiction, poems, and so on.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~black0/360 (1119 words)

	Symbolic Literature of the Renaissance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A figure poem is printed or written in a shape which reflects the subject of the poem.
		It is also called visual or pattern poetry and has had a long tradition originating in classical Greek literature where the genre had the name of technopaegnia.
		In his Ova Paschalia, Easter Eggs, of 1634 Stengelius constructed each emblem in the shape of an egg as are all the poetic references.
	www.camrax.com /symbol/Figurepoemsintro.php4 (669 words)

	SalamIran, Culture & Religion, Literature
		Other relief sculpture and paintings still extant from early periods depict instruments as they are today, except that some, like the harp seen on the Taq-e Bostan relief’s near Kermanshah, have gone out of use.
		Music continued to play an important role in the lives of the Persians throughout their history, with its continuity well documented in the Safavid frescoes of the Chehel Sutun in Esfahan, dated 1647 AD.
		A major revival in Persian music has its inception late in the reign of Nasser od-Din Shah (died in 1896 AD), who commanded the establishment of the House of Crafts, a center where all important craftsmen could be gathered for making and marketing their instruments.
	www.salamiran.org /Religion/Music.htm (950 words)

	American Colonial Literature Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In this era of cultural contact and mutual misunderstanding, the literature frequently records colorful, visceral responses to new kinds of food and new forms of dietary ritual.
		This bibliography is for graduate-level study of American literature before 1800.
		Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic.
	www3.uakron.edu /english/miller/acl (4608 words)

	Undergraduate Catalog -- Full-time Day Programs -- Northeastern University
		For example, students might discuss a group of authors influenced by their common interest in psychoanalysis, by their social consciousness, or by an interest in the settlement of America.
		Examines closely a single writer or group of writers (such as Fielding or the essayists), a genre (such as satire), a theme (such as reason and madness), or other narrow topics.
		(First preference given to students needing the course to complete the major.) Explores an important aspect of literature such as the writer and the audience, the tradition of the new feminism and the novel, or the canon and its revisions.
	www.neu.edu /registrar/courses0001/artsci/eng.html (4797 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Children’s Literature certificate program offers a multi-disciplinary course of concentrated study in literature for children and adolescence that should be attractive to students in a variety of majors.
		The certificate may be earned with the successful completion of eighteen credits of designated coursework and the signed approval of the director of the certificate program.
		Related courses offered in a given term may also be substituted by consent of the director of the
	www.upg.pitt.edu /_PgAcademics/P_ChildrensLit.htm (137 words)

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