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  German Literature - MSN Encarta
German Literature, literature written in the German language from the 8th century to the present, and including the works of German, Austrian, and Swiss authors.
This movement was reflected in literature, especially by Martin Luther, whose translation of the Bible established New High German as the literary language of Germany.
In secular literature the aristocratic Minnesang was discarded in favor of the Meistergesang (“master song”), written by guilds of artisans known as Meistersinger.
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 Denmark - Culture - Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ballads are the principal mediaeval literature in the vernacular.
The language and forms of baroque literature are characterised by impressive rhetorical inventiveness and power, and they reveal an appetite for life that measures up to its stark celebration of the inconstancy of fortune and the certainty of death.
Two institutions created the framework for the new literature: The Royal Theatre, which was founded in 1748 and became the central institution of manners and culture in Denmark right up to the second half of the 19th century, and the Society for the Furtherance of the Fine and Useful Sciences (founded 1759).
www.um.dk /Publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap4/4-7.asp   (5205 words)

  
 Italian Literature
As another result, Italian literature has borne from its earliest days a strongly marked classicism, not only in the narrow sense of adherence to classical principles of style, but also in the broader sense of respect for tradition.
It fuses, too, the secular motifs of the age; the threads of the amatory conventions of the courtly love, the satiric postures of earlier vernacular writings, the idealization of knightly virtues are all woven into the philosophical-theological tapestry.
These academies were of interest primarily to the scholars and philosophers of the time, and were mainly concerned with subjects tangential to literature; it might even be contended that their influence on literature proper was not a healthy one.
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 Czech Baroque Literature
Czech remained by far the majority language, however, and much valuable Czech literature was printed, including fine sermons and lyrical poetry, inspired by the revived spiritual and stylistic values of 17th-century Roman Catholicism.
Other patriotic historians were Tomáš Pešina z Čechorodu, Dean of St. Vitus, who specialised in Moravian history (Prodromus Moravographiae, to jest předchůdce Moravopisu, 1663, and, in Latin, Mars Moravicus, 1677), and later the Moravian priest Jan Jiří Středovský, who wrote on the Slavonic mission of Constantine and Methodius in Sacra Moraviae historia (1710).
The most lively cultivated Czech prose is to be found in abundant Catholic sermons and related devotional literature.
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 Find in a Library: The French
Subjects: French Americans -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Pioneers -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
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 Literature
Butler (1612-1680) wrote the poem Hudibras - a mock epic satirizing the Puritans - in three parts, originally published in 1663, 1664, and 1678.
"The central idea of this collection of nearly 300 poems is to give a faithful picture of the outward aspect and inner life of England and her people in works selected from the wittings of English poets of every period in our literature." This copy: Name at fly, else no writing to endpapers or text.
Potter makes a bold attack on the spirit and methods which envelop the teaching of English literature in schools and colleges today." This copy: Name/address dated 1937 at fly, else no writing to endpapers or text, firm binding and hinges, NOT AN EX-LIBRARY COPY, overall excellent condition in moderately worn/aged dj.
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 Nineteenth-Century Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Maksymovych's collection of folk songs along with other collections of historical and ethnographic material from this period had a great influence on Ukrainian folklore studies and on Romantic literature.
Gogol, born in Velyki Sorochyntsi, Poltava gubernia, composed this two-volume collection of stories based on his observations and memories of life in Ukraine.
They demonstrate his knowledge of both Ukrainian literature and folklore.
www.huri.harvard.edu /ucrainica/19cent_lit.html   (221 words)

  
 The American Literature Archive
An archived copy of the first edition of several poems (1650) at UC Berkeley -- part of Mary Kay Duggan's course "Print, Literacy, and Power" (School of Information Management and Systems).
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl site at Scribbling Women -- "on line resources for teaching American women's literature using dramatizations produced by The Public Media Foundation" -- includes biography of Jacobs, and historical and literary contexts of the work.
More information on Gregorio Cortez, from an Américo Paredes page at a Chicano Literature site, maintained by Patricia Portales at San Antonio College; a link to a recording of the Corrido de "Gregorio Cortez" Part 1 (Rocha y Martínez, 1929); and a memorial to Américo Paredes, here at UT.
www.en.utexas.edu /amlit/authors.htm   (1848 words)

  
 Group III: Renaissance Literature
Relations between Literature and the Visual Arts in the English Renaissance
Gordon, D.J. The Renaissance Imagination (pioneering essays on Jonson's masques, important for all interdisciplinary studies of literature and emblematics or the vis~ rts)
Women and the English Renaissance: Literature and the Nature of Womankind.
english.unc.edu /graduate/phd-III.html   (3906 words)

  
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 American Literature III
Twentieth Century Course Goals: To expand our knowledge and understanding of contemporay American Literature.
We will look at the times and society within which pieces of literature were created and considered the lasting impact or influence of the literature.
This page created by William LaGrange and maintained by Dr. Brown.
www.usao.edu /~usao-engl2343   (151 words)

  
 Early American and Colonial Literature to 1700
Internet School Library Media Center Early American and Colonial Literature page.
Article from Cambridge History of English and American Literature,
Some biography; bibliography from Perspectives in American Literature
falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/amlitcol.htm   (751 words)

  
 Books :: Literature
English Literature in the Sixteenth century excluding drama,
Aufsauml;tze zur Kultur, Theater und Literatur Geschichte Maximen Reflexionen, Band I, Inselverlag (1920) Grossherzog Wilhelm Ernst Ausgabe12 of 16
Aufsauml;tze zur Kultur, Theater und Literatur Geschichte Maximen Reflexionen, Band II,
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