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  FRENCH LITERATURE - LoveToKnow Article on FRENCH LITERATURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
His memoirs, considered merely as literature, show a style well suited to their purport, not, indeed, brilliant or picturesque, but clear, t~se and thoroughly well suited to the expression of the acuteness, observation and common sense of their author.
The branches of literature of which we have just given an account may be fairly connected, from the historical point of view, with work of the same kind that went before as well as with work of the same kind that followed them.
It was not so with the literature of theology, law, politics and erudition, which the 16th century also produced, and with which it for the first time enlarged the range of composition in the vulgar tongue.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FRENCH_LITERATURE.htm   (20806 words)

  
 American literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Some of these early works reached the level of literature, as in the robust and perhaps truthful account of his adventures by Captain John Smith and the sober, tendentious journalistic histories of John Winthrop and William Bradford in New England.
From the beginning, however, the literature of New England was also directed to the edification and instruction of the colonists themselves, intended to direct them in the ways of the godly.
The connection of American literature with writing in England and Europe was again stressed by William Dean Howells, who was not only an able novelist but an instructor in literary realism to other American writers.
www.bartleby.com /65/am/AmerLit.html   (2670 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 1702
The year 1702 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed See also: 1701 in science, other events of 1702, 1703 in science, list of years in science.
Categories: 1702 March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years).
William III King of England, Scotland and Ireland William III and II (14 November 1650–8 March 1702; also known as William Henry and William of Orange) was Prince of Orange from his birth, King of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scotland from 11 April...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1702   (2197 words)

  
 The 18th century (from American literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems, including language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.
A literature is the record of human experience, and people have always been impelled to write down their impressions of life.
Thus literature became deeply rooted in the history of the countries of Latin America.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-42250?tocId=42250   (882 words)

  
 Yugoslav literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The remarkable 16th-century flowering of learning and literature in the Adriatic trading city of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) was a reflection of the Italian Renaissance, spread by commercial contacts and by Slavic youths educated at Padua.
Literature suffered a decline in the 18th cent., when Dubrovnik’s political independence was crushed, and a general imitation of foreign writings took hold.
With the breakup of the Yugoslav federation in the early 1990s and the collapse of the effort (begun in 1918) to form a unified South Slavic nation, the differences between the major South Slavic literatures are likely to widen.
www.bartleby.com /65/yu/Yugolit.html   (1105 words)

  
 British Literature - Classicism
Thus the reign of Augustus is the classic or golden age of Rome; the generation of Dante is the classic age of Italian literature; the age of Louis XIV is the French classic age; and the age of Queen Anne is often called the classic age of England.
The general tendency of literature was to look at life critically, to emphasize intellect rather than imagination, the form rather than the content of a sentence.
In this period the revolt against classicism is shown in the revival of romantic poetry under Gray, Collins, Burns, and Thomson, and in the beginning of the English novel under Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding.
mural.uv.es /roromar/classicihist.html   (1935 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Fathers of the Church
Men like Jerome and Augustine, who had a thorough knowledge of classical literature, would not employ tricks of style, and cultivated a manner which should be correct, but simple and straightforward; yet their style could not have been what it was but for their previous study.
Latin literature is thus a century and a half younger than the Greek; indeed it is practically two centuries and a half younger.
Edifying literature in the form of the lives of the saints began with Athanasius, and was imitated by Jerome.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06001a.htm   (17381 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)

  
 Outline of American Literature - Chapter I
Indian oral tradition and its relation to American literature as a whole is one of the richest and least explored topics in American studies.
The early literature of exploration, made up of diaries, letters, travel journals, ships' logs, and reports to the explorers' financial backers -- European rulers or, in mercantile England and Holland, joint stock companies -- gradually was supplanted by records of the settled colonies.
As American minority literature continues to flower in the 20th century and American life becomes increasingly multicultural, scholars are rediscovering the importance of the continent's mixed ethnic heritage.
usinfo.state.gov /products/pubs/oal/lit1.htm   (5351 words)

  
 Marivaux and Beaumarchais (from French literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Typically, the Marivaudian protagonist is a refined young lady who finds herself, to her bewilderment or even despair, falling in love despite herself, thereby losing her autonomy of judgment and action.
French literature has thus tended to be more dramatic than lyric.
Three earlier wars—King William's War, from 1689 to 1697; Queen Anne's War, from 1702 to 1713; and King George's War, from 1744 to 1748—had failed to bring a settlement of the bitter contest.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-22522?tocId=22522   (868 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Spanish Language and Literature
His interest in the literature of the people is avouched also by a collection of their rhymed proverbs which he made.
Vices of style were, however, to become all too prominent and general in Spanish literature of the seventeenth century and to pervade verse and prose alike.
The literature of Spain has been greatly enriched by the modern Renaissance of the Catalan literature.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14192a.htm   (9223 words)

  
 American literature -> Colonial Literature on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The first work published in the Puritan colonies was the Bay Psalm Book (1640), and the whole effort of the divines who wrote furiously to set forth their views—among them Roger Williams and Thomas Hooker —was to defend and promote visions of the religious state.
In the other colonies writing was usually more mundane and on the whole less notable, though the journal of the Quaker John Woolman is highly esteemed, and some critics maintain that the best writing of the colonial period is found in the witty and urbane observations of William Byrd, a gentleman planter of Westover, Virginia.
Author August Wilson is the winner of the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Literature.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/amerlit_colonialliterature.asp   (794 words)

  
 James Clarke and Co , General Academic Titles - Subjects (Literature)
An examination of the art of political 'spin' in late 17th century England, and how art and literature reflected the changing ideologies of the Stuart era and were used to manipulate political opinion.
Literature and Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne
A masterly study of national consciousness, language and literature in 16th century England, exploring the nature of patriotism, the different modes of cultural expression it finds, and its use in political and religious propaganda.
www.lutterworth.com /jamesclarke/jc/sindex_ad_literature.htm   (447 words)

  
 Anthology of World Literature : Section 14 : Making Connections
In sharp contrast to the spiritual guidance provided Dante by Beatrice in the Divine Comedy, covered in "The Formation of a Western Literature", Petrarch's Laura is an ambiguous figure who alternately plays the role of divine guide and earthly temptress (see pages 1836–1962 in volume B).
Both take their cues from earlier works of non-Western literature such as the Thousand and One Nights, covered in "The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature" (see pages 1566–1618 in volume B), and Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara, covered in "India's Classical Age" (see pages 1342–1350 in volume B).
The patterns of familial conflict within the larger pattern of the polis inherent in Hamlet can be detected in the Sophoclean dramas Oedipus the King and Antigone, covered in "Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind" (see pages 612–693 in volume A).
www.wwnorton.com /nawol/s14_mc.htm   (446 words)

  
 1702 in literature - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
1702 in literature - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about 1702 in literature contains research on
1702 in literature, Events, New Books, Births and Deaths.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/1702_in_literature   (128 words)

  
 English 115   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Students read and discuss fiction, drama, and poetry.
The course also includes practice in the skills necessary to write about literature.
All work, including that completed in and out of class, will be checked and has an effect on my evaluation of your progress--even if letter grades are not assigned.
www.richland.edu /staff/rtomlin/115.html   (595 words)

  
 4.7 Finnish literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lönnrot was under the influence of Homeric ideals and tried to forge the poems into a single epic, adding bits and pieces of his own and altering some parts to make them appear a whole, which they however never have been.
Nevertheless, its role to the development of Finnish literature, arts and identity can hardly be over-estimated, and having been translated to all major world languages and lots of minor ones, it is no doubt the most important contribution of Finland to world literature.
Snellman's chief achievement was in his role as a national awakener, the editor of two newspapers, strongly encouraging literature as part of the process leading to independence.
www.faqs.org /faqs/nordic-faq/part4_FINLAND/section-6.html   (1837 words)

  
 May 27th
It was Calvin's aim to make Geneva a model city, an example and light to the world.
His rule was tyrannous; but, if gaiety vanished, and vice hid itself in hypocrisy, at least industry, education, and literature of a certain sort flourished under his sway.
The painful passage in Calvin's career was the martyrdom of Servetus.
www.thebookofdays.com /months/may/27.htm   (1787 words)

  
 The image of Swedes in the Belarusian literature
He is the first representative of the Belarusian literature, who chose the modern ethnic term as pseudonym.
He is known in the Belarusian literature by a number of wonderful comedies, and as a first translator of the Adam Mickiewicz's poem "Pan Tadeusz" into Belarusian.
The analysis of Belarusian literature of the 19th centuries were obliged to rest upon folklore And on this basis they created the image of the Swedes.
www.vitryssland.nu /swedimg.html   (4382 words)

  
 The Poets.
He was not a profound thinker; his philosophy is that rather of the market place than of the schools; he does not move among high ideals or subtle emotions.
One of the best known and most respected figures in English literature is Milton; though, it has been said (De Selincourt), that "the true appreciation of Milton is the last reward of the scholar." Milton was religious (considering the age, - how could one be anything else).
His greatest works is in the poetry of his maturity and old age..." Yeats was to edit the works of William Blake in 1893.
www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Literary/BiosPoets.htm   (3002 words)

  
 An Outline of American Literature - 1
No account of New England colonial literature would be complete without mentioning Cotton Mather, the master pedant.
Mather's 1702 Magnalia Christi Americana (Ecclesiastical History of New England), his most ambitious work, exhaustively chronicles the settlement of New England through a series of biographies.
The huge book presents the holy Puritan errand into the wilderness to establish God s kingdom; its structure is a narrative progression of representative American "Saints' Lives." His zeal somewhat redeems his pompousness: "I write the wonders of the Christian religion, flying from the deprivations of Europe to the American strand."
odur.let.rug.nl /usa.990917/LIT/mather.htm   (134 words)

  
 English Literature
American literature since World War II is examined, with special emphasis on the novel.
Students will study selected films and literature from at least three Asian countries in order to highlight and explore the relationship between images and words, between the verbal text and the visual text.
The various types of literature in the Bible are set forth and representative pages of each of these types are presented and examined.
www.smc.edu /schedules/2003/spring/069_031_schedule.htm   (2340 words)

  
 Literature
Extensive literature review on the biomechanical effects and comfort of different sitting postures to identify optimal seating and driving posture.
A review of the literature on the optimal sitting posture for spinal health, based mostly on cadaveric studies, but some clinical studies.
They conclude that the arguments in favour of a kyphotic sitting position are not substantiated by research; and that a lordotic position, interspersed with regular movement, is the optimal sitting posture and assists in preventing back pain.
www.mckenzieinstitute.co.uk /research.htm   (10111 words)

  
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His first publication was in 1691, a satire in verse (The Cambridge History of English and American Literature).
In 1702, he published the ironic tract The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, which led to his incarceration in 1703 (ibid).
British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology of English Literature from Dryden to Blake.
people.stu.ca /~hunt/33360405/writers/defoe/plan.htm   (2703 words)

  
 Ethics of Sumer, Babylon, and Hittites by Sanderson Beck
The aggrandizement of the king was at times taken to an extreme, as indicated by the royal cemetery of Ur from the 26th century BC in which archaeologists found not only extraordinary wealth and precious objects but also the corpses of as many as 74 attendants.
As we shall see in the tale of Gilgamesh and other literature, the Sumerians believed in an underworld for the spirits of the dead; and some kings as gods felt they wanted their servants there also.
As Sumerian literature was being collected and appreciated, little kingdoms like Isin and Larsa competed in the south, while Assur rivaled Eshnunna in the north.
www.san.beck.org /EC3-Sumer.html   (14890 words)

  
 Image Government: Monarchical Metamorphoses in English Literature and Art, 1649-1702 / T.R. Langley
Langley discusses the work of authors such as Edmund Waller and painters like Antonio Verrio to illuminate the changing ideologies of the late Stuart era and the way in which ideas about sovereignty were expressed by artists.
While his awareness of the contributions of modern scholarship is everywhere apparent, the author shows a magisterial grasp of often under-exploited primary sources.
This book will be a valuable addition to the libraries of all students and scholars of later seventeenth-century literature, history and art in bringing to light aspects of sovereignty and the underlying principles of political cohesion in the period which have hitherto been little understood.
www.lutterworth.com /jamesclarke/jc/titles/image.htm   (368 words)

  
 MavicaNET - Luzan, Ignacio de (1702–54)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Spanish critic and poet, was born at Saragossa on the 28th of March 1702.
His youth was passed under the care of his uncle, and, after studying at Milan, he graduated in philosophy at the university of Catania.
Business took him to Spain in 1733, and he became known in Madrid as a scholar with a tendency towards innovations in literature.
www.mavicanet.com /lite/bel/39003.html   (256 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 1701 in literature
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 British Literature
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors.
* Papers: The first is to be a brief (five hundred words), impressionistic paper on the relevance of the literature being studied in the course to your life.
The second paper will be a thousand word analysis of one of the works on the syllabus.
eies.njit.edu /~kimmelma/lit321.html   (465 words)

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