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	American Literature: Poetry - MSN Encarta
		American poetry remains a hybrid, a literature that tries to separate itself from the tradition of English literature even as it adds to and alters that tradition.
		A powerful new kind of poetry flowered in the mid- and late 19th century among the first poets to be born and raised as actual citizens of the United States.
		Cook’s The Sot-Weed Factor (1708) is a long narrative poem written in rhyming couplets that mocks Americans as a backward people but aims its satire most effectively at the poem’s narrator, who is a British snob.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761596671/American_Literature_Poetry.html (1445 words)

	GERMAN LITERATURE - LoveToKnow Article on GERMAN LITERATURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		When the vernacular literature began to emerge from an unwritten state in the 8th century, it proved to be merely a weak reflection of the ecclesiastical writings of the monasteries; and this, with very few exceptions; Old High German literature remained.
		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 /G/GE/GERMAN_LITERATURE.htm (17145 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - American Literature
		American Literature, literature written in the English language by inhabitants of the United States; it includes the literature written by residents of the 13 original colonies.
		The first American literature is generally considered to be certain accounts of discoveries and explorations in the New World that frequently display the largeness of vision and vigour of style characteristic of contemporary Elizabethan writers.
		The literature of the colonies outside New England was generally of a less theological cast.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564847/American_Literature.html (1111 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: German Literature
		Literature as an art suffered by being pressed into the service of religious controversy; it became polemic or didactic, and its prevailing form was prose.
		Its effect on the German language was enormous; the dialect in which it is written, a Middle German dialect used in the chancery of Upper Saxony, became gradually the norm for both Protestant and Catholic writers, and is thus the basis of the modern literary German.
		Literature was devoid of originality and substance; the formal side absorbed the chief attention of the writers.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06517a.htm (12373 words)

	Gallery Sponsors
		Founded in 1978, 1708 Gallery is a non profit artist’s organization that is committed to expanding the understanding, development and appreciation of contemporary art through exhibitions, performance, and educational activities including film and literature programming.
		1708 Gallery exists through private and public grants as well as through individual donations and memberships.
		1708 Gallery insures all work for 65% of the sale price or insurance value from time the work is received through the designated pick up date.
	freenet.vcu.edu /arts/g1708/proposal.html (312 words)

	Devotional Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Yet one other category of devotional literature must be mentioned: the Anabaptists made much use of a prayer book, the Ernsthafte Christenpflicht.
		Printings have been discovered of as early as 1708, and it is possible that the book appeared in the 17th century.
		Much of the devotional literature of Christendom is Roman Catholic in origin, and indeed goes back to priests and monks, although some was written by devout nuns.
	www.mhsc.ca /encyclopedia/contents/D493ME.html (536 words)

	UMI :: Focus on English Literature, 1708-1907 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		By reading these novels in their original serialized format and in the context of other materials in the same journal issues, literature students gain insight into both their structure and their subject matter.
		It is a reference support for English history, a backbone for English literature courses, and a primary resource collection for research.
		The titles reveal the character of England as expressed by men who were acknowledged as brilliant and witty commentators on the times in which they lived.
	www.il.proquest.com /research/pt-product-Focus-on-English-Literature-77.shtml (310 words)

	Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji :Page :SearchGurbani.com
		On October 20, 1708 Guru Gobind Singh gave his final sermon that conferred permanent gurudom on the Damdama version of the Granth.
		In mystic literature of Guru Granth the appeal of the numinous becomes ineffable, if not inexplicable.
		The Sikhs in particular and the religious world in general must be congratulated to be the recipients of the unique scripture of Sri Guru Granth Sahib.
	searchgurbani.com /main.php?book=sri_guru_granth_sahib&action=index (2242 words)

	Greek literature -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The term is also used for the literature of any language in a period notable for the excellence and enduring quality of its writers' works.
		The term Russian literature is used to describe the literature of different areas at different periods, from the loose confederation of East Slavic tribes known as Kievan Rus that originated in the 10th century to the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union to present-day Russia.
		Partly as a result of this geographic isolation, Spanish literature was for centuries considered...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9106273 (819 words)

	Norweigian Literature
		Wergeland died in 1844, at the early age of thirty-six, but he was, nevertheless, one of the most prolific writers that the Scandinavian north has ever produced, and, withal, a genius of monumental proportions.
		The man who did the most to rescue ballad literature was the minister and hymnologist, Magnus B. Landstad, while the two men who applied themselves to the collecting of folk-lore stories were P. Asbjornsen and Jurgen Moe.
		The scene is laid in a region at that time new to literature, the mystic nature of the melancholy north—the arctic world of northern Norway.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles24/norway-512.shtml (7266 words)

	4.7 Finnish literature
		A movement literary trend known as Helsinki Romanticism was born in the 1830's when the university was moved to the new capital.
		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)

	The Predictions of Isaac Bickerstaff
		Sometime in February, 1708 an almanac went on sale in London titled Predictions for the Year 1708 by Isaac Bickerstaff.
		Almanacs were the most popular form of literature at that time, and they usually contained astrological predictions about the coming year.
		Bickerstaff was the death "by a raging fever" of the famous astrologer John Partridge.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /bickerstaff.html (514 words)

	1708 Online Research :: Information about 1708 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Years: 1705 1706 1707 - 1708 - 1709 1710 1711
		1708 in topic: Art 1708 in architecture - 1708 in literature - 1708 in music Other topics 1708 in Canada - 1708 in science
		Lists of leaders: List of colonial governors in 1708 - List of state leaders in 1708
	in-northcarolina.com /search/1708.html (351 words)

	Venerated Literature
		Much authoritative Western nonreligious literature draws from great minds of philosophy (e.g., Plato, Socrates, Spinoza, Hume, Locke, Russell), from major contributors in science (Einstein, Darwin, Huxley, Newton, Copernicus, Galileo) and from writings of actors in Enlightenment era politics (Voltaire, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, Jefferson, and Ethan Allen).
		The nonreligious have a tendency to be voracious readers of all types of literature, including influential religious literature.
		It was compiled mid-16th century and was made the eleventh and final Guru of Sikhism at the death of the tenth Guru in 1708.
	www.teachingaboutreligion.org /CompareWorldviews/literature.htm (451 words)

	Amazon.co.jp： The Mighty Kingdom of Krinke Kesmes (1708): 洋書: Hendrik Smeeks,Robert-H Leek
		Amazon.co.jp： The Mighty Kingdom of Krinke Kesmes (1708): 洋書: Hendrik Smeeks,Robert-H Leek
		This is the first English edition of a novel that is little known outside Dutch literary circles, but is an interesting example of popular fiction and radical thought about science and society in its day - not only in the Netherlands, but throughout Western Europe.
		This is by David Fausett, an authority on early travel fiction and, in particular, that relating to exploration in the austral regions.
	www.amazon.co.jp /o/ASIN/9051836953/bosscity-22/ref=nosim (263 words)

	Eighteenth Century Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The items representing Ukrainian literature of the eighteenth century represent several distinct trends.
		Traditionally, Ukrainian literature of this period is seen as part of the general European Baroque, which reached Ukraine mainly through the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
		Baroque stylistics were taught at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, which reached its height before the Mazepa revolt against Peter I (1708).
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~huri/ucrainica/18_sum.html (454 words)

	Hat Blog: Hats and Literature
		In later Greek Mythol., personified as the beloved of Eros (Cupid or Love), and represented in works of art as having butterfly wings, or as a butterfly; known in literature as the heroine of the story related in the Golden Ass of Apuleius.
		But, I believe, the proliferation of the hat in children’s literature is more than all this.
		This passage is from page 98 of Cormac McCarthy’s THE CROSSING, “… and he drank from the canteen and poured the rest of the water into the crown of his hat and watered the horse out of the hat and …”.
	blog.villagehatshop.com /hats_and_literature (8463 words)

	Timeline
		This is the first independent mention of coca in English literature.
		First cases of nasal damage from cocaine snorting are written of in medical literature.
		First cases of nasal damage from cocaine snorting are seen in hospitals.
	antoneta.4t.com /catalog.html (433 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)

	SJE-Rhombus Literature
		SJE-Rhombus provides product literature for our customers to download.
		If you do not see the literature you need, please call customer service at 1-888-DIAL-SJE (1-888-342-5753).
		If you would like to order product literature in quantities and have mailed/shipped to you, please complete our literature order form below:
	www.sjerhombus.com /literature/literature.asp (85 words)

	English 115 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		introduces students to the careful reading, discussion, and written analysis of literature.
		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)

	ENG L142 1708 Introduction to Writing and the Study of Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		ENG L142 1708 Introduction to Writing and the Study of Literature
		Introduction to Writing and the Study of Literature
		Topic: "America through Foreign Eyes" -- Lecture TR; Discussion WF Since its founding, the United States of America has drawn both visitors and new residents to its shores.
	www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blspr97/eng/eng_l142_1708.html (214 words)

	Finnish literature (the s.c.nordic FAQ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Nobel Prize for literature for the book Silja, nuorena nukkunut (Silja, Fallen Asleep While Young, 1931).
		Another author who has long been very popular in Finland and has started to win international fame recently is the humorist Arto Paasilinna; Jäniksen Vuosi (The Year of the Hare, 1974), is the story of an advertising man who gets sick of urban life and escapes to the wilderness with his pet hare.
		Biographical and bibliographical data are given also in English for a few of the Nordic authors.
	www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/scn/faq47.html (2020 words)

	English Course Descriptions
		L142 1701 - Introduction to Writing and the Study of Literature
		L142 1708 - Introduction to Writing and the Study of Literature
		L142 1715-1719 - Introduction to Writing and the Study of Literature
	www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blspr97/eng (197 words)

	UIUC English Library Microform Holdings
		The literature is mainly fiction (both short and novel-length), poetry, book reviews, and literary notices.
		Many of them are literary and contain literature and criticism, but many others are devoted to the topics of the day--such as religion, economics, psychology, society, and popular science.
		Included are those which are primary sources for British history and English literature down to the end of the 15th century.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /egx/microform.html (10564 words)

	Review of Biblical Literature
		Citation: Steve A Wiggins, review of Joel S. Burnett, A Reassessment of Biblical Elohim, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2002).
		All RBL reviews are published in PDF format.
		If you do not have the Reader or you have an older version of the Reader, you can download version 5.0 now.
	www.bookreviews.org /bookdetail.asp?TitleId=1708 (114 words)

	Online Classes
		ENGL 10, ETHNIC LITERATURE OF THE U.S. Transfer: UC, CSU • IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities) • Prerequisite: English 1.
		It utilizes a broad approach to musical literature, primarily of the 16th through 20th centuries, and its place in the cultural development of Western Civilization.
		It provides the tools for a basic understanding of music; an awareness of the primary musical styles, comprehension of the building blocks of music, and development of an attentive style of listening.
	www.smc.edu /schedules/2005/summer/onlineclasses_052.htm (3267 words)

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		Chronological Index to the Statutes of the Realm: From Magna Carta to the End of the Reign of Queen Anne.
		CONTENT: 600 volumes from the 9-15th centuries cover numerous subjects: art, history, religion, medicine, literature, philosophy, etc. For a description of each manuscript refer to: Lambeth Palace Library, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Lambeth Palace.
		CONTENT: Contains more than 6,500,000 pages of material, on microfiche, relating to all aspects of American life and literature, from the beginning to the outbreak of World War I. Included are pamphlets, periodicals, documents both public and private, biographies and autobiographies, material of foreign origin relating to America, etc.
	www.lib.auburn.edu /madd/docs/aumfm.html (9282 words)

	List of Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Network of Reading Societies to monopolize the writing, publication, reviewing and distribution of all literature, more effectively to control the minds of the readers.
		Literature, the Unseen Hand, Adam Weisshaupt, John Robinson, Pawns in the Game, W.G. Carr, Logo of Illuminati explained, Revolutions in France, USA, Russia, the defeat of Napoleon 1814, Communism, Socialism, The Jews in the Russian Revolution.
		References in the book are only to established literature like respected refereed medical journals.
	www.ummah.net.pk /dajjal/litt.html (9536 words)

	Listings Canada: Literature
		Bibliography of Canadian Literature This page is still under construction and will probably take some time to complete.
		Canadian Literature and Culture Links Canadian Literature and Culture Links Information on Canadian Literature and Writers Canadian Book Ring Deanna Ramsay has started up a webring devoted to...
		The Canadian Literature Archive attempts to gather all the information on Canadian authors together in one place.
	listingscanada.ca /Science_and_Humanities/Literature (724 words)

	WPI Archives: Faculty Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Review: Daniel Fader: The periodical context of English literature 1708-1907 / Lance Schachterle.
		Review essay: Hardy complete versus James selected / Lance E Schachterle.
		A review essay: contemporary literature and science / Lance E Schachterle.
	www.wpi.edu /Academics/Library/Archives/Facpaper/schachte.html (365 words)

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