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 French Literature
Hence the fondness of the literature of the seventeenth century for general ideas and for sentiments that are common to mankind, and its success in those kinds of literature which are based on the general study of the human heart.
Hence the contempt of the seventeenth century literature for all that is relative, individual and mutable; in lyric poetry, which appeals primarily to the individual sentiment, in the description of material phenomena, and the external manifestations of nature, it falls short of success.
For thorough understanding of the development of French literature in the seventeenth century, we must consider it in three periods: (1) from the year 1600 to 1659, the period of preparation; (2) 1659-1688, the Golden Age of classicism; (3) 1688-1715, the period of transition between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/f/french_literature.html   (14974 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   (14437 words)

  
 Spanish-American Literature
The literature produced by the Spanish-speaking peoples of Mexico, Central America, Cuba and adjacent islands, and of South America with the notable exceptions of Brazil (whose speech is Portuguese) and the Guianas.
The literature of the indigenous Indian population, mixed or pure, is Spanish no less that that of the descendants of the Spanish colonists.
As might be expected, Gongorism, the plague of the literature of the motherland, infected the compositions of the seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries in America.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/spanish-american_literature.html   (6447 words)

  
 Italian Literature - MSN Encarta
In its scientific and ethical aspects, Italian literature was influenced during the 18th century by the ideas of the 17th-century French scientist and philosopher René Descartes and by the writers of the 18th-century French Enlightenment.
An important counterinfluence was that of English literature and ideas, which were popularized in Italy by the work of Giuseppe Baretti, a resident of England for many years.
It was a revolt against a literature obsessed by the past and its own past achievements, and with its roots in books rather than in life.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563851_3/Italian_Literature.html   (2658 words)

  
 Russia - Literature
In the modern era, literature has been the arena for heated discussion of virtually all aspects of Russian life, including the place that literature itself should occupy in that life.
Literature first appeared among the East Slavs after the Christianization of Kievan Rus' in the tenth century (see The Golden Age of Kiev, ch.
Russian literature of the nineteenth century provided a congenial medium for the discussion of political and social issues whose direct presentation was censored.
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 Irish Literature - MSN Encarta
Bórú’s forces routed the Vikings, but he was killed and various small kingships ruled Ireland until the island fell under the control of Normans from England.
Satiric literature appeared in both the Irish and English languages, although English increasingly became the language of literature.
English increasingly became the language of literature and everyday speech, and the Gaelic language and Gaelic culture were suppressed.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566508_2/Irish_Literature.html   (1461 words)

  
 English Department Faculty - University Of Pennsylvania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Dr. Korshin was an internationally known scholar of Eighteenth Century British literature, author or editor of many books, including Typologies in England, 1650-1820, published in 1982, and dozens of articles and reviews.
Literature and the Law: The Trial in English and American Literature - Fall 2004
Madness and Literature 17th & 18th Centuries: From the Renaissance to the French Revolution - Fall 1990
www.english.upenn.edu /People/Faculty/profile.php?pennkey=pkorshin&view=print   (1008 words)

  
 City of Belgrade - Belgrade Coat of Arms and Flag
The tradition of Belgrade coat of arms has been interrupted under Turkish occupation, for the Turks haven't been familiar with this sort of symbols, and it has resumed again when the Austrians conquered Belgrade in the XVIII century.
The literature mentions also: the coat of arms from the Brockhaus Encyclopedia, the coat of arms from the Larousse Encyclopedia, and a supposed town's ancient coat of arms.
It is important to mention that all of these coats of arms are known only by their prints on engravings or from the literature.
www.beograd.org.yu /cms/view.php?id=201209   (486 words)

  
 glbtq >> literature >> Gray, Thomas
At Eton, where he went in 1725, he eventually made a few close friends who shared his interest in literature and writing.
Throughout the Restoration and eighteenth century, sodomitical characters were both presented and pilloried in literature.
The gay tradition in literature from ancient times to the present is primarily a tradition not of prose but of verse.
www.glbtq.com /literature/gray_t.html   (917 words)

  
 Courses
Music 230 is a beginning course in the appreciation and performance of standard choral literature, with special emphasis on principles of part singing, vocal control, interpretation, diction, phrasing, and breath control.
Music 231 is a beginning course in the appreciation and performance of advanced choral literature, with special emphasis on principles of part singing, vocal control, interpretation, diction, phrasing, and breath control.
Emphasis is placed on a combination of American literature and on the literature of the countries that are visited on the tour.
www.glendale.cc.ca.us /music/courses.html   (3797 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: French Literature
Jansenism profoundly influenced the entire literature of the seventeenth century, giving rise, first and foremost, to one of its prose masterpieces, the "Lettes provinciales" (1656-67) of Pascal.
In these the author champions the cause of his friends of Port-Royal against the Jesuits.
They display all of the qualities which it had taken sixty years of progress in literature to develop: clearness of exposition, beauty of form, elegance and distinction of style, a subtle wit, graceful irony, and geniality.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06190a.htm   (14968 words)

  
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Comparative literature in terms of its concerns with literary theory and criticism as well as its practical application.
Spanish literature from its beginnings to 1700; emphasis on literary history, styles, and themes.
Spanish literature from the eighteenth century to the present.
www.mtsu.edu /ucat/2003/arts/fl.txt   (2684 words)

  
 Literature
The Library of Foreign Literature in Moscow is the most prolific publisher of bibliographies of literary translations.
Literature is particularly rich in non-bibliographic reference sources such as: encyclopedias, biographical sources, biobliographic dictionaries, chronicles of cultural events, dictionaries of pseudonyms, quotations, and writers' gathering places.
Sources dealing with dictionaries of a single author's language, chronologies, dictionaries of an author's acquaintances, pictorial representations, etc., can be identified through personal bibliographies which are listed in bibliographies of bibliographies, guides both general and in literature, textbooks, and encyclopedias.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/slavic/production/3literat.html   (1770 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Revolutionary writers : literature and authority in the New republic, 1725-1810
Revolutionary writers : literature and authority in the New republic, 1725-1810
American literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- History and criticism.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/9d998353602cdcd6.html   (90 words)

  
 American Literature Lectures, Part II
In 1700 there were no facilities for a professional literature; not a single newspaper, magazine, or theater existed in the entire length and breadth of the colonies.
By 1800 journalism had become a growing, though inchoate, profession; the theater was an accepted institution; the first American novels had been published, and the foundation had been laid for the professional literary careers of Irving, Cooper, and Poe.
Moreover, with the passing of the nineteenth-century, evangelicism was to harden into the stiff-necked village piety that drew down the bitter satire of Mark Twain.
lonestar.texas.net /~mseifert/amlit2.html   (7672 words)

  
 African American Literature
To gain a historical perspective of African American literature, and the people about whom the literature was written.
To help students understand that African American literature is part of a large context of literature written by people of African descent on several continents.
Plagiarism, academic cheating or aiding or abetting cheating or plagiarism is in violation of the Code of Student Conduct 630.005.
spot.pcc.edu /~cromansk/eng258syllabus.html   (572 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)

  
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This course provides an introduction to British literature written between 1725 and 1925.
We will examine a range of authors, attending to issues of style and form as well as to changing cultural contexts.
Along the way, we will also ask ourselves the challenging question--"What is literature?" Requirements: lively class participation, numerous short papers, individual writing conferences, and one longer final paper.
www.english.ucla.edu /faculty/grossman/Fall97-206.html   (62 words)

  
 Namboothiris and the Malayalam Literature
The contribution of Namboothiris to Malayalam literature as well as other branches of knowledge is unmatched by any other community of Kerala.
A scholarly poet believed to have born between 1625 and 1725 in the Kaadanchery Mana in South Malabar.
O M Anujan was born in 1928 in Olappamanna Mana (Palakkad district), a well-known aristocratic family of Kerala, famous for the promotion and patronage of literature, classical performing arts and Vedic studies.
www.namboothiri.com /articles/malayalam-literature.htm   (13148 words)

  
 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.
On the other hand, all publications were subject to church censorship and copies of many "heretical" books were diligently sought out and destroyed.
The most lively cultivated Czech prose is to be found in abundant Catholic sermons and related devotional literature.
users.ox.ac.uk /~tayl0010/lit_baroq.htm   (3597 words)

  
 Wesley's Letters: 1725   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Hearne, recording his death (Nov. 1725), describes him as 'the very best of the bishops excepting Dr. Hooker of Bath, and had many excenent qualities, among some bad ones.' He was educated at Westminster School.
Their father had recently received the living of Wroot, and on May 10, 1725, writes from there to John: 'Your brother Samuel with his wife and child are here.
I did what I could that you might have been in Orders this Trinity; but I doubt your brother's journey hither has for the present disconcerted our plans, though you will have more time to prepare yourself for ordination.' Charles was with his brother Samuel.
wesley.nnu.edu /john_wesley/letters/1725.htm   (4001 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.
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 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)

  
 Graduate Studies | Western Illinois University
Before the student is admitted to candidacy, a committee of four faculty members, consisting of the adviser and three members of the graduate faculty, will be chosen by a student in consultation with the graduate adviser.
At least one member of the committee must be qualified in music history and literature, and at least one member of the committee must be qualified in music theory.
(2) Survey of organ literature from 1725 to the present.
www.wiu.edu /grad/0304catalog/music.shtml   (1452 words)

  
 FIELDING, Henry
She died before he turned eleven, and when his father remarried, Fielding was sent to Eaton where he studied literature, graduating in 1725.
It was generally accepted that the magistrate could take bribes, but Fielding's honesty, again, prevented him from making a decent living.
While in public office he wrote Tom Jones, which is considered one of the greatest works of English literature.
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 Free Online Library - Search Results - Classic books by famous authors online
It was built by a Margravine in 1725, and remains as she left it at her death.
Only bare mention need here be made of Pope's edition of Shakspere, prepared with his usual hard work but with inadequate knowledge and appreciation, and published in 1725.
One of the few incidents of Indian warfare naturally susceptible of the moonlight of romance was that expedition undertaken for the defence of the frontiers in the year 1725, which resulted in the well-remembered "Lovell's Fight.
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 corticosteroid, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Literature
Alam I, Levenson SD, Ferrell LD, Bass NM 1997 Diffuse intrahepatic biliary strictures in sarcoidosis resembling sclerosing cholangitis.
Islam S, Riordan JW, McDonald JA 1999 Case report: a rare association of primary biliary cirrhosis and systemic lupus erythematosus and review of the literature.
Issenman RM 1999 Bone mineral metabolism in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease.
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The Program in East Asian Studies at Oberlin College seeks applications for a full-time non-continuing faculty position for 2001-02 in Chinese Language and Literature.
Native proficiency in standard Chinese required with ability to teach language and Chinese literature in translation, especially modern, but all period considered.
Letters of application, including a curriculum vitae, academic transcripts, and at least three letters of reference should be sent to Prof.
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