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  List of years in literature
1951 in literature - The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
1921 in literature - The Mistress of Husaby - Sigrid Undset
1810 in literature - The Houses of Osma and Almeria - Regina Maria Roche
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 GERMAN LITERATURE - LoveToKnow Article on GERMAN LITERATURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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)

  
 UCSC General Catalog 2003-04
Prerequisite(s): Greek Literature 3 or 100 or Latin Literature 3 or 100 or Literature 80A or permission of instructor.
An introduction to great works of Spanish literature from various genres that provide a profound and enduring experience of Hispanic life transfigured by the literary artist into what may be interpreted as formal and exemplary perfection.
A study of representations of Paris and Cairo in literature and travel writings from the Middle Ages to the present with special emphasis on their interconnections in the age of colonialism and post-colonialism.
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 Learn more about List of years in literature in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
1950 in literature - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.
1946 in literature - The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill
1913 in literature - Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
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 2004-2005 Undergraduate Calendar - English Language and Literature
ENGL 2P62 American Literature after 1865 Literature and literary culture from Mark Twain and Henry James and the beginnings of modernism to the present time emphasizing formal experimentation as well as the broadening of the canon.
ENGL 2P92 Canadian Literature from 1920 to the Present Poetry, fiction and prose from Grove and Callaghan to Ondaatje, Atwood and Findley.
ENGL 3P39 Contemporary Literature in English The postmodern period emphasizing the forms, approaches and cultural responses that have characterized writing in English in the later 20th century.
www.brocku.ca /webcal/2004/undergrad/ENGL.html   (5598 words)

  
 2005-2006 Undergraduate Calendar - English Language and Literature
ENGL 4V00-4V09 Topics in English Literature Before 1800 Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
ENGL 4V30-4V39 Topics in 19th-Century Literature Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
ENGL 4V40-4V49 Topics in Contemporary Literature Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
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 BestSemester.com : Tutorials in English Language & Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This course is designed to introduce students to Middle English literature, concentrating on the later part of the Middle English period: the 14th and 15th centuries.
This course in Medieval English Literature enables students to study British texts and authors from the early Middle Ages to the early Tudor period.
Students will have the opportunity to relate their study of literature to its historical and cultural context, and to explore matters of form and genre.
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 Overseas Studies Program: Detailed Course Description   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A survey of English Literature from the Civil War to the middle of the Eighteenth century.
The poetry, prose and drama of the period are placed in their literary, cultural and historical contexts, and the key texts are read closely.
Stanford students are taught with second-year St. Catherine's undergraduates reading English Literature and studying this subject as part of their degree course.
osp.stanford.edu /courses/course_detail.php?selectedcourseID=613   (82 words)

  
 ENG ENL 6236: Restoration Literature Syllabus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The literature is tightly interwoven with the turbulent political and social history of the period, and so the class will also be learning about English society in the aftermath of the civil war and interregnum, the restoration and reign of the Stuart kings and the glorious or “bloodless” revolution.
The literature draws heavily from three major figures: John Dryden; John Wilmot, the earl of Rochester, and Aphra Behn.
This is an appropriate course for students preparing for the master’s examination in Restoration and Eighteenth-century literature as well as graduate students pursuing an interest in early modern culture, poetry, drama, gender or British literature.
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You need to remind yourself, therefore, that with the exception of the stories of Karamzin in the 1790s, Russian literature from 1740 to 1830 was almost exclusively a literature of poetry.
Stimulated by developments abroad, especially in German and French literature, prose began to assert itself in Russia as an artistic medium on a par with poetry.
By the middle of the 1840s the pendulum had swung so far in the direction of prose that poetry was a sort of second-class artistic citizen for about fifty years.
www1.umn.edu /lol-russ/hpgary/Russ3421/lesson6.htm   (1809 words)

  
 English Literature: A Select Bibliography of Reference Sources
Baer, Florence E. Folklore and literature of the British Isles : an annotated bibliography.
Lewis, C. English literature in the sixteenth century, excluding drama.
English literature in the early eighteenth century, 1700-1740.
www.library.yale.edu /humanities/english/engbib.html   (3186 words)

  
 English Literature 1740 - 1830 (Q3016)
The aim is to look at many of the canonical figures of a period which witnessed huge shifts in the cultural production of Europe.
The years the course covers saw the birth of the Romantic movement in literature and the visual arts.
In 1740 Liverpool and London dominated the Atlantic slave trade.
www.sussex.ac.uk /english/Q3016.html   (368 words)

  
 Paper Five: English Literature, 1642-1740
Steven Zwicker (Cambridge, 1998) is another up-to-date introduction to the critical literature on the period.
Kevin Sharpe and Steven Zwicker (eds.), Politics of Discourse: The Literature and History of Seventeenth-Century England (California, 1987).
W.A. Speck, Society and Literature in England, 1700-1760 (Macmillan, 1983).
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Decoration: The title is in Gothic type, the explication is in unfolded roll, graphic scale on a marble plate.
Annotation: The project general plan of Life Guards Izmailovsky Regiment settlement was worked out by the project approved in 1740 at the meeting of the staffs of Life Guards regiments.
This decision was approved by the empress on 2 (13) of May 1740.
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 Table of contents for The Cambridge companion to English literature from 1740 to 1830   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Table of contents for The Cambridge companion to English literature from 1740 to 1830 / edited by Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee.
Readers, writers, critics, and the professionalization of literature Barbara M. Benedict 2.
Literature, national identity, and empire Saree Makdisi 5.
www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/cam041/2003069668.html   (205 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 10 June 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Faculty of English proposes to appoint a Departmental Lecturer in English Literature, with effect from October 1 2004, for a two-year period, to cover for research leave.
The combined university and college salary is determined by the funding made available by the research council in question.
The successful candidate will be required to lecture and teach on English literature 1740–1832, and will have experience of doctoral level research in that period.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2003-4/weekly/100604/appts/entry_3.htm   (145 words)

  
 English 115   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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)

  
 Powell's Books - The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830 (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by ...
Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin
They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire.
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 Literature, Education, and Romanticism
The result is an unprecedented study of how transformations in schooling and literacy in Britain between 1780 and 1832 helped shape the provision of literature as we now know it.
In chapters focused on such topics as definitions of childhood, educational methods and institutions, children’s literature, female education, and publishing ventures aimed at working-class adults, Richardson demonstrates how literary genres, from fairy tales to epic poems, were enlisted in an ambitious programme for transforming social relations through reading and education.
Romantic texts - including Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake, and Yearsley - are reinterpreted in the light of the complex historical and social issues which inform them and which they in turn critically address.
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 French Literature - 20th Century
Both Marxism and Freudianism have left a deep imprint on literature, as on all the arts.
Atkinson, Geoffrey, and Keller, Abraham C., Prelude to the Enlightenment: French Literature 1690-1740 (1971); Atkinson, Geoffrey, The Sentimental Revolution: French Writers of 1690-1740 (1966); Balakian, Anna, Surrealism: The Road to the Absolute (1959 rev. ed.
1967); Crocker, Lester G., ed., The Age of Enlightenment (1969); Crosland, Jesse, Medieval French Literature (1956); Cruickshank, John, Albert Camus and the Literature of Revolt (1959); Engler, Winfried, The French Novel, from 1800 to the Present, trans.
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 Amazon.co.uk: The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 (Cambridge Companions to Literature): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (Cambridge Companions to Literature); Paperback ~ A.
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile moments, when literature was enmeshed with the extremes of social, political and sexual experience.
Newly-commissioned essays make use of current critical perspectives in order to offer new insight into the literature of Restoration and early eighteenth-century England in all its variety, from vitriolic satire to heroic verse.
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 English Language and Literature
The English Language and Literature course gives you the chance to study writing in English from its origins in Anglo-Saxon England to the modern literature of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Studying literature at Oxford involves the development both of sophisticated reading skills and of an ability to place literary texts in their wider intellectual and historical contexts.
Both essays should be on English literature topics, with the single exception that one may be on an English language topic.
www.admissions.ox.ac.uk /courses/engl.shtml   (1265 words)

  
 The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 (Cambridge Companions to Literature) : Reviews, Prices, Deals
The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 13 February 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Worcester College proposes, if candidates of sufficient merit present themselves, to award a Junior Research Fellowship in English Literature, tenable from 1 October 2003 for up to, but not more than, three years.
The college is an equal opportunities employer, and consideration will be given to applications submitted by candidates who can demonstrate that the application of this age-limit would be inappropriate in their circumstances.
The JRF will be required to teach English Literature from 1500 to 1740 for papers 4 and 5 of Course 1 of the Final Honour School of English Language and Literature, and the Shakespeare paper, together with relevant papers in Classics and English Moderations.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2002-3/weekly/130203/appts/entry_13.htm   (209 words)

  
 Tomfolio.com: Literature, French Lit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Childhood, literature and choice; Adolescence, manhood and philosophy; La Nausée, five short stories and literary criticism; The theatre, philosophy and popularity; Commitment, essays and novels; Plays, politics and villains; Communism, plays and Hungary; Colonialism, violence and tragedy; Literature, students and a conclusion; Bibliography (pp.
Brought out during the German occupation, it has the Paris imprint and Toulouse in Vichy France.This kind of national textbook allowed legal communication between the two Frances, that was vital in maintaining the national identity and for the Resistance.
Biography of the French writer who turned her youth in Indo-China into literature.
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 Literature & Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Practice of Diaspora : Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism
The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions and Poetry
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Studies in African Literature Series)
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 The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650—1740 - Cambridge University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Lange (1982) The classical age of German literature, 1740-1815
Lange (1982) The classical age of German literature, 1740-1815
German literature; Classicism; History and criticism; 18th century
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 Find in a Library: Lucretius and English literature, 1680-1740.
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