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  Encyclopedia: 1741   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
William Withering (March 17, 1741 - October 6, 1799) was a British botanist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis.
Portrait of Ali Pasha Ali Pasha (1741 – January 24, 1822, Monastery of Pandelimonos (near Ioaninna)), the Lion of Janina, was born to a powerful clan from Tepelenë (in modern Albania) and spent much of his youth as a bandit.
Category: 1741 Jump to: navigation, search March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1741   (2410 words)

  
 Literature
Virginia is producing at last a literature both indigenous to its soil and imbuied with a realism that may be said to capture the major portion of the truth about its people and its civilization.
The Reconstruction literature of Virginia, however, which endured well into the twentieth century, was characterized by a nostalgia for the past and a romantic idealism that evaded facts.
Literature sustained a loss in 18o8 when John Daly Burk, a gallant young Irishman, was killed in a duel ten years after his coming to Virginia.
xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/VAGuide/literature.html   (3892 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Portuguese Literature
The line of the chroniclers which is one of the boasts of Portuguese literature began with Fernão Lopes, who compiled the chronicles of the reigns of Kings Pedro, Fernando, and John I. He combined a passion for accurate statement with a especial talent for descriptive writing and portraiture, and with him a new epoch dawns.
The general inferiority of seventeenth-century literature to that of the preceding age has been charged to the new royal absolutism, the Inquisition, the Index, and the exaggerated humanism of the Jesuits who directed higher education; nevertheless, had a man of genius appeared he would have overcome all obstacles.
The literature of independent Brazil really began with the Romantic Movement, which was introduced in 1836 by Domingos de Magalhaes, whose "Suspiros Poeticos" reveal the influence of Lamartine.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12307a.htm   (4375 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)

  
 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)

  
 Byzantine literature (from Greek literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The name is often applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the excellence of their execution.
Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems, including language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.
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.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-11583?tocId=11583   (895 words)

  
 About LICO Page
Peter Brown, University of Kent, U.K. “Blackwell’s Literature Compass provides an admirable array of articles, from useful overviews to contentious interventions, in an easy-to-access format.
Susanne Keen, Washington and Lee University, U.S.A. Literature Compass is unique in its range and explores all branches of literary scholarship.
Articles for Literature Compass are commissioned by the Section Editors, but we would be delighted to hear your suggestions and ideas for topics.
www.literature-compass.com /about.asp   (429 words)

  
 Literature Compass :: Welcome
Literature Compass is a new online resource from Blackwell Publishing which publishes original survey articles within 9 online journals, combined with a range of useful reference resources.
Literature Compass is designed to help all academics and advanced students involved in the teaching and research of Literature to do the following:
These books are authoritative reference works which match the Literature Compass ethos of providing you with an introduction to key ideas, topics, periods and themes in Literature.
www.history-compass.com /splash   (873 words)

  
 Urdu Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
But Urdu literature really took off with the poets of the Deccan and the Muslim courts of Bijapur and Golcunda in the 16th and the 17th centuries.
This is the age of Naseer, Zouk, Ghalib, Momin and Zafar.
Poets of later periods are Nazeer Akbarabadi who wrote about landscapes for the first time in Urdu literature, Ameer Dagh, Jalal and Taslim, who drifted into Muslim courts of Hyderabad and Rampur after the First War of Independence in 1857.
www.goindiago.com /creative/lit/urdulit.htm   (395 words)

  
 Research Guide: English and American Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
American literature is classified in the Library Congress (LC) numbers PS 1-3576 - in the stacks as well as in Humanities/Religion Reference (HUM/REL REF), where we keep a selection of American literature reference sources.
Also, a subject search brings up secondary literature (bibliographies, criticism, etc.) about an author, and is probably the most efficient way to see what material the library has about a writer.
Project MUSE indexes the full?text of over 60 scholarly journals in literature, literary theory, and popular culture studies; however, in most cases, only a few of the most recent years of each journal are available in the Project MUSE archives.
www.lib.byu.edu /~english/ResearchGuides/rg_americanlit.html   (1813 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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3 records Aerial spraying and dusting in agriculture--Juvenile literature.
1 record Aeronautics 1 record Aeronautics in forest fire control--Juvenile literature.
1 record Astronautics 1 record Astronautics 2 records Astronautics in astronomy--Juvenile literature.
www.tccsa.net /infohio/districts/Ritt/BANK_12_SUBJ_UNDUP.TXT   (2493 words)

  
 English/Literature Subject Guide
Selections of contemporary literature by authors in the former colonies of Great Britain, including, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore and also selected authors in the United Kingdom.
Literature, history and culture in the Age of Victoria.
Professional organization that promotes the study and teaching of language and literature through its publications, conferences and advocacy.
webdev.loyola.edu /lndl_test/REF/english.htm   (1179 words)

  
 Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Subjects: Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcfuseli1.htm   (1149 words)

  
 English Literature
This course is a study of some of the masterpieces of world literature from Homer to Cervantes.
This course is a study of some of the masterpieces of world literature from Voltaire to Mann.
American literature since World War II is examined, with special emphasis on the novel.
www.smc.edu /schedules/2004/fall/066_043_schedule.htm   (1710 words)

  
 Subject Guide for English Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Please note that some of these databases are available only to Ohio University students, faculty, and staff who use the campus computer network or log in through their campus e-mail accounts or the University's DialNet system.
This material covers English literature from Beowulf to the beginnings of the Restoration (1660).
Romantic Circles is the collaborative product of editors, contributors, and users around the world--a wide community with a shared interest in the literature and culture of the younger Romantics and their ever-widening circles of influence.
www.library.ohiou.edu /subjects/literature.htm   (2475 words)

  
 Oral Literature of the Sephardic Jews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
[3] This aspect of the Exile, as a gradual, ongoing process, was to have an important impact on the folk literature of the exiled communities.
Though there are, as we shall see, traces of ballads from as early as the mid-16th century, oral literature in Judeo-Spanish began to be collected only in the late 19th century.
All the same, an important corpus of folktales, rigorously transcribed in close phonetic notation, was brought together early on, because scholars looked upon the folktales primarily as samples of the spoken language, while later collecting—following World War II and the Holocaust—recognized them for their own intrinsic value.
www.sephardifolklit.org /flsj/sjjs/orallit/Oral_Lit_Sephardic.html   (8799 words)

  
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1 record African Americans in literature 6 records African Americans in literature--Juvenile literature.
1 record American literature 1 record American literature (Selections: Extracts, etc.) 2 records American literature--(Selections: Extracts, etc.) 1 record American literature--1960's.
2 records Animal painting and illustration 1 record Animal painting and illustration--Juvenile literature.
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 Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The libertine side of otherwise prestigious Enlightenment philosophers was often erased from official histories of French literature: The Indiscreet Jewels, a novel in which a sultan who possesses a magic ring can make women's sex ("the jewels") speak, was ignored for nearly two centuries.
The mondain novel is often associated with the aristocracy, and it takes the form of confession-memoirs relating the coming of age of young male aristocrats.
Prominent examples are Confessions du comte de *** (1741; The Confession of Count ***) by Charles Pinot-Duclos and Les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit (1736-38; The Wayward Head and Heart) by Crébillon fils (not to he confused with his father, Crébillon, a once-famous playwright now mainly forgotten).
www.routledge-ny.com /enc/eros/topic.html   (2582 words)

  
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1 record American wit and humor--Juvenile literature 1 record American wit and humor--Pictorial works 1 record American wit and humor--Pictorial works 1 record American wit and humor--Pictorial works.
2 records Animals in television--United States--Juvenile literature 1 record Animals in the Bible--Juvenile literature.
1 record Bible--Juvenile literature 2 records Bible--Miscellanea 1 record Bible--Outlines, syllabi, etc. 1 record Bible--Stories 3 records Bible--Versions 1 record Bible.
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1 record Alomar, Roberts, 1968- 1 record Alopiidae--Juvenile literature.
1 record Apes--Juvenile literature 1 record Apes--Juvenile literature.
1 record Arthur, King--Juvenile literature 2 records Arthur, King--Legends.
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1 record African elephant--Juvenile literature 2 records African elephant--Juvenille literature 1 record African elephant.
1 record America--Discovery and exploration--Juvenile literature 2 records America--Discovery and exploration--Norse--Juvenile literature.
2 records Apache Indians--Kings and rulers--Biography--Juvenile literature 2 records Apache Indians--Social life and customs--Juvenile literature.1 record Apache Indians--Wars, 1883-1886.
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 Burritt Library | New Acquisitions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The poetics of national and racial identity in nineteenth-century American literature / John D. Kerkering.
The Heath anthology of American literature / Paul Lauter, general editor ; Richard Yarborough, associate general editor ; Jackson Bryer...
Mnemosyne: the parallel between literature and the visual arts.
wilson.ctstateu.edu /lib/dept/ref/refserv/booklist.html   (6666 words)

  
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1 record Asthma 1 record Asthma in children--Juvenile literature.
1 record Astronautics 2 records Astronautics in astronomy--Juvenile literature.
1 record Baseball players--Biography--Juvenile literature 1 record Baseball players--Biography.
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1 record Adjustment (Psychology) 1 record Adjustment (Psychology) in children--Juvenile literature.
1 record Aeronautics 2 records Aeronautics in art--Juvenile literature.
1 record Allison, Davey, 1961 or 2- 1 record Allison, Davey, 1961 or 2- --Juvenile literature.
reflections.leeca.org /media/cleanup/bank_10_subj_undup.txt   (1607 words)

  
 Gillespie, Joseph Norman (1982)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This thesis approaches Carey's life and work through his career as a musician, and examines the influence of music on all that he achieved; manifest in his various roles as composer, dramatist, opera librettist, performer, poet, satirist and translator.
An introductory bibliographical review of all secondary literature concerning Carey 1741-1981, separates fact from fiction.
Chapter 1 presents a complete biography based on extensive documentary material gleaned from contemporary newspapers and other records.
www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk /Music/Archive/Disserts/gillesp.html   (434 words)

  
 Jesuit Portraits Chapter 8 (Pi-Ri)
Tenacious as were the Calvinists in their hold on much of this unhappy country they could not halt the creation of a powerful Catholic bastion there.
Charles Porée, S.J. (French: 1675-1741) taught literature at the college of Louis-le-Grand and inspired his students to brilliant use of their own language without minimizing the classical authors.
He was a brilliant dramatist continuing the Jesuit tradition of drama which was marked by originality.
www.faculty.fairfield.edu /jmac/jp/jppiri.htm   (3397 words)

  
 UNH Library - American Literature Resources
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (REF PN 86.L53)
JSTOR is a digital library of scholarly journals, including many in American literature, history, and culture.
While the above indexes are most often used in identifying research materials on American literature, additional online indexes as well as print indexes are available for other areas of interest such as theater performances and drama reviews, book reviews, and articles from newspapers and general interest magazines.
www.reference.unh.edu /guides/amlit.html   (1532 words)

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