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  Learn more about List of years in literature in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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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 HEBREW LITERATURE - LoveToKnow Article on HEBREW LITERATURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As in other literatures, these popular elements form the foundation on which greater works are gradually built, and it is one function of literary criticism to show the way in which the component parts were welded into a uniform whole.
Very important for the study of Midrashic literature are the Vaiquf (gleaning) Shimoni, on the whole Bible, the Yalqu~ Mekhiri, on the Prophets, Psalms, Proverbs and Job, and the Midrash ha-gadhol,2 all of which are of uncertain but late date and preserve earlier material.
Their literature, with which alone we are here concerned, is largely polemical and to a great extent deals with grammar and exegesis.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HEBREW_LITERATURE.htm   (10057 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: 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.
Henceforth nothing is appreciated in literature but what is reasonable, natural, and harmoniously proportionate, and what depicts the universal in man. Then follow in succession all those masterpieces which realise this idea, upheld by Boileau, the great law giver of classicism.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06190a.htm   (14989 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)

  
 Henrik Wergeland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He entered the University of Christiania in 1825 to study for the and was soon the leader of a romantic nationalist movement.
He full of imagination but without taste or He published poetical farces under the pseudonym "Siful Sifadda"; these were followed in 1828 by an unsuccessful tragedy; and in 1829 by a volume of lyrical and poems Digte første Ring which attracted the liveliest attention to name.
At the age of twenty-one he became power in literature and his enthusiastic preaching the doctrines of the revolution of July him a force in politics also.
www.freeglossary.com /Henrik_Wergeland   (485 words)

  
 Theatrical Literature
The word Literature has become a symbol for written compositions which are remarkable for form and style and which possess a certain dignity; a staid demeanour and air of rigid gravity, commanding respect.
In 1900 he had purchased Augustin Daly’s Library which probably increased his appreciation for such acquisitions, for after his death the extent of his own library was found to be almost beyond belief: an extraordinary collection to have been amassed by one man.
The universal interest in the theatre is demonstrated by the amount of literature that has been published concerning the Theatre; that which I believe to be the most engrossing, dates back to the seventeenth century and beyond.
hilton.org.uk /obc.phtml?c=theatrical_literature   (4048 words)

  
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The most thoroughgoing of all distinctions in literature, as in the other Fine Arts, is that between (1) Substance, the essential content and meaning of the work, and (2) Form, the manner in which it is expressed (including narrative structure, external style, in poetry verse-form, and many related matters).
This is partly because the amount of thoroughly great literature which they produced is small, and partly because for present-day readers it is in effect a foreign literature, written in early forms of English or in foreign languages, so that to-day it is intelligible only through special study or in translation.
But the chief form of secular literature during the period, beginning in the middle of the twelfth century, was the romance, especially the metrical (verse) romance.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext05/7hist10.txt   (17676 words)

  
 C LIT 320 Handwerk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In this course we’ll read literature written between the late 17th century and the early 19th century, an interval including the Enlightenment and the early years of the Romantic period.
This course is a survey of British literature written from 1789-1918, with particular attention to the idea of literary "movements" and to those periods categorized under the rubrics of "Romanticism," "Victorianism," and "Modernism." In all cases, we will be interested in the relationship among literature, geography, and culture.
Literature in an era of revolution that also sought continuity, when culture faced redefinition as mass culture and found in the process new demands and creative energies, new material and forms, and transformations of old ones.
jsis.artsci.washington.edu /programs/cwesuw/cdwinter00.htm   (4808 words)

  
 Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gothic Literature (AOL) -- "The Gothic Literature Page is devoted to study of Gothic Literature which flourished in England from 1764 to 1834.
literature from the early 18th century to the present.
ARTFL Project (Chicago) -- The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, a cooperative project of the Institut National de la Langue Franaise (INaLF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Divisions of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Chicago.
www.c18.org /li/lit.html   (5304 words)

  
 Winter 2000 300-level ENGL courses
This course considers the British literature written from 1747 – 1796, with a particular emphasis on the popular history of the “romance” and the development of the “English” novel.
We will read three of the most popular and influential novels of the late eighteenth century and attempt to imagine what it might be like to enter the reading-culture for which they were written and—perhaps—to enjoy them as the eighteenth-century reader did.
This course is an introduction to two millennia of Irish literature, from the Irish epic The Tain to 1996 Nobel-Prize laureate Seamus Heaney.
depts.washington.edu /~engl/ugrad/300wq2000.html   (3337 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Short Biographical Dictionary Of English Literature, by John W. Cousin.
The word "literature" is here used in a very wide sense, and this gives rise to considerable difficulty in drawing the line of exclusion.
There are very many writers whose claim to admission may reasonably be considered as good as that of some who have been included; but even had it been possible to discover all these, their inclusion would have swelled the work beyond its limits.
Perhaps his most valuable services to historical literature were his laying down the lines of the great Cambridge Modern History, and his collection of a library of 60,000 vols., which after his death was purchased by an American millionaire and presented to Lord Morley of Blackburn, who placed it in the University of Cambridge.
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 Dutch Studies Web: Literature and Language
Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature - Brief biographies, critical essays and bibliographies for many Dutch authors whose works have been translated or are seeking translations.
Project Laurens Janszoon Coster - Strives to be a comprehensive site of Dutch language literature on the internet; now includes selected works from nearly fifty authors from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.
De Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde - Society for Dutch Literature in Leiden.
area.lib.umn.edu /duliterature.html   (832 words)

  
 1747   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Records indicate that in 1747, the Episcopal Church established a parish at Holy Neck and continued to worship here until the Revolutionary War, when the ministers...
hallencyclopedia.com /1747   (638 words)

  
 130 Wn.2d 244, STATE v. COPELAND
Potential problems could result from "genetic drift" resulting in small populations having distinct genetic differences, too small a database, lack of randomness of the samples, and most importantly, lack of a truly mixed population such that each locus is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium as well as linkage equilibrium.
When we decided Cauthron some scientific literature supported the view that there were statistically significant deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, indicating the presence of genetically distinct subgroups in Caucasian, fl, and Hispanic groups.
Extensive literature in peer reviewed journals indicates that substructuring does not have much impact on DNA population frequency estimates.
www.mrsc.org /mc/courts/supreme/130wn2d/130wn2d0244.htm   (16468 words)

  
 Poetry Magazine Current Contests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An award of $100,000 is given each year to honor a writer who is a native of Latin America or the Caribbean and writes in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or English, or a native of Spain, Portugal who writes in Spanish or Portuguese.
Cultural or educational institutions, associations, or groups interested in literature may nominate a candidate and should submit a writer's curriculum vitae and supporting documents.
A prize of $1,000 and publication by Mid-List Press is awarded each year for a book-length story collection or novella and a collection of essays or a book-length work of creative nonfiction.
www.poetrymagazine.com /contests_august.htm   (1465 words)

  
 April 9, Every-Day Book
Let him who lacking wisdom desires to know, and who willing to be taught will patiently learn, make himself master of "Bacon's Essays." It is a book more admired than read, and more read than understood, because of higher thought than most readers dare to compass.
He who has achieved the "Essays" has a master-key to Bacon's other works, and consequently every department of English literature.
Lord Lovat was executed on Tower-hill, for high treason, at the age of 90.
www.uab.edu /english/hone/etexts/edb/day-pages/099-april09.html   (253 words)

  
 All posts tagged with literature | Metafilter
The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the English writer Harold Pinter, “who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms”.
It has a searchable online database consisting of contemporary and historical texts from many areas, including literature and the other arts." It has texts in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English, ranging from the annals of the fifth century to the Agreement reached in the Multi-Party Negotiations in Northern Ireland of 1998.
Of course many people are probably aware of sites like Project Gutenberg where you can get the full thing, but for those on a time crunch, this seems like a nice way to break it down into easy bite sized chunks.
www.metafilter.com /tags/literature   (4530 words)

  
 Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Literature
Brief discussions of literature from the 17th century to the present with attention to banking and finance.
"The Gothic Literature Page is devoted to study of Gothic Literature which flourished in England from 1764 to 1834.
The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, a cooperative project of the Institut National de la Langue Franaise (INaLF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Divisions of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Chicago.
andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/18th/lit.html   (4816 words)

  
 THE BOOKS IN JOHN WESLEY'S LIFE
The period of 1733 to 1738 was characterized by devotional reading, culminating at Aldersgate with the public reading of Luther's preface to Romans at which time he experienced his evangelical conversion.
Reading novels was a waste of time as far as Wesley was concerned, and as he suggested in his letter of August 18, 1784, to Mary Bishop, histories should be preferred to novels.
Wesley deliberately provided useful literature that was cheap in cost and aimed at lifting the educational and spiritual life of the eighteenth century English masses.
wesley.nnu.edu /wesleyan_theology/theojrnl/01-05/03-6.htm   (3018 words)

  
 Bibliography: Finding & Retrieving Literature
Haaland, A. Mapping the literature of dental hygiene.
Reed, K. Mapping the literature of occupational therapy.
Using MEDLINE for perusing the literature: software and search interface of interest to the medical professional.
www.umdnj.edu /idsweb/shared/find_retrieve_lit_bib.htm   (1627 words)

  
 Bibliography: How to Retrieve Medical Literature
Efficient literature searching in diffuse topics: lessons from a systematic review of research on communicating risk to patients in primary care.
A framework for analyzing and improving nurse practitioners' access to research literature.
Searching the medical literature for the best evidence to solve clinical questions.
www.umdnj.edu /idsweb/idst6400/litrevue.htm   (1250 words)

  
 French Literature - Enlightenment
Voltaire wrote tragedies in the classical mode, works of history, deistic poetry, and light verse.
He is chiefly remembered, however, for his philosophical tales, such as Zadig (1747; Eng.
Revisit the era of the "Lost Generation" in Hemingway's Paris.
www.discoverfrance.net /France/Literature/DF_literature4.shtml   (991 words)

  
 Washington
It is a book that helps children learn more about U.S. history and a great president.
It is also a book that should be on the shelf of any serious student of children literature.
The French and Indian War, Revolution and presidency come alive for readers through the clearly written text, illustrations, and text inserts describing other world events occurring at the same time.
score.rims.k12.ca.us /score_lessons/special_events/presidents_day/pages/lit.html   (1592 words)

  
 Children's Literature-references
Selected Bibliography of works related to Russian children's literature or children in Russia
Children's Literature and the Cultural Front conference presentation, Julia Mickenberg
Seuss.", Philip Nel, _Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature_ 34.2 (June 2001): 65-85.
www.marxists.org /subject/art/literature/children/ref   (825 words)

  
 1747   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
By Mary Jane Lederach Hershey MA-244 Our price $29.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In her comprehensive study the author concentrates on the teacher Christopher Dock, who inspired a large group of students for more than thirty years in the last half of the eighteenth century.
[1747] NSW stamp duty: Borrower entitled to stamp duty exemption for refinancing.
Two Centuries of Soft-Hackled Flies: A Survey of the Literature Complete With Original Patterns, 1747-Present
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 PAL: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project
Or contrast Franklin's choice of focus in its four parts; consider the significance of his choice to address the book to his son; read closely the letters that begin "Part Two" and comment on their significance to The Autobiography as a whole; discuss Franklin's various practical attempts to alter his moral character.
Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 2: Colonial Period: 1700-1800 - Ben Franklin." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap2/franklin.html   (923 words)

  
 James Boswell - Life of Johnson Vol_06   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Boswelliana, The Common-place Book of James Boswell, edited by Rev. C.
BOWEN, Emanuel, A Complete System of Geography, 2 vols., London, 1747.
Free Books in the public domain from the Classic Literature Library ©
www.classic-literature.co.uk /scottish-authors/james-boswell/life-of-johnson-vol_06   (499 words)

  
 Numismatic Literature: Published by the American Numismatic Society
Numismatic Literature: Published by the American Numismatic Society
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The author discusses numismatic literature relating to the state coinage of New Jersey.
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 Fly Fishing Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The first section of books are reviews and discussions of the various notable literary works written over decades involving aspects of fly fishing.
The second sections of books are pieces of both modern and historical literature that have been deemed appropriate, inspirational and classic by many fly fisherman.
Haunted By Waters: Fly Fishing In North American Literature
nlc.lib.mi.us /members/crawford/Literature.html   (209 words)

  
 World iterature in English and Original Languages on CD ROM, from Seedy Press books on CD, B&R Samizdat Express
This World Literature CD, with 1562 books, in plain text format, is available for $29 at our online store.
Their works are all on the same American Literature CD available at our online store, with over 619 books, in plain text, and with software that lets you listen as well as read.
Their works are all on the same British Literature CD available at our online store, with 1152 books, in plain text and with software that lets you listen as well as read.
www.samizdat.com /worldlitcd.html   (7350 words)

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