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  glbtq >> literature >> Sadomasochistic Literature
S/M literature as a genre confronts these aspects of gay and lesbian experience and, for better or worse, poses a constant challenge to them.
But for many of the people who produce and read S/M literature and who practice S/M as part of a dissenting subcultural tradition, S/M is believed to be a means of radically contesting the sexual assumptions of the majority culture.
Consensual S/M partners are said to disavow cruelty, coercion, and force in favor of a heightened sense of the kinds of boundary breaking, trust building, and creativity that is part of all erotic life.
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  ALBANIAN LITERATURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Although the literature that evolved in Voskopoja was mainly in the Greek language, the need to erect obstacles to Islamisation made necessary the use of national languages, encouraging the development of national cultures.
Naim Frashëri is the founder of the national literature of the Albanians and of the national literary language.
The literature of the Albanians of Italy in the period between the two Wars continued the tradition of the romanticist school of the 19th century.
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 Literature
Although he was an ardent proponent of the realist style in literature and art and was consistently critical of modernist trends, Franko himself did not remain immune to new literary currents and produced (in such collections as Withered Leaves, 1896) one of the first modernist poems in Western Ukraine.
The son of a village flsmith, Franko graduated from the Drohobych gymnasium in 1875 and began to study classical philology and Ukrainian language and literature at Lviv University.
Poet; recipient of the highest Soviet awards and orders; deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR from 1938 and its chairman in 1953–9; director of the Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in 1936–9 and 1941–3; and minister of education of the Ukrainian SSR in 1943–8.
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /literature.asp   (3654 words)

  
 Pope Pius VII in the Sistine Chapel - Literature
Pope Pius VII in the Sistine Chapel - Literature
Pope Pius VII in the Sistine Chapel, 1814
Examen raisonné des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture et graveur exposés au Salon du Louvre en 1814.
www.nga.gov /collection/gallery/gg56/gg56-41333.0-lit.html   (579 words)

  
 Alibris: 1814
From 1808 to 1814, Spanish regulars and guerrillas, along with British forces led by Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wellington, battled Napoleon's troops across the length and breadth of the Iberian Peninsula.
It is 1814 and the defeat of Napoleon seems imminent.
In the hot and humid summer of 1814 British troops completed a fifty-mile march to capture the young American capital, putting to rout along the way pitiful citizen militiamen (some in winter gear, others barefoot) while President James Madison galloped out of town to safety.
www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/1814   (943 words)

  
 John-Keats.com - Biography - Index
In the same year his mother married again, but little later separated from her husband and took her family to live with her mother.
Under the authority of the guardians, he was taken from school to an be apprentice to a surgeon.
In 1814, before completion of his apprenticeship, John left his master after a quarrel, becoming a hospital student in London.
www.john-keats.com /biografie/biografie_index.htm   (763 words)

  
 Outline of American Literature
The passion of Revolutionary literature is found in pamphlets, the most popular form of political literature of the day.
With them, American literature began to be read and appreciated in the United States and abroad.
Natty is the first famous frontiersman in American literature and the literary forerunner of countless cowboy and backwoods heroes.
usinfo.state.gov /products/pubs/oal/lit2.htm   (4844 words)

  
 Thomas Bulfinch - Biography and Works
Adding his own commentary, Bulfinch aimed to impart wisdom by retelling these ancient classical and mythological legends of Celtic, Greek, Oriental, Roman, and Scandinavian origin and their relation to the literary world For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
While Bulfinch tempered the stories, omitting excessive violence and overt sexual content, his readily accessible collections have provided a consistent narrative of and a broader understanding of the timeless stories and figures that are so intricately woven into our everyday life.
His family was well-connected and he had a keen interest in the classics, amassing a large library over his lifetime.
www.online-literature.com /bulfinch   (661 words)

  
 Norwegian Literary Nobel Laureates (Norway - the official site in the United States)
In 1814 Norway’s 400-year union with Denmark was dissolved, only to be replaced by a union with Sweden that lasted until 1905.
Hamsun’s works are regarded as classics in Norwegian literature, and he remains one of Norway’s most widely translated fiction-writers.
In his highly-acclaimed of Hamsun (Enigma, The Life of Knut Hamsun, 1987), Robert Ferguson named Hamsun one of the most significant, inventive literary stylists of the past century, stating that there was virtually no European or American author alive who was not consciously or unconsciously influenced by Hamsun’s works.
www.norway.org /culture/literature/nobel/nobel.htm   (493 words)

  
 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.
Narrative Sources from the Southern Low Countries, 600-1500 - Database containing the results of an exhaustive, critical survey of medieval narrative texts from the Southern Low Countries; database runs on SilverPlatter and has over 1500 bibliographic records; a project of the University of Ghent and the Catholic University of Leuven.
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.
area.lib.umn.edu /duliterature.html   (832 words)

  
 1814   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
July 25 - War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane - Reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls Ontario for General Riall's British and Canadian force and bloody all-night battle with Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
August 24 - War of 1812 : British troops burn Washington DC September 11 - USS Ticonderoga is victorious in the Battle of Lake Champlain
I imagine most Americans would think the above title reflected historical fiction rather than fact.The fact is that most contemporay Americans thought the Burning of Washington would live on forever in the American mind as an ignoble moment of shame and h...
www.freeglossary.com /1814   (998 words)

  
 §14. R. G. White. III. Poets of the Civil War II. Vol. 16. Early National Literature, Part II; Later National ...
Early National Literature, Part II; Later National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes.
Early National Literature, Part II; Later National Literature, Part I. Poets of the Civil War II
It was probably this collection that formed the basis of the selections from Southern poetry published as an appendix to Richard Grant White’s Poetry, Lyrical, Narrative, and Satirical of the Civil War (1866).
www.bartleby.com /226/1814.html   (360 words)

  
 Charles Dickens - Complete works of Charles Dickens, Biography, Quotes
I am a huge literature fan, and Charles Dickens is definetly one of my favourite authors.
His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended in financial troubles.
In 1814 Dickens moved to London, and then to Chatham, where he received some education.
www.dickens-literature.com   (811 words)

  
 Science Fiction History
Other literatures of the fantastic include horror and fantasy.
Prehistory: from the beginnings of literature to the development of the scientific method c.
Pioneers and Kissing Cousins: (1814-1890): dominated by the gothic strain of the Romantic as embodied by Shelley, Hawthorne, and Poe
www.nvcc.edu /home/ataormina/scifi/history/default.htm   (195 words)

  
 VoS: Anglo-Saxon & Medieval
A Companion to Middle English Literature (pedagogically oriented text synopses and commentaries designed for graduate exam prep) (Medieval English Lit.
Ian's English Calendar (dating resource for students of English history and literature: "converts between old and new style dates, calculates day of the week, British regnal years, and the date of Easter and other moveable religious holidays") (Ian McInnes, Albion C., Albion, MI)
Vortigern Studies ("an initiative based in the Netherlands, dedicated to the study of the period between the Roman occupation of Britain and the Early Middle Ages; focuses primarily on the person of Vortigern; includes histories, source documents, bibliographies and maps,") (Robert Vermaat)
vos.ucsb.edu /browse.asp?id=2740   (3442 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814: Books: Ellen Pollak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
by Ellen Pollak (Author) "A striking number of English prose fiction narratives written between 1684 and 1814 predicate their plots on the tabooed possibility of incest..." (more)
A striking number of English prose fiction narratives written between 1684 and 1814 predicate their plots on the tabooed possibility of incest. Read the first page
Subjects > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Criticism & Theory > General
www.amazon.ca /Incest-English-1684-1814-Ellen-Pollak/dp/0801872049   (443 words)

  
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This course will interrogate three main questions in a study of canonical texts from 1610-1814.
Also we will compare drafts of essays and you will be required to discuss them with members of the course outside the class meeting times.
What are the differences and similarities in her position as “daughter” to the figure of power and authority and yet not quite equal?
www.hum.uit.no /eng/Pensumlister/kurs/e202_02_e.html   (951 words)

  
 McFarland - Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books
While such countries as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have long had full attention paid to their children’s English-language bibliographical heritage, South Africa has not, until now.
This is a book about children’s literature that was written in English and (a) was written by a South African or (b) had noteworthy South African content or (c) was published in South Africa.
Chapter Two discusses the readers of such literature and how the authors came to write for their particular audiences.
www.mcfarlandpub.com /book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-1105-8   (168 words)

  
 PAL: William Wells Brown (1814-1884)
Yellin, Jean F. The Intricate Knot: The Negro in American Literature 1776-1863.
To what extent does the emergence of a Native American literature in the English language coincide with and contribute to the emergence of an indigenous (here, as distinguished from imitative) American tradition?
A look at Frederick Douglass'sNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Boston, 1845) as well as Thomas Dixon, Jr.'s, The Clansman (1902) would provide polar contexts for this subject.
web.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap3/brown.html   (982 words)

  
 Wellington's Army, 1809-1814   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Whilst writing his magisterial The History of The Peninsular War, Sir Charles Oman gathered material that was to become Wellington's Army.
Into Wellington's Army he gathered, as he says in his Preface, "much miscellaneous information which does not bear upon the actual chronicle of events in the various campaigns that lie between 1808 and 1814, but yet possesses high interest in itself, and throws many a side-light on the general course of the war...
He became an honorary fellow of New College in 1936 and received honorary degrees of
www.napoleonic-literature.com /Amazon/Wellingtons_Army.htm   (328 words)

  
 Lamson Library » Blog Archive » I Could Do That : Ester Morris Gets Women The Vote
Suffragists — Wyoming — Biography — Juvenile literature
Women — Suffrage — Wyoming — History — 19th century — Juvenile literature
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www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/record/1338298   (348 words)

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