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  ALBANIAN LITERATURE
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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  Learn more about List of years in literature in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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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 Literature
The development of original literature in Kyivan Rus' was based on both a rich folk oral tradition and a dissemination of translated religious texts.
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.
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.
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 Fuller--on American Literature
Still, what we loved in the literature of continental Europe was the range and force of ideal manifestations in forms of national and individual greatness.
Literature is in this dim and struggling state, and its pecuniary results exceedingly pitiful.
Meanwhile, the most important part of our literature, while the work of diffusion is still going on, lies in the journals, which monthly, weekly, daily, send their messages to every corner of this great land, and form, at present, the only efficient instrument for the general education of the people.
www.vcu.edu /engweb/transcendentalism/authors/fuller/fulleramlit.html   (1577 words)

  
 Search Results for "1846"
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes.
Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes.
1846, Oct. 10 Isabella married Francisco, duke of Cadiz, and her sister, Luisa Fernanda, married the duke of Montpensier (youngest son of Louis-Philippe).
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 Literature
Indigenous Peoples Literature Page - "We sang the songs that carried in their melodies all the sounds of nature -- the running waters, the sighing of winds, and the calls of the animals.
She was published at the age of fifteen and maintained a writing career which embraced poetry, children's literature and biographies throughout her life.
Literature 2000 - a collaborative project between seven European libraries with the aim of acquainting each other with regional authors.
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 Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
Written in 1845 and publised in 1846, Poor Folk is the natural beginning point for anyone who reads Dostoevsky.
The novel occupies a position of particular interest and importance in both the history of Russian literature and Dostoevsky's work as a whole.
Several lines of development in Russian prose intersect: sentimentalism, naturalism, the physiological sketch, and the phenomenon of Gogol, with whom Dostoevsky maintains a dialogue throughout the novel.
www.online-literature.com /dostoevsky/poor_folk   (591 words)

  
 Ary Scheffer, Faust and Marguerite in the Garden, from Goethe's Faust
[5] Whether it is, in fact, the work that was sent to the 1846 Salon cannot be ascertained on the basis of published information, but there are, in any event, strong indications that this was the artist's first version.
[6] It is dated 1846 and, more significantly, there are pentiments visible (around the head of Faust and at the bottom of his cloak) which indicate subtle compositional changes that the artist was much more likely to have made in initially working out the composition than in painting replicas.
Such changes are consistent with the artist's remarkable attention to the expressive nuances of pose evident throughout the painting, as, for example, in the juxtaposition of Faust and Marguerite's hands or in the parallel lines of Faust's extended leg and the long fold in Marguerite's skirt.
www.europeanpaintings.com /exhibits/romantic/schfaus.htm   (1269 words)

  
 An Outline of American Literature - 3
Margaret Fuller, an outstanding essayist, was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
From a modest financial background, she was educated at home by her father (women were not allowed to attend Harvard) and became a child prodigy in the classics and modern literatures.
Her special passion was German Romantic literature, especially Goethe, whom she translated.
odur.let.rug.nl /usa.990917/LIT/fuller.htm   (277 words)

  
 American Literature: Poetry - MSN Encarta
Great books about your topic, American Literature: Poetry, selected by Encarta editors
White abolitionist poets, from their more privileged social position, could afford to be more confrontational about the issue of slavery.
Whittier was a fiery abolitionist whose numerous antislavery poems were collected in Voices of Freedom (1846).
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 glbtq >> Literature >> English Literature
Homosexuality is writ large in English Renaissance literature, but its inscription is only rarely direct and unambiguous.
Throughout the Restoration and eighteenth century, sodomitical characters were both presented and pilloried in literature.
Since homosexuality was severely persecuted during the Romantic period, writers who treated the subject more or less positively were forced to encode it or leave it unpublished and were themselves frequently forced into exile.
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 Dept. of English - Graduate Courses, Spring 2004
In 1846, critic and writer Margaret Fuller published an essay titled, “American Literature: Its Position in the Present Time, and Prospects for the Future,” in which she surveyed the field, as it were, of her time and made predictions for the future – our future.
This course is intended for students working in nineteenth-, twentieth-, century literature and culture who wish to explore broader historical and theoretical frameworks for thinking about issues of gender, modernity, and globalization.
As well, the literatures of Africa and the Caribbean continue to inhabit the conceptual and/or actual margins of the discipline.
www.english.ufl.edu /courses/grad/2004spring.html   (4395 words)

  
 English - Course Catalog - Moorpark College
Surveys major works of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the 18th century in their literary, historical and cultural contexts.
Covers classics from the golden age of children's literature (1846 to 1908), 20th-century picture books, poetry, and contemporary books for elementary and middle-grade readers.
Literature created in the Americas will be read for the purpose of analyzing its literary, cultural, psychological, philosophical, and political contexts.
www.moorparkcollege.edu /catalog/subjects/engl.htm   (2173 words)

  
 Postcolonial Literature
In addition, it is seldom mentioned but quite striking that very few actual authors of the literature under discussion embrace and use the term to label their own writing.
Australians and Canadians sometimes claim to live in postcolonial societies, but many would refuse them the label because their literature is dominated by European immigrants, and is therefore a literature of privilege rather than of protest.
Similarly, the label is usually denied to U.S. literature, though America's identity was formed in contradistinction to that of England, because the U.S. is usually viewed as the very epitome of a modern neo-colonial nation, imposing its values, economic pressures, and political interests on a wide range of weaker countries.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/anglophone/postcolonial.html   (2277 words)

  
 Dept. of English - Graduate Courses, Spring 2004
In 1846, critic and writer Margaret Fuller published an essay titled, “American Literature: Its Position in the Present Time, and Prospects for the Future,” in which she surveyed the field, as it were, of her time and made predictions for the future – our future.
This course is intended for students working in nineteenth-, twentieth-, century literature and culture who wish to explore broader historical and theoretical frameworks for thinking about issues of gender, modernity, and globalization.
As well, the literatures of Africa and the Caribbean continue to inhabit the conceptual and/or actual margins of the discipline.
web.english.ufl.edu /courses/grad/2004spring.html   (4395 words)

  
 Outline of American Literature
It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting Greece and Rome.
Another important work is his long essay "Democratic Vistas" (1871), written during the unrestrained materialism of industrialism's "Gilded Age." In this essay, Whitman justly criticizes America for its "mighty, many-threaded wealth and industry" that mask an underlying "dry and flat Sahara" of soul.
He calls for a new kind of literature to revive the American population ("Not the book needs so much to be the complete thing, but the reader of the book does").
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 §12. Margaret Fuller. VIII. Transcendentalism. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early National ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
No one of the leading transcendentalists illustrates this aspect of the movement more completely than does the first editor of The Dial, Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810–1850).
Her linguistic equipment was good, and there is little question that she came to know Continental literature, that of Germany especially, more fully and appreciatively than any other of the transcendentalists.
Her choice as editor of The Dial therefore was natural.
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 English - Moorpark College Catalog of Courses
Surveys major works of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the 18th century in their literary, historical and cultural contexts.
Surveys major works of British literature from the beginning of the 19th century to the present in their literary, historical and cultural contexts.
Covers classics from the golden age of childrens literature (1846 to 1908), 20th century picture books, poetry, and contemporary books for elementary and middle grade readers.
www.moorpark.cc.ca.us /catalog/2001/subject37.html   (1929 words)

  
 Галеев Томиндар Усманович. The Images of Tatars in Russian Literature
With a few exceptions, the depictions of Tatars in Russian literature are mostly unflattering and are rarely accurate.
Since Russian literature has a universal appeal, the ethnic stereotypes that permeate it influence many millions of people throughout the world.
But more importantly, when we are confronted with anti-Tatar prejudice, we should attempt to engage the person (or persons) who are biased against Tatars in a discussion and try to explain to them that their tatarophobic attitudes are based on one nation stereotyping another.
zhurnal.lib.ru /g/galeew_t_u/theimagesof.shtml   (1269 words)

  
 World Book || Biographers, essayists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ont.
From 1844 to 1846, she wrote literary criticism for the New York Tribune.
Her book Papers on Literature and Art (1846) grew out of her contributions to the Tribune.
www.worldbook.com /features/wwriters/html/biosa-j.htm   (1407 words)

  
 Experimenting with Anesthesia - 1846
Ether could be very effective, but it was highly flammable and dosages were difficult to measure.
Experiments with ether were still in an early stage in 1846 when a surgeon visited a Boston dentist’s office to report on the reaction of patients:
For more information: The Virtual Museum of Anesthesiology has pictures of anesthetic equipment plus historically important articles, including the full text of Bigelow's article.
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 Woods Multicultural Children's Books List
NOTE = Describes the life of the author and activist, from her childhood in Georgia to her emergence as a subject of both adulation and controversy.
NOTE = A mother amuses her young son at the beach by drawing in the sand Chinese characters, many of which resemble the objects they stand for.
NOTE = Describes the life of the first person, man or woman, to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west, from her childhood in Africa through many difficulties to her aeronautic and literary achievements.
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 Find in a Library: The Irish writers, 1880-1940; literature under Parnell's star.
Find in a Library: The Irish writers, 1880-1940; literature under Parnell's star.
The Irish writers, 1880-1940; literature under Parnell's star.
English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
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 PAL: Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
In Boston, from 1839-44, Fuller conducted classes of "conversations" for women on such topics as literature, education, mythology, and philosophy (Blanchard 108).
In 1846 Fuller met Thomas Carlyle, Emerson's closest English friend, and through Carlyle met Guiseippe Mazzini a revolutionist in his fifteenth year of exile (Watson 30).
In carving a niche for herself on the enormous wall of resistance that faced her, she left a foothold for others" (Blanchard 342).
web.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap4/fuller.html   (2069 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Children's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Childrens Literature: A Guide to the Criticism - Features searchable annotated bibliography which draws together significant articles, books, and dissertations of children's literature criticism.
Children's Literature Connection - Encourages networking and collaboration among writers, illustrators, teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, and parents in upstate New York and Western New England.
Children's Literature Network - Organization of those in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Upper Michigan, and Wisconsin who have a professional interest in children's books, reading, and publishing.
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 Heath Anthology of American LiteratureSarah Margaret Fuller - Author Page
Papers on Literature and Art (1846) collected only a few of these, including her famous essay surveying American literature, much of which is reprinted in this volume.
She focused her attention, as she had not before, on specific social issues of the day, like capital punishment, the abolitionist movement, the war on Mexico, treatment of madness.
In August, 1846, Fuller sailed for England as one of the first American “foreign correspondents,” male or female.
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 margaret fuller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It has been said that she could comfortably discuss adult conversation by the time that she was six.
In August of 1846, she traveled to Europe and became the first foreign correspondent.
This multivolumed series of books lists Sarah Fuller in many concepts and contexts such as her role in journalism and her role in New England literature.
www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/allam/edit/fuller.htm   (979 words)

  
 Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The bibliography was compiled by the late Professor Robert Bain, based on suggestions from colleagues in Southern studies around the country.
Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; responses to published papers are also published as part of a Readers' Forum.
"The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE, pronounced "az-lee") was founded in October 1992 to promote the exchange of ideas and information pertaining to literature that considers the relationship between human beings and the natural world.
www.jsu.edu /depart/library/graphic/lit.htm   (6733 words)

  
 1846 - Wikinfo
Years: 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 - 1846 - 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851
January 5 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom
This page was last modified 15:08, 27 December 2003.
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 Margaret Fuller
Additionally, she was a frequent visitor at the transcendental and Fourierist community Brook Farm, and is assumed to be the original of Zenobia in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance.
She experienced the practical friendliness of editor Horace Greeley, and in 1844 became the literary critic on his New York Tribune, where she covered all literature from Goethe to Richter.
Her letters to the New York Tribune describing her experiences in Europe during 1846 were published as At Home and Abroad (1856).
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