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 Greek literature, modern. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
literature written in Greek in the modern era, primarily beginning during the period of rebellion against the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
Literature was hampered, however, by conflict between supporters of the demotic, or popular, literary style, and adherents of a reformed classical style.
The Greek-French Jean Psichari (1854–1929) aroused a storm with his satire of the purists, The Voyage (1888), and the publication in 1901 of a demotic translation of the New Testament caused a riot in Athens among university students.
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 SWEDEN, & LITERATURE - LoveToKnow Article on SWEDEN, & LITERATURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was the sensation caused in 1884 by the lawsuit brought against Strindberg's Married (a collection of short stories dealing realistically with some of the seamy sides of marriage) which brought to a head the rebellion against the elegant and superficial conventions which were strangling Swedish literature.
He started authorship with a book of verse in 1888, after which time he led a reaction against realism and pessimism, and has turned back to a rich romantic idealism in his novels of Endymion (1889) and Hans Alienus (1892), and in his stories (1897) of the time of Charles XII.
The history of Swedish letters as it reflects the life of the nation is dealt with by C. Nyblom, Estetiska studier (Stockholm, 18731884).
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SW/SWEDEN_LITERATURE.htm   (2176 words)

  
 1888 in literature - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about 1888 in literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 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.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Polish Literature
At this period, too, the Jesuit Skarga, the purest embodiment of Polish patriotism in literature, preached and wrote, calling upon all Poles to save their country, though that country was then so powerful that his cry of alarm was like the voice of a prophet.
During this period, the general course of literature was very like that of the preceding epoch, but more strongly marked with patriotic sadness as became a generation imbued with the constitutional ideas of the Four Years' Diet, but grown up under the shadow of a great catastrophe.
Poles had come to be ignorant of any other literature, and the pseudo-classic taste of the time, together with the glamour of Napoleon's victories, had an excessive influence upon both literature and politics, upon language and social life.
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 1888   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar).
In Germany, 1888 is known as the 1888 Year of Three Emperors.
1885 1886 1887 - 1888 - 1889 1890 1891
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 Gideon Burton: Towards a Mormon Criticism
This was as much their view of literature's role as that of it serving to record or disseminate Mormon wisdom to the literate and the literary.
Literature is a way of broadcasting our knowledge and experience, but may more fruitfully be seen in light of Brigham Young's and Orson Whitney's comments as learning, as epistemology, as an agency through which this Zion culture to which we aspire is in the same act discovered and achieved.
Mormon literature, as Mormon criticism, history, education, arts and discourse generally, must be regarded within the encompassing vision and teleology of the Restoration.
humanities.byu.edu /mldb/gbask.htm   (4015 words)

  
 Literature - Albanian Authors - Ndre Mjeda - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The theme of the exiled Albanian yearning nostalgically for his homeland under the Turkish yoke was nothing unusual in Rilindja literature, in particular in the decade following the defeat of the League of Prizren, and many of his other poems are devoted to such nationalist themes.
In 1888, the Propaganda Fide in Rome published his Jeta e sceitit sc’ Gnon Berchmans (The life of St John Berchmans) about a Jesuit saint from Brabant, and in 1892 T’ perghjamit e Zojs Bekume (Imitation of the Holy Virgin) translated from Spanish.
After the defeat of Fan Noli ’s June Revolution and the definitive rise of the Zogu dictatorship at the end of 1924 he withdrew from politics and served thereafter as a parish priest in Kukël, a village between Shkodra and Shëngjin.
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 From 1888 to 1945. (from Australian literature) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The year 1888 was the centennial of the first settlement.
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.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-196968?ct=eb   (749 words)

  
 Whittier College Department of English Language and Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A team-taught introduction to major writers in British literature to 1789, with particular emphasis on their historical and thematic contexts.
A team-taught introduction to major writers in British and American literature from 1789, with particular emphasis on their historical and thematic contexts.
A study of British literature and culture since 1950, and of the relationship between literature and national identity in the period.
www.whittier.edu /english/catalog/courses/courses.htm   (1768 words)

  
 Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
First of all, literature in general serves as a fount from which societal information can be derived.
The campesino, a generally marginalized character in traditional Latin-American literature that is not given respect, is named right from the start.
Literature is meant to impart its readers with information regarding the physical or emotional state that it addresses, and the opinions of the editors compromise its' lessons to a certain extent.
www.brown.edu /Courses/EL0176/cubanamericanmedia.htm   (8018 words)

  
 Literary Theory: Bibliography
Arnold, Matthew, 1822 -- 1888 [1865], Joubert [in, Essays in Criticism] (MacMillan and Co., Cambridge, 1865) (subjects=Joubert Joseph; Coleridge Samuel Taylor; Religion; Fame; Philistinism; ; ;.) [Arnold,M:Joubert] (genre=m).
Arnold, Matthew, 1822 -- 1888 [1879], A French Critic on Goethe [in, Mixed Essays] (Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1879) (subjects=Criticism; Goethe Johann Wolfgang von; Carlyle Thomas; ; ; ; ;.) [Arnold,M:FrenchCriticGoethe] (genre=m).
Arnold, Matthew, 1822 -- 1888 [1888], The Study of Poetry [in, Essays in Criticism: Second Series] (Macmillan and Co., London, 1888) (subjects=Criticism; Literary history; Canon; Chaucer Geoffrey; Burns Robert; Nature of poetry; ;.) [Arnold,M:StudyPoetry] (genre=m).
www.lib.uchicago.edu /efts/LITTH/LitTh.bib.html   (15271 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Austrian-Jewish Literature
Austrian Jewish literature was affected by fundamental paradigm shifts within the dominant culture as well as responses of Jewish society to the ongoing changes.
A Jewish state was to ensure equality of the Jewish people in the international arena and a mental and physical Jewish renouveau was to help overcome Diaspora culture, which Herzl and Nordau considered a relic of a moribund ghetto society.
Equally extensive is the literature about the exile experience or the “disease of exile”, as the novelist and critic Hilde Spiel called it in Lisas Zimmer [The Darkened Room, 1961], a novel set among Austrian exiles in New York.
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 1920S AMERICAN LITERATURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Links for 19th-century Literature from the U.S. www.zpub.com/sf/history/index.html] The good folks at Bibliomania have posted a 1920s survey of American Literature.
Literature The emergence of the female detective novelist after the...
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 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.
There are many ancient publications dealing with the Theatre and theatrical people of past days which, however entertaining, we do not class as literature but regard with an indulgent eye.
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.
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 Humanities Courses
A survey of the literature of the United States citizens of Hispanic descent, with particular focus on the Mexican American, Cuban American and Puerto Rican.
A survey of English literature from the beginning of the Romantic period to the present.
Survey of Spanish-American Literature I. Spanish-American literature from the pre-colonial period to 1888; study of first chroniclers, colonial period, patriotic writers of independence, romanticism.
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 1888 Online Research :: Information about 1888   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1888 : United States Democratic Party incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the overall popular vote, but is voted out of office because he loses in the U.S. Electoral College to United States Republican Party challenger Benjamin Harrison.
Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d.
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He quotes from many high authorities on the subject, and his conclusion is that there is no evidence of such influence, either in the history or the literature of the time.
There are no traces of Buddhism in Jewish literature before the time of Christ, no evidence that Buddhism was known in the Roman Empire at the time of Christ.
We will not undertake to say that in this last book he has surpassed anything he has written before, but there are here such marks of ripeness of power, of genial mellow- ness of feeling, that we are s~ire the volume will be welcomed in thousands of our American homes as a friend.
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 The American Spirit in Literature - Bibliographical Note (By Bliss Perry)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An authoritative account of American Literature to the close of the Revolution is given in M. Tyler’s “History of American Literature during the Colonial Time,” 2 volumes (1878) and "Literary History of the American Revolution,” 2 volumes (1897).
The most recent and authoritative account is to be found in “The Cambridge History of American Literature,” 3 volumes edited by Trent, Erskine, Sherman, and Van Doren.
This full text of The American Spirit in Literature, A Chronicle of Great Interpreters, by Bliss Perry, is public domain (thanks to Project Gutenberg).
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 Kidnapped E-book by Rudyard Kipling
In 1907, Kipling was the first English writer ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
Kidnapped (1888) - From "Plain Tales from the Hills," a collection of stories of life in India.
A man who wishes to marry a woman whom his friends consider unsuitable is kidnapped until after the wedding date.
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 English Literature: A Select Bibliography of Reference Sources
Baer, Florence E. Folklore and literature of the British Isles : an annotated bibliography.
Greenfield, Stanley B. A bibliography of publications on Old English literature, to the end of 1972 : using the collections of E. Ericson.
Lewis, C. English literature in the sixteenth century, excluding drama.
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 University of Alberta Libraries
Subtitle: with an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English Language, illustrated by extracts: for the Use of Schools and Private Students.
Textbook; status: basic; Poetical Literature; level: Standard VIII; approved: 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905.
In 1965 and 1966 the specified publisher was Kittredge; in 1967-1971 the specified publisher 1967-1971 was Ferguson; in 1972-1983 the specified publisher was Swan.
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 LITERATURE - LoveToKnow Article on LITERATURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
.The older literature is fully given by Nitgelsbach in Langes Bibeiwerk A.T. xv.
Among commentaries may be noticed those of Kalkar (in Latin) (1836); 0.
The following may also be consulted, Nldeke, Die A.T. Literatur, pp.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Manichaeism
Mani's father himself must have displayed considerable activities as a religious reformer and have been a kind of forerunner of his more famous son, in the first years of whose public life he had some share.
It is not impossible that some of Patekios' writing lies imbedded in the Mandaean literature which has come down to us.
The epistle on baptism, which occurred among the sacred literature of the Manichæans, is unfortunately lost, and in Oriental sources the matter is not referred to, but Christian sources suppose the existence of both these rites.
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 Mormon Literature Website
The Association for Mormon Letters is an organization devoted to the discussion and promotion of Mormon literature.
In addition to circulating a quarterly newsletter, AML sponsors a conference each January, publishes the proceedings of that conference (free to AML members) and hosts occasional lectures and readings.
A list of the awards given over the last 20 years is available here, including the text of the awards citations.
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