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  Encyclopedia: 1914 in literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
See also: 1913 in literature, other events of 1914, 1915 in literature, list of years in literature.
Wave after wave of succeeding literature has rolled over them, until they are buried so deep, that it is only now and then that some industrious diver after fragments of antiquity brings up a specimen for the gratification of the curious.
Such is the case with Shakspeare, whom we behold defying the encroachments of time, retaining in modern use the language and literature of his day, and giving duration to many an indifferent author, merely from having flourished in his vicinity.
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Chinese literature -> Styles of Literature Over time, the nature of the language in which the literature of China was written diverged sharply, producing two main styles of writing, one composed in a specifically literary language and the other in the vernacular.
American literature -> A New Nation and a New Literature The approach of the American Revolution and the achievement of the actual independence of the United States was a time of intellectual activity as well as social and economic change.
American literature -> The Literature of a Split and a Reunited Nation The rising conflict between the North and the South that ended in the Civil War was reflected in regional literature.
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 ENGLISH 116: American Literature since 1914
In addition to our struggle to unearth the complex and diverse conceptions of "American," how America is imagined; we will consider the role of myth and reality as conjured in the American literary imagination.
Of equal importance, is an exploration of how the literature affects US as readers and how WE respond to the literature.
The goal will be to understand American literature as a conversation rather than a singular tradition.
www.willamette.edu /~lewist/amerLit.html   (271 words)

  
 Literature Chronology, 1904-1914
Serious literature was in transition in these years; many of the giants of the late Nineteenth Century were dying off (Tolstoy, Chekhov, Twain), while the great names of the early Twentieth Century were only beginning (Kafka, Joyce, D. Lawrence) if they were writing yet at all.
And Twentieth Century pop literature was just starting to cook, with Tarzan first appearing in 1912.
Also memorable was the publication of the first volume of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past and the beginning of the widespread availability of western literature in East Asia.
cnparm.home.texas.net /Subj/Lit.htm   (3222 words)

  
 International Fiction Review: Literature at War, 1914-1940: Representing the "Time of Greatness" in Germany.(Review)@ ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wolfgang G. Natter Literature at War, 1914-1940: Representing the "Time of Greatness" in Germany New Haven: Yale University Press.
In this intriguing new study, Wolfgang Natter revises the definition of German war literature, and inverts conventional critical approaches to it.
For Natter, the literature of the First World War includes not only the narratives and poetry on which scholars have generally focused their attention, but also newspaper and magazine articles, official reports and histories, and collections of soldiers' letters; in short, any...
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:79396029&refid=ink_tptd_mag   (225 words)

  
 Literature LInks
Presents a directory of the web resources related to American literature in the time period of 1914-1945.
Presents a directory of literature resources as part of the American studies Web directory at the University of Virginia.
Present a directory of WWW resources on American literature of the Colonial period up to 1800.
www.virdenschools.com /manual/Links/literature.htm   (542 words)

  
 English Literature 1832 - 1914 (Q3017)
This course will study the development of a range of writing during the period 1832-1914, including novels, poetry and social criticism.
The emphasis is on reading the literature of the period within their diverse cultural and social contexts and exploring how narratives assimilated and responded to various forms of Victorian modernity.
The course sets the literary texts within a range of contemporary debates - on industrialism and social change; the family and gender roles; on imperial expansion and migration; on modes of consciousness and the unconscious; on science and religion - as well as exploring the development of specific literary forms and genres.
www.sussex.ac.uk /english/Q3017.html   (201 words)

  
 Literature Network Forums - Anon review on Tarzan Of The Apes
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Literature Network Forums > Discussion on Specific Authors and Books > Author List: > Burroughs, Edgar Rice > Tarzan of the Apes
I doubt that Anonymous even read Tarzan Of The Apes because there are no 'constant references' to fl people being 'inhuman monsters' -- indeed, E.R.B. portrayed people of different races just as all people are: some good and noble, and some not.
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 TONMO.com Forums - 1914 Scientific literature on Giant Squid
While reviewing some literature for a document I am preparing (about mussels) I found something interesting I just had to pass along to some of my fellow biologist-types.
There is a brief article titled "Another Giant Squid in Monterey Bay" describing a giant squid that "weighed close to 500 pounds" that was caught by some fishermen.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a preserved Humboldt Squid (Dosidcus gigas), on general display, but I wonder if their research institute has this one....
www.tonmo.com /forums/printthread.php?t=225   (200 words)

  
 HJG: Precursors and aftermaths: literature in English, 1914-1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
HJG: Precursors and aftermaths: literature in English, 1914-1945
The space between: literature and culture, 1914-1945 (2005-)
Devoted to scholarship on the period bracketed by the two World Wars; focused primarily on literary, with emphasis on lesser-known writers and understudied issues of the period.
www.history-journals.de /journals/hjg-p00317.html   (70 words)

  
 World War, 1914-1918 - Literature and the war books, find the lowest prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
You may browse this category by title or by publication date.
The Language of War : Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War Through World War II
The Cambridge Companion To The Literature Of The First World War
www.allbookstores.com /World_War_1914-1918-Literature_And_The_War.html   (234 words)

  
 CM Magazine: Canada Through the Decades.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sharing a similar layout, all of the volumes begin with an introduction and a time line of the decade.
Their 19 chapters (which include such topics as trends, world events, political issues, literature, science and technology, fashion, music, immigration and Canada/US relations) are titled identically for consistency.
Students will find the "slang" boxes particularly amusing for many of the phrases coined decades ago are still spoken today.
www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol7/no20/canadadecades.html   (483 words)

  
 Language of Pre-1914 Literature Teacher's Portfolio - Cambridge University Press
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Language of Pre-1914 Literature Teacher's Portfolio (Loose-leaf volume)
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American Women (Library of Congress) A gateway to Library of Congress resources for the study of women's history and culture in the United States.
(1969+) index to literature in the life sciences.
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) (1982+) through OVID from the Lane Medical Library.
www-sul.stanford.edu /catdb/alldata.html   (3159 words)

  
 English 473 American Literature 1914-Present
            This course principally explores American literature produced between the world wars, focusing on the way selected writers imagine the self, the nation, and the complexities of the American dream.
  If American literature is comprised of various regional and ethnic literatures, can we justifiably speak of a national literature?
Texts:  The Norton Anthology of American Literature 6
www.calstatela.edu /faculty/ashin/Engl473fall2004.htm   (343 words)

  
 Volume C: American Literature, 1865-1914   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In style, mood, and subject, do these painters remind you of specific writers from the same period?
If stylistic connections between painting and literature interest you, look carefully at paintings of women from this historical period.
Focus on two artists, such as Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent, artists who focused, with mixed and complex emotions, on women of the aristocracy and the new urban bourgeoisie.
www.wwnorton.com /naal/vol_C/topic.htm   (1075 words)

  
 Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 00703505   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Table of contents for The Great War in British literature / Adrian Barlow.
How to write about the Great War in British Literature 7.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: English literature 20th century History and criticism, World War, 1914-1918 Literature and the war, English literature 20th century Examinations Study guides, War in literature
www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/cam026/00703505.html   (88 words)

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