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  Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature
for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature.
in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature.
because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with comsummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.
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  Wikinfo | List of years in literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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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 Welcome to Italy1 Literature page of 13 and 14 Centuries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He was one of the founders of Italian literature through his use of the vernacular for some of his greatest works.
The period was marked by a rebirth of culture based on the discovery of ancient manuscripts and the reevaluation of classical literature and philosophy, which spread eventually throughout Europe.
Many of the great figures of early Renaissance literature were scholars concerned with philological research into and the translation of the Greek and Latin classics.
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 1926 in literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1925 in literature, other events of 1926, 1927 in literature, list of years in literature.
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Arthur Bowie Chrisman, Shen of the Sea
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: George Kelly, Craig's Wife
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 Members of the Department of Language and Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nada Milošević-Đorđević (1934), historian of literature, professor at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, elected in 2003.
Antonios Aimilios Tachiaos (1931), historian of literature - slavist, professor at the University of Thessaloniki, elected in 1981.
Ilija Konev (1928), historian of literature, professor at the University of Veliko Tŭrnovo (Bulgaria), elected in 2000.
www.sanu.ac.yu /english/members/OdJiKClan.htm   (940 words)

  
 Yiddish Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Yiddish Literature, writings by Jews in the Yiddish language, produced mainly in Eastern Europe and the United States.
Yiddish literature may be divided into three periods: the period of preparation, the classical age, and the postclassical period.
The brief classical age of Yiddish literature, from the late 19th to the early 20th century, is epitomized in three great writers of fiction: Shalom Jacob Abramowitz, better known as Mendele Mokher Sefarim (Mendele the Itinerant Bookseller); Shalom Aleichem; and Isaac Leib Peretz.
www.bergen.org /AAST/Projects/Yiddish/English/literature.html   (1455 words)

  
 Nobel Prize in Literature 1926 - Presentation Speech
Furthermore, she had an opportunity at home to read a few works of Italian literature and a few novels in translation, since by Sardinian standards her family was relatively well-to-do.
And still in the last hour, as he stood before the body of the most miserable of human creatures, who after doing and suffering evil in all of its manifestations had died for someone else's good, he remembered that among the ashes there often lurks the spark of a luminous and purifying flame.
Alfred Nobel wanted the Prize in Literature to be given to someone who, in his writings, had given humanity that nectar which infuses the health and the energy of a moral life.
nobelprize.org /literature/laureates/1926/press.html   (2308 words)

  
 Studies in Canadian Literature
The new nationalism identified in a Forum editorial of April, 1926 ("Anyone who travels much in Canada cannot but be impressed with the recent development of [a strong spirit of nationalism]") is reflected in the literary sphere by vigorous deman s for a native literature.
From the viewpoint of a developing national literature, it was unfortunate that Canada's strongest sense of "the new nationality" came at the very point when nationalism in all of its forms was suspect and at a time when a growing cultural continentalism made such a position difficult if not impossible to maintain.
Canadian literature is the child and heir of all literature written in the English language....
www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol1_1/&filename=djwa.htm   (5914 words)

  
 Series A,5, Literature
Literature: packet "Childhood Education for Peace and Freedom," ca.
Literature: packet "Stop, Look and Listen: Generations for Justice and Peace in Iraq," ca.
Literature re: the economy, and economic conversion, 1960-1979
www.swarthmore.edu /library/peace/DG026-050/dg043wilpf/SeriesA5-Literature.htm   (438 words)

  
 Aspects of the Indian in Canadian Literature
Unlike Albert Keiser's The Indian in American Literature published in 1932, whose material was arranged historically, Monkman has opted for the primacy of the topical, although not to the exclusion of an historical treatment within that framework.
The author does not concern himself overmuch with the somewhat abstract question as to when Canadian literature began, although it may be mentioned in passing that he regards the frontiersman and Indian fighter, Robert Rogers, as entitled to inclusion.
That remarkable individual, nevertheless, was not born in territory destined to become Canadian, nor did he ever come to live in any part of it, except momentarily, as in the course of his raid on the settlement of the St. Francis Indians during the Seven Years' War.
www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol10/bailey.htm   (1858 words)

  
 Italian literature --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It was then that writers began to abandon Latin as the language of literature and write in one of the Italian dialects used in common speech.
Literature in Italian developed later than literature in French and...
When the barriers that had isolated Italian literature fell, a flood of foreign ideas and styles from other parts of Europe and the United States inundated the intellectual community.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275104   (767 words)

  
 1925 in literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1924 in literature, other events of 1925, 1926 in literature, list of years in literature.
April: F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway meet in the Dingo Bar on rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France shortly after the publication of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and shortly before Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is to be published.
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Charles Finger, Tales from Silver Lands
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 Polish culture: The Stefan Zeromski Museum
Stefan Zeromski (1864-1926) was one Poland's foremost writers, shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926.
The writer was fascinated by the art and culture of the Polish highlanders and therefore the cottage was designed by Jan Koszyc-Witkiewicz in the Zakopane style.
Upon zeromski's death in 1926, his widow presented the cottage for museum purposes, and the writer's museum opened two years later.
www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/in_mu_zeromskiego_naleczow   (107 words)

  
 glbtq >> literature >> Cullen, Countee
Cullen was committed to a career as a poet from as early as his high school years; by the time he finished undergraduate school, he had published his first book of poetry, Color (1925).
Although largely invisible to the general public, a large body of twentieth-century gay male literature by American authors was published prior to Stonewall, some of it positive but most of it tinged with misery or bleakness as the price of being published and disseminated.
Most gay, lesbian, and bisexual American writers who adhered to Marxist-oriented parties and social movements between 1917 and the 1960s strove to hide their sexual orientation, and some even depicted homosexuals negatively in their fiction and drama.
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 1926 in literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ford Madox Ford publishes A Man Could Stand Up It is the third book of four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928.
Newbery Medal for children's literature : Arthur Bowie Chrisman Shen of the Sea
As I searched for a novel on the Filipino American experience, I brought with me a list of 60 books related to the topic to the two largest bookstores in my area.
www.freeglossary.com /1926_in_literature   (562 words)

  
 WU Libraries Germanic Languages & Literatures
Literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide.
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
Also known as the "Dietrich", a international and interdisciplinary index of periodical literature mainly from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts for the years 1983 onwards.
www.library.wustl.edu /subjects/germanlit/databases.html   (710 words)

  
 Your Search Results at Zubal Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
NY - 1974-1987 passim - British Literature Novels Essay Fiction Poetry bak - vols.
NA - 1997 - Literature Poetry Criticism Novels BAK Literary Criticism - vol.
NY: Putnam`s Sons - 1927 - literature fiction LY - 1st ed., 323 pp., blue boards & green cloth backstrip, previous owner's signature to front free endpaper, one corner worn, else v.g.
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 MARGARET LAURENCE: THE FIRST LADY OF CANADIAN LITERATURE
Jean Margaret (Peggy) Wemyss was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, on July 18, 1926, to Robert Harrison Wemyss, a lawyer, and his wife Verna Jean, née Simpson.
Out of her African years came an interest in contemporary literature by Africans, which resulted in her study of Nigerian fiction and drama, Long Drums and Cannons.
Throughout her life, Laurence had been lionized by the public and revered by many as a predominant shaper of post-war Canadian literature, setting the pace for other Canadian women like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.
www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/laurence.html   (1799 words)

  
 Studies in Canadian Literature
Perhaps this discrepancy can be explained by the fact that her most popular poems exploited her readers' wish to experience vicariously the "elasticity of probability" of the fantastic strain in Aesthete or post-Symbolist literature, which sought escape in the life of the imagination.
She was regarded as "a singer of spiritual songs" in her time; other literature was, ultimately, the first cause of these songs.
Lionel Stevenson, in Appraisals of Canadian Literature (1926; Toronto: MacMillan, 1977), saw it as an exquisite example of mystical and epicurean elements (with the mystical dominating) characteristic of Canadian poetry (54).
www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol12_1/&filename=Kizuk.htm   (6915 words)

  
 Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest
THERE IS no chart to the Life and Literature of the Southwest.
Payne's handbook-sized A Survey of Texas Literature, Chicago, 1928, is complemented by a chapter entitled "Literature and Art in Texas" by J. Frank Dobie in The Book of Texas, New York, 1929.
A Guide to Materials Bearing on Cultural Relations in New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1944, is so logical and liberal-minded that in some respects it amounts to a bibliography of the whole Southwest; it recognizes the overriding of political boundaries by ideas, human types, and other forms of culture.
www.oldcardboard.com /lsj/olbooks/dobie/dobie3.htm   (727 words)

  
 Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Subjects: Cassatt, Mary, -- 1844-1926 -- Juvenile literature.
Painters -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
LC Call No.: ND237.C3 M9 Dewey No.: 759.13 B 92 Notes: A biography of the American artist who spent most of her life in Europe because she felt her homeland restricted women in certain areas of artistic study.
www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlccassatt1.htm   (984 words)

  
 Free thinker - The Boston Globe
''So many young men," says Jake Barnes, ''get their likes and dislikes from Mencken." Walter Lippmann, in the Saturday Review of Literature in 1926, called H. Mencken ''the most powerful personal influence on...
Henry Louis Mencken never went to college and lampooned ''chalky pedagogues" haranguing ''simian sophomores." When he was city editor of the Baltimore Herald, a reporter asked for a raise, pointing out that he had a BA degree.
The book begins in 1926 in Boston, then America's capital of book banning.
www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2006/01/08/free_thinker   (804 words)

  
 1926 and the Arkansas Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas History State of Arkansas
1926 and the Arkansas Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas History State of Arkansas
Years: 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 - 1926 - 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931
March 24 -, author, 1997 Nobel prize for literature
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 Wildlife Literature Searching - Research Tools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ornithological World Literature (American Ornithological Union, British Ornithological Union and Birds Australia) includes over 58,000 citations and abstracts from worldwide scientific literature that pertain to the science of ornithology.
Avian Literature Database (National Wind Technology Center) Includes references on the effects on birds of wind energy development and towers, power lines and other transmission wires.
Handbooks and manuals typically fall into two basic categories--1) works that contain data and descriptive information compiled from the "primary" literature and organized into tables or expository articles that can be used to answer many basic and factual questions; and 2) works that contain procedures for experimental analysis in the field or laboratory.
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 PIERIAN STUDY CLUB RECORDS, 1926-1993   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Geographically most members lived on the north and east sides of Indianapolis, though there were a few from Southport and Franklin.
At first the club's programs were literary, with one speaker on current literature and another on some classic work, with discussion afterward.
In later years programs were designed around themes like South America, U. history, and travel.
www.indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/m0176.html   (287 words)

  
 1921 in literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
See also: 1920 in literature other events of 1921 1922 in literature list of years in literature.
A Matter of Faith : The Fiction of Brian Moore (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
The Life and Works of Wolfgang Borchert (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture)
www.freeglossary.com /1921_in_literature   (294 words)

  
 Finding Animal Physiology Literature Zoology 430
If you wish to search Biological Abstracts for older literature, between 1926 and 1969, you will need to use the print version.
Index covers medical literature but also has a lot of basic science not directly related to medicine.
Strong in the life sciences, covers the journal literature of all disciplines of science from 1980 to the present.
www.hawaii.edu /sciref/zoology_430.html   (687 words)

  
 EN 3303 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
This course provides a survey of African-American literature in relation to the troubled history of race in America.
It begins with the first writings of fl Americans in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries – mainly slave narratives – and charts the emergence of more literary forms of writing, culminating in the explosion of activity in Harlem in the 1920s, an important moment in Modernism.
General studies of gay literature like Mark Lilley’s Gay Men’s Literature in the Twentieth Century also have some material.
personal.rhul.ac.uk /uhle/012/AFRICAN-AMERICAN.htm   (2629 words)

  
 WHMC St. Louis sl 631 GEORGE RAWICK COMMUNIST/SOCIALIST LITERATURE
In June 2001, the Thomas Jefferson Library donated a collection of political pamphlets collected by Dr. George Rawick, a history professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis until his death in 1990 (see collection: SL 630).
Literature and Marxism: A Controversy by Soviet Critics.
Literature, the Arts, and the Life of the People.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- U. S. Literature -- Apr. 12, 1926   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Princeton men and Bates men were somewhat mortified last week.
A survey made by the Modern Language Association isolated their colleges as the only two, among 148 leading dispensaries of higher learning, that do not offer courses in U. literature.
Princeton, to be sure, was contemplating the revival of a rather sweeping course called the "Literary History of American Ideals" (Milton, Burke, Paine, Franklin, Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whittier, Longfellow, Whitman); but Bates had not even contemplations to report.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,721841,00.html   (387 words)

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