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  Korean Literature (Character of Korean Literature, Korean Classical Literature, Modern Literature of Korea)
The literature of the Koryo period is marked by an increased use of Chinese letters, the disappearance of Hyangga, and the emergence of Koryo kayo (Koryo songs) which continued to be transmitted as oral literature until the Choson period.
Korean modern literature was formed against the background of the crumbling feudalistic society of the Choson Dynasty, the importation of new ideas from the West, and the new political reality of rising Japanese imperial power in East Asia.
The change from traditional to modern literature during the Enlightenment period was largely due to the effects of the New Education and the Korean Language and Literature movement.
www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/korea/literature.htm   (5596 words)

  
 Jane Goodall (1934 - ) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Author: Goodall, Jane, 1934- Title: The chimpanzees of Gombe : patterns of behavior / Jane Goodall.
Author: Goodall, Jane, 1934- Title: In the shadow of man / by Jane Goodall ; photographs by Hugo van Lawick.
Heading: Goodall, Jane, 1934- References: Lawick-Goodall, Jane van, 1934- nnaa Lawick-Goodall, Jane, Barones van Notes: Miss Goodall and the wild chimpanzees.
www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcgoodall1.htm   (2376 words)

  
 Princeton University Senior Theses brief display
Arrowsmith, William Ayres (1945): The Literary Soil, An Essay in the Sociology of Literature.
Foulk, Mary Warren (1991): Literature that "Dares and Defies:" Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening.
Tompkins, II, Clavin (1947): Myth and Literature: The Recurrence of a Mythical Pattern in The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.
libweb5.princeton.edu /theses/thesesvw.asp?Lname=&Fname=&Submit=Search&Title1=literature&department=&Class=&Adviser=   (6505 words)

  
 Karl Radek: Soviet Writers Congress 1934   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
My task is to survey the final period of this literature – a period in which all tendencies of parasitism and decay in bourgeois literature have obtruded themselves in most glaring relief, in which the material collapse and decay of capitalism is being accompanied by a parallel process – the decay of world capitalist literature.
Between proletarian literature, i.e., literature which looks at the world from the standpoint of the militant proletariat and which tries to help in the transformation of this world, and the literature of the “fellow-travellers,” there is a process of emulation, of struggle going on, a process of reciprocal influence and of mutual enrichment.
But even of this rudimentary literature of the proletariat, at which bourgeois aesthetes may turn up their noses, we have a right to say: It is a reflection of the struggle, and it will develop in proportion as the struggle of the revolutionary proletariat grows, deepens and broadens.
www.marxists.org /archive/radek/1934/sovietwritercongress.htm   (16530 words)

  
 Literature of the USA
Founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry, it is the largest organization in the country dedicated specifically to the art of poetry.
Part of the "Library of Southern Literature" which documents the riches and diversity of southern experience as presented in one hundred of its most important literary works.
The goal of the "Library of Southern Literature" is to make one hundred of the most important works of Southern literature available world-wide for teaching and research.
www.nypl.org /branch/central/mml/ll/usaliterature.htm   (944 words)

  
 Maxim Gorky: Soviet Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
You are aware that the exceptionally and unprecedentedly powerful growth of Russian literature in the nineteenth century repeated – although somewhat late – all the moods and tendencies of western literature, and in turn influenced it.
And here literature should try to depict the work and mentality of woman in such a manner as to raise the attitude towards her above the general level of accepted middle-class behaviour, which is borrowed from the poultry yard.
The high standard demanded of literature, which is being rapidly remoulded by life itself and by the cultural revolutionary work of Lenin’s Party, is due to the high estimation in which the Party holds the importance of the literary art.
www.marxists.org /archive/gorky-maxim/1934/soviet-literature.htm   (9128 words)

  
 K D P   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Unlike their rulers, the Kurds were not able to preserve their written literature or what existed has been destroyed during many wars between many empires in Kurdistan.
Furthermore the Kurdish scholars were employed by the courts of the shahs and sultans and were obliged to write in the official languages of the courts be it Persian, Arabic or Turkish.
Many of the new works of literature are published by Kurds in diaspora and adopting Latin alphabets for the Kurmanji dialects and a modified version of Perso-Arabic for Sorani.
www.kdp.pp.se /?do=literature   (1396 words)

  
 1934 in literature: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
See also: 1933 in literature, other events of 1934, 1935 in literature, list of years in literature.
Newberry Medal for children's literature: Cornelia Meigs[?], Invincible Louisa
Post a link to definition / meaning of " 1934 in literature " on your site.
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 Microforms Collection, UM Libraries
The title on the boxes of microfilm is Troup Catalogue of World Forestry Literature.
MCK-PER M-FILM Z5991.C6 Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux Author Catalogue of Forestry Literature, 1934- 1968.
The microfilm is arranged by Flury's own classificationscheme, an explanation of which can be found at the beginning of the first reel.
www.lib.umd.edu /UMCP/MICROFORMS/indexes_forestry.html   (206 words)

  
 Records of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, DG 043, Series A,5, Literature, Swarthmore College Peace ...
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   (456 words)

  
 General Studies Resources
Wilbur, Richard, The Death of a Toad, Poetry, Literature, p.
Williams, William Carlos, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Poetry, Literature, p.
Wordsworth, William, She Was a Phantom of Delight, Poetry, Literature, p.
www.library.mildred-elley.edu /library/litw.htm   (1526 words)

  
 The Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures
PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.
In Border Crossings: The West and Russian Identity in Soviet Literature, 1917-1934 she explores how post-revolutionary writers probed the redefinition of national and individual identity.
In her teaching, which ranges far beyond Soviet literature into such areas as the novels of Vladimir Nabokov and literary responses to the Holocaust, Prof.
german.rutgers.edu /faculty/profiles/avins.htm   (359 words)

  
 Ellis Parker Butler published during 1934
Golden Book Magazine (January, 1934) "Pigs is Pigs" A Mike Flannery story.
Grand Magazine (October, 1934) 192 pages, complete mystery by Agatha Christie, other stories by Warwick Deeping, Storm Jameson, Gilbert Frankau, S.Jepson, Ellis Parker Butler, poetry etc, plus ads, story by A. Christie is titled "The Rajah's Emerald".
Maclean's (December 15, 1934) "Christmas Grouch" A story of a farmer who doesn't want to help out a poor neighbor.
www.ellisparkerbutler.info /epb/biblio.asp?y=1934   (481 words)

  
 Cadillac history 1934
1934 Cadillacs were completely restyled and mounted on an entirely new chassis, but used the same basic engines as in 1933.
This system was followed in promotional literature, in the 1934 Master Parts List, and in early factory records.
The president and general manager was Lawrence P. Fisher to May 31, 1934.
www.100megsfree4.com /cadillac/cad1930/cad34s.htm   (885 words)

  
 Cadillac Photos - 1934
In 1934, for example, Fisher offered no fewer than six styles on the short, 128" chassis and another seven on the 136" chassis.
For that reason, many owners upgraded to the 1935 type at year's end, thus making it difficult today to distinguish between the 1934 and 1935 cars, unless you have access to the cowl tag (body tag) or to the engine serial numbers.
In my opinion, this is definitely the most desirable of the 1934 body styles, as is attested by the current market prices for one of these in fine condition.
www.car-nection.com /yann/Dbas_txt/Phocad34.htm   (1003 words)

  
 Fiction: Luigi Pirandello
This thorough biography also offers a listing of his plays, novels, and biographical studies that might be helpful for anyone wishing to study this author in depth.
But he did win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1934, an indication that his particular brand of modernism was indeed influential.
At that time Pirandello was a member of the Fascist party in Italy, although his participation was limited primarily to his work in the state-supported Art Theater of Rome, which he founded.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/pirandello.htm   (369 words)

  
 1934
...1934 in television..December - Philo Farnsworth demonstrates a non-mechanical television.....1934 in film..January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn finally purchased the film rights to..The.....1934 in literature..
...Elgar, Edward (1857 - 1934) Edward Elgar was arguably the leading English composer of his..
...Lists of passengers on of vessels sailing from Hamburg between 1850 and 1934 survive in.....The lists, bound into volumes, extend from 1850 to 1914 and from 1920 to 1934; there was.....1934 there is a single index for both series.
www.plexxa.com /s/1934   (174 words)

  
 African American Registry for Friday December 8th 2006
*Wole Soyinka was born on this date in 1934.
*Henry Dumas was born on this date in 1934.
*Amiri Baraka was born on this date in 1934.
www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/category/8/literature   (1606 words)

  
 Lamson Library
The Heroine In Western Literature : The Archetype And Her Reemergence In Modern Prose
The Copeland Translations; Mainly In Prose From French, German, Italian And Russian, Chosen And Arranged, With An Introduction, By Charles Townsend Copeland
Sex, Symbolism, And Psychology In Literature, By Roy P. Basler
www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/subjkey/literature   (104 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Soviet Literature - The Purges
The so-called “Great Purge” (or “Great Terror”) is considered to have lasted from 1934 to 1939.
Although earlier purges had occurred in the Civil War and post-Civil War eras and in the earlier years of Stalinisation, the “Great Purge”, beginning in 1934, was of a much vaster order.
In addition there is the notable memoir literature of such figures as Nadezhda Mandel’shtam and Evgeniia Ginzburg.
www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1593   (518 words)

  
 virtualitalia.com - language - quick history of italian literature
The works of Luigi Pirandello (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934) originated on the fringes of Realism but soon took on their own identity by their bitter and paradoxically ironic view of life.
The most interesting literary trend during the Fascist era is constituted by the so-called opposition literature, which focussed on the lesser-known aspects of contemporary Italy.
The innovators were Cesare Pavese and Elio Vittorini, "discoverers" of contemporary American literature which they subsequently developed into an original lyricism and autobiography, always based on the lessons of Realism.
www.virtualitalia.com /language/literature_history5.shtml   (1261 words)

  
 Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature
for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into 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.
almaz.com /nobel/literature   (2120 words)

  
 Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Therefore, if you are not a UGA student, you may not have access to some of the databases that are presented in the results of a search in the EJL.
An index of literature, languages, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, and folklore from over 4,400 journals and serials, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
Academy of American Poets Founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.
www.gpc.edu /gusclib/research/research_subject_guides/literature.html   (1633 words)

  
 glbtq >> literature >> St. Sebastian
Oscar Wilde, who adopted the pseudonym "Sebastian Melmoth" on his release from prison, invokes Sebastian in his 1881 poem to Keats, "The Grave of Keats," whom he describes as "fair Sebastian, and as foully slain." For Wilde, the Roman martyr becomes a self-consciously deployed subcultural emblem.
Frederick Rolfe's novel, The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole (written in 1909 but published in 1934), features a hero who is himself writing a novel with a character named Sebastian Archer as its protagonist.
Rolfe's 1891 sonnets dedicated to a Reni Sebastian in Rome's Capitoline gallery were considered so scandalous on their publication in The Artist magazine that they helped in the ousting of Charles Kains-Jackson as editor.
www.glbtq.com /literature/sebastian_st.html   (726 words)

  
 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1934 - Documentary
The 1934 Nobel Prizes were awarded at the Stockholm Concert Hall to four Americans and one Italian.
The Nobel Laureates arrived at the Concert Hall on December 10, 1934.
Steinhardt, Minister of the United States, as the Nobel Laureate was absent), for Physiology or Medicine to George Minot, William Murphy and George Whipple, and for Literature to Luigi Pirandello.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1934/award-docu.html   (128 words)

  
 Nobel Prize in Literature 1934 - Presentation Speech
Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on December 10, 1934
As an author of novellas he certainly is without equal in output, even in the primary country of this literary genre.
May I now ask you to receive from His Majesty the Nobel Prize in Literature, of which the Swedish Academy has deemed you worthy.
www.nobel.se /literature/laureates/1934/press.html   (2176 words)

  
 Barry Cassidy Rare Books - Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In the Preface the author comments on the importance of poetry in Chinese culture, dating back to 2357 B.C. He describes poetry written in the classical language and that written in the vernacular language (which began during the Chinese Renaissance in 1918).
She was born in Illinois in 1841 and was the first white child to enter California by the Beckwourth Pass.
Poet, teacher, librarian, she became one of the "Makers of American Literature".
www.barrycassidyrarebooks.com /cassidy/bookmain.asp?pg=4&subject=Literature   (2608 words)

  
 Marie Curie (1867-1934) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
LC Call No.: QD22.C8 D4 Dewey No.: 530/.0924 B 92 ISBN: 0811645061 Notes: A biography of the woman scientist whose dedication and hard work resulted in the discovery of radium and two awards of the Nobel Prize.
Series: Praeger pathfinder biographies LC Call No.: QD22.C8 I9 1969 Dewey No.: 530/.0924 B 92 Notes: A biography of the Polish-born scientist who, with her husband's help, isolated radium receiving the Nobel Prize for the achievement in 1903.
Series: A World pioneer biography LC Call No.: QD22.C8M32 Dewey No.: 530/.0924 B 92 Notes: A biography of the chemist whose research with radium made her the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the first person to receive the award twice.
www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlccurie1.htm   (854 words)

  
 Rutgers-Camden: Foreign Languages and Literatures
Her research focuses principally on how writers made sense—and art—of the radical reshaping of society following the Bolshevik Revolution.
In Border Crossings: The West and Russian Identity in Soviet Literature, 1917-1934 (1983) she explores how post-revolutionary writers probed the redefinition of national and individual identity.
Avins earned her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.
camden-www.rutgers.edu /dept-pages/forlangs/avinsbiog.html   (316 words)

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