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  ALBANIAN LITERATURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
www.geocities.com /albaland/literature.html   (4380 words)

  
 SPANISH LITERATURE
Apart from during the Franco years (1939-1975) Spanish literature was written in these four languages, although the most representative has always been Castilian.
Today there is a certain ambiguity: Some critics identify Spanish literature with Castilian literature, and use the nomenclature Hispanic literature for the remaining peninsular languages.
To conclude, it is important to stress that Hispanic literature is simply a branch of Roman literature, that is to say, of Latin derivative languages.
www.spanisharts.com /books/literature/literature.htm   (565 words)

  
 1939 in literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1938 in literature, other events of 1939, 1940 in literature, list of years in literature.
December 25 - A Christmas Carol is read before a radio audience for the first time.
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth Enright, Thimble Summer
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1939_in_literature   (270 words)

  
 Literature in Finnish. (from Finnish literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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.
Biography of this Finnish Nobel laureate, for Literature, in 1939.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-2314?tocId=2314   (790 words)

  
 The War for Utopia: Comments on British ‘Peace Aims’ Literature, 1939-45
Regardless of the wartime paper shortage there came from the presses a profusion of model constitutions, planners’ blueprints, economic panaceas, party manifestos, pamphlets from architects and town planners, churchmen, industrialists, social hygienists, hikers and every other special interest group.
However, although the peace aims debate about the future of Britain and the world was at the very core of wartime politics, scholars have largely neglected both the individual texts of this discourse and its historical importance as a collective phenomenon.
At the same time, and integral to this discussion, is the issue of the relationship between utopian will and desire and the challenges, opportunities, and barriers presented by the world and the political process.
www.couplandcc.freeserve.co.uk /The%20War%20for%20Utopia.htm   (327 words)

  
 CHNN 16, Spring 2004, Thesis Report: British Communism and the Politics of Literature, 1928-1939
Its main concern is to provide a systematic and critical account of the communist understanding of the politics of literature.
Moreover, in spite of its debt to Soviet theory, much of the British work on literature and culture was noticeably unorthodox - sometimes consciously so, sometimes not.
I argue that these ideas are consistent with the main principles of the so-called 'revisionist' school of CPGB historiography which has emerged over the last 15 years.
les.man.ac.uk /chnn/CHNN16CPL.html   (1440 words)

  
 1939 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
1936 1937 1938 - 1939 - 1940 1941 1942
1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
January 2 - End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California.
www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1939   (1675 words)

  
 Dartmouth College Library
Under an imperial sun : Japanese colonial literature of Taiwan and the South / Faye Yuan Kleeman.
Language policy and cultural identity -- The nativist response -- Imperial-subject literature and its discontents.
Japanese literature -- Taiwan -- History and criticism.
libcat.dartmouth.edu:2082 /record=b3068440   (83 words)

  
 The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939: Emancipation and Its Discontents by Ritchie Robertson at Questia ...
Research Topics on: (Jews in literature) OR (Jews Germany History 1800 1933) OR (Jews Emancipation Germany) OR (Jews Cultural assimilation Germany) OR (Jews Public opinion)
The first significant Arabic literature was produced during the medieval golden...underwent a decline from which it recovered in a far different form.
The literature of the Jews developed mainly in the Hebrew language, although there were also works...haggadic material likewise forms part of the Hebrew literature of that period.
www.questia.com /library/book/the-jewish-question-in-german-literature-1749-1939-emancipation-and-its-discontents-by-ritchie-robertson.jsp   (2101 words)

  
 National Review: Makers of the New: The Revolution in Literature 1912-1939. - book reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As a narrative of the "men of 1914," as Wyndham Lewis called them, Makers of the New recounts the rise and decline of the new literature, its characteristic forms of expression, and the little magazines in which it appeared.
And while joyce with Ulysses "changed utterly" the twentieth-century novel, Symons argues that Joyce's more radical experiments in unreadable language, such as in Finnegans Wake, were "no longer profitable." Finally, Eliot's conversion to Christianity in 1927 "involved for him changes of attitude and of literary style" incompatible with Modernist thought.
Only Pound "remained in relation to literature a pure revolutionary." But since The Cantos were the product of a disintegrating mind given over to Fascism and anti-Semitism, they are only intermittently coherent and must, finally, be judged a failure.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n4_v40/ai_6406307   (915 words)

  
 Course Description for Spanish SPANISH LITERATURE FROM 1939 TO THE PRESENT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Course Description for Spanish SPANISH LITERATURE FROM 1939 TO THE PRESENT
SPANISH LITERATURE FROM 1939 TO THE PRESENT 315
A study of cultural and literary development since the Spanish Civil War.
www.umsl.edu /curriculum/COURSES/DESCRIPTION/4050/7780/315999945.html   (60 words)

  
 Part-Time Master's Degree in Modernism, Institute of Continuing Education, Continuing Professional Education Programme
The part-time Master's in Modernism is a two-year course which provides the opportunity to undertake specialist research in English Literature from 1890 to 1939.
The course considers the experimentation with language and form which resulted in the distinctive work of selected writers of the early modern period and the cultural and intellectual context in which that experimentation took place.
The course aims to place the literature studied in the social and historical conditions out of which it arose and which in turn it helped to shape.
www.cont-ed.cam.ac.uk /CPEP/Masters/Modernism   (792 words)

  
 The World Spider Catalog, V6.0 by N. I. Platnick © 2000 — 2005 AMNH
Bonnet's seven scholarly volumes are fully comprehensive, covering literature on all aspects of spider biology (through 1939).
Roewer's three volumes cover the taxonomically useful literature (through 1939 or 1954, depending on the family).
The family and generic limits used here are, in accord with Brignoli's practice, primarily a reflection of the current literature, rather than any of my own (unpublished) opinions; they should not be construed as arguments supporting or rejecting competing hypotheses.
research.amnh.org /entomology/spiders/catalog/INTRO2.html   (1008 words)

  
 Stagecoach (1939)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The (beautiful) starkness of the desert is often taken as a symbolic trip through a kind of purgatory for the characters, where they're left alone with their souls, their only connection being their small group, to contemplate their pasts and futures.
Ford's famous tendency to do only one take results in a couple minor gaffes, such as the initial shot of John Wayne--a zoom into a close-up--that is out of focus for most of the zoom.
As the plethora of critical literature attests, it works on many levels, including as an allegorical microcosm of U.S. Depression-era society, and should be seen at least once by anyone serious about film literacy.
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 Literature and democracy 1918 - 1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
“Witkacy” (February 24, 1885 in Warsaw – September 18, 1939 in Jeziory, Polesie) was a Polish writer and painter.
In 1954 he subjected arraignment of the time textbooks to history of literature, thanks what his works were resigned with circulation.
There in 1955 was one's of founders of Club of Twisted Ring.
www.euro2005.republika.pl /vorschlag/lit_1918_1939.htm   (786 words)

  
 Jonathan Goodwin » Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
“The Dawn of Literature: Prolegomena to a History of Unwritten Literature.” Osiris.
In the fifth act, the dictator Bolloxinion threatens “to invade heaven and bugger the gods” (Richard Elias: “Political Satire in Sodom,” Studies in English Literature.
You are currently browsing the archives for the Literature category.
www.jgoodwin.net /index.php?cat=2   (721 words)

  
 Morton Steinau
He would meet with a group of five or six students at the Y.M.C.A. where he had a room to discuss literature and drama.
He recalled that the only Greek he learned in Rice’s Greek class was the first sentence of the Bible.
His primary study was literature with Joseph Martin, his graduation advisor.
www.bmcproject.org /Biographies/SteinauMorton/STEINAUmortonBIO.htm   (534 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Mark Van Doren (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He wrote critical studies of various authors, including John Dryden (1920) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1949), compiled several anthologies, and collected his lectures on poetry in The Noble Voice (1946).
As a poet Van Doren was deeply influenced by Wordsworth.
Among his volumes of poems are Collected Poems, 1922–1938 (1939; Pulitzer Prize) and Morning Worship and Other Poems (1959).
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/VanDorenM.html   (283 words)

  
 1939 in literature - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
1939 in literature - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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The article about 1939 in literature contains information related to 1939 in literature, Events, New books, Births, Deaths and Awards.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/1939_in_literature   (289 words)

  
 rlsp214   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This course will look at the period of Spanish literature from 1939 (the end of the Civil War) to the present day.
The eras we will consider are: the immediate postwar period (the 1940s), the socially and politically engaged 1950s and 1960s, the transition to democracy and la movida, and finally the 1990s and the beginning of this new century.
We will study the concerns and themes of Spanish literature today and consider their evolution since 1939.
www.williams.edu /Registrar/catalog/depts0304/rlsp/rlsp214.html   (212 words)

  
 Irish Literature to 1939: English 233 UConn
Modern Irish Literature begins with the revival of myth in the late nineteenth century and continues in the exploration of roots of various kinds in the work of contemporary fiction writers and poets.
More than that, reading the material is the least of it; more important is what you have to say about it, what you make of it, and how keen and sensitive you are the face of this extraordinary literature.
The paper is to be an original discussion of one work by an Irish author, set in the context of Irish literature.
members.aol.com /leejacobus/233f97.htm   (583 words)

  
 Obituary - Norval K. Dwyer, 88, English literature instructor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She was a 1937 graduate of the University of Rochester, where she received her bachelor of arts degree.
She received her master's degree in English literature in 1939 from Colorado College.
Norval was an English literature instructor for eight years at Suffolk County Community College until retiring in 1968.
www.injersey.com /news/backstories.pl?paper=22&id=1003225   (291 words)

  
 checklist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
New York: Columbia University Press, 1939; in American Literature, 13 (1941—42), 87.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966; in American Literature, 39 (1967—68), 220—223.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1970; in American Literature, 43 (1971—72), 470—471.
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 African American Registry for Sunday October 23rd 2005
*Julius Lester was born on this date in 1939.
*Toni Cade Bambara was born on this date in 1939.
*Al Young was born on this date in 1939.
www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/category/8/literature   (1480 words)

  
 Literature & Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century
Parameters of Irish Literature in English: A Lecture Given at the Princess Grace Irish Library on Friday 25 April 1986 at 8:Oo P.M. (Princess Grace)
Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
www.ah0.org /subjects/17.shtml   (1593 words)

  
 Babelguides: Badenheim 1939
He then escaped into surrounding forests where he survived for 3 years before the wanderings (including time in the Red Army) which eventually took him to Palestine in 1946.
Badenheim 1939 is perhaps his most accomplished portrait of this world as we witness an Austrian spa town — Badenheim — preparing for the summer season and annual music festival with its full range of averagely well-to-do Jewish guests, from Dr Pappenheim the Festival director to the two respectable prostitutes Sally and Gertie.
This summer will be different though; what was to be a buoyant normal summer season, filled with people from the cities with the usual mix of neuroses, longings, pettiness and generosity will begin to seize up, as the Sanitation Department carries out inspections, wanting to know ’all kinds of peculiar details’.
www.babelguides.com /view/work/16124   (730 words)

  
 Literature and democracy 1939 - 1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mackiewicz studied natural sciences and before World War II he worked as a journalist in the Wilno Słowo (The Word).
Between October 1939 and May 1940 he was a publisher and editor-in-chief Gazeta Codzienna, a Polish language daily in Lithuanian-occupied Vilnius.
In his articles Mackiewicz tried to start dialog between Lithuanians and Lithuanian Poles.
www.euro2005.republika.pl /vorschlag/lit_1939_1945.htm   (338 words)

  
 Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory & History of Literature)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory & History of Literature) Review: He and Breton (the dead ox, vile priest, castrated lion of surrealism) violently attacked one another precisely because Bataille was opposed to the idealism and the upstanding morals of surrealism.
Bataille is probably spinning in his grave at the mere thought that his legacy would be trashed by the sloppy reference to him as a member of religion he so hated.
He has a piece in this called 'Mouth" which refers tothe position our heads take well being thrown back in a scream as that of an extension to our spines, inother words that we assume an animal architecture to our bones in the most extreme pains.
www.textkit.com /0_0816612803.html   (360 words)

  
 Genres: Espionage & War (category at ISBNdb.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Only several first subjects in this category are shown here, there are more subjects on a separate page.
Trojan War -- Literature and the war (87)
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Literature and the war (19)
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