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  WritingtheStoryofFrance
This literature belies the postwar interpretation by Charles de Gaulle that the French resisted the German occupiers.
It also contradicts the interpretation that French writers kept silent about the war years and were uncomfortable with the memory of what happened in France during the occupation or during the period of the liberation and the immediate postwar reconstruction.
The writers of these works of literature present a clear, sometimes brutally honest and often damning portrait of France and the French during their darkest hour.
www.unprsouth.com /WritingStoryofFrance.htm   (343 words)

  
 1942 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
1939 1940 1941 - 1942 - 1943 1944 1945
1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar).
During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.
www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1942   (2418 words)

  
 Research Guide: Language & Literature of Ireland - Boston College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hyde argues that literature was diffused among all classes of native Irish.
This history of Irish Gaelic is divided chronologically, from the origins of the language to the role and place of Irish in the Northern Ireland and Irish Republic of the late-twentieth century.
The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881- 1921.
www.bc.edu /libraries/research/guides/s-irishlitlang   (4233 words)

  
 Modern Chinese literature (from Chinese 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.
China is the only country in the world with a literature written in one language for more than 3,000 consecutive years.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-61269?tocId=61269   (889 words)

  
 literature
The state promotes the development of literature and art, the press, broadcasting and television undertakings, publishing and distribution services, libraries, museums, cultural centres and other cultural undertakings, that serve the people and socialism, and sponsors mass cultural activities.
As Mao put the matter in his famous lectures at Yan'an in the spring of 1942, art and literature must "awaken and arouse the masses and impel them to unite and struggle to change their environment.
Advocates of the so-called "Root-Seeking Literature" of the 1980s--including A Cheng, Han Shaogong, Jia Pingwa, Li Hangyu and Mo Yan-- were more nostalgic than the Misty poets but, likewise inclined toward the use of creative and unorthodox imagery.
www.owlnet.rice.edu /~anth220/literature.html   (11557 words)

  
 UW Libraries - Comparative Literature ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Post-colonial Literatures in English: general, theoretical, and comparative, 1970-1993.
Post-colonial Literatures in English: Southeast Asia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, 1970-1992.
Home page offers links to on-line publications, to departments of comparative literature around the world by country, and to upcoming conferences.
www.lib.washington.edu /subject/CompLit/bibliog.html   (502 words)

  
 Howard University Press - Backlist: Literary Criticism
The Dramatic Vision is a lesson in the making of an artist, for it traces the evolution of a major voice in American theater from his boyhood interest in fl literature to his phenomenal success as an adult writing plays of the fl experience.
Today, Hurston is recognized as a giant not only of African-American literature and of feminist literature, but also of the literary world as a whole.
Toward the Decolonization of African Literature exposes the foreign domination of African literature by Eurocentric authors and critics.
www.founders.howard.edu /HUpress/BACKLIST/LiteraryCriticism.htm   (919 words)

  
 Anthology of World Literature : Section 14 : Making Connections
In sharp contrast to the spiritual guidance provided Dante by Beatrice in the Divine Comedy, covered in "The Formation of a Western Literature", Petrarch's Laura is an ambiguous figure who alternately plays the role of divine guide and earthly temptress (see pages 1836–1962 in volume B).
Both take their cues from earlier works of non-Western literature such as the Thousand and One Nights, covered in "The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature" (see pages 1566–1618 in volume B), and Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara, covered in "India's Classical Age" (see pages 1342–1350 in volume B).
The patterns of familial conflict within the larger pattern of the polis inherent in Hamlet can be detected in the Sophoclean dramas Oedipus the King and Antigone, covered in "Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind" (see pages 612–693 in volume A).
www.wwnorton.com /nawol/s14_mc.htm   (446 words)

  
 Literature from the Vietnam War Pathfinder
American Literature; a journal of literary history, criticism and bibliography is available from 9/1/1997 to present in ProQuest Research Library.
Contemporary Literature is available as follows: [from 3/22/1992 to 9/22/1999 in Expanded Academic ASAP] [from 1/1/1995 to present in Wilson Select Plus] [from 1/1/1994 to 12/31/1998 in ProQuest Research Library]
Journal of modern literature from 01/01/1996 to 06/01/1997 in ProQuest Research Library; from 01/01/1998 to present in ProQuest Research Library; from 06/01/1997 to present in Wilson Select Full Text Plus; from 06/01/1999 to present in Expanded Academic ASAP, General Reference Center Gold and InfoTrac OneFile; from Winter 1998/1999 to present in Project Muse
www.rhodes.edu /library/pathfinders/literaturevietnamwar.html   (641 words)

  
 Additional Reading (from American literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The result is a literature rich in expressive subtlety and social insight, offering illuminating assessments of American identities and history.
A literature is the record of human experience, and people have always been impelled to write down their impressions of life.
Thus literature became deeply rooted in the history of the countries of Latin America.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-42286?tocId=42286   (1792 words)

  
 1942   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Karachi, June 4: L.K. Advani’s hour-long stopover at St Patrick’s, where he studied from 1936 to 1942, was soaked in nostalgia.
Some years ago, Donnelly vowed to spend 178 weeks honoring the 178 sailors who died Nov. 30, 1942, when a Japanese torpedo struck the USS New Orleans during the Pacific battle of Tassafaronga.
In 1942, the Battle of Midway began during World War II.
www.infothis.com /find/1942   (2791 words)

  
 USSR State Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
4 Recipients of the USSR State Prize in literature and arts by year
Alexander Fadeyev: literature, for The Young Guard (1945?)
Recipients of the USSR State Prize in literature and arts by year
www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Stalin_Prize   (623 words)

  
 Comparative and General Literature: A Selected List of Reference Sources
Literature and Law in the Middle Ages: A Bibliography of Scholarship.
Ann Arbor: Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Michigan, 1968.
Literature of the German Democratic Republic in English Translation: A Bibliography.
subject.lib.umn.edu /hum/complit.html   (2828 words)

  
 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.
www.library.yale.edu /humanities/english/engbib.html   (3186 words)

  
 Presidential Lectures: Beatriz Sarlo: Introduction
Born in 1942, she studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires, "es con la literatura...con la que tengo una relación más intensa," she has confessed.
True to her formal training in literature, Sarlo's work has included studies on Argentina's literary giants: Sarmiento, Borges and Cortázar.
In 1978 Sarlo and a group of progressive intellectuals founded the journal Punto de Vista during the military regime, a courageous act at a time when alternative voices were considered subversive.
prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/sarlo   (602 words)

  
 Guide to the Archives of the Committee on Christian Literature For Women and Children in Mission Fields, Inc. (Record ...
Guide to the Archives of the Committee on Christian Literature For Women and Children in Mission Fields, Inc.
In 1970 a new program of developmental literature for women was begun to undergird programs of public health, nutrition, community development, vocational training and economic justice.
The archives contain valuable primary data documenting Christian literature initiatives and discussion regarding issues of indigenous language and art pertinent to the Christian literature enterprise.
webtext.library.yale.edu /xml2html/divinity.090.con.html   (1810 words)

  
 Davidson College Library: Research Guide for ENG 292
For additional resources and tools, consult the "Indexes & Databases" pages for Literature and ask a librarian for help.
A Bibliography of Studies and Translations of Modern Chinese Literature, 1918-1942.
To locate citations to essays from earlier years, consult Essay and General Literature Index, 1900—1984 (Reference Index Area R 050 E78).
www.davidson.edu /administrative/library/refer/eng292.asp   (598 words)

  
 BIBLIOGRAPHY of GAELIC ARTHURIAN LITERATURE
Gowans, Linda, "The Eachtra an Amadáin Mhóir as a Response to the Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes," Arthurian Literature, 19: Comedy in Arthurian Literature (2003), 199-230.
Dooley, Ann, "Arthur in Ireland: the earliest citation in native Irish literature," Arthurian Literature, 12 (1993), 165-72.
Baumgarten, Rolf, Bibliography of Irish Linguistics and Literature, 1942-71.
www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/acpbibs/gowans.htm   (7736 words)

  
 Learn more about 1942 in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Learn more about 1942 in the online encyclopedia.
Years: 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 - 1942 - 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947
March 5 - Felipe González Márquez, politician (+ 1942)
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /1/19/1942.html   (1885 words)

  
 Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The term “literature” is derived from the Latin litter-
Literature was a new or alternate term for what in
Literature in the eighteenth century began to be felt
etext.lib.virginia.edu /cgi-local/DHI/dhiana.cgi?id=dv3-11   (4398 words)

  
 Christian Literature Society for China Annual Report | CWC Periodical Detail
The Society for the Diffusion of Christian and General Knowledge among the Chinese duly came into existence, in Shanghai, in 1887.
The two societies were generally identified, and when in 1892 the Book and Tract Society reorganized itself into the Christian Literature Society for China, with the special aim of supporting the Diffusion Society, the new name was applied indiscriminately to both.
In 1906 the Diffusion Society itself adopted the name.;In 1941 the London committee of the Christian Literature Society for China joined the United Society for Christian Literature, and in 1942 the Scottish committee followed.
research.yale.edu:8084 /missionperiodicals/viewdetail.jsp?id=693   (188 words)

  
 Who Won The Nobel Prize For Literature In 1942   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
If she won the throne of England, both Scotland and England would be...
Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936, and Pulitzer Prizes for four of his plays...
The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded annually in...
www.nabsnet.org /who-won-the-nobel-prize-for-literature-in-1942.html   (213 words)

  
 School of Celtic Studies - Bibliography of Irish linguistics and literature, 1942-1971   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
School of Celtic Studies, Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh / Catalogue Index / A: Bibliography / A 3: Bibliography of Irish linguistics and literature, 1942-1971
A 3: Bibliography of Irish linguistics and literature, 1942-1971
In the first place, the detailed classification system used provides a survey of material published in each specific subject area, entries being duplicated where necessary.
www.celt.dias.ie /publications/cat/a/a3.html   (197 words)

  
 Battle Of The Coral Sea
Subject: Coral Sea, Battle of the, 1942, Juvenile literature., Coral Sea, Battle of the, 1942...
During April 1942, there was evidence that the Japanese were planning to invade Port Moresby.
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought in the waters southwest of the Solomon Islands and...
www.the-gsba.org /battle-of-the-coral-sea.html   (635 words)

  
 English Course Descriptions
E302 1951 - Literatures in English 1600 to 1800
E302 1952 - Literatures in English 1600 to 1800
E303 1953 - Literatures in English 1800 to 1900
www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blspr03/eng   (242 words)

  
 Aziza Jafarzade - Life and Works   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
After graduating from School No. 25, she entered the Theater Technical School and then two-year Teachers' Institute.
1937: She started her literary work at the age of 16 and her first story called "Angel of Death" was published in "Adabiyyat" (Literature) newspaper.
She was known as an expert in the history of Azerbaijani literature.
www.azeri.org /Azeri/az_latin/latin_lit/az_literature/short_stories/jafarzade_aziza/jafarzade_aziza_eng/aziza_jafarzade_life.html   (1162 words)

  
 NMOA Museum Letters Index
From Bob Westenberg, an outstanding letter-writing specialist who has had nearly half a century of experience at producing results for clients of all kinds.
Reproduced here is the magnificent portfolio called "20 Winning Letters" circulated by Prentice-Hall, Inc. in 1942.
Numbers One, Two, and Three won the first, second, and third prizes in a Better-Letter Contest initiated by Business Ideas Service.
www.nmoa.org /Museum/letters   (559 words)

  
 WEMSK39 Celtic Literature
Gwyn Williams, An Introduction to Welsh Literature, 2d ed.
Literature (Cambridge: Brewer, 1993): "The purpose of this book is
Literature in the Vernacular, A.D. 800-1300," Cambridge Medieval
www.the-orb.net /wemsk/celticlitwemsk.html   (1672 words)

  
 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1942 Fellows Page
Frederick Malcolm Combellack, Professor Emeritus of Greek Literature, University of Oregon: 1942.
Morris Edward Opler, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma: 1942.
Edmund Taite Silk, Dunham Professor Emeritus of the Latin Language and Literature, Yale University: 1942.
www.gf.org /42fellow.html   (197 words)

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