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  Table of contents for Twentieth-century Korean literature
It is partly in recognition of the significance of this break that Korean scholars often term the literature of the entire twentieth century "Modern Korean Literature." The twentieth century was not kind to Korea.
It is literature, therefore, that offers the most concrete and the most abundant knowledge of the sensibilities and habits of thought, the moral values and aesthetic views that guided the lives of Koreans in the twentieth century.
Since North Korean literature has had a quite separate history since 1950 and possesses distinctive characteristics that require a thorough sociopolitical grounding to grasp, we have judged it to be a task better left for another time and place.
www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip056/2005001721.html   (1013 words)

  
 Arabic literature on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The first significant Arabic literature was produced during the medieval golden age of lyric poetry, from the 4th to the 7th cent.
The next great period of Arabic literature was a result of the rise of the new Arabic-Persian culture of Baghdad, the new capital of the Abbasids, in the 8th and 9th cent.
Notable 20th-century writers in Arabic include the novelist Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature, the playwrights Ahmad Shawqi and Tawfiq al-Hakim, the poets Hafiz Ibrahim, Badr Shakir as-Sayyab, Nazik al-Malaikah, Abdul Wahab al-Bayati, Mahmoud Darwish, and Adonis, and the short-story writer Mahmud Tymur.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/arabicli.asp   (1150 words)

  
 Literature from 1940 to 1970 (from Australian literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems, including language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.
As in the history of the literature of most peoples, poetry was the first literary expression of the Germans.
The term Russian literature is used to describe the literature of different areas at different periods, from the loose confederation of East Slavic tribes known as Kievan Rus that originated in the 10th century to the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union to present-day Russia.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-33327?tocId=33327   (791 words)

  
 Open-ended Questions for Advanced Placement Literature, 1970-2002
A recurring theme in literature is the classic war between a passion and responsibility.
A critic has said that one important measure of a superior work of literature is its ability to produce in the reader a healthy confusion of pleasure and disquietude.
Critic Roland Barthes has said, "Literature is the question minus the answer." Choose a novel, or play, and, considering Barthes' observation, write an essay in which you analyze a central question the work raises and the extent to which it offers answers.
homepage.mac.com /mseffie/AP/APOpenQuestions.html   (2899 words)

  
 Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture
Apart from age-old national literatures there existed, even in past ages, the conception of world literature as an anthology skirting the heights of the national literatures, and as the sum total of mutual literary influences.
Thus I have understood and felt that world literature is no longer an abstract anthology, nor a generalization invented by literary historians; it is rather a certain common body and a common spirit, a living heartfelt unity reflecting the growing unity of mankind.
And literature, as one of the most sensitive, responsive instruments possessed by the human creature, has been one of the first to adopt, to assimilate, to catch hold of this feeling of a growing unity of mankind.
nobelprize.org /literature/laureates/1970/solzhenitsyn-lecture.html   (5665 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Indian literature (Asian Literature) - Encyclopedia
Oral literature in the vernacular languages of India is of great antiquity, but it was not until about the 16th cent.
Among the Muslims classical Persian poetry was the fountainhead of a later growth in the Urdu literature produced for the Mughal court, and elaborate Urdu verse on set themes was produced in abundance.
Today there is a written literature in all the important languages of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as a large literature in English intended to reach all the university-educated public regardless of native language.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/I/Indianli.html   (431 words)

  
 1970 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1970 was a common year starting on Thursday.
November 13 - 1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people (this is regarded as the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster).
February 2 - Bertrand Russell, English logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1970   (4028 words)

  
 Literature Since 1970
Toni Morrison published her first novel, The Bluest Eye in 1970 and Alice Walker published a collection of poetry and a novel, The Color Purple, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983.
In looking at the literature of the nineties, it seems that Long and Collier wrote their obituary for the literature a bit too soon.
One look at a recently published anthology shows that the literature of the nineties is just as exciting as it was in the sixties.
www.tcc.fl.edu /courses/AML1600/units/lit70.htm   (1273 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - African literature (Miscellaneous World Literature) - Encyclopedia
African literature consists of a body of work in different languages and various genres, ranging from oral literature to literature written in colonial languages (French, Portuguese, and English).
Oral literature, including stories, dramas, riddles, histories, myths, songs, proverbs, and other expressions, is frequently employed to educate and entertain children.
Essential to oral literature is a concern for presentation and oratory.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Africanlit.html   (680 words)

  
 Dr. Gaye Luna, CC670/VTE670 Syllabus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Normative literature (Verner, 1970) addresses the normative dimension: What should be the aims of adult education and what were the appropriate means with which to achieve these aims?
Procedural literature (Verner, 1970) views adult education as a procedural discipline and the relationship of adult education to other levels and forms of education, for example, moving beyond educative practices based on pedagogy, (school-based practices designed for children) to andragogy (educative practices based on the unique characteristics of adults as learners).
Applicative literature (Luna, 1993) relates those theoretical studies and discussions to real life, practical, and day-to-day situations in adult education.
jan.ucc.nau.edu /~gpl/cc670/goals670.htm   (453 words)

  
 CHEST: Quality of life in patients with lung cancer: a review of literature from 1970 to 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This distinction was made due to the fact that in the former studies, either the cell type was not identified or different histologic types were included in the studies, whereas in the latter studies, only small or non-small cell lung cancer patients were included in the studies.
The year 1970 was chosen because the first study (to our knowledge) of quality of life in patients with lung cancer was published in 1970.
Of 151 citations, 68 were not restricted to specific cell type of lung cancer (47 citations on quality of life in lung cancer patients in general, and 21 citations on quality of life in cancer patients including that of lung).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0984/is_n2_v113/ai_20346656   (1263 words)

  
 English 401: Intro to Graduate Studies
She suggested that the word "Children's" added in frond of the highly esteemed term "Literature" functions in a negative manner, as far as academic value is concerned.
Children's Literature Criticism was accepted in the big family of Literature Criticism because it managed to establish a different self-image.
Proving that children's literature was also fit for adults was considered by many critics to be essential to the "whole view of the fairy tale and even of literature in general." The basis of the argument was that adults should grow with and not out off fairy-tales; i.e.
www.english.ilstu.edu /strickland/495/petros2.html   (1943 words)

  
 H32001F00   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
One of the most interesting and exciting aspects of contemporary German literature is its aesthetic diversity which eludes any clear-cut literary-historical definition.
Instead, we are confronted with the co-existence of multiple literary models, including documentary, feminist, metafictional, autobiographical, and immigrant literatures - compelling evidence that the notion of a single German literature has become totally obsolete.
The course is designed to reflect this aesthetic plurality which has shaped German-speaking literature over the last three decades.
www.haverford.edu /germ/320/H32001F00.html   (165 words)

  
 Agnon, Shmuel Yosef (1888-1970)
In 1932, he became recognized as one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature when he published the first edition of his collected works, including the folk-epic The Bridal Canopy, considered to be a cornerstone of modern Hebrew literature.
Running through his stories is the ever-recurring conflict between old and new, and many of his stories have a nightmarish quality, as they leave the reader wondering what is real and what is fantasy.
The crowning honor was the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966, the first granted to a Hebrew writer.
www.jajz-ed.org.il /100/people/bios/agnon.html   (681 words)

  
 Greenwood Publishing Group I1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Despite protestations to the contrary, myth criticism in literature is not dead: witness the well over 1000 illuminating sources published between 1970 and 1990 selected from thousands more and provided with succinct informative annotations.
The modern study of the relation between myths and literature began in the late 19th century with publication of James G. Frazer's The Golden Bough and reached a high water mark with Northrop Frye's archetypal criticism beginning in the late 1950s.
The "end of modernism" proclaimed in the late 1960s seemed also to toll the death knell for myth criticism, which was denigrated by some "new critics" of the "post-modernist" era.
info.greenwood.com /books/0313275/0313275459.html   (393 words)

  
 The Infography about American Jewish Literature
The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is American Jewish literature.
In the Mainstream: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1950s-1980s.
The Image of the Jew in American Literature: From Early Republic to Mass Immigration.
www.infography.com /content/966486369244.html   (312 words)

  
 Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich
He fought in World War II, achieving the rank of captain of artillery; in 1945, however, he was arrested for writing a letter in which he criticized Joseph Stalin and spent eight years in prisons and labour camps, after which he spent three more years in enforced exile.
After the publication of a collection of his short stories in 1963, he was denied further official publication of his work, and he resorted to circulating them in the form of samizdat ("self-published") literature--i.e., as illegal literature circulated clandestinely--as well as publishing them abroad.
In 1970 Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but he declined to go to Stockholm to receive the prize for fear he would not be readmitted to the Soviet Union by the government upon his return.
www.almaz.com /nobel/literature/Solzhenitsyn.html   (1055 words)

  
 1969 in literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
See also: 1968 in literature, other events of 1969, 1970 in literature, list of years in literature.
Penelope Ashe, author of bestselling novel, Naked Came the Stranger is found to be several people who each took a turn writing a chapter of what they described as "junk" in order to prove that sex-filled trash sells.
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lloyd Alexander, The High King
www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1969_in_literature   (244 words)

  
 Additional Reading (from Australian literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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In such societies written language is the chief means of transmitting culture and the benefits of civilization...
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?tocId=33329   (953 words)

  
 Literature from 1970 to 2000 (from Australian literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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The dual nature of Irish literature is further reflected in its two distinct tongues—Gaelic and English.
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 AML 1600: Syllabus
The primary objective of this course is to serve as an introduction to African-American Literature from the mid-18th century to the present.
The course will provide the student with a basic understanding of the social, political and cultural influences on the literature.
Unit 2: Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance, 1865-1919
www.tcc.fl.edu /courses/AML1600/units/syllabus.htm   (402 words)

  
 History of Children's Literature
Describes topics to be addressed, including a brief history of children's literature, didactic stories and romantic stories, child development and folklore, illustration, and the political questions of our time; and sex roles, multicultural stories, censorship, and television.
The book is divided into two parts, the first addressing the contexts within which literature for young people is viewed (including a brief historical survey, theories of child development, and instructional methods of sharing literature) and the second examining the principle literary genres and the necessary critical approaches to reach and evaluate literature.
A historical essay on the publishing trends in children's literature in the twentieth century precedes the annotated bibliography.
reading.indiana.edu /ieo/bibs/childhis.html   (2403 words)

  
 Bibliography of Greek Children's Literature Criticism
Kanatsouli, M. Amfisima tis Pedikis Logotechnias: Anamesa stin Ellinikotita kai stin Polipolitismikotita [Dualities of Children's Literature: Between Hellenism and Multiculturalism].
Kanatsouli, M. Introduction to the Theory and Criticism of Children's Literature.
Katsiki-Givalou, A. Children's Literature: Theory and Practice (Volumes 1 and 2).
www.angelfire.com /pe/GrChildLit/TheoryBiblio.html   (346 words)

  
 Literature (General)
Publishes scholarly essays on American literature with special emphasis on contemporary theoretical approaches to both canonical and noncanonical literature.
Focus is on cultural studies, critical theory, and the relationship of literature to culture.
Encompasses biographical, historical, and bibliographical articles on the literature, history, philosophy, art, and general culture of American during the period 1830-1860.
www.otal.umd.edu /amst/Research/serial/litgen.html   (803 words)

  
 Bookies eye the odds for the Nobel Prize - Boston.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For literature, British-based Ladbrokes gave its shortest odds to Syrian poet Ali Ahmad Said, known as Adonis; Korean poet Ko Un; American novelist Joyce Carol Oates; and Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer.
Europeans have won the literature prize in nine of the past 10 years, so the experts think the Swedish Academy may look outside Europe this year.
Boris Pasternak, author of "Dr. Zhivago," and Alexander Solzhenitsyn ("The Gulag Archipelago"), were so reviled by their Soviet government for winning the 1958 and 1970 literature prizes that they refused to travel to Stockholm for their awards, fearing they would be banned from returning.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/10/02/bookies_eye_the_odds_for_the_nobel_prize   (675 words)

  
 Modern English Literature (from English literature) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are treated separately under American literature, Australian literature, Canadian literature, and New Zealand literature.
The literature of England is one of the highest achievements of a great nation.
Reference source for students of English literature, dating from the medieval to the modern period.
0-www.britannica.com.library.unl.edu /ebi/article-200360   (900 words)

  
 Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Autobiography
If I had had a literary education it is quite likely that I should not have survived these ordeals but would instead have been subjected to even greater pressures.
Later on, it is true, I began to get some literary education as well; this was from 1939 to 1941, during which time, along with university studies in physics and mathematics, I also studied by correspondence at the Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature in Moscow.
I was arrested on the grounds of what the censorship had found during the years 1944-45 in my correspondence with a school friend, mainly because of certain disrespectful remarks about Stalin, although we referred to him in disguised terms.
www.nobel.se /literature/laureates/1970/solzhenitsyn-autobio.html   (1326 words)

  
 Nobel Prize in Literature 1970 - Presentation Speech
It is worth emphasizing this because from all points of the compass, not least the West, people are prone for various reasons to make exceptions in his case.
At the presentation of the Nobel prizes on 10 December 1970 I was charged by the Swedish Academy briefly to introduce the Nobel prizewinner in literature.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, my dear friend, with these few words I convey to you the warm congratulations of the Swedish Academy and ask you to receive from the hands of His Majesty the King the insignia of the prize to whose value you have added your honour.
nobelprize.org /literature/laureates/1970/press.html   (1553 words)

  
 Portuguese literature -> Bibliography on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
1970); R. Sousa, The Rediscoverers (1981); M. Schneider and I. Stern, Modern Spanish and Portuguese Literatures (1988).
The Mag: Real Life: Style Guru; Lassa Bent, 22, is a student who lives in Selly Oak with four friends.
She is currently studying French and Portuguese literature at Birmingham University.(Features)
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Portlit_Bibliography.asp   (357 words)

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