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	The Rusyns - Rusyn
		Hence, Subcarpathian literature of the second half of the nineteenth century was in both theme and language characterized by resistance to magayarization.
		Separated as it was from Rusyn literature in the Carpathian homeland and influenced by specific historical and political circumstances as well as a different linguistic situation in a diaspora environment, Vojvodinian Rusyn literature experienced its own internal and continuous dynamic.
		Rusyn-language literature in the United States is connected with the large-scale immigration to North America that began in the 1880s and continued until the outbreak of World War I. In the 1890s the first of several Rusyn-language newspapers and annual almanacs began to be published, in which literary works, usually poetry and plays, appeared.
	www.rusyn.org /rusyns-literature.html (7453 words)

	DIDACTIC POETRY - LoveToKnow Article on DIDACTIC POETRY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the rest of surviving Latin didactic poetry, the influence and the imitation of Virgil and Lucretius are manifest.
		In Anglo-Saxon and early English poetic literature, and especially in the religious part of it, an element of didacticism is not to be overlooked.
		This is didactic poetry proper, and this, it is almost certain, became irrevocably obsolete at the close of the 18th century.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DI/DIDACTIC_POETRY.htm (3508 words)

	Anglo-Norman literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anglo-Norman literature is literature composed in the Anglo-Norman language developed during the period 1066-1204 when the Duchy of Normandy and England were united in the Anglo-Norman realm.
		The most flourishing period of Anglo-Norman literature was from the beginning of the 12th century to the end of the first quarter of the 13th.
		Didactic literature is the most considerable, if not the most interesting, branch of Anglo-Norman literature: it comprises a large number of works written chiefly with the object of giving both religious and profane instruction to Anglo-Norman lords and ladies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anglo-Norman_literature (3559 words)

	Didacticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Didactic refers to literature or other types of art that are instructional or informative.
		The term "didactic" also refers to texts that are overburdened with instructive and factual information, sometimes to the detriment of a reader's enjoyment.
		The opposite of "didactic" is "non-didactic." If a writer is more concerned with artistic qualities and techniques than with conveying a message, then that piece of work is considered to be non-didactic, even if it is instructive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Didactic_literature (193 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: French Literature
		This was the origin of didactic literature, in which the most important work is "Roman de la Rose", an immense encyclopedic work produced by two authors with tendencies and mentalities in absolute mutual opposition, collaborating at an interval of forty years.
		Hence the fondness of the literature of the seventeenth century for general ideas and for sentiments that are common to mankind, and its success in those kinds of literature which are based on the general study of the human heart.
		Hence the contempt of the seventeenth century literature for all that is relative, individual and mutable; in lyric poetry, which appeals primarily to the individual sentiment, in the description of material phenomena, and the external manifestations of nature, it falls short of success.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06190a.htm (14989 words)

	Barbara Foley, "Art or Propaganda"? Chapter 4 of 'Radical Representations'
		Their espoused commitment to the notion that all literature is propaganda for one side or another in the class struggle was countered by a deep antipathy to viewing proletarian literature as propagandistic in any of its distinctive rhetorical strategies.
		Second, the stipulation that literature is qualitatively distinct from science and journalism-and that this distinctiveness consists in literature's use of implicit and concrete modes of representation-perpetuated a formalist conception of the aesthetic sphere.
		In their call for a documentary literature defined and conceived in agitational and instru- / 163 /mentalist terms, the figures associated with L E F and Litfront were espousing a radical egalitarianism and, moreover, calling for a continuation of the class struggle in the realm of culture.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /holbein/439/bf/artorpropaganda.html (10410 words)

	Literary Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		didactic character/ didactic literature - A didactic character is one whose main purpose is the teach another character a valuable lesson.
		Didactic literature is designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson to the audience.
		The outcome of a tragedy is typically where the protagonist is isolated from society, which is in contrast with a comedy where the protagonist makes peace with society.
	www.gaston.k12.nc.us /schools/highland/class/weaver/literary_terms.htm (2320 words)

	Joanna Russ- Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction
		Written science fiction is, of course, literature, although science fiction in other media (films, drama, perhaps even painting or sculpture) must be judged by standards other than those applied to the written word.
		To treat medieval Catholicism as irrelevant to medieval literature is bad scholarship; to treat it as somebody else's silly but interesting superstitions is likewise extremely damaging to any consideration of the literature itself.
		It is the only modern literature which attempts to assimilate imaginatively scientific knowledge about reality and the scientific method, as distinct from the merely practical changes science has made in our lives.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/6/russ6art.htm (4338 words)

	"Didacticism in Fay Welson's Letters to Alice:Constructions of Instruction" by Vanessa Manhire
		Alice is studying English Literature at university and has written to her aunt Fay, a famous novelist, for advice.
		A didactic work is one that is designed to expound a branch of theoretical, moral, or practical knowledge, or else to instantiate, in an impressive and persuasive imaginative or fictional form, a moral, religious, or philosophical theme or doctrine.
		In practice, it is not always easy to identify; so much literature is didactic in intention but not in form; sometimes writers renounce didactic intentions but in practice use didactic forms.
	www.otago.ac.nz /DeepSouth/vol2no1/ltoa.html (4182 words)

	didactic -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The word is often used to refer to texts that are overburdened with instructive or factual matter to the exclusion of graceful and pleasing detail so that they are pompously dull and erudite.
		Some literature, however, is both entertaining and consciously didactic, as, for example, proverbs and...
		His novels and plays were both naturalistic and didactic, but Heijermans also wrote satirical sketches (under the name Samuel Falkland), and his skillful use of irony is also evident in the play De wijze kater (1917; The Wise Tomcat).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9124820?tocId=9124820&query=didactic&ct= (728 words)

	The morality play in English drama
		Most of the didactic literature in Europe was produced during the Middle Ages.
		The nondramatic didactic and allegorical precursors to the morality play are to be found in medieval sermon literature, homilies, exempla, fables, parables, and other works of moral or spiritual edification, as well as in the popular romances of medieval Europe.
		Originally, because of their roots in religious drama and their didactic purpose, moralities were serious in tone and style, but the increasing secularization of the plays led to the incorporation of elements derived from popular farce, a process encouraged by the presentation of the Devil and his servant the Vice as boisterous mischief-makers.
	riri.essortment.com /englishdrama_rjdz.htm (1731 words)

	French Literature
		Throughout the period, literature was shaped by specific historical traditions and a firmly circumscribed code of priorities, ecclesiastical and secular.
		The dominance of the Church ensured that literary expression was informed by a strong didactic spirit, while feudalism provided a common, if loose, framework of values until it was challenged in the thirteenth century by the growth of towns and a less courtly and more bourgeois public.
		Though the existence of a tripartite social hierarchy (clergy, aristocracy and the rest) might suggest separate literary constituencies, the notion of a ‘public’ for literature is difficult to define.
	www.frenchlanguageguide.com /french/culture/frenchliterature.asp (287 words)

	Centre for Medieval Studies - The University of Sydney
		Didactic literature on all themes and across the ages was the focus of this one-day symposium which was designed both to explore the range and tradition of didactic literature and to introduce to each other scholars in Australia working in this field, in order to create a sense of community amongst ourselves.
		John Scott, who is involved with the Macquarie University project to edit and translate William of Ockham’s Dialogus, discussed this didactic text which, presented as a dialogue between master and student, was intended to prove that Pope John XXII was a heretic.
		The next session was designed to study the latent didactic aspects of texts that did not immediately appear to have a didactic function.
	www.arts.usyd.edu.au /departs/medieval/events_symposia_DLS.html (683 words)

	Literary Terms D-H
		Didactic [literature is] designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson.
		an approach to literature that seeks to correct or supplement what may be regarded as a predominantly male-dominated critical perspective with a feminist consciousness.
		Formalist critics read literature as an independent work of art rather than as a reflection of the author’s state of mind or as a representation of a moment in history.
	web.cocc.edu /lisal/literaryterms/d_h.htm (1900 words)

	USCCB - The Wisdom Books
		With the exception of the Psalms, the majority of which are devotional lyrics, and the Song of Songs, a nuptial hymn, these books belong to the general class of wisdom or didactic literature, strictly so called because their chief purpose is instruction.
		The wisdom literature of the Bible is the fruit of a movement among ancient oriental people to gather, preserve and express, usually in aphoristic style, the results of human experience as an aid toward understanding and solving the problems of life.
		Despite numerous resemblances, sometimes exaggerated, between the sapiential literature of pagan nations and the wisdom books of the Bible, the former are often replete with vagaries and abound in polytheistic conceptions; the latter remained profoundly human, universal, fundamentally moral, and essentially religious and monotheistic.
	www.usccb.org /nab/bible/wisdom.htm (731 words)

	MELUS: The Lessons of "Donald Duk." - novel by Frank Chin - Critical Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The novel's use of cartoon, a form incompatible with a complex development of character, acts as a buffer between readers and the kind of emotional engagement with characters' lives often associated with a bildungsroman.
		I am suggesting, however, that Donald Duk's form is not adequate to its didactic agenda because it forfeits "the particularity, the emotive appeal, the absorbing plottedness, the variety and indeterminacy" that elicit the emotional energies required for ethical learning.
		When one voice predominates--as in the didactic novel--we have monologic discourse which, as Maria Shevtsova points out, is "made whole by, as it were, coercion....
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_4_24/ai_63323859/pg_3 (1343 words)

	Children's Literature in the Eighteenth Century
		Children's stories of the eighteenth century were primarily didactic in their purpose.
		Especially in the earlier parts of the eighteenth century, children's literature was devoted to religious pursuit.
		During the eighteenth-century, children's literature reflected and instilled many of the cultural norms concerning gender roles.
	www.umich.edu /~ece/student_projects/childrens_lit (430 words)

	Egypt: Wisdom Literature, A Feature Tour Egypt Story
		Didactic literature includes those texts the purposes of which are to inform, teach or persuade.
		A piece of literature, dating from the Ramesside Period, New Kingdom, laments the lack in that period of writers such as the sages of the past.
		The third category of wisdom literature is called "admonitions." These texts are descriptions or prophecies of diverse times in Egypt, when the country is overrun by outsiders and the normal social order is turned upside down.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/wisdom.htm (2198 words)

	Italian Literature
		The rise of a literature, both written and spoken, in the vernacular began in the 13th century; a period of great political and civil revival in the Italian cities and a lively renaissance in art and culture after the difficult centuries following barbarian domination.
		The first Italian poetry written with literary pretensions emerged, and flourished in Sicily at the Court of the Emperor Frederick II, starting from around 1220 and inspired by the Provencal love lyrics.
		Dante's major work, and the greatest in Italian literature is the "Divine Comedy": a complex and highly poetic work treating a vast subject.
	www.italianlanguageguide.com /italian/culture/literature (659 words)

	SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE (1927, 1933 - 1935) by H.P. Lovecraft
		Against it are discharged all the shafts of a materialistic sophistication which clings to frequently felt emotions and external events, and of a naïvely insipid idealism which deprecates the æsthetic motive and calls for a didactic literature to "uplift" the reader toward a suitable degree of smirking optimism.
		Touches of this transcendental fear are seen in classic literature, and there is evidence of its still greater emphasis in a ballad literature which paralleled the classic stream but vanished for lack of a written medium.
		Yet such was the thirst of the age for those touches of strangeness and spectral antiquity which it reflects, that it was seriously received by the soundest readers and raised in spite of its intrinsic ineptness to a pedestal of lofty importance in literary history.
	gaslight.mtroyal.ca /superhor.htm (16020 words)

	Session 8
		If you think about it, the revised Freides model of literature and bibliography is what a guide to the literature speaks to, and these social science subject guides will give their users advise about the "best" in each category of the model of literature and bibliography for each social science discipline.
		If you recall, Freides described the types of retrospective bibliography as being either research-oriented (whose intent is to "open new routes to the literature") or "didactic" or teaching --bibliography which attempts to summarize what is thought to be known and to point out the "best" to you.
		We have put selective and didactic bibliography together because both words denote the intention of aiding the student or other user in selecting only the best resources to use.
	www.ou.edu /ap/lis5703/sessions/s08 (1974 words)

	USCCB - The Wisdom Books
		With the exception of the Psalms, the majority of which are devotional lyrics, and the Song of Songs, a nuptial hymn, these books belong to the general class of wisdom or didactic literature, strictly so called because their chief purpose is instruction.
		The wisdom literature of the Bible is the fruit of a movement among ancient oriental people to gather, preserve and express, usually in aphoristic style, the results of human experience as an aid toward understanding and solving the problems of life.
		Despite numerous resemblances, sometimes exaggerated, between the sapiential literature of pagan nations and the wisdom books of the Bible, the former are often replete with vagaries and abound in polytheistic conceptions; the latter remained profoundly human, universal, fundamentally moral, and essentially religious and monotheistic.
	www.nccbuscc.org /nab/bible/wisdom.htm (731 words)

	Calls For Publications: Rhetoric of Didactic Children's Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Soliciting abstracts for a panel comprising three 25-minute papers addressing the linguistic and rhetorical ways that childhood was "talked about" and constructed during the late eighteenth century.
		This period is concerned with the changing nature of childhood but also with the changing nature of parenthood, both motherhood and fatherhood.
		Primary works also address the question of how best to administer proper education and values to children, whether in early fiction/literature for children, novels for adults, or didactic treatises for children or parents.
	www.unm.edu /~loboblog/cfp/archives/000165.html (131 words)

	Amazon.com: Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings: Vol. 1, The Old and Middle Kingdoms: Books: Miriam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I found her introductory survey on the development of Egyptian literature and her detailed explanation and notes of each text to be most useful in helping me understand what I was reading.
		The Didactic literature is also very interesting, generally being instructions from kings to sons on how to properly rule the kingdom after his death.
		In this volume, there are monumental inscriptions, instructional literature (including some very amusing works on the scribal life), hymns (including the great hymn to Osiris, and the Akhenaten hymns to the Sun), selections from the 'Book of the Dead', some prose tales and a factual narrative.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520028996?v=glance (1414 words)

	Search Results for didactic - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The word is often used to refer to texts that are overburdened with instructive or factual matter to the exclusion of...
		The close of the Vedic period was one of great cultural renewal, with the founding of the new monastic...
		a form of drama that is specifically didactic in purpose and that is meant to be performed outside the orthodox theatre.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=didactic&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (425 words)

	Didactic, Historical & Latin Literature
		Though, in a sense much literature can serve some didactic purpose, I am referring to literature whose accepted role was teaching a moral or scientific lesson.
		The second group is vernacular historical literature, much of which is referred to as chronicles.
		It is important not to forget that in a world where one language was the lingua franca of academia and of one of two dominant social classes, we may expect some important literary expression in that language.
	www.utm.edu /~globeg/latdidac.shtml (755 words)

	Central Eurasian Studies U564 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Broad and narrow definitions of literature: the scope of verbal art; written and oral; applied or free; religious and secular; its functions and forms; verse and prose; narrative, lyric and dramatic genres.
		Sources and studies: the main collections of Mongolian literature in the world; the Mongol verse; traces and monuments of the pre-13th c.
		The 19th c.: Rabjai's lyric, didactic poetry and theater; Sandag the Fable-Teller; Injannashi's novels and poetry; Keshigbatu; Ishidanjanwangjil, Buryat chronicles; narrative and lyric genres in the oral tradition.
	www.indiana.edu /~ceus/u564.html (232 words)

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