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	Volume A: American Literature to 1820
		If you are looking for "Anne," you might begin with The Author to Her Book, which evidently was written as the epigraph to the second edition of her collection of poems.
		A brief introduction to Puritanism and Puritan writers, including Anne Bradstreet, from Paul P. Reuben's PAL: Perspectives in American Literature site.
		Given that Bradstreet is a strict Puritan writing in 1666, in the wake of enormous sectarian turmoil in the English-speaking world, is there anything odd or dangerous about this metaphor of her book as the "ill-formed offspring" of Bradstreet's "feeble brain"?
	www.wwnorton.com /naal/vol_A/explorations/bradstreet.htm

	Discussion Groups
		The list is open to anyone interested in philosophical interpretations of literature, literary investigations of classical works of philosophy, philosophy of language, and literary theory.
		CTI-TEXTUAL STUDIES is a moderated list used by the CTI (Computers in Teaching Initiative) Center for Textual Studies to disseminate information of interest to academics who use computers in the teaching of literature, philosophy, logic, religious studies, classics, film studies, theatre arts and drama.
		EPIGRAPH-L is a scholarly discussion list devoted to the study of Classical Epigraphy.
	www.tlg.uci.edu /~tlg/index/listservs.html (2336 words)

	HIC - Works of Croatian Latinists
		Yet the echo of the tragic plight of the Croatian people, threatened by the Turks who were making deep inroads into Croatia, continued to reverberate and predominate in their literature for a long time to come, thus making anti-Turkish propaganda the main theme of Croatian Humanist literature.
		During the age of Humanism and the Renaissance, Latin became the language of literature and science and of the educated elite.
		He took Hugo Grotius's verses as the epigraph of his work:
	www.hic.hr /books/latinists/01latin.htm (2336 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
		The Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature professes to be a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the world of literature - authors, works, terms, and topics - from all eras and all parts of the world.
		Merriam Webster's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LITERATURE is a 1200 page overview of literature, with entries documenting important written materials from antiquity to contemporary times.
		Epigraph, for example, has two definitions, the first being "an inscription on a statue, a building, or a coin," and the second, "a quotation set at the beginning of a literary work." An oddity is the inconsistent description of living writers in both the present and past tense.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0877790426?v=glance (2336 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Empire of The Sun
		Based on events which Ballard himself witnesses and suffered while interned as a boy in Shaghai during the Second World War, this is an extraordinary addition to our modern literature of war.
		The work of JG Ballard could well be defined in terms of an epigraph from his novel The Drought (1965, now reissued together with three other early books), where the character Ransome is made to say: 'I've always thought of life as a kind of disaster area.'
		His new novel Empire of the Sun, however, deserves to be considered quite apart from his former work, not least because it marks a decisive break with his past reputation as essentially a science fiction writer.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/artsandentertainment/0,6121,96036,00.html (525 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Empire of The Sun
		Based on events which Ballard himself witnesses and suffered while interned as a boy in Shaghai during the Second World War, this is an extraordinary addition to our modern literature of war.
		The work of JG Ballard could well be defined in terms of an epigraph from his novel The Drought (1965, now reissued together with three other early books), where the character Ransome is made to say: 'I've always thought of life as a kind of disaster area.'
		His new novel Empire of the Sun, however, deserves to be considered quite apart from his former work, not least because it marks a decisive break with his past reputation as essentially a science fiction writer.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/artsandentertainment/0,6121,96036,00.html (519 words)

	Keith Tribble, Oklahoma State University
		Bunin emphasizes that his unique position in Russian letters is due to the variety of his opus and his perfectly fluent mastery of "many Russian languages, the languages of many castes." Sazonova found this statement so remarkable that she proposed it as epigraph for the book she was planning to write about Bunin.
		Bunin has often been relegated to the status of an anachronism in Russian literature, of a writer following in the mid-twentieth century the nineteenth century path of Turgenev and Tolstoj.
		Bunin explains that his childhood habit of lying re-emerged in adulthood in literary form.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2002/abstracts/Tribble.html (344 words)

	Section One (the predicament) – Outline
		The Moviegoer, where I remember, I think, the epigraph talks about one of Kierkegaard’s definitions of despair, the worst kind of despair being that kind of despair which is not aware of the stuff of despair.
		The Moviegoer, Percy speaks of his subject: “Alienated man is a fairly common subject of modern literature, as you well know.
		The Moviegoer is a novel of alienation and despair, specifically as these states appear in the occurrence of everydayness and the malaise.
	www.eastern.edu:93 /academic/trad_undg/sas/depts/english/thowell.html (8757 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
		Epigraph, for example, has two definitions, the first being "an inscription on a statue, a building, or a coin," and the second, "a quotation set at the beginning of a literary work." An oddity is the inconsistent description of living writers in both the present and past tense.
		The entry Drabble, Margaret, for example begins, "English writer of novels that are skillfully modulated variations on the theme of.
		The volume also will serve as a valuable supplementary source for literary allusions, with such entries as Banshee, Jezebel, Kali, and a variety of other mythological and religious entries.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/isbn=0877790426/105-0397590-8187967 (8757 words)

	<< Journals Division of UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS >>
		Berlant even takes her epigraph from, and appeals more than once to, Frantz Fanon (21, 24, 208), who was among the first to theorize what have become its characteristic stances.
		As if colluding strangely with American Studies, which seems unable to imagine its own early literature under a postcolonial perspective, The Empire Writes Back fails to allot a single close reading to an American text.
		As Berlant sees it, Hawthorne keeps faith both with the 'nowhere' of official nationness, and with the local – the everyday, political United States – within a certain 'critical nationalism' (58).
	www.utpjournals.com /jour.ihtml?lp=product/utq/624/624_mackenzie.htm (5896 words)

	At Swim - CASEBOOK
		Myles becomes quite fond of this metaphor, returns to it on 22 December 1964: "Finnegans Wake left a sort of Wake Island in the sea of literature" (qtd.
		Yet as often as not, when he assumes this role, Myles has his tongue clearly in his cheek--for example when he plays Shelley to Joyce's Keats, asserting that the great man died of disappointment when a critic mistakenly made a possessive of the plural "Finnegans" in the title of his last book (see epigraph).
		Myles was the name by which most of O'Nolan's world (that is, Dublin city and environs) knew him in life--a name the sound of which inspired either profound laughter or profound dread, depending upon the auditor.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /casebooks/casebook_swim/anspaugh.html (7754 words)

	Zeynep Ucbasaran - Franz LISZT Sonata in B minor
		Années de Pèlerinage was published in 1855, and a later reprint included a quotation from Sénancour, and also verses from Lord Byron's narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III 97, as the epigraph to the sixth piece.
		The second book of Années de Pèlerinage is based on Liszt's impressions in Italy, in particular the literature, paintings, and sculpture of the Italian Renaissance.
		These themes are transformed further in the Coda marked Allegro vivace and ends in Andante with a hint of the music of the distant Paradise in D major.
	www.sevensouth.com /recordshop/Ucbasara/03.php (7754 words)

	Temples of Orissa
		It is stated in the epigraph that a temple was built for SriKrishna and Valaram on the bank of Vindu Sarovar tank by Chandrikadevi, daughter of Ananga- bhimadev III,in the Saka era of 1200 (1278 A.D.).
		The temple of Kshirachora Gopinatha that stands here at a distance of about eight miles from Balasore district,is a modern one;but the image of Gopinatha is certainly much older than the time of Srichaitanya who visited it as evidenced by the Gaudiya Vaisnav literature.The deity had originally no image of Radha associated with it.
		The siva temple at Baudha, seem in all appearance, to belong to the early period of the Somavamsi supremacy.
	www.travelmasti.com /domestic/orissa/temple.htm (1659 words)

	Studies in Canadian Literature
		Margaret Laurence uses these final lines from Purdy's poem as the epigraph to The Diviners.* In the novel, Morag the writer may be defined as essentially "an interpreter of the past.
		Laurence and Munro are both interested in the implications of the photo's participation in past and present, nature and culture, continuity and discontinuity, activity and passivity; but the expression of their interest clarifies the distinctions between them, not least in their choice of form.
		Laurence, on the other hand, has said that her short stories have mainly been triggered by events she has experienced or read about, and her novels are the outgrowth from individual characters: it is they who come first, and then "they grow slowly in the imagination until 1 seem to know them well.
	www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol13_1/&filename=Bowen.htm (4864 words)

	RedNova News - Health - Sacred Chaos: Form and the Immediate in John Banville's Mefisto
		For such people, chaos and chance, far from being sources of fear to be excluded and shunned, were expressions of the divine and indicated a connection between humanity and "the gods." Roberto Calasso, in his book Literature and the Gods, throws an interesting light on the idea of chaos.
		Leonard Cohen captures the essence of the idea in this quatrain from his song "Anthem" (aptly used by Ingo Berensmeyer as an epigraph to his book on Banville):
		Following Hlderlin, a nineteenth-century German lyric poet, he associates the "divine" with the "immediate," which he defines as "the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive" (39).
	www.rednova.com /news/display/?id=154851&source=r_health (4864 words)

	Right Brain - #2 May 93
		Alexie's "Nature Poem" answers its epigraph - "If you're an Indian, why don't you write nature poetry?"- with terse lines describing doomed Indian fire fighters caught in a burning stand of pines.
		These are Alexie's first two works, the sure foundation of a significant addition to American literature.
		Alexie's Crazy Horse poetry is a view of America from the grave, a grave that can't hold the dead.
	www.washingtonfreepress.org /02/Books.html (1145 words)

	Boston Teran's God Is A Bullet by Michael Robison
		Before the story even begins, the epigraph tells the tale of the Aztec sun god Huitzilopochtli, strengthened by human blood, driving back the moon and the stars to allow the sun to rise.
		Jung called these primal concepts archetypes and discovered that they extended beyond the realm of dreams into significant and repeated themes in literature, art, religion, and mythology.
		It is the sign of the continuous cycle of creation and destruction, and the infinite circle of its body is a boundary between what is and what isn't.
	www.allanguthrie.co.uk /2/teran.htm (1145 words)

	Articles of War by Nick Arvin
		With piercing honesty and mesmerizing prose, Articles of War echoes the best of classic war literature–a provocative novel that raises as many intense questions as it answers.
		The epigraph from poet Marianne Moore broadens the conventional definition of war.
		“Articles of war” was the term once applied to laws and procedures established for American military personnel.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385512770&view=rg (919 words)

	Voice Literary Supplement: Wilde Thing
		Oscar Wilde wrote, "is rarely pure and never simple." That aphorism, from The Importance of Being Earnest, could serve as epigraph for Clare Elfman's taut novel The Case of the Pederast's Wife, which probes the truth about Wilde's marriage.
		As he flatfoots through the mists of the Wildes' relationship, Frame models himself on one particular sleuth: Sherlock Holmes, the piercingly acute detective Arthur Conan Doyle had unleashed on literature just a few years before Wilde's trial.
		But aficionados know that the joy of reading a mystery lies in surrendering to the narrative, suspending all that niggling disbelief—swallowing wholesale, for example, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and her unlikely ability to reel murderers in from the village of St. Mary Mead.
	www.villagevoice.com /vls/166/wren.shtml (586 words)

	Society of Biblical Literature
		Palaeographic and orthographic anomalies and anachronisms are of fundamental importance, and in my opinion egregious violations of attested ancient orthography and palaeography provide sufficient basis for complete rejection of a non-provenanced epigraph.
		Based on various factors, especially palaeographic issues, Frank M. Cross has considered the Ivory Pomegranate to be a probable forgery for some time, as have I. See Rollston, "Non-Provenanced Epigraphs I," 182, n.
		Forgers have means, motive, and opportunity; however, epigraphers and palaeographers also have a substantial counter-arsenal.
	www.sbl-site.org /Article.aspx?ArticleId=370 (4240 words)

	The Just -- Albert Camus
		Nonetheless, the play moved me to tears when I first read it; the only other literary work to accomplish that was Romeo and Juliet (from which the beginning epigraph of The Just comes, oddly enough).
		Even though Camus was once characterized by my friend Rob as "the Friendly Existentialist" (certainly so, compared to reading Sartre) and The Stranger is standard fare in literature classes.
		It's so beautiful in French, but I never could find an English translation that did it justice.
	www.segnbora.com /justes (318 words)

	Volume A: American Literature to 1820
		If you are looking for "Anne," you might begin with The Author to Her Book, which evidently was written as the epigraph to the second edition of her collection of poems.
		Anne Bradstreet married when she was only sixteen, but her father ensured that she received an education superior to those of her female peers.
		Bradstreet found life in the colonies difficult: she suffered from fatigue, the result of a childhood bout with rheumatic fever, yet she gave birth eight times.
	www.wwnorton.com /college/english/naal/vol_A/explorations/bradstreet.htm (558 words)

	SYLLABUS FOR AP LITERATURE
		CLASS 2: read Riddley Walker from epigraph to p.
		I've listed the assignments for the first book, Riddley Walker, by class meetings.
		It is up to you to keep track of when those class meetings take place.
	www.mccallie.org /english/bbires/syllabus_for_ap_literature.htm (129 words)

	Master F.W.D., R.I.P.
		Donald Foster's critical apparatus is formidable, and each crux is resolved by numerous extracts from contemporary literature, giving evidence of assiduous reading.
		Had the Epigraph read "that eternitie promised by the ever-living poet," it might (perhaps) have carried Foster's meaning.
		Donald Foster has found numerous examples of the use of the compound adjective "ever-living", most of which ('x') refer to the Almighty.
	www.everreader.com /rollett.htm (948 words)

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