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  WESTERN CANON GREAT BOOKS UNIVERSITY: The Great Books of Western Civilization
So welcome to Western Canon University, where the professors are the Great Books of the Western Heritage, the lecture halls extend throughout the watery globe, and the daily homework assignment is to live one’s life in the context of the Greats.
The Western Canon is the final gem that is sought by those who have obtained all other forms of worldly treasures and material wealth.
At Western Canon University we look forward to having volunteer tutors preside over the discussion forums, lead the debates, and suggest passages, works, and volumes of criticism which might be of particular interest to scholars of the Western Soul.
westerncanon.com   (4550 words)

  
  Western (genre) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Westerns are art works – films, literature, sculpture, television and radio shows, and paintings – devoted to telling stories set in the American West, often portraying it in a romanticized light.
Westerns, by definition, are set in the American West, almost always in the 19th century, generally between the Antebellum period and the turn of the century.
Western fiction got its start in the "penny dreadfuls" and later the "dime novels" that first began to be published in the mid-nineteenth century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_movie   (3281 words)

  
 Western culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The origins of Western Culture are often cited as ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Catholic and Protestant Christianity, and as such, some describe it as "Judeo-Christian culture." However, its source also lies prominently in the Germanic, Slavic and Celtic popular cultures that took part in the formation of the culture of medieval Europe.
Renaissance Western culture was spread to the New World and beyond in the 1500s by explorers, colonists, traders, and missionaries.
The eradication of that ancient scourge, smallpox, was led by a Westerner, Donald Henderson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_culture   (1573 words)

  
 Literary History of the American West - The Written Donnée of Western Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In his chapter on that literature, J. Golden Taylor explains that those adventure narratives are the source for much later western literature.
Our perception of western literature can be sharpened not only by studying the early adventure narratives, but also by examining later accounts of western experience.
Western writing in the areas of history, anthropology, archaeology, and social protest also often influences the literature, yet we have no historical survey of any of those forms as they evolved in our region.
www2.tcu.edu /depts/prs/amwest/html/wl0068.html   (841 words)

  
 The American West in the English Curriculum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
But western literature, like American literature, is here to stay, and western literary studies must face similar problems of acceptance, in addition to coming to terms with the special handicap created by the popular western.
I do not know when the first course on western literature was taught, but scattered evidence suggests that the growth of the number of such courses probably matched for some time the growth of western literary studies, since many of the books on western literature may have been revised versions of class lectures.
Western history courses probably also led to the establishment of courses on western literature, since the history courses stimulated an interest in the literature of the West.
www.mla.org /ade/bulletin/n075/075029.htm   (2786 words)

  
 European Literature - Electronic Texts
Dutch literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.
Projekt Gutenberg and ALO-Austrian Literature Online are the largest, but see also Google Book Search (full text search not effective for books in Fraktur).
Literatur im Netz and Literaturwelt have descriptive entries for contemporary literature published on the Web and for literary journals on the Web.
www.lib.virginia.edu /wess/etexts.html   (1092 words)

  
 Ancient literature (from Western literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Some of it had been forgotten before it was possible to commit it to writing; fire, war, and the ravages of time have robbed posterity of most of the rest; and the restitutions that archaeologists and paleographers achieve from time to time are small.
Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems, including language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.
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-15346   (806 words)

  
 Children's Literature
Those who regard oral and written literature as having equal values might argue that this was achieved because the African child despite being introduced to western literature was at the same time still listening to stories and proverbs at home.
The introduction of formal education emphasized written literature as mature, civilized, and conscious of its art, and considered oral literature as primitive and lacking in technique.
The South African Children's Literature Collection at UCT [see the same page for their historical Children's Literature Collection]: "Books published in South Africa from 1989 and exhibited annually by the Children's Book Forum of the Western Cape make up the core of this collection, apparently the only one of its kind in the country.
web.uflib.ufl.edu /cm/africana/children.htm   (1213 words)

  
 Turkish Literature
The history of Turkish Literature may be divided into three periods, reflecting the history of Turkish civilization as follows: the period up to the adoption of Islam, the Islamic period and the period under western influence.
Turkish Literature was influenced by the Western Literature.
The latest period in literature, which is known as the Turkish Literature of the Republican period, came to be influenced by the following literary schools after Divan literary styles had been abandoned: Tanzimat (reforms), Servet-i Fünun (scientific wealth), Fecr-i Ati (dawn of the new age) and Ulusal Edebiyat (national literature).
www.searchturkey.com /TURKEY/turkish_literature.htm   (1569 words)

  
 opencopy.org - Lecture 1: Early Depictions of Reality in Western Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Its fundamental text – the Bible – was indispensable to the emergence of a modern literature that began to push the boundaries of realism and allow authors to explore the dynamic historical forces related to the processes of everyday life.
The entire point of most ancient literature is to ethically instruct or to entertain; it certainly is not designed to put the reader in touch with his or reality.
To be sure, western thinkers and writers did need to break through the bonds of customary and sacred history in order to focus attention on the secular and scientific in ways that we are accustomed to call realistic.
opencopy.org /content/view/42/26   (10333 words)

  
 Book Ark Category Headings for Shelving - XXIV-XXV
Western Draughtsman, Painters, and Printmakers from 1600 to 1789
Western Draughtsman, Painters, and Printmakers from 1789 to 1900
Western Draughtsman, Painters, and Printmakers from 1900 to 1945
www.bookark.com /shelvingcategories/cat24-25.html   (1090 words)

  
 Yiddish Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Yiddish literature may be divided into three periods: the period of preparation, the classical age, and the postclassical period.
The brief classical age of Yiddish literature, from the late 19th to the early 20th century, is epitomized in three great writers of fiction: Shalom Jacob Abramowitz, better known as Mendele Mokher Sefarim (Mendele the Itinerant Bookseller); Shalom Aleichem; and Isaac Leib Peretz.
Peretz, who had assimilated the influences of the great Russian authors of his time and of the classic literature of Western Europe, was the most intellectual and the most cosmopolitan of the three writers.
www.bergen.org /AAST/Projects/Yiddish/English/literature.html   (1455 words)

  
 Mimesis : The Representation of Reality in Western Literature by
He analysed various Western literary text in the light of form and the social structuer of that time.
His point is that we could detect the social structure of that time or totality, in the term of Marxist tradition, not only in content but also in form, or in Auerbach's term, style.
His aim was to show how from antiquity to the twentieth century literature progressed toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation.
www.negative-procreative.biz /stuff-069111336X.html   (1062 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Japanese literature : Western Influence (Asian Literature) - Encyclopedia
After the dramatic opening of Japan to the West in 1858, the flood of translations from Western literature that followed induced the Japanese to give prose fiction a new direction and psychological realism.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892–1927) is known for his unusual stories based in part on earlier tale literature and folklore.
Japanese literature suffered a slump during World War II, when the government censored literary expression it considered contrary to the interests of the state.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/Japan-lit-western-influence.html   (307 words)

  
 Japanese literature on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
JAPANESE LITERATURE [Japanese literature] literary works produced in the language of the islands of Japan.
Much Heian literature of note was written by aristocratic women, foremost among whom was Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki).
Plays by dramatist Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1724), originally written for the puppet theater but adapted into kabuki performance as well, are important in world literature as the first mature tragedies written about the common man. Matsuo Basho, regarded as the greatest of haiku poets, brought the developing haiku, a 17-syllable poem, into full flower.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Japan-lit_WesternInfluence.asp   (1810 words)

  
 Medieval literature (from Western literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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It is best known for the richness of its classical period, which is equivalent in time to the early and medieval periods in western European literature.
Written literature first emerged in the 18th century, but most has been produced in the 20th century.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-15347   (839 words)

  
 Western European Studies Section: WESSWEB
The Western European Studies Section (WESS) is part of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
WESS is professionally involved in the acquisition, organization, and use of information sources originating in or related to Western European countries.
Our aim is to promote the improvement of library services supporting study and research in Western European affairs from ancient times to the present.
www.dartmouth.edu /~wessweb   (581 words)

  
 ENGL 2410 - Western World Literature I
A survey of masterpieces of Western World literature: the ancient Near East, ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.
We will be reading assigned sections of literature from the ancient Near East, the ancient Greeks and Romans, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.
If for some reason the student must hand in any assignment late, it is his or her responsibility to contact the professor prior to the due date.
www.tn.regentsdegrees.org /courses/syllabi/engl2410.htm   (1701 words)

  
 Western Literature in a World Context   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In our experience, this thematic approach to the literature of Western and non-Western traditions helps students to synthesize an otherwise unwieldy array of diverse texts and traditions in the two-semester or three-quarter sequence of most Western Literature, World Literature, or Humanities courses.
As you can see from the tables of contents for Volume 1 and Volume 2, Western Literature in a World Context is divided into the six periods usually studied in Western and world literature courses: the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Nineteenth Century, and the Twentieth Century.
The other works of Western literature in each section, ordered chronologically by the author's birthdate (or presumed date of composition), further develop, challenge, and elaborate the themes and stories in the representative texts.
www.unm.edu /~garyh/pubs/wlwc.html   (1982 words)

  
 eMJA Bookroom: Doctors in Western literature
Described as a reference guide highlighting 1500 passages from over 600 texts (virtually all available in English), this volume is compiled from Posen’s lifetime of reading with an eye toward literary portraits of physicians.
This is not an anthology, for excerpts from literature frequently run but a sentence or two and serve Posen’s points rather than those of cited texts’ authors.
Nor is it an annotated bibliography of literature depicting doctors, or even the index that the author suggests medical scholars need, for references are embedded in Posen’s assertions and one must go to endnotes for full information.
www.mja.com.au /public/bookroom/2005/childress/childress.html   (319 words)

  
 Western Australian Literature
The University of Western Australia takes special responsibility for recording this field of Australian literature, under the direction of Professor Dennis Haskell and Associate Professor Delys Bird.
The Western Australian Literature subset of records originated in the publication of Western Australian Literature: A Bibliography in 1981 and its revised 1990 edition, Western Australian Writing: A Bibliography.
Western Australian Literature information is sourced from the full range of AustLit information sources, including the the National Bibliographic Database via Kinetica, and a number of specialist sources, including:
www.austlit.edu.au /specialistDatasets/WABib   (517 words)

  
 Description of CL903: Classical Roots of Western Literature
Most modern literature is influenced in some way by the works of classical antiquity.
Our work will culminate with a faculty-mentored project in which students will be encouraged to reconsider a favorite work in light of their newfound familiarity with the scope and depth of the classical roots of western literature.
This course is designed for students who are seeking an introduction to classical literature or those who already have had exposure to classical culture.
homepage.mac.com /bmulligan/classics/roots2004/description.htm   (1920 words)

  
 Arts Literature Genres Western Authors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
With ten books, hundreds of magazine articles, and a 20-year syndicated newspaper column--all about western times in western places--Roland turns now to the type of writing he's trained a lifetime to create.
Randisi, Robert J. - Western author and editor discusses his latest anthology TIN STAR and talks about his writing career in the Western genre.
Rogers, Lincoln - Active member of the Western Writers of America and author of cowboy poetry, western short fiction and western journalism.
iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Arts/Literature/Genres/Western/Authors   (1129 words)

  
 Read about Western literature at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Western literature and learn about Western ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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 Amazon.co.uk: Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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He uses many different literary sources in his book drawing on references from many works of western literature from Homer and The Old Testament by way of Dante and many other writers, to Virginia Woolf and Emile Zola.
The aspects of the book are the ways in which Auerbach considers not just situations and experiences but also individual characters and places and the reality of their representation.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/069111336X   (860 words)

  
 Inde (Apache) Literature
The Apache are composed of six regional groups: the Western Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan, and Kiowa Apache.
The Western Apache (Coyotero) traditionally occupy most of eastern Arizona and include the White Mountain, Cibuecue, San Carlos, and Northern and Southern Tonto bands.
The Indigenous Peoples' Literature pages were researched and organized by Glenn Welker.
www.indians.org /welker/apache.htm   (590 words)

  
 Western Literature Association
The Western Literature Association is a lively and unconventional group of scholars from across the nation and overseas who meet every fall someplace “west of the Mississippi.” Always based on American studies methodology and now influenced by cultural studies, the work of association members is broadly interdisciplinary.
Jointly published by the Western Literature Association and Utah State University, Western American Literature is the leading journal in western American literary studies.
The journal now focuses broadly on western culture, each issue including reproductions of western images—paintings, photography, film stills, botanical and survey drawings, maps, murals—to offer a cultural context for the essays.
www.usu.edu /~westlit   (309 words)

  
 Contemporary Western American Literature
Bibliographies list writings according to the categories of western fiction and other publications and are further subdivided under pseudonyms.
Special sections on women and western literature and the environment and western literature.
Embraces major events in the history of the trans-Mississippi West as well as the frontier or "western" stage of all 50 American states.
www.gustavus.edu /oncampus/academics/library/Guides/westernlit.html   (811 words)

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