Western literature, also known as European literature, is the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, and is shaped...
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include electronic literature. Definitions of literature have varied over time. In Western Europe, prior to the 18th century, literature denoted all books...
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The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader...
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (German: Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur) is a book of...
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Western romance literature denotes a genre subset of romance literature, sometimes referred to as cowboy romance. Works within this category typically...
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the Meiji era, Western literature has also had an influence on the development of modern Japanese writers, while Japanese literature has in turn become...
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Pen name (redirect from Pseudonymous Literature And Writers)
common in the 19th century when women were beginning to make inroads into literature but, it was felt they would not be taken as seriously by readers as male...
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book about Western literature by the American literary critic Harold Bloom, in which the...
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Literary genre (redirect from Literature Genre)
organizational features. These genres are in turn divided into subgenres. Western literature is typically subdivided into the classic three forms of Ancient Greece...
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travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. One early travel memoirist in Western literature...
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The Western Literature Association (WLA) is a non-profit, scholarly association that promotes the study of the diverse literature and cultures of the...
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Western Ganga literature (Kannada: ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಗಂಗ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ) refers to a body of writings created during the rule of the Western Ganga Dynasty, a dynasty that...
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India, especially in literature, since the Western Chalukya kings encouraged writers in Kannada and Sanskrit. Knowledge of Western Chalukya history has...
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Erich Auerbach (category Comparative literature academics)
of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation in Western literature from...
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In art history, literature and cultural studies, orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers...
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Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social...
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symbols. Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over...
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works of satire. Ancient Greek literature has had a profound impact on later Greek literature and also western literature at large. In particular, many...
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ISBN 978-07-47507-47-5. Articles in Western American Literature on the "Postwestern" Articles in Western American Literature on "Western film and TV" Example: 'WILD...
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first person in English literature to refer to playwrights as separate from poets. The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are...
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The Western canon is the embodiment of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly cherished across the Western hemisphere...
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Epic poetry (redirect from Epic (literature))
Western literature, were fundamentally an oral poetic form. These works form the basis of the epic genre in Western literature. Nearly all of Western...
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can be traced to this point in Western literature. Cannibalism comes up with surprising frequency in European literature during the High Middle Ages. The...
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Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language...
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as black or dark. Mors is often represented allegorically in later Western literature and art, particularly during the Middle Ages. Depictions of the Crucifixion...
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mimesis—understood in literature as a form of realism—is Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, which opens with a...
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controversial, both at the time and subsequently. Crusading was integral to Western European culture, with the ideas that shaped behaviour in the Late Middle...
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Classics (redirect from Classical Literature)
classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original...
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Śramaṇa (section In Western literature)
"śramaṇas", with the name more or less distorted, have appeared in ancient Western literature. Clement of Alexandria makes several mentions of the śramaṇas, both...
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List of Milanese dialect writers (redirect from Western Lombard literature)
This is a list of writers in the Milanese dialect, including poets and playwrights. Bonvesin da la Riva Fabio Varese Carlo Maria Maggi Carlo Antonio Tanzi...
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