Literature

  • 91literature, African —    Africa has figured in English literature for several centuries. On the one hand, there are the wellknown ‘boys’ own’ stories of British adventure fiction, such as H.Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885) and John Buchan’s Prester John… …

    Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture

  • 92literature, Caribbean —    Many Caribbean writers have moved to Britain, especially in the 1950s. V.S.Naipaul and Sam Selvon came from Trinidad, Wilson Harris from Guyana and George Lamming from Barbados. Others moved in the 1960s and 1970s such as Joan Riley (Jamaica) …

    Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture

  • 93Literature( and theater) —    While the literature of the 1920s is mostly remembered for the “lost generation” of writers who were disaffected, alienated, and often out of the country, the 1930s in particular are remembered for the novels of social protest and social… …

    Historical Dictionary of the Roosevelt–Truman Era

  • 94Literature of New Zealand — New Zealand claims as its own many writers, even those immigrants born overseas, like South African born Robin Hyde, or those emigrants who went into exile but wrote about New Zealand, like Dan Davin and Katherine Mansfield. Exceptionsclarifyme… …

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  • 95Literature of the Mexican Revolution — One of the most influential pioneers in this new philosophy of Mexican identity was Samuel Ramos who acknowledged Ortega for his influence of emphasizing the understanding of man in his concrete historical circumstances. In his book, Profile of… …

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  • 96Literature and The Holocaust —    The literature of the Holocaust consists of all the literary responses to the destruction of European Jewry, including survivor testimony, diaries of victims, memoirs of survivors, and documents collected by the Jewish community in the form of …

    Historical dictionary of the Holocaust

  • 97Literature of Benin — Beninese literature had a strong oral tradition long before French became the dominant language. [Citation |last= |first= |title=Benin |url=http://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/CountryBeninEN.html |accessdate=2007 09 30] Felix Couchoro wrote the first… …

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  • 98Literature of Alfonso X — which was the language of prestige at that time. Although the works are generally attributed to Alfonso X, being a king with other business to deal with he did not himself write most of them. Instead, Alfonso’s role was that of choosing works to… …

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  • 99literature search — noun : the methodical investigation of all published sources for information bearing on a usually scientific or technological subject it is in chemistry that the literature search has attained full stature New Technical Books …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 100literature — gray l. reports containing data, e.g., on health and disease in a population, that are unpublished or have limited distribution. Examples include local health department reports and masters and doctoral dissertations lodged in university… …

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