Search results for "Western literature" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • proponent of naturalism in Japanese literature. He was lauded by literary ... of new Japanese literary forms. From Western literature, Japanese poets and ...
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  • rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (fifth century ... Greek mythology left a deep mark on Western literature. ...
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  • seen as one of the earliest monotheists in the Western philosophy. He also wrote that poets should only tell stories about the gods that were ...
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  • a principal tonal foundation in both western and non-western music. This ... apart are given the same note name in the Western system of music notation—for ...
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  • quot; took root in twentieth century Chinese literature. ... and Aeschylus. This immersion in western literature would mark Yu's ...
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  • extremis." Edward J. Brown. Russian Literature Since the Revolution. Harvard ... The Western publishers always disclaimed that Shalamov's stories ...
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  • in Russia came in response to that of Western Europe and was led by those ... national Enlightenment differed from its Western European counterpart in ...
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  • Xylophone can refer to western style concert xylophones or to one ... in in China. Models were also developed in western and eastern Africa. ...
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  • established originally as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo ... yen note, is best known for introducing Western education, institutions ...
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  • rest of the world, Kato studied rangaku (Western studies) under Oki Nakamasu ... from the rest of the world, rangaku (Western studies) under Oki Nakamasu ...
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  • historian. He studied and wrote about both Western and Eastern philosophy, ... He displayed an interest in Western literature, especially in the ...
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  • was designed by Josiah Conder, a prominent Western architect working in Japan. unequal treaties forced upon Japan by Western powers. Despite the Western ...
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  • the best of Chinese and Japanese literature and poetry to English-reading ... for his services in making Japanese literature known and appreciated in ...
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  • the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. His novels The Bridge ... 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for the epic force ...
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  • traditionally not been the subject of literature or the arts in general. ... nineteenth century Imperial Russia used literature to discuss politics, but ...
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  • epigraphy, philology, vernacular literature and literary theory. Wang ... in ancient Chinese script and vernacular literature. Sponsored by Luo, he spent ...
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  • and cultures, languages, and peoples by Western scholars. It can also refer ... quot; has continually shifted East as Western explorers traveled deeper ...
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  • preferring the easy style of French literature to the more dense Slavonic ... interested in German philosophy and literature, interviewing Immanuel ...
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  • the direction in which his society and Western society in general, was ... In 1883, Arnold was able to retire and devote himself to literature ...
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  • and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet ... He was a Five-College Professor of Literature at Mount Holyoke College. ...
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