Search results for "Western literature" - New World Encyclopedia
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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. ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 07:19, 10 August 2022
- The mystery religions are possibly one of the origins of Western mystery ... ancient Babylon provided the basis for Western astrology. Some see Christianity ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- that contains all twelve pitches of the Western tempered scale. All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- Japanese to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. His works, which ... During university, he changed his major to Japanese literature and ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- writer and Nobel Prize winner for Literature. She is considered to be ... to Nanjing, where Pearl taught English literature at the University of Nanking ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 22:56, 30 March 2023
- a teaching position in Matsue, a town in western Japan on the coast of the ... and published a weekly journal of art, literature, and satire entitled Ye ...17 KB (2,539 words) - 23:04, 21 October 2022
- West. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 and was then deported ... came to stand for a period of Russian literature and cultural life beyond ...15 KB (2,221 words) - 14:40, 18 July 2023
- The Kara-Khitan Khanate, or Western Liao (Mongolian Хар Хятад; ... generally refer to the empire as the Western Liao Dynasty, emphasizing ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
- Eastern Orthodox view rather than the western, such as Roman Catholic ... Eastern Orthodox view rather than the western, that is Roman Catholic ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 12:08, 24 January 2023
- Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed ... The apocalyptic literature of Judaism and Christianity embraces a ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the western name for a collection ... famous and widespread work of Nyingma literature, which has become popular ...13 KB (1,966 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- of Thai arts and culture, especially in literature. He became known as the ... Western influences had begun to be felt in Southeast Asia and in Thailand ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés ... From around the 1830s, Russian literature underwent an astounding ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 02:35, 31 March 2023
- a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University ... launched a vituperative critique of the Western academic system and its ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- an innovative manner of studying literature that deeply influenced ... the mythology which informed all of Western literature. As Hamilton asserts ...25 KB (3,694 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- baihua (白話, Chinese vernacular) literature, Lu Xun was a short story ... were important in a time when Western literature was seldom read in ...17 KB (2,586 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- Tokyo University as a scholar of English literature, but later resigned to ... Natsume became enamored with Chinese literature, and fancied that he might ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- provides the foundation for all of Western literature. literary and cultural achievements in Western literature. ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- authoritative voices in the history of Western moral culture.M.D. Aeschliman ... the two set out on A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, and ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- would influence Romantic music as well as literature. ==Early life== ... In the autumn he set out to visit western Inverness-shire, the islands ...12 KB (1,859 words) - 16:03, 8 February 2023
