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    Children's Literature

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    Children’s Literature: Late 1700s 10 4. Fairy and Folk Tales 12 The Golden Age of Children’s Literature: Late 1800s 12 5. Victorian Children’s Literature 16 6. Contemporary Children’s Literature 18 6. Analysis of Harry Potters’ series 21 7. Conclusion 30 8. Summary 31 Children’s Literature Definitions 31 The Ancient World [ancient Rome; 50 BCE to 500 CE] 31 The Middle Ages [500 to 1500 CE] 31 The European Renaissance [1500-1650 CE] 32 The 17th Century 34 The 18th and Early 19th Centuries 35 The Victorians:

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    Development of English Literature Usually‚ English literature is divided into seven periods from the academic angle: The first period is Early and Medieval English literature. And this period can be divided into two parts. The first part is Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066). The main literary contribution of this period is the Epic‚ and its masterpiece is the national epic The Song of Beowulf. It is the oldest poem in the English language and the oldest surviving epic in Anglo-Saxon literature. Next is the

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    Literature

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    MINING FOR MEANING: A STUDY OF MINIMALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE by JEREMY ROBERT BAILEY‚ B.A.‚ M.A. A DISSERTATION IN ENGLISH Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Approved Wendell Aycock Chair of the Committee Sara Spurgeon Scott Baugh Ralph Ferguson Dean of the Graduate School December 2010 Copyright 2010 Jeremy Robert Bailey Texas Tech University‚ Jeremy Robert Bailey‚ December 2010

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    Puritan Literature

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    The Puritan literature of our first unit rebels against the greater context of world events occurring during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Puritan literature portrays that knowledge was gained through studying the Bible‚ and that the only purpose of gaining further knowledge would be to preserve the integrity of ones own soul‚ or to help others in saving theirs. The Puritans’ interests in gaining or preserving knowledge were solely religious‚ and they also believed that any knowledge

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    Gage Schuyler 18th amendment vs. the 21st amendment report The History of the 18th and 21st Amendment In the late 1800’s the 18th amendment was created. This began the prohibition era. This meant that the production‚ sell‚ and consumption of alcoholic products were illegal. This was a big problem for many people in the United States because a large percentage of these people drank alcohol. Following the 18th Amendment’s adoption‚ prohibition resulted in a public demand for illegal alcohol

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    Romantic Literature

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    Intro to The Romantic Period At the turn of the century‚ fired by ideas of personal and political liberty and of the energy and sublimity of the natural world‚ artists and intellectuals sought to break the bonds of 18th-century convention. Although the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau and William Godwin had great influence‚ the French Revolution and its aftermath had the strongest impact of all. In England initial support for the Revolution was primarily utopian and idealist‚ and when the French failed

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    Irish Literature

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    invasion and colonization. Robert Welch writes in his book Changing States of a 12th century compilation called The Book of Invasions that details previous invasions of Ireland up to that point stretching back into antiquity (271); obviously "Ireland was a country which was being constantly invaded and resettled" (Welch‚ 272). When the Normans came to Ireland in the 12th century after having invaded southern Britain a century earlier‚ the cycle of invasion gave way to a cycle of British colonization and

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    Kazuki Aoyama Elements of Literature 2 C-8 Final Draft New Radio Tower The new radio tower was built in Tokyo last year. It is called Tokyo Skytree‚ and it had to be built for the purpose of adaptation to a new type of television‚ digital terrestrial broadcasting. However‚ there are several reasons because of radio interference‚ the Japanese companies were change their type of television‚ and influence on public opinion‚ why the Tokyo Skytree was built. First of all‚ the Tokyo Skytree had

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    Indian Literature

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    Indian literature Article Free Pass * Introduction * Related * Contributors & Bibliography Indian literature‚ writings of the Indian subcontinent‚ produced there in a variety of languages‚ including Sanskrit‚ Prākrit‚ Pāli‚ Bengali‚ Bihārī‚ Gujarati‚ Hindi‚ Kannada‚ Kashmiri‚ Malayalam‚ Oriya‚ Punjabi‚ Rajāsthānī‚ Tamil‚ Telugu‚ Urdu‚ and Sindhi. A brief treatment of Indian literature follows. For full treatment‚ see South Asian Arts: Literature. The earliest Indian literature took

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    AFRICAN LITERATURE

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    AFRICAN LITERATURE Africa is the second largest continent after Asia. It contains a complex mosaic of peoples‚ languages‚ and cultures. The number of spoken languages in Africa has been variously estimated at between 800 and 1‚700. The dominant religion of Northern Africa is Islam‚ which replaced Christianity in the 7th century and spread west and south across the Sahara and into the equatorial zones. African literature comprises the oral and written forms of the continent‚ composed in either

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