The study of Japanese literature is usually divided into classical Japanese literature and modern Japanese literature. Line of demarcation is 1868‚ the date of the Meiji Restoration. Pre-Meiji Japan Tokugawa Period (1600-1868) = Period of Great Peace = Maintenance of the status quo = Domains and Daimyō frozen in status 1. Official ideology -- Neo-Confucianism Before Tokugawa period‚ Confucianism played subordinate role in Japanese thought. Confucianism remained a secular moral and political
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University of Phoenix Material Romantic Composer Comparison For each of the following categories‚ write six to eight bullet points. Romantic composer Modern-day musician Life story Clara Wieck Shumann Pianist Vocalist Passion for art/performing Robert Shuman Composer Amy Lee Classical piano Unique image Mezzo-soprano Beautiful voice Create shows/videos Favorite composition Romance in E Flat Minor‚ Op. 11 No.1 Hello by Lee‚ Moody‚ and Hodges Common themes or stories used in the musical work
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the Early Romantic period‚ and displays characteristics of the movement such as nature‚ the supernatural‚ and freedom. The story “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving is an example of literature written in the Early Romantic Movement. The Romanticism movement started from 1800 and lasted until about 1870. Authors in this movement defined what it means to be American‚ and responded to the daily struggles of life in America. Romanticism was a reaction against neoclassicism‚ as Romantics “preferred
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THAILAND ITS LITERATURE THAI LITERATURE ◦The earliest literature of the Thai people was written in Chinese until the 13th century‚ then in Sanskrit and Pali from India. ◦Thai literature was traditionally heavily influenced by Indian culture from the 13th century. Thailand’s national epic is a version of the Ramayana called theRamakien. ◦The most important poet in Thai literature was Sunthorn Phu‚ who is best known for his romantic adventure story Phra Aphai Mani and for nine travel pieces called Nirats
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development‚ intellectual mastery‚ and utilization of all of the state’s resources for the purpose of implementing its policy in war.” This definition is used because it covers the aspects of total war‚ which the Second World War was. The interwar period‚ or the two decades of uneasy peace that separated the First and Second World Wars‚ saw three major thinkers emerge that had a great effect on the way that the Second World War was to be fought. These thinkers were J.F.C Fuller‚ Basil Liddell-Hart
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serene and beautiful ideals described in romantic or Victorian literature. It was difficult to associate these works of art with the way the world had become; therefore‚ it was necessary to create a new way of expression. Modernist authors did not want to be confined by the traditional boundaries of literature‚ so they experimented in terms of style and content. The world changed and literature followed. There five major themes displayed in modernist literature. The first is a representation of inner
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in Europe‚ a movement known as Romanticism first defined by "German poet Friedrich Schlegel as [ ]‚ "literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form‚"" (Whitney) had rooted into the artistic world to fashion poets including John Keats‚ Percy Shelley‚ and in particular‚ Lord George Gordon Byron and William Blake. Although Blake and Byron were stark opposites in both life and literature‚ Blake preferring to live a more pious life utilizing poetry as entertainment and to fight against injustice
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The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period‚ English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture‚ and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently‚ the term English poetry is unavoidably ambiguous. It can mean poetry written in England‚ or poetry written in the English language. The earliest surviving poetry was likely transmitted orally and then written down in versions that do
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INTRODUCTON Philippine literature is the literature associated with the Philippines and includes the legends of prehistory‚ and the colonial legacy of the Philippines. Most of the notable literature of the Philippines was written during the Spanish period and the first half of the 20th century in Spanish language. Philippine literature is written in Spanish‚ English‚ Tagalog‚ and/or other native Philippine language. DEFINITION OF LITERATURE The word literature is derived from the Latin term
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Bill Frino English 101-K Writing I Dr. J. Showler Research Paper 03/27/07 Racism in Literature “The violence of beast on beast is read As natural law‚ but upright man Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.” - “A Far Cry from Africa” In these lines from Derek Walcott’s “A Far Cry from Africa‚” the speaker emphasizes the natural human tendencies to “inflict pain.” Similarly‚ in his poem‚ “Sympathy‚” Paul Dunbar explores pain from the point of view of a bird
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