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    Beyond Despair: The Drowned Woman in Victorian Literature and Art The death of a beautiful woman is‚ unquestionably‚ the most poetical topic in the world ―Poe‚ “The Philosophy of Composition” Suicide is often portrayed as the ultimate form of despair; an action relinquishing all hope of reconciliation or salvation. Yet it was a subject that fascinated Victorians. Indeed‚ Philippe Aires notes that the staging of death as an aesthetic event was a nineteenth-century invention (466). Often mentioned

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    The Sangam Age 1. The Sangam age a. Considered as landmark of history of south India. b. Sangam is Tamil form of Sanskrit ‘sangha’ meaning association c. So‚ it is a period when large volume of Tamil literature was composed by a body of Tamil scholars and poets in 3 successive literary gatherings called Sangam.(meaning confluence i.e. gathering of poets and bards) d. It took place in 1st century BC and 2nd century AD in the kingdom of pandyas e. First Sangam – i. Attended by gods and

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    The Value of Young Adult Literature In this scholarly piece of writing it informs all of the different types of readers about the nature and the evolution of young adult literature. Michael Cart is the author of this White Paper‚ where he explains the differences between YAL and other pieces of writing to young teens between the ages of 12-19. YAL is so important is because it can help young teens overcome life’s challenges as the characters in the books did. Such as life lessons‚ they help make

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    Just a couple decades ago‚ the idea of Young Adult literature (YA) was almost completely non-existent. In a short period of time‚ this genre has not only come into being‚ but caused a whirlwind of controversy. I realized several years ago that I had to jump on this YA train if I wanted to keep up with what everyone was talking about. The first book I read due to this “peer pressure” was Twilight. After ripping through the four-book series in a weekend‚ I was left to wonder‚ is this really the substance

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    The Perks of Being a Wallflower and its inclusion in a history of childhood in literature. First and foremost‚ The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) is a ‘coming of age’ novel focusing on a young high-school freshman‚ Charlie‚ and his friends. Published in 1999‚ Stephen Chbosky received critical acclaim for writing a novel dealing with the sensitive issues some teenagers face during their time at high school. Exploring homosexuality‚ sex‚ drugs‚ violence and love‚ our protagonist Charlie goes

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    Japanese Literature Reporters: Afable‚ Carlo Manasis‚ Fahra Afro-Asian Literature MTh 09:00 – 10:30 Japanese Literature I. Introduction Facts about Japan * Also known as “Land of the Rising Sun” * An archipelago made up of 6‚852 islands * Its capital is Tokyo * Japanese is its national language * The government is Unitary Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy II. History of Japanese Literature Japanese Literature can be divided into four main periods: ancient‚

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    Studying Literature in Grade 12 Graduating students in Ontario should only study Canadian literature in a Grade 12 English course. While good writers exist in all cultures‚ Ontario students should only study Canadian writers because we need to become more familiar with our literature. The reasons for this are the need to focus on our own Canadian culture despite being surrounded by other cultures‚ the need to promote and establish our own writers‚ and the need to encourage younger Canadian authors

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    An Efficient Tamil Text Compaction System N.M..Revathi‚ G.P.Shanthi‚ Elanchezhiyan.K‚ T V Geetha‚ Ranjani Parthasarathi & Madhan Karky Tamil Computing Lab (TaCoLa)‚ College of Engineering Guindy‚ Anna University‚ Chennai. haisweety18@gmail.com‚ jijutodo@gmail.com‚ madhankarky@gmail.com Abstract Tamil is slowly becoming the online language and mobile text messaging languages for many Tamils around the world. Social networks and mobile platforms now extensively support Unicode and applications

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    literary qualities of first eighty chapters might be discussed more efficiently rather than the last forty chapters in this essay. In addition‚ Honglou meng¡¯s three most outstanding qualities as literature which is its netted form structure‚ the vivid characters in the novel and diversity of literature technique will be discussed in this essay. Honglou meng is a book which consumed the whole life of Cao xue qing. It is believed that the novel is semi-autobiographical‚ mirroring the fortunes of

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    Old Tamil[edit] The earliest records in Old Tamil are short inscriptions from around the 2nd century BCE in caves and on pottery. These inscriptions are written in a variant of the Brahmi script called Tamil Brahmi. The earliest long text in Old Tamil is the Tolkāppiyam‚ an early work on Tamil grammar and poetics‚ whose oldest layers could be as old as the 1st century BC. A large number of literary works in Old Tamil have also survived. These include a corpus of 2‚381 poems collectively known as

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