Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work and can‚ in some circumstances‚ refer exclusively to published sources. The wordliterature literally means "things made from letters" and the pars pro toto term "letters" is sometimes used to signify "literature‚" as in the figures of speech"arts and letters" and "man of letters." Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction and non-fiction—and two major techniques—poetry and prose. Literature may
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Art in ancient Egypt always had purpose‚ such as being a substitute to represent someone in the afterlife in case their body had decayed. The depictions in art were far from realistic as they were representative of how that person would be forever in the afterlife. Women were depicted as beautiful and perfectly feminine with lighter skin‚ despite Egypt being racially mixed. Women were drawn slender while elite men and pharaohs were drawn with rolls of fat over their abdomen to signify that they could
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“Literature is the mirror of life” is one of the main quotes which our lecturer‚ Mr.Puveneswaran keep on telling to us in his every lesson. This quote answered my question which I asked myself since the first lesson of Literature in English. A great literature is the mirror upon which the realities of life are reflected. A term that used to describe written or spoken material is known as literature. By studying this subject‚ I could understand that literature is all about the obsession with ideas
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4-5D JAPANESE LITERATURE I. History A. Ancient Literature (until 764)- “Nara Period” (AD 710 to 794) Kan’ji- Logographic Chinese Characters which is first writing system used by Japanese that was introduce by Chinese. Kana- are syllabic Japanese scripts‚ a part of the Japanese writing system contrasted with the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji. 3 Kana Scripts: Man’yogana- (old syllabic) Katakana- (modern angular) Hiragana – (modern cursive) IMPORTANT LITERATURES Kojiki- ("An
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“The Rime of Ancient Mariner” was the most powerful romantic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ a leader of the British Romantic movement‚ was born on October 21‚ 1772. He was a most romantic England poet who wrote his poems in romantism period. This essay will discuss the story which Ancient Mariner told the wedding guest and some of the moral implications through the study of “The Rime of Ancient Mariner’’. The story which the Ancient Mariner told the wedding guest was
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choosing a major some people already know by the age of 7 what they want to become? a pilot or a nurse ; however‚ it gets more difficult deciding what they want to do with their future. people who decided to go to a university or a college have to make an important choice: what major are they going into ? for many people this is a very difficult question As the statistics show‚ one out of five students change their major between admission and the first day of classes. Nearly 3 out of 4 change
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African literature From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia African literature refers to literature of and from Africa. While the European perception of literature generally refers to written letters‚ the African concept includes oral literature(or "orature"‚ in the term coined by Ugandan scholar Pio Zirimu).[1] As George Joseph notes in his chapter on African literature in Understanding Contemporary Africa‚ whereas European views of literature often stressed a separation of art and content‚ African
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was colonized by European Imperialists. The European Imperialists that were trying to colonize africa were causing conflict by invading Africa with aggression‚ diplomatic pressures and military forces. The European Imperialists were pushed by three main factors which were economic‚ political‚ and social. The European Imperialists started to colonize Africa in the nineteenth century. “It developed in the nineteenth century following the collapse of the profitability of the slave trade‚ its abolition
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Literature Songs Killing An Arab by The Cure History Composer Robert Smith has said that the song "was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in L’Étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus". The lyrics describe a shooting on a beach‚ in which the Arab of the title is killed by the song’s narrator; in Camus’ story the protagonist‚ Meursault‚ shoots an Arab on a beach‚ overwhelmed by his surroundings. Meursault is condemned for his honesty about his feelings. He is
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it garnered immense popularity throughout Karnataka. The film was about a woman who suffers from hysteria and the reaction of her family and society towards her condition. The film effectively portrays the failure of the Indian society to understand what a mental illness is. The woman even after she recovers from the illness continues to be treated by the people around her as a mental patient. Gradually the woman traumatized by the reluctance of the people to accept her as a normal human‚ being loses
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