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7 unusual facts about European literature


A. S. W. Rosenbach

Rosenbach is credited with popularizing the collecting of American literature at a time when only European literature was considered collectable.

Beast poetry

Beast poetry, in the context of European literature and Medieval studies, refers to a corpus of poems written in Latin from the 8th to the 11th century.

European literature

Important classical and medieval traditions are those in Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Bulgarian, Old Norse, Medieval French and the Italian Tuscan dialect of the renaissance.

Government Sanskrit College, Varanasi

The qualification laid down was the Principal must be a scholar of Sanskrit with knowledge of European literature and Philosophy.

Jacques Charles Brunet

Brunet published successive editions of the dictionary, which rapidly came to be recognized as the first book of its class in European literature.

Minae Mizumura

Her years of reading and re-reading European literature during her childhood in post war Japan, and modern Japanese literature while attending American high school, later became the foundation for her novels.

Yasmin Bannerman

She spent time acting there and later joined the Everyman Youth Theatre in Cheltenham before beginning a degree in modern European literature at the University of Reading.


The Tale of Peter and Fevronia

Many of the motifs found in the tale come not only from Russian folklore, but can also be found in Western European literature of the Middle Ages.


see also

Avrom Reyzen

In 1910, he began the Warsaw literary weekly Eyropeyishe literatur (European Literature) and another called Fraye erd (Free Land).

Barrett Wendell

Barrett Wendell (23 August 1855 – 8 February 1921) was an American academic known for a series of textbooks including English Composition, studies of Cotton Mather and William Shakespeare, A Literary History of America, The France of Today, and The Traditions of European Literature.

Eduardo Lago

He returned to teaching Spanish, Spanish literature, and European Literature at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers in 2011, after leaving in 2005 for the position of Director of the Cervantes Institute in New York.

Jüri Talvet

Talvet received his MA degree in English philology from the University of Tartu in 1972 and defended his PhD degree in Western European literature at Leningrad (St. Petersburg) University in 1981.

Lucius Artorius Castus

The possibility that Lucius Artorius Castus was the inspiration for the figure of Arthur in medieval European literature was first suggested by Kemp Malone in 1924 and has recently been championed by authors C. Scott Littleton and Linda Malcor (who was a research consultant for the 2004 movie King Arthur and on whose hypotheses regarding Artorius the screenplay was based).

Marmier

Xavier Marmier (1808-1892) was a French "homme de lettres" (writter), traveler and translator of European literature of the North.

Ramón López Soler

The periodical exposed Spain to the panorama of European literature and helped introduce Romanticism, both in its Spanish manifestation and as it appeared across Germany, Italy, and England.

Sea in culture

In modern European literature, sea-inspired novels have been written by Joseph Conrad, Herman Wouk, and Herman Melville.

Tatsumi Hijikata

Many of his early works were inspired by figures of European literature such as the Marquis de Sade and the Comte de Lautréamont, as well as by the French Surrealist movement, which had exerted an immense influence on Japanese art and literature, and had led to the creation of an autonomous and influential Japanese variant of Surrealism, whose most prominent figure was the poet Shuzo Takiguchi, who perceived Ankoku Butoh as a distinctively 'Surrealist' dance-art form.