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unusual facts about literature of "Mitteleuropa"


Aleksander Kakowski

After the outbreak of the Great War he remained in Warsaw and in 1917 Kakowski was appointed to be a member of the Regency Council, a semi-independent and temporary highest authority of the Kingdom of Poland, recreated by the Central Powers as part of their Mitteleuropa plan.


Aleksandar Tišma

Along with Czesław Miłosz, Danilo Kiš and György Konrád, he was sometimes classified into the literature of "Mitteleuropa"—dark and contemplative, yet humanistic and thought-provoking.


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A Catalogue of Crime

Part V The Literature of Sherlock Holmes : Studies and Annotations of the Tales, Nonfiction Parodies, and Critical Pastiches (pages 859-874)

Adolf Erman

English translation by Aylward M. Blackman published as The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians, London, Methuen & Co., 1927; reprinted as The Ancient Egyptians: A Sourcebook of their Writings, introduction to the Torchbook edition by William Kelly Simpson, New York, Harper & Row, 1966.

Albrecht Weber

On his return to Germany, he went to the University of Berlin, where he was privatdocent, and in 1856 became an adjunct professor of the language and literature of ancient India.

Aleksandr Dulichenko

Humphrey Tonkin calls this volume a “particularly important addition to the literature” of interlingual and Esperanto studies.

Anti-Scottish sentiment

Much of the negative literature of the Middle Ages drew heavily on the writings from Greek and Roman antiquity.

Arvède Barine

She mostly wrote on the subject of women, but she also wrote about travel, the political issues of the day, and the fantastic literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and E. T. A. Hoffmann.

Atahualpa Yupanqui

In February 1968, Yupanqui was named Knight of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France by the Ministry of Culture of that country, in honor of 18 years work enriching the literature of the French nation.

Book of Taliesin

Many poems in the collection allude to Christian and Latin texts as well as native British tradition, and the book contains the earliest mention in any Western post-classical vernacular literature of the feats of Hercules and Alexander the Great.

Bushehr Province

Sadeq Chubak and Najaf Daryabandari are among the most prominent writers in literature of Bushehr.

Byzantine literature

Imitating the literature of the Alexandrian period, they wrote romances, panegyrics, epigrams, satires, and didactic and hortatory poetry, following the models of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius, Asclepiades and Posidippus, Lucian and Longus.

Chłopomania

Literary historian John Neubauer described it as part of late 19th century "populist strains" in the literature of East-Central Europe, in close connection to the agrarianist Głos magazine (published in Congress Poland) and with the ideas of Estonian cultural activists Jaan Tõnisson and Villem Reiman.

Daredevils of Sassoun

The written literature of Armenia goes back to fifth century of our era, its Golden Age, when the Bible was translated into the vernacular from the original Greek and Syriac texts, Plato and Aristotle were studied in Armenian schools, and many original works of great interest to the modern specialist were produced by native historians, philosophers and poets.

Dimitrija Demeter

This type of Demeter's poems in many of his works, both by verse and rhyme, announces the most important literary work in Croatian literature of the time: the epic poem The Death of Smail-aga Čengić written by Ivan Mažuranić in 1845.

Eiríkr Magnússon

Eiríkr or Eiríkur Magnússon (1 February 1833 – 24 January 1913) was an Icelandic scholar who was Librarian at the University of Cambridge, taught Old Norse to William Morris, translated numerous Icelandic sagas into English in collaboration with him, and played an important role in the movement to study the history and literature of the Norsemen in Victorian England.

Heinrich von Sybel

In 1861 Lady Duff-Gordon published an English translation of a part of this book, to which were added lectures on the crusades delivered in Munich in 1858, under the title History and Literature of the Crusades.

Isaac Rosenberg

In The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell's landmark study of the literature of the First World War, Fussell identifies Rosenberg's "Break of Day in the Trenches" as "the greatest poem of the war."

John William Donaldson

Of his numerous other works the most important are The Theatre of the Greeks; The History of the Literature of ancient Greece (a translation and completion of Otfried Müller's unfinished work); editions of the Odes of Pindar and the Antigone of Sophocles; a Hebrew, a Greek and a Latin grammar.

Karl Otfried Müller

J. W. Donaldson, “On the Life and Writings of Karl Otfried Müller” in History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, vol.

Keith Harrison

His education included an English degree from the University of British Columbia in 1967, a Master of Arts from University of California, Berkeley in 1968, and a Ph.D. from McGill University in 1972, in which he focused on the literature of Malcolm Lowry.

La guirlande

The story occurs in Arcadia, an idealized area of Greece that was a popular setting in the "pastoral" literature of the time.

Lesotho literature

It was named one of the twelve best works of African literature of the 20th century by a panel organized by Ali Mazrui.

Letter frequency

One of the earliest description in classical literature of applying the knowledge of English letter frequency to solving a cryptogram is found in E.A. Poe's famous story The Gold-Bug, where the method is successfully applied to decipher a message instructing on the whereabouts of a treasure hidden by Captain Kidd.

Li Jianguo

Born in Juancheng County, Shandong Province, Li graduated from department of Chinese literature of Shandong University, and joined the Communist Party of China in June 1971.

Literature of phase boundaries

The mathematical literature of phase boundaries has evolved since 1831 when Gabriel Lamé and Benoît Clapeyron 1 studied the freezing of the ground.

Mario Gromo

Founded in 1922, together with G. Debenedetti and Sergio Salvi, Primo Tempo magazine, and in 1927 a publishing house that audience the most important texts of Italian literature of the period as hosting authors Corrado Alvaro, Ugo Betti, Guido Piovene, Giani Stuparich.

Marmier

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

Mary Goble Pay

Richard H. Cracroft and Neal E. Lambert (ed.), A Believing People: Literature of The Latter-day Saints.

Matija Divković

Considering the sources he used within the Counter-Reformation, his choice was already obsolete in his age, since during the Catholic Baroque period, he found his models in Catholic literature of the late Middle Ages.

Mirosław Nahacz

He admitted that in his writing he was influenced by the literature of Céline, Hrabal, Burroughs and Pynchon.

Mohammad Marandi

This institute, starting as a subsidiary arm to the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature of University of Tehran just a few years ago, is now a full-fledged independent center essentially concerned with post-colonial studies with a particular concentration on the critique of Orientalism, as promoted by such figures as Edward Said, Ziauddin Sardar, and Bill Ashcroft.

Moshe Sharett

This was a false flag operation, and literature of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Communists was left at the sites to make it appear that they were behind the terrorist acts.

Paul Bibire

He co-edited with Gareth Williams a book entitled 'Sagas, Saints and Settlements' from a 1996 interdisciplinary symposium at the University of St. Andrews, exploring the history, culture, and literature of the Viking Age and medieval Iceland and Scandinavia.

Paulo Barrozo

From an early age, Barrozo was exposed to the thought of Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, and to the literature of Machado d Assis, Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, Simone de Beauvoir, and Thomas Mann.

Paulus Adrianus Daum

Paulus Adrianus Daum (The Hague, 3 August 1850 – Laag-Soeren, 14 September 1898), more commonly known as P.A.Daum, was a Dutch author of Dutch East Indies literature of the nineteenth century.

Peter Cole

Cole, who has taught and been a visiting artist at Yale, Wesleyan, and Middlebury, is one of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions, a small press devoted to the publication of the literature of the Levant.

Pirro Ligorio

Many of Ligorius' falsifications persist in the literature of the 17th and 18th century, e.g. the work of Marquard Gude and its later editions, but they were recognized by the mid 19th century.

Rafe de Crespigny

He specialises in the history, geography and literature of the Han Dynasty and has been acknowledged internationally as a pioneer in the translation and historiography of historical material concerning the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period.

Renaissance humanism in Northern Europe

A name which deserves a high place in the German literature of the last years of the Middle Ages is John Trithemius, 1462–1505, abbot of a Benedictine convent at Sponheim, which, under his guidance, gained the reputation of a learned academy.

Roque Gonzales, Rio Grande do Sul

The Premio Missões of literature of Roque Gonzales is headed by João Weber Griebeler of Igaçaba Produções Culturais and it covers mostly Brazilian literature but some works in other languages are also occasionally published (collective anthology).

Shakespeare Institute

The Shakespeare Institute is a centre for postgraduate study dedicated to the study of William Shakespeare and the literature of the English Renaissance.

SS Arctic

Henry Hope Reed – Professor of rhetoric and English literature of the University of Pennsylvania, also travelling with him was his sister-in-law Miss Bronson.

Syriac literature

The first such flourishing of Neo-Syriac was the seventeenth century literature of the School of Alqosh, in northern Iraq.

The Signal and the Noise

In October 2013, The Signal and the Noise won the 2013 Phi Beta Kappa Society book award in science, which recognizes "outstanding contributions by scientists to the literature of science".

Tropical geography

As criticized by Edward Said in his famous work Orientalism, the literature of tropical geography, like writings on the Orient, served the interests of European scholars who were living in the temperate world to create an exotic other which in turn helped define themselves.

Ureltu

In 1980, Ureltu was transferred to work at Federation of Literary in Hulunbuir League, later successively attended the National Conference on Literature of Minority Groups and the Third Literature Congress of Inner Mongolia.

Varadaraja V. Raman

In 2006 he was the recipient of the Raja Rao Award which recognizes writers who have made an outstanding contributions to the literature of the South Asian Diaspora.

Vicenç Cuyàs

The opera is based on a novel by the Viscount of Arlincourt which had already been a success among the sentimental literature of the period.