• Western literature, also known as European literature, is the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, and is shaped...
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    include electronic literature. Definitions of literature have varied over time. In Western Europe, prior to the 18th century, literature denoted all books...
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  • The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader...
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  • Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (German: Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur) is a book of...
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    Western romance literature denotes a genre subset of romance literature, sometimes referred to as cowboy romance. Works within this category typically...
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    the Meiji era, Western literature has also had an influence on the development of modern Japanese writers, while Japanese literature has in turn become...
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  • The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book about Western literature by the American literary critic Harold Bloom, in which the...
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    Western Ganga literature (Kannada: ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಗಂಗ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ) refers to a body of writings created during the rule of the Western Ganga Dynasty, a dynasty that...
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  • The Western Literature Association (WLA) is a non-profit, scholarly association that promotes the study of the diverse literature and cultures of the...
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    travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. One early travel memoirist in Western literature...
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  • common in the 19th century when women were beginning to make inroads into literature but, it was felt, would not be taken as seriously by readers as male authors...
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    In art history, literature and cultural studies, orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers...
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    organizational features. These genres are in turn divided into subgenres. Western literature is typically subdivided into the classic three forms of Ancient Greece...
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    especially in literature as the Western Chalukya kings encouraged writers in their native language Kannada and Sanskrit. Knowledge of Western Chalukya history...
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    Western literature, were fundamentally an oral poetic form. These works form the basis of the epic genre in Western literature. Nearly all of Western...
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    Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social...
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  • Erich Auerbach (category Comparative literature academics)
    of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation in Western literature from...
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    The Western canon is the body of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly valued in the West; works that have achieved...
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    Torah and the Old Testament.[citation needed] In mediaeval and later literature, the term hag, and its relatives in European languages, came to stand...
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    symbols. Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over...
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    ISBN 978-07-47507-47-5. Articles in Western American Literature on the "Postwestern" Articles in Western American Literature on "Western film and TV" Example: 'WILD...
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    A large body of Western Chalukya literature in the Kannada language was produced during the reign of the Western Chalukya Empire (973–1200 CE) in what...
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  • mimesis—understood in literature as a form of realism—is Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, which opens with a...
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  • be traced to this point in Western literature. Source: Cannibalism comes up with surprise frequency in European literature during the High Middle Ages...
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  • Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language...
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    works of satire. Ancient Greek literature has had a profound impact on later Greek literature and also western literature at large. In particular, many...
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    in Dalat, Vietnam Monks chanting at Borobudur, Indonesia ] In English literature before the mid-20th century, Buddhist monks, particularly from East Asia...
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    "śramaṇas", with the name more or less distorted, have appeared in ancient Western literature. Clement of Alexandria makes several mentions of the śramaṇas, both...
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    Ecclesiastes (category Wisdom literature)
    of the Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Hebrew Bible and part of the Wisdom literature of the Christian Old Testament. The title commonly used in English is...
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    classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original...
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