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Book of life
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life boat
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Eternal life
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Brethren of the Common Life
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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Richard Monckton Milnes 1st Baron Houghton
Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton, 1st Baron , 1809-85, English author. Throughout much of his life he was an active member of Parliament. He was among the first to recognize the genius of Keats and in 1848 published his Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats. In addition he secured a... Read more |
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Longinus
Longinus , fl. 1st cent.? AD, Greek literary critic; writer of the famous treatise On the Sublime. Nothing is known of his life, and for a long time his work was attributed to Cassius Longinus. On the Sublime is one of the momuments of literary criticism. The work is the sole source for Sappho's... Read more |
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Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Darwin 1731-1802, English physician and poet. During most of his life he practiced medicine in Lichfield and cultivated a botanical garden. He was a prominent member of the Lichfield literary group, which included Anna Seward and Thomas Day . In a long poem, The Botanic Garden ... Read more |
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Hagiography
HAGIOGRAPHY Various types of narratives with documentary and commemorative functions for the Orthodox Church are also regarded as important literary works in the medieval Russian canon. Sacred biographies (vitae ) were written about persons who had followed Christ's example in life and shown... Read more |
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pastoral
pastoral literary work in which the shepherd's life is presented in a conventionalized manner. In this convention the purity and simplicity of shepherd life is contrasted with the corruption and artificiality of the court or the city. The pastoral is found in poetry, drama, and fiction, and many... Read more |
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literary revival
literary revival, one of several terms used to refer to a movement of poets, prose writers...leadership by an Anglo‐Irish elite. Depictions of ‘traditional’ Irish life that failed to present a suitably idealized image in harmony with middle... |
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Mencken, H.L.
...newspaperman.Throughout his life Henry Louis Mencken relished...most of his life. He rose to literary prominence as coeditor (with George...1933). As editor and literary reviewer for these magazines...becoming involved in volcanic literary ... |
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Wilson, Edmund
...Teeth (1965), a similar literary chronicle of the 1950s and...In the last year of his life and following his death there...and Canon Barham (1973), literary essays; and The Twenties...a novel about bohemian literary New York, and Memoirs of...1946), stories ... |
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Ghost stories
...malevolent or predatory aspect.Literary ghost stories were largely a...The ghost story's immediate literary antecedents were the Gothic...sensation fiction, another literary vogue of the 1860s and 1870s...the surface decorums of daily life.An early example ... |
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Brooks, Van Wyck
...Harvard (1904) entered upon his literary career. In biographies and...neglecting the aesthetic side of life. This theory is illustrated...anecdotal view of the American literary scene with its writers, great...devoted to interpreting the literary and ... |
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Howells, William Dean
...editor, and proponent of literary realism.Born in Ohio, William...of middle‐class married life as A Chance Acquaintance...novels opened new ground for literary representation. In A Modern...New York. Nearly alone among literary figures in condemning the... |
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Stoddard, Richard Henry
...considered a center of New York literary life, and included not only such prominent...of the century, Stoddard was a literary arbiter of the U.S., through...autobiography, Recollections Personal and Literary, was published in 1903. Elizabeth... |
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Swinnerton, Frank
...1937). He was a familiar figure in the literary life of the first half of this century. His knowledge of the period provided material for his literary reminiscences, notably The Georgian Literary Scene (1935), and two autobiographical... |
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Anglo-Latin literature to 1847
...historians also renowned for their literary qualities. Virtually every literary genre is found, including hymns, letters, saints' lives, and poetry of all kinds in...for wonders. Among works of literary criticism are Geoffrey de Vinsauf... |
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Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia
...began to write for the Times Literary Supplement, a connection which...Hilbery, daughter of a famous literary family (modelled on Vanessa...1922), a novel evoking the life and death (in the First World War...criticism. She was also a literary critic and ... |
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archaeology
...and complemented the work of literary critics. As methods have been...has been derived about social life, military movements, and...so provided data for domestic life in the patriarchal period of...in respect of corresponding literary data of the OT and is ... |
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avadāna
...recounts moral stories about the previous lives of various saints. One of the twelve types of literary composition traditionally found in Buddhist...thus believe that this genre represents a literary transitional phase between Hīnayāna and... |
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Yin-kuang
...he left his family early in life to join the monastic order...student as a child, and his literary abilities induced the abbots...full enlightenment, late in life abandoned the path of Ch...teachings and practices. His literary skill and genuine sincerity... |
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post-modernism
...architectural, cinematic, and literary equivalents) has in common, is...it is the American Marxist literary critic, Fredric Jameson, who has...characterized by ‘a pluralisation of life-worlds’. Its most conspicuous...ideologies, “forms of life” or “language ... |
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Johnson, Samuel
...Porter (1735). The hard life of Grub Street in London beckoned...upon ‘the choice of life’. Between the larger...his pension Johnson's literary output was smaller...Scotland (1775), and Lives of the Poets (1779...members of the celebrated ... |
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Aelfric
...in any vernacular language, besides a third series of sermons on ‘Lives of the Saints’ and other works. His greatest claim to fame was his provision of books of literary merit for the rural clergy in their own tongue. |
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Ȧga
...for the eleven stages of a householder's life); (viii) Antakṛddaśā-aṅga...sūtras (the foundation of an ascetic life), ten Prakīrṇakas and two Cūikāsūtras...twelve) ‘branches’ within the canon of literary types: sutta (sūtra), geyya (recitation... |
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Arnold, Sir Edwin
Arnold, Sir Edwin (1832–1904). British literary figure who composed the influential poem The Light of Asia published in 1879. The poem describes the life and teachings of the Buddha in a melodramatic style and became very popular with Victorian... |
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bookish
book·ish / ˈboŏkish/ • adj. (of a person or way of life) devoted to reading and studying rather than worldly interests...and worldy in a wrong way. ∎ (of language or writing) literary in style or allusion: long bookish scholarship. DERIVATIVES... |
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Corinthians, Pauls letters to the
...converts as ‘excessively dull to all except those who find that literary criticism offers the same kind of interest as a game of chess...discouraged them from long-term plans and advised an ascetic way of life in the interval that remained; like them, he himself spoke... |
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dispatch
...put to death, take/end the life of; slaughter, butcher...away, ice, rub out, waste; literary slay.See note at kill...briskness, haste, hastiness; literary fleetness, celerity. 3. the...story, lowdown, scoop; literary tidings. 4. the capture and... |
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big
...fed; informal hunky, beefy, husky; literary thewy.antonyms: small, slight...key, vital, critical, crucial, life-and-death.antonyms: unimportant...complacent; informal bigheaded; literary vainglorious. |
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past
...former, (of) old, olden, long-ago; literary of yore. 2. the past few months synonyms...past synonyms: history, background, life (story). • preposition 1. she walked...in olden times, once (upon a time); literary in days of yore, in yesteryear. |
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regard
...observe, view, study, scrutinize; literary behold. • noun 1. she has no regard for human life synonyms: consideration, care, concern...in the phrase as regards, a traditional literary idiom (though now a little old-fashioned... |
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stir
...informal rise and shine, surface, show signs of life; formal arise; literary waken.antonyms: go to bed, retire. 5. I never...inspire, stimulate, excite, awaken, quicken; literary waken.antonym: stultify. 7. the war stirred... |
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time
...in my time synonyms: lifetime, life, life span, days, time on earth, existence...days, long ago, back in the day; literary in days/times of yore; archaic...recurrently, continually, oftentimes; literary oft, ofttimes. on time Rupert... |
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heaven
...the hereafter, the next world, the next life, Elysium, the Elysian Fields, Valhalla; literary the empyrean.antonyms: hell, purgatory...upper atmosphere, the stratosphere, space; literary the firmament, the vault of heaven, the... |
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lay
...repudiate, disregard, forget, discard; literary forsake. lay something bare his private life has been laid baresynonyms: reveal, disclose...regard, view, catch sight of, set eyes on; literary behold, espy, descry. lay hands on wait... |
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signify
...mean, spell, be symptomatic of, herald, indicate; literary betoken. 2. the egg signifies life synonyms: mean, denote, designate, represent, symbolize, stand for; literary betoken. 3. signify your agreement by signing below synonyms... |
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beget
beget • verb 1. literary he begat a son synonyms: father, sire, have, bring into the world, give life to, bring into being, spawn. 2. violence begets...stir up, whip up, induce, inspire, promote; literary enkindle. |
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Literary Traveler Launches New Community and Video Sites and The Literary...
...articles, connect with other literary travelers by starting their...create a complete experience Literary Traveler has launched a new...but they'll be brought to life in short video segments that...Connor's legacy in Georgia. Literary Traveler is also ... |
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The Literary Study Bible.(Book review)
...how to "apply it to her life." It is really quite tragic that Christians of a literary bent are persuaded to ignore...seldom read it for its sheer literary richness--a practice...general editors of the ESV Literary Study Bible, know full... |
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The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative
...mushrooming school of young literary scholars and seasoned professors...preferred by the authors in The Literary Animal: constructivism...understanding human social life and artistic production. Predictably...notes in his preface to The Literary Animal, this ... |
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Lorraine York. Literary Celebrity in Canada.(Book review)
...the "sour" (8) opinion of literary celebrity as superficial and...showing (and in promoting) literary celebrities as people who must...disclosure of their private lives and contend with debates about...the machinery that produces literary celebrity. York ... |
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Galle Literary Festival 2011 - Who benefits from this grand show?
...representing rich Sinhalese literary canon or contemporary Sinhalese...Gunadasa Amerasekara who is a literary giant compared to a Lilliputian...Poet Rathna Sri Wijesinghe who lives in Galle Fort and young Thisuri...Wanniarachchi who won the State Literary ... |
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LITERARY MAGAZINE POST ROAD TO PARTNER WITH LITERARY VENTURES FUND AND LESLEY...
...profit private foundation, the Literary Ventures Fund (www.literaryventuresfund...challenge the status quo of literary publishing by creating sustainable...literature in today's world. The Literary Ventures Fund was created in...has a profound impact on our ... |
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Taoism and East Asian literary theories: Chuang Tzu's theory of selflessness...
...It is concerned with the literary theories themselves, not the...philosophical proclivities of the literary theorists. It addresses literary theories built around the ideas...that, being and non-being, life and death and to merge with... |
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Cultural determination of literary theory.(Critical essay)
...its wider assumptions about life and matters. One can show...of several major issues of literary theory in India. Because India...our conceptual categories of literary theory are rooted in oral compositions...concepts and issues of Western literary theory ... |
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Writing Women's Literary History.
...the past. A typical feminist literary history (and Ezell points...creates a narrative of women's literary history that looks for feminist...and nineteenth-century literary histories, which tended to...women writers whose works or lives did not conform to ... |
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Introduction.(evolutionary literary criticism)(Editorial)
...years. Although evolutionary literary criticism is far from the homogeneous...human universals underlying literary phenomena. Most of the present...interest has been to trace how the lives of modern humans have been...their ancestral past, (2) literary ... |
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