Maithili

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;    P. H. MATTHEWS;   19 words ...Maithili. An Indo-Aryan language, with its own literary tradition, spoken north of the Ganges in Bihar and southern Nepal.

A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics

Scandinavian Review;  July 1, 2005 ;   Anonymous;   106 words ...A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics By Margaret Clunies Ross D. S. Brewer, Rochester...the first one in English to deal with the twin subjects of Old Norse poetry and the various vernacular treatises on native poetry that were...

The Story of O

The Washington Post;  October 29, 2001 ;   Jonathan Yardley;   787 words ......laboring in what he calls "the high-art literary tradition." He had published two novels that...improbably for a novel in "the high-art literary tradition" -- it was anointed by Oprah Winfrey...imaginable. Even writers in "the high-art literary tradition" dream, in the privacy of ...

Frank Hardy and the Literature of Commitment.(Book Review)

Australian Literary Studies;  May 1, 2005 ;   Merlyn, Teri;   607 words ......range of perspectives on the radical literary tradition, its political and intellectual factions...seen even the notion of a radical literary tradition effectively 'disappeared', it takes...education and the Australian radical literary tradition was unwavering. Working from an ...

Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary...

The Journal of African American History;  January 1, 2007 ;   LeSeur-Brown, Geta;   787 words ......Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition. Chapel Hill: University of North...women subvert the conventions of literary tradition not just stylistically, but by the...and extends the African American literary tradition. In Recollections of Kin: Beloved...

Robert R. Edwards, Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity.(Book...

Medium Aevum;  September 22, 2003 ;   Taylor, Karla;   722 words ......contribution to this debate. Asserting literary tradition as the best context for understanding...to a 'cultural poetic' in which 'literary tradition is used to describe, analyze, and...from his intertextual revisions of literary tradition. This laudable restoration of poetic...

kenning

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      40 words ...ken·ning / ˈkeni ng / • n. a compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning, e.g., oar-steed = ship. ORIGIN: late 19th cent. : from Old Norse, from kenna ‘know, perceive’; related to ken .

A History of Old Norse Poetry and Prose

AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association;  November 1, 2006 ;   Olsen, Karin;   787 words ...Margaret Clunies Ross. A History of Old Norse Poetry and Prose. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer...detail the cultural transformation of Old Norse poetry and poetics initiated by the Christianisation...in what literary and social contexts Norse poetry was composed, transmitted, and studied...

The Relationship between Oral and Literary Tradition as a Challenge in...

Marvels & Tales;  January 1, 2007 ;   Apo, Satu;   787 words ......Beauty" most probably grew from a literary tradition; and "Snow White" has at least been...comparativists' tendency to belittle literary tradition. Perhaps the most strident criticism...folklorists were not required to take the literary tradition of fairy tales into account, they...

Wall, Cheryl A. Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and...

Studies in American Fiction;  September 22, 2005 ;   Tracy, Steven;   787 words ......Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North...in the context of the American literary tradition as a whole, and the black male American literary tradition more specifically--since both...

(book review)

The Mississippi Quarterly;  December 22, 1999 ;   EICHELBERGER, JULIA;   787 words ......Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition, edited by Patricia Liggins Hill...Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition. Each anthology is a well-informed...deepens our understanding of this literary tradition. Neither narrative is yet as widely...

Now, Go and Read: New anthologies of contemporary & Modern Jewish writing...

Chicago Jewish Star;  December 10, 1998 ;   Anonymous;   787 words ......today. IS IT POSSIBLE TO SAMPLE A LITERARY TRADITION in a single volume? If four new anthologies...Sforim. With him, the modern Jewish literary tradition begins. Stavans has selected from...single-volume compendium of the modern Jewish literary tradition. It makes fascinating reading ...

Recognizing and honoring the African American literary tradition

Chicago Defender;  January 13, 2004 ;     509 words ......however briefly, as a heroic character in the American literary tradition. In a coincidence that's filled with irony, the best African...hold and, finally, becoming a robust part of the American literary tradition. It belongs on shelves in every library and school, in...

STUART OMITTED.(EDITORIAL)(Letter to the Editor)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  June 8, 2001 ;     54 words ...Re: ''Literary tradition abounds,'' (June 2) about Kentucky writers. There was no mention of Jesse Stuart - one of our finest. He wrote novels, plays and...

History of Australian Literature

Encyclopedia of Australia;      325 words ......Aboriginal Australian society before European settlement in 1788 had no written literary tradition. Aboriginal Australians had an oral literary tradition going back many thousands of years. Dreamtime stories, myths and legends had been...