Search results for "Western literature" - New World Encyclopedia
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- historian. He studied and wrote about both Western and Eastern philosophy, ... He displayed an interest in Western literature, especially in the ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- was designed by Josiah Conder, a prominent Western architect working in Japan. unequal treaties forced upon Japan by Western powers. Despite the Western ...14 KB (2,063 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- the best of Chinese and Japanese literature and poetry to English-reading ... for his services in making Japanese literature known and appreciated in ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. His novels The Bridge ... 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for the epic force ...10 KB (1,459 words) - 07:47, 12 March 2024
- traditionally not been the subject of literature or the arts in general. ... nineteenth century Imperial Russia used literature to discuss politics, but ...14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:49, 30 January 2023
- epigraphy, philology, vernacular literature and literary theory. Wang ... in ancient Chinese script and vernacular literature. Sponsored by Luo, he spent ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- and cultures, languages, and peoples by Western scholars. It can also refer ... quot; has continually shifted East as Western explorers traveled deeper ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- preferring the easy style of French literature to the more dense Slavonic ... interested in German philosophy and literature, interviewing Immanuel ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 04:13, 15 November 2022
- the direction in which his society and Western society in general, was ... In 1883, Arnold was able to retire and devote himself to literature ...12 KB (1,996 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet ... He was a Five-College Professor of Literature at Mount Holyoke College. ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 07:19, 10 August 2022
- The mystery religions are possibly one of the origins of Western mystery ... ancient Babylon provided the basis for Western astrology. Some see Christianity ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- that contains all twelve pitches of the Western tempered scale. All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- Japanese to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. His works, which ... During university, he changed his major to Japanese literature and ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- a teaching position in Matsue, a town in western Japan on the coast of the ... and published a weekly journal of art, literature, and satire entitled Ye ...17 KB (2,499 words) - 07:38, 10 June 2024
- writer and Nobel Prize winner for Literature. She is considered to be ... to Nanjing, where Pearl taught English literature at the University of Nanking ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 22:56, 30 March 2023
- West. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 and was then deported ... came to stand for a period of Russian literature and cultural life beyond ...15 KB (2,221 words) - 14:40, 18 July 2023
- The Kara-Khitan Khanate, or Western Liao (Mongolian Хар Хятад; ... generally refer to the empire as the Western Liao Dynasty, emphasizing ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
- Eastern Orthodox view rather than the western, such as Roman Catholic ... Eastern Orthodox view rather than the western, that is Roman Catholic ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 04:26, 24 May 2024
- Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed ... The apocalyptic literature of Judaism and Christianity embraces a ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the western name for a collection ... famous and widespread work of Nyingma literature, which has become popular ...13 KB (1,966 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
