recognized artistic value:"Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity" (Rebecca West). 3. The art or occupation of a literary writer. 4. The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field:medical literature. 5. Printed material: collected all the available literature on the subject. 6. Music All the compositions of a certain kind or for a specific instrument or ensemble: the symphonic literature. 1. written material such
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Literature has had a major impact on the development of society. It has shaped civilizations‚ changed political systems and exposed injustice. Literature gives us a connection to others through the emotions it creates. It can instigate and bolster whole social issues with nothing but words. Even though countless people do not even realize‚ literature has shaped and molded our society. Literature is something used every day to learn and improve intelligence. Textbooks used in school‚ even though
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Literature Literature (from Latin litteraetantri (plural); letter) is the art of written works‚ and is not bound to published sources (although‚ under circumstances unpublished sources can be exempt). Literally translated‚ the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters"). The two major classification of literature are poetry and prose. "Literature" is sometimes differentiated from popular and ephemeral classes of writing. Terms such as "literary fiction" and
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Ecocriticism is the study of literature and environment from an interdisciplinary point of view where all sciences come together to analyze the environment and brainstorm possible solutions for the correction of the contemporary environmental situation. Ecocriticism was officially heralded by the publication of two seminal works‚[citation needed] both published in the mid-1990s: The Ecocriticism Reader‚ edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm‚ and The Environmental Imagination‚ by Lawrence Buell
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LITERATURE A large part of a nursing career involves both verbal and non-verbal transmission of information especially to the pre – operative patients in order to lessen their anxiety prior to procedure. When considering this idea of nursing and communication there is what we called therapeutic communication in nursing. This involves the human element of appropriate emotions in the nursing arena. Therapeutic communication in nursing reinforces the nurse client relationship. It makes the nurse appear
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“Literature is the mirror of life” is one of the main quotes which our lecturer‚ Mr.Puveneswaran keep on telling to us in his every lesson. This quote answered my question which I asked myself since the first lesson of Literature in English. A great literature is the mirror upon which the realities of life are reflected. A term that used to describe written or spoken material is known as literature. By studying this subject‚ I could understand that literature is all about the obsession with ideas
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opinion of the main character Neddy‚ because they cannot see his actual thought processes. This point of view gives a tremendous impact to the story. It is one of the most important literary elements Cheever uses to accomplish an outstanding piece of literature. Cheever successfully focuses reader’s attention on exactly the detail‚ opinion‚ and emotion the he wants to emphasize by manipulating third person point of view of in his short story. For example “Had you gone for a
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Eloisa T. Vidal BSHRM 4-A Foreign Literature Topic "Non-native Graduate Students’ Thesis/Dissertation Writing in Science: Self-reports by Students and Their Advisors from Two U.S. Institutions" Author : Yu Ren Dong Abstract This article reports results from a survey of 169 graduate students and their thesis/dissertation advisors at two U.S. southeastern institutions about thesis/dissertation writing in science. The article compares the article compilation
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The image of hero plays a significant role in British literature. In Beowulf‚ Beowulf is a leader of men than a king‚ and defined as epic hero. In contrast‚ in King Lear‚ Lear is a King at the beginning‚ but fall from grace at the end‚ and defined as tragic hero. There are similarity and differences between epic and tragic hero through out the two passages given. First‚ the two passages “king Lear” and “Beowulf” come from the very end of the story‚ where An epic hero is based on the Epic Tradition
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in addition to his mother tongue. Victor got a little education in a small school. At the age of eleven‚ Hugo returned to live with his mother in Paris‚ where he got a little education in a small and where he also became infatuated with books and literature. By the time he was fifteen‚ he had already submitted one poem to a contest sponsored by the prestigious French Academy. There he learnt much from an old soldier‚ General Lahorie‚ who‚ obnoxious to Napoleon for the share he had taken in Moreau’s
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