OLE MAS IN TRINIDAD The festival dates back to the 18th century‚ and the influx of French Catholic planters – both white and free coloured – their slaves‚ and free blacks in the 1780s. The white and free coloured both staged elaborate masquerade balls at Christmas and as a “farewell to the flesh” before the Catholic Lenten season‚ with each group mimicking the other in their masking and entertainment. The West African slaves of these planters as well as free coloureds had their own masking traditions
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Aimee Waldrep Dr. Terry Carter American Literature Section 900 5/22/2015 The Importance of Literature Literature is an invaluable subject within our university system. For one‚ it expands communication skills and allows readers to see how others think‚ feel and communicate. Analyzing the writing and discussing it enables the reader to form opinions and elaborate as to why their point of view is superior to others’. In addition‚ it trains the reader to see individual bias; to take note of the authors
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------------------------------------------------- A Brief History of Philippine Literature in English I. Pre-Colonial Period - Consisted of early Filipino literature passed down orally; oral pieces have a communal authorship – it was difficult to trace the original author of the piece since oral literature did not focus on ownership or copyright‚ rather on the act of storytelling itself; - Many oral pieces became lost in the wave of the new literary
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Greek Literature GREEK LITERATURE. The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . A similar point can be made regarding Greek literature as a whole. Over a period of more than ten centuries‚ the ancient Greeks created a literature of such brilliance that it has rarely been equaled and never surpassed. In poetry‚ tragedy‚ comedy‚ and history‚ Greek writers created masterpieces that have inspired‚ influenced
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Co. 2006 Glencoe Literature; The Readers Choice Columbus Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 2003 Hudson‚W.H An Introduction to the Study of Literature. Harrap 1963 Ousby‚ I. Cambridge Guide to Literature in English Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996. Hornsby‚ A.S. Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English. OUP 2005 MASENO UNIVERSITY FACULTY : ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT : LINGUISTICS‚ LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE UNIT CODE: ALI 805 UNIT TITLE: LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM
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HEBREW LITERATURE Hebrew Literature is consists of ancient‚ medieval‚ and modern writings in the Hebrew language. It is one of the primary forms of Jewish literature‚ though there have been cases of literature written in Hebrew bynon-Jews. Its twin foundations are the Bible and the Talmud. Beyond comparison‚ the most important of such works in Hebrew is the Bible. • Bible – written law 1. Old Testament • 39 books 2. New Testament • 27 books
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American literature is any written work of art that is created in the United States. American literature is like all literature‚ it has literary experiences and contextual history of America. It depicts how America has changed is still changing today. American literature has changed over time just like most canons of literary works. The uniqueness of American literature is that America from its beginning had a special philosophy of life and freedom. The special philosophy of life and freedom that
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the Trojan fire to save his royal descent. He landed at Italy where married a princess named Lavinia. That means you have to consider Roman literature as an evolution of Greek literature: Romans learn from Greek but progress. Greek and Roman literature is wide and it includes: tragedies‚ comedies‚ poems‚ epics etc. You can’t compare these forms of literature all together but one by one. So I want to compare for you the Greek Tragedy and The Roman Tragedy The best tragedian in Greece were Aeschylus;
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What is Literature? What is Literature? Literature is the voice of the times. Literature is something to look back and stay as the voice of the generation. What is literature? That is a question you can ask a thousand times and get back a thousand different answers and opinions in which all could be seen as correct. Literature can only be defined by the people with above average intellect‚ who grasp the writing concept‚ and understand literature work. What is literature? Literature is defined‚ has
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LECTURE 1 INTRODUCTION INTO THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE English literature and English history In this introductory lecture it better to say something about the intimate connection between English literature and English history. They go hand in hand: they are both sides of the same coin. English history is considered as the fundamental base for English literature. A history of English literature has therefore a national‚ as well as a personal character and interest. The inner life of each
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