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There is great diversity in the literature of any age. It is divided into two basic forms—poetry and prose—and into three types, the epic, lyric, and drama. Although the boundaries between the types cannot be drawn precisely and there are many transitional forms, the chief characteristics ...
article - nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication lead-in, lede, lead - the introductory section of a story; "it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter" opening line - the first line of a piece of writing (as a newspaper story) lead story, lead - a...
We can put Euclid next to Callimachus and his Pinakes, cataloguing something like all past literature; or next to the effort, clearly underway in Alexandria of the time, to collect a ‘Hippocratic Corpus’; more metaphorically, we can put Euclid next to Herophilus’ and Erasistratus’ project ...
InThe War Against ClichéAmis observes that Bellow’s novellaThe Actual(1997) portrays loss, the dominant theme in modern literature. Amis remarks that Bellow “beautifully registers the weight of what is being lost” and quotes a passage about the tragic “roots of memory in feeling—about the...
organization as were novels and essays inspired by the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath, by Freudian psychology, and by European history and culture in their time. However it is judged, like any worthy literature it should continue to undermine complacency, resist definition, and induce hope...
In the end, the pronouncements on style did not change English prose style, as Jones had claimed, but they did help the Royal Society and the Anglican church come out on top and refute alchemy and discredit non-conformist Christians. According to Dear, the talk of plain style and the ...
Few studies have been conducted to determine the effect of naturopathic and nutritional supplements (NNS) such as RV on the Wnt pathway in human cancers. The aim of this study was to determine whether suppression of CRC cell proliferation by RV is related to modulation of Wnt pathway components...
in literature with the apologists for the Kuomintang as a sell-out. As regards Dr. Dunn’s visit, we have only to look as far as Lu Xun’s diary entry for 31 May 1936: “In the afternoon Ms. Smedley brought Dr. Dunn to examine [me], [and he] said [my condition was] very ...
let alone written. Her allusions are as likely to come from general literature as from mystery fiction, and her sample quotations, both from her own and the work of others, tend to substantial length. George’s admirers will appreciate the grueling and traumatic process she goes through to cre...