The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.

after all, the large ( and probably unreliable ) Reader's Digest literature on the `` most unforgettable character I ever met '' deals with village grocers, country doctors, favorite if illiterate aunts, and so forth.

Probably the most important thing to focus on is not the development of conscience, which may well be almost beyond the reach of literature, but the contents of conscience, the code which is imparted to the developed or immature conscience available.

The rehearsal through literature of emotional life under controlled conditions may be a most valuable human experience.

In any inquiry into the way in which great literature affects the emotions, particularly with respect to the sense of harmony, or relief of tension, or sense of `` a transformed inner nature '' which may occur, a most careful exploration of the particular feature of the experience which produces the effect would be required.

One of the most frequent views of the value of literature is the education of sensibility that it is thought to provide.

This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.

In this essay, we are, along with most historians, interested in the more general or more inclusive ideas, that are so to speak `` writ large '' in history of literature where they recur continually.

It is an understandable paradox that most American history and most American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point of view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine.

This tendency is, perhaps, most clearly revealed in the literature on religious conversions and experiences of adolescents.

Although Tylor undertook a field trip to Mexico, both he and Frazer derived most of the material for their comparative studies through extensive reading, not fieldwork, mainly the Classics ( literature and history of Greece and Rome ), the work of the early European folklorists, and reports from missionaries, travelers, and contemporaneous ethnologists.

He is said to be the most eminent sculptor in Athens after the departure of Phidias for Olympia, but enigmatic in that none of the sculptures associated with his name in classical literature can be securely connected with existing copies.

In Jarry's later work Ubu Roi, Père Heb would develop into Ubu, one of the most monstrous and astonishing characters in French literature.

This was a crippling blow to Berg's self-confidence: he effectively withdrew the work, which is surely one of the most extraordinarily innovative and assured first orchestral compositions in the literature, and it was not performed in full until 1952.

In most areas of the Basque Country, the educational Model D, where all subjects are taught in Basque, except " Spanish language and literature " ( which is taught in Spanish ) is now the predominant model.

Beowulf (; in Old English or ) is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.

The definition of rapid cycling most frequently cited in the literature ( including the DSM ) is that of Dunner and Fieve: at least four major depressive, manic, hypomanic or mixed episodes are required to have occurred during a 12-month period.

By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions ( the legal tradition that prevails in, or is combined with common law in, Europe and most non-Islamic, non-common law countries ), courts lack authority to act where there is no statute, and judicial precedent is given less interpretive weight ( which means that a judge deciding a given case has more freedom to interpret the text of a statute independently, and less predictably ), and scholarly literature is given more.

It has been described as " by far the most interesting example of prison literature the world has ever seen.

From the Carolingian epoch to the end of the Middle Ages and beyond, this was the most widely copied work of secular literature in Europe.

One of the most common statistical indicators used in the literature as a proxy for central bank independence is the " turn-over-rate " of central bank governors.

Though glamor and wealth certainly plays a role for only famous celebrities, most people in the sports and entertainments sphere, be it music, film, television, radio, modelling, comedy, literature etc.

The two perhaps most popular definitions used in older literature are the 15 ° C calorie and the thermochemical calorie.

Yet as an evocation of time past, there are few such successful portraits in English historical literature.

The some twenty fragments that remain show that he was less successful as an author than as a judge and patron of literature.

William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim became the most widely read and most successful British writers of spy fiction, especially of invasion literature.

Watson adds, " After examining the motives for the Muslim drive north of the Pyrenees, one can attach a macrohistorical significance to the encounter between the Franks and Andalusi Muslims at Tours-Poitiers, especially when one considers the attention paid to the Franks in Arabic literature and the successful expansion of Muslims elsewhere in the medieval period.

The medical literature of the period contains many similar accounts-some successful, some not.

Nikolay Ostrovsky's novel How the Steel Was Tempered has been among the most successful works of Russian literature, with tens of millions of copies printed in many languages around the world.

Detective stories and thrillers have proven a very successful genre of new Russian literature: in the 1990s serial detective novels by Alexandra Marinina, Polina Dashkova and Darya Dontsova were published in millions of copies.

There are two modes in postmodern literature: one, commercially successful pop fiction, and the other, philosophy, better suited to intellectuals.

His father was a successful merchant with an interest in literature who died when he was quite young.

His criticism is empirical and unmethodical, based on immense and careful reading, and applied only when he feels a difficulty ; and he is most successful when he has a large mass of tolerably homogeneous literature to lean on, whilst on isolated points he is often at a loss.

Upon its founding, the local newspaper claimed that " a place more eligible for the quiet and successful pursuit of science and literature is nowhere to be found ".

In 1806 Brown became a medical practitioner in partnership with James Gregory ( 1753 – 1821 ), but, though successful, preferred literature and philosophy.

Sellar was one of the most brilliant of modern classical scholars, and was remarkably successful in his endeavours to reproduce the spirit rather than the letter of Roman literature.

Although the novel Obasan describes Asian Canadian experiences, it is routinely taught in Asian American literature courses in the USA, due to its successful " integration of politically understanding and literary artistry " and " its authentication of a pan-Asian sensibility.

Paul Biegel ( March 25, 1925, Bussum – October 21, 2006, Laren ) was a successful and prolific Dutch writer of children's literature.

The Nouvelles de la république des lettres was the first thorough-going attempt to popularise literature, and it was eminently successful.

Some late broods may be 2nd nesting attempts, but there is only 1 report in the literature of a 2nd brood attempt after a successful nest.

In the literature addressing sora apparent nest success, the proportions of successful nests varied from 0. 61 in Michigan to 0. 833 in Minnesota.

Although not particularly successful, this policy did help bring about a revival in Irish-language literature.

It remains to be seen whether this approach will prove successful given that Comparative Literature had its roots in nation-based thinking and much of the literature under study still concerns issues of the nation-state.

Théophile Gautier questioned how it could be that, " an author without poetry, lyricism, style, philosophy, truth or naturalism could be the most successful writer of his epoch, despite the opposition of literature and the critics?

San Serriffe was one of the most famous and successful hoaxes of recent decades ; it has become part of the common cultural heritage of literary humour, and a secondary body of literature has been derived from it.

The most famous member of the Montefeltro was Federico III ( or II ), Duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482, a very successful condottiere, a skillful diplomat and an enthusiastic patron of art and literature.

Some of the most successful singer-songwriter artists were Cat Stevens, Steve Winwood and Elton John. Kate Bush became the first solo women to have a self written song become a number 1 UK single and became a sensation drawing on Art Rock, literature, dance and mime.