Directed by Edwin J. Collins, adapted by Eliot Stannard, and starring Lauderdale Maitland and Dacia Deane, it was one of a series of forty minute adaptations of classic texts released under the banner Gems of Literature.

Vertigo originated in 1993 under the stewardship of Karen Berger, a Brooklyn College graduate with a degree in English Literature and a minor in Art History, who had joined DC Comics in 1979 as an assistant to editor Paul Levitz, debuting with House of Mystery # 292 after a Sgt.

He was elected to the Athenaeum under Rule II in 1972 and received the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1982. Later he was appointed a Companion of Honour ( CH ) in the 1997 New Years Honours List.

In 1861 Lady Duff-Gordon published an English translation of a part of this book, to which were added lectures on the crusades delivered in Munich in 1858, under the title History and Literature of the Crusades.

The most comprehensive guide to the literature of the language is Geoffrey Sutton's Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto ( 728 pages ), published under the auspices of the Esperanto-speaking Writers ' Association by MONDIAL, New York, N. Y., 2008, ISBN 978-1-59569-090-6.

Kelly served as an instructor of American Literature and Institutions in the Department of English Philology under Prof. Roman Dybowski.

The Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database offers a list of such works under the categories art, film, literature, and theater.

In The Prevention of Literature he also speculated on the type of literature under a future totalitarian society which he predicted would be formulaic and low grade sensationalism.

In Transylvania, the emancipation movement became better organised and in 1861 an important cultural organisation ASTRA ( The Transylvanian Association for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People ) was founded in Sibiu under the close supervision of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan Andrei Şaguna.

In the summers of 1980 and 1982, Paul Bowles conducted Writing Workshops in Morocco, ( under the auspices of the School of Visual Arts in New York ) at the American School of Tangier which were both very successful, so much so that several of his former students including Rodrigo Rey Rosa who was the 2004 Winner of the Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize in Literature and who is also the literary heir of the estate of Paul Bowles and Mark Terrill went on to become successful authors.

in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Windsor, where he studied under Alistair MacLeod.

It was Victoria's son, Edward VII, who eventually founded the Order of Merit on 26 June 1902 the date for which his coronation had been originally planned as a means to acknowledge " exceptionally meritorious service in Our Navy and Our Army, or who may have rendered exceptionally meritorious service towards the advancement of Art, Literature and Science "; all modern aspects of the order were established under his direction, including the division for military figures.

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.

Thomas James Mathias followed Coleridge ’ s lead in The Pursuits of Literature, a poem in the 18th-Century satiric tradition, but takes a step farther than Coleridge by claiming that a specific passage made the novel indictable under law.

In 1976 Muir wrote The Frank Muir Book: An irreverent companion to social history, which is a collection of anecdotes and quotations collected under various subjects including " Music ", " Education ", " Literature ", " Theatre ", " Art " and " Food and Drink ".

* English-One of the original departments but under the name English Language and Literature

Those who did study under this discipline were taught Classical Literature, History, Rhetoric, Dialectic, Natural Philosophy, Arithmetic, some Medieval Texts, Greek as well as modern foreign languages.

The libraries also serves as the Collection Center for English Publications under the National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, MOE Information Center for Liberal Arts Literature and CALIS Southwest Sub-center.

He published an Essay on Medals in 1784, and in 1785, under the pseudonym of " Robert Heron ", his bold but eccentric Letters of Literature depreciating the classical authors of Greece and Rome.

He and Bryna Ivens Untermeyer created a number of books for young people, under the Golden Treasury of Children's Literature.

Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel's first edition ( 1870 ) of History of Roman Literature defined an early period, the Golden Age, the Silver Age and then goes on to define other ages first by dynasty and then by century ( see under Classical Latin ).

He earned a BA and semicha (" rabbinic ordination ") at Yeshiva University and a PhD in English Literature at Harvard University, where he studied under Douglas Bush.

In 1898 he delivered the Romanes Lectures, which was published under the title of Types of Scenery and their Influence on Literature.

Among his books are The New Zealanders ( 1830 ), The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties ( 1831 ), History of British Commerce ( 1844 ), and History of English Literature and the English Language ( 1861 ).

The Mao Dun Literature Prize ( 茅盾文學獎 ) was created due to Mao Dun's wish that outstanding novels should be encouraged and communist literature should be promoted.

While working for a brief time with Maxim Gorky at the World Literature publishing company, he criticized the Soviet regime.

Szabó became involved in a national controversy in 2006 when the Hungarian newspaper Life and Literature revealed that he had been an informant of the Communist regime ’ s secret police.

In 2006, the Hungarian newspaper Life and Literature revealed that Szabó had been an informant of the Communist regime ’ s secret police.

After studying Librarianship and Comparative Literature in Sarajevo, he worked as an editor of " Lica " and " Valter " magazines, which served as a voice of opposition to the ruling Communist regime.

* 1909 – Selma Lagerlöf became the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature " in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings ".

In 1999, Zewail became the third Egyptian to receive the Nobel Prize, following Anwar Sadat ( 1978 in Peace ) and Naguib Mahfouz ( 1988 in Literature ).

She then took up employment as a private governess after which she became a school teacher in Edgbaston and Worthing, raising enough money to study Biology, Chemistry, English Language and Literature at St Hugh's College, Oxford.

In 1915, he became poetry editor of Current Literature and contributing editor of Warner's Library of the World's Best Literature.

The magazine then became a place where " New Literature " circulated.

He started the monthly literary journal Chinese Literature, which became the most popular for western readers.

In the 1970s he became an editor of a children's magazine, and began working on his memoirs, which were serialized in the Party publication, the quarterly Xinwenxue Shiliao ( 新文學史料 ) ( Historical Materials on New Literature ), but he died on March 27, 1981 before he could finish it.

In 1917, Chen became a lecturer of Chinese Literature, and a Dean of Peking University （ 北京大学 ).

Living and writing in France but continuing to write primarily in Chinese, Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000.

He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1981, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.

One of them, Kenzaburō Ōe wrote his best-known work, A Personal Matter in 1964 and became Japan's second winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

In 2002 he became Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( Class IV — Humanities and Arts, Section 4 — Literature ) and he was awarded the 2001 Lewis Thomas Prize by Rockefeller University.

His Bibliographical Clue to Latin Literature ( 1873 ), based on Emil Hübner's Grundriss zu Vorlesungen über die römische Litteraturgeschichte, was a valuable aid to the student, and his edition of Cicero's Second Philippic became widely used.

Before Radiohead became successful, Selway studied Literature, Life and Thought ( English and History ) at Liverpool Polytechnic's CF Mott Campus near Prescot ( prior to it being renamed Liverpool John Moores University ).

While studying English Literature and Philosophy at Edinburgh University, he auditioned for the talent competition, Popstars, where he became a finalist.

He later became a Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park.

After the German reunification, Wolf received further awards: in 1999 she was awarded the Elisabeth Langgässer Prize and the Nelly Sachs Literature Prize, and Wolf became the first recipient of the Deutscher Bücherpreis ( German Book Prize ) in 2002 for her lifetime achievement.

He became a member of the Arts Council Literature Panel in 1969, since becoming Chairman, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society.

Notable white English-language South African authors include Nadine Gordimer who was, in Seamus Heaney's words, one of " the guerrillas of the imagination ", and who became the first South African and the seventh woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.

She attended the ( Roman Catholic ) Our Lady and St Francis School ( became part of St Mungo's Academy in 1988 ) on Charlotte Street in Glasgow ( two years below fellow Labour MP Anne McGuire ), then later the University of Glasgow ( MA English Literature and Modern History 1973 ); University of London ( PGCE 1974 ); and South Bank Polytechnic ( LLB 1992 ).

In 1973, became Reader in English and American Literature and a special Chair was created for him as professor in 1982.

In 1990 Octavio Paz became the first Mexican — and up until this point the only one — to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.