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It is sometimes argued that the greatest contribution that this work made to English literature was in popularizing the literary use of the vernacular, English, rather than French or Latin.
Kraepelin's great contribution in classifying schizophrenia and manic-depression remains relatively unknown to the general public, and his work, which had neither the literary quality nor paradigmatic power of Freud's, is little read outside scholarly circles.
" Woodcock finds that " The most ambitious contribution to literary anarchism during the 1890s was undoubtedly Oscar Wilde The Soul of Man under Socialism " and finds that it is influenced mainly by the thought of William Godwin.
Aristotle, Plato's student, wrote dozens of works on many scientific disciplines, but his greatest contribution to literature was likely his Poetics, which lays out his understanding of drama, and thereby establishes the first criteria for literary criticism.
His contribution to the movement was not only his literary works, but also the paintings and drawings he produced between 1917 and 1919 — the years in which his work was taking on the metaphysical trend.
Perhaps his most enduring contribution to literary history is the children's classic, The Story of the Three Bears, the original Goldilocks story, which first saw print in Southey's prose collection, The Doctor.
Aristotle, Plato's student, wrote dozens of works on many scientific disciplines, but his greatest contribution to literature was likely his Poetics, which lays out his understanding of drama, and thereby establishes the first criteria for literary criticism.
After the decisive contribution of the composer Alain Oulman, fado began singing texts of poets with academic education and published literary works, such as David Mourão-Ferreira, Pedro Homem de Mello, José Régio, Luiz de Macedo, and later Alexandre O. Neill, Sidónio Muralha, Leonel Neves and Vasco de Lima Couto, among many others.
Warburton's works were edited ( 7 vols., 1788 ) by Richard Hurd with a biographical preface, and the correspondence between the two friends — an important contribution to the literary history of the period — was edited by Samuel Parr in 1808.
While his direct literary contribution to the Kabbalistic school of Safed was extremely minute ( he wrote only a few poems ), his spiritual fame led to their veneration and the acceptance of his authority.
In modern times it has been recognised as Browne's major literary contribution to Hermetic wisdom.
Andrić was later awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for the whole of his literary contribution, though this novel was the magnum opus.
Brand's work has garnered multiple literary awards and honours and her contribution to literature has been recognized by both Canadian and international literary communities:
The fact that he drew attention to method at a time when Canadian literary discourse was by and large oblivious to it makes his contribution all the more important.
But Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics ( 1861 ), an anthology of the best poetry in the language constructed upon a plan sound and spacious, and followed out with a delicacy of feeling which could scarcely be surpassed.
Vancouver Public Library and Pacific Book World News Society jointly sponsor and present the annual prize to a British Columbia author for an enduring contribution to the literary arts.
His first published literary work was a contribution to Hone's Year-Book in 1831.
Simeon's own contribution to this literary blossoming was praised by his contemporaries, for example in the Praise to Tsar Simeon preserved in the Zlatostruj collection and Simeon's Collection, to which the tsar personally wrote an addendum.
About the end of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th, the influence of Jayadeva's literary contribution changed the pattern of versification in Oriya.
Mr Sultan Sakoon stands out for his literary contribution as he is a prolific writer and his books including those on Hindko proverbs and Hindko riddles have been published.
This contribution may be in the field of literary, scientific, economic or political endeavour.
This poem was written as a donation to an auction of art and literary works conducted by the " Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty ", the aim of which was to raise money for the pedestal's construction The contribution was solicited by fundraiser William Maxwell Evarts.
Sellar's contribution is particularly noted in the comic exaggerations and name confusions ; his knowledge of English literature also inspired the book's many literary allusions and pastiches.
: The contribution of our literary scholarship lies in the fact that it has focused sharply on the basic problems of literary criticism and literary study, first of all on the specificity of its object, that it modified our conception of the literary work and broke it down into its component parts, that it opened up new areas of inquiry, vastly enriched our knowledge of literary technology, raised the standards of our literary research and of our theorizing about literature effected, in a sense, a Europeanization of our literary scholarship ….

literary and Washington
From the moment a legend is retold as fiction its authentic legendary qualities begin to fade and recede: in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving transformed a local Hudson River Valley legend into a literary anecdote with " Gothic " overtones, which actually tended to diminish its character as genuine legend.
Washington University undergraduates publish two literary and art journals, The Eliot Review and Spires Intercollegiate Arts and Literary Magazine.
* Shenandoah ( magazine ), a literary magazine published by Washington and Lee University
It is believed that literary author Washington Irving was a favorite of Netta Barcus Brown, and consequently the name of the town site, Irving, was chosen.
Due to the serendipitous nature of Thornley's choice of literary subject matter, he was called to testify before the Warren Commission in Washington, D. C. on May 18, 1964.
With the War of 1812 and an increasing desire to produce uniquely American literature and culture, a number of key new literary figures emerged, perhaps most prominently Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe.
His literary correspondence and papers are housed at University Libraries, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Special Collections, Olin Library, St. Louis, MO 63130.
The Washington Post described the " lively literary disputes " conducted in its letters to the editor columns as " the closest thing the intellectual world has to bare-knuckle boxing ".
She became a correspondent and adviser to many political leaders, including Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and especially John Adams, who became her literary mentor in the years leading to the Revolution.
In Washington, D. C. they shared intellectual interests with congenial friends ; she went with him to meetings of a locally celebrated literary society.
The book is told in the form of Sacchetti's diary, and includes literary references to the story of Faust ( at one point the prisoners stage Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Sacchetti's friendship with ringleader Mordecai Washington parallels Faust's with Mephistopheles ).
He was the literary figure that played the most important role in freeing Ezra Pound from St. Elisabeths Hospital in Washington DC where he was incarcerated for high treason between 1946 and 1958.
Eau Claire alumni include Ann Devroy, the former White House correspondent at The Washington Post ; T. Keith Glennan, the first administrator of NASA ; Mark Andrew Green, a congressman and ambassador known for his work with malaria ; Stanford University climate scientist Pamela Matson, winner of the MacArthur Fellowship ; Forbes 400 billionaire and entrepreneur John Menard ; stage and film actress Laila Robins ; chemist Richard Saykally, 1932 Professor Chair at the University of California, Berkeley ; Justin Vernon, Grammy Award-winning lead singer of Bon Iver ; and poet and literary critic Elizabeth Willis, winner of the National Poetry Series and the Guggenheim Fellowship.
The company was the publisher of such 19th century American literary figures as James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as of legal, religious, and other non-fiction titles.
Each year, Washington College awards the nation's largest undergraduate literary prize.
In 2005, Washington College inaugurated another literary prize, the George Washington Book Prize, administered by the college's C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and awarded in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and George Washington's Mount Vernon.
" Gotham " as a term for New York City was coined by Washington Irving in an 1807 November issue of his literary magazine, Salmagundi, based on the legends of the English village of Gotham, whose inhabitants are known for their folly.
In St. Louis, Thurston became chair of the Washington University Department of English, and Van Duyn and Thurston drew to St. Louis and presided over what would become a unique literary circle of creative writers and critics.
) Artist Joan Elkin ’ s 1993 painting “ Jarvis Thurston and His Circle ” captures key members of the Washington University literary community.
Peter Carlson wrote in The Washington Post, " The San Francisco Chronicle called the LeRoy affair ' the greatest literary hoax in a generation '.
Nancy Pearl ( born January 12, 1945 ) is an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and was, until August 2004, the Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library.
In a short time he moved to Paris, where he made the acquaintance of Moore, Washington Irving, Thiers, Béranger, Lamartine, and other distinguished literary men, and became a constant contributor to the Westminster Review, Edinburgh Review, the New Monthly Magazine, and other periodicals.
While The Washington Post writer Hal Hinson characterized it as " a carefully crafted, unapologetically literary accomplishment ", he suggested that Sayles ' " directing style hasn't grown much beyond that of a first-year film student ", declaring that the director was " stagnant ".

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