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The Romanticist movement revived literary interest in folk beliefs and culture, and elves entered the 20th-century high fantasy genre in the wake of works published by authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien.
The use of " minotaur " as a common noun to refer to members of a generic race of bull-headed creatures developed much later, in 20th-century fantasy genre fiction.
However, the Elves ( capitalized, since they are considered a nationality of sorts ) found in the works of the 20th-century philologist and fantasy writer J. R. R. Tolkien have formed the view of elves in modern fantasy like no other singular source.

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In his book, The Gulag Archipelago, Soviet writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described cases of cannibalism in 20th-century USSR.
One example is I, Claudius, by 20th-century writer Robert Graves ; another is the Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough.
In I, Claudius, by 20th-century writer Robert Graves, the Roman Emperor Claudius, until then commonly regarded as inept by historians, is presented in a more sympathetic light.
The list of notable people who have been connected with the town includes John Donne, the poet, who was vicar of Sevenoaks in the 17th century, the 20th-century writer H. G. Wells and the Welsh tramp-poet W. H. Davies.
The area was first made famous by the early 20th-century writer Shimazaki Tōson, who chronicled the effects of the Meiji Restoration on the valley in his landmark novel Before the Dawn.
Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson, CH, KCVO, RA, RDI ( 23 May 1910 – 15 August 1999 ), was a British architect, interior designer, artist, and influential writer and broadcaster on 20th-century design.
The 20th-century writer George MacDonald Fraser would feature the grown-up Flashman in a series of successful historical novels.
The Red Wheelbarrow is a poem by, and often considered the masterwork of American 20th-century writer William Carlos Williams.
In The First Life of Adamastor, a novella by André Brink, the writer refashioned the Adamastor story from a 20th-century perspective.
* Josef Svatopluk Machar, 20th-century writer
Simon Evans is a 20th-century writer, who fought throughout the First World War, and suffered from being gassed.
The crater is named after the 20th-century American astronomy writer Mary Proctor.
Zhang Tianyi, real name: Zhang Yuanding ; September 26, 1906 – April 28, 1985 ) was a 20th-century Chinese left-wing writer and children's author, whose novels and short stories achieved acclaim in the 1930s for his satiric wit.
Communitas is also the title of a book published in 1947 by the 20th-century American thinker and writer Paul Goodman and his brother, Percival Goodman, who is less well-known, but a thinker in his own right.
Borges's " review " describes this 20th-century French writer ( Menard ) who has made an effort to go further than mere " translation " of Don Quixote, but to immerse himself so thoroughly as to be able to actually " re-create " it, line for line, in the original 16th century Spanish.

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With influences that included the early 20th-century commercial artist J. C. Leyendecker, he drew for the school newspaper ( The Clintonian ), the literary magazine ( The Magpie ) and the yearbook, and did stage design, leading him to consider doing that kind of work for theater.
" R. J. Rummell, a scholar of 20th-century atrocities, has written that " Bacque misread, misinterpreted, or ignored the relevant documents and that his mortality statistics are simply impossible .".
Other 20th-century philosophers such as Gilbert Ryle and A. J.
In his analysis, " Rebels and Radicals ; Icaria 1600-2000 ", historian Anthony J. Papalas ( East Carolina University ) examines modern Icaria in the light of such 20th-century questions as poverty, emigration to America, the nature of the Axis occupation, the rise of Communism, the Civil War and the rightwing reaction to radical post-war movements.
The original theme song for This Old House was " Louisiana Fairy Tale ", composed by Haven Gillespie, Mitchell Parish and J. Fred Coots and performed by early 20th-century jazz artist Fats Waller.
Polyphasic sleep, a term coined by early 20th-century psychologist J. S.
Therefore the names of only some 20th-century Senior Wranglers ( such as Crispin Nash-Williams, Christopher Budd, Frank P. Ramsey, Donald Coxeter, Kevin Buzzard, Jayant Narlikar, Jacob Bronowski and Ben J.
In the 20th-century the sensorium became a key part of the theories of Marshall McLuhan, Edmund Carpenter and Walter J. Ong ( Carpenter and McLuhan 1960 ; Ong 1991 ).
But, the 20th-century theologian J. E. Tull concluded that Dayton's 1858 book was " the most cogent attack upon ' alien immersions ' which the Landmark movement produced.
These views of Gould Davis on a Great Goddess predominating in Neolithic Europe and the Near East are similar to those made by a number of writers in the early and mid 20th-century, including Eric Neumann, Merlin Stone, Marija Gimbutas, J. J. Bachofen, Walter Burket, James Mellart, Robert Briffault.
Although the original commission for the opera suggested that U. S. physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the " father of the atomic bomb ," be fashioned as a 20th-century Doctor Faustus, Adams and Sellars deliberately attempted to avoid this characterization.
The book discusses key episodes of 20th-century espionage and cryptology involving the Zimmermann telegram ; Enigma decryption and " Ultra "; the Battle of the Atlantic ; Erwin Rommel ; the Colossus computer ; Frank Rowlett and Japan's Purple cipher ; Allied Operation Overlord deceptions ; World War II spies and spy organizations ; Rudolf Roessler and the Lucy Spy Ring ; Takeo Yoshikawa and Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor ; Joseph J. Rochefort and the Battle of Midway ; Richard Sorge ; Donald Maclean ; Klaus Fuchs ; Venona ; Oleg Penkovsky ; and Ryszard Kukliński.

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So when textbooks, like that of Baker set out drawings of the ' Ptolemaic System ', complete with earth in the center and the seven heavenly bodies epicyclically arranged on their several deferents, we have nothing but a misleading 20th-century idea of what never existed historically.
Kierkegaard's concept of angst is considered to be an important stepping stone for 20th-century existentialism.
These authors, the former a medieval historian and the latter an early modernist, quickly became associated with the distinctive Annales approach, which combined geography, history, and the sociological approaches of the Année Sociologique ( many members of which were their colleagues at Strasbourg ) to produce an approach which rejected the predominant emphasis on politics, diplomacy and war of many 19th and early 20th-century historians as spearheaded by historians whom Febvre called Les Sorbonnistes.
The area's industrial history is reflected in dozens of 19th-and early 20th-century manufacturing sites in the city.
According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.
Of particular interest to 20th-century music theorists is the attention he paid to silence as an integral part of music.
Modern aestheticians have asserted that will and desire were almost dormant in aesthetic experience, yet preference and choice have seemed important aesthetics to some 20th-century thinkers.
It combines 20th-century traditions with the modern architecture of today's Berlin.
By a 20th-century classification, the idealists ( Kant, Hegel and others ), are considered the beginning of continental philosophy, while the empiricists are the beginning, or the immediate predecessors, of analytical philosophy.
Beyond the Night closely follows an actual 20th-century missionary saga in Central Africa, and The Printing uses composite characters to portray the persecution of believers in the former Soviet Union.
20th-century anthropologists largely reject the notion that all human societies must pass through the same stages in the same order, on the grounds that such a notion does not fit the empirical facts.
* The 20th-century Irish poet Louis MacNeice references Catullus in his poem " Epitaph for Liberal Poets ," where he mentions Catullus as amongst the first liberal poets-" Catullus / went down young ," mentioning him in the context of the death of the individual and recognising his and the universal plight.
" The DNA testing was originally proposed to add new members, many of whose family record books were lost during 20th-century upheavals, to the Confucian family tree.
Chiang Kai-shek ( October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975 ) was a political and military leader of 20th-century Mainland China and Taiwan.
Specific parallels are seen in the 20th-century deforestation occurring in many developing nations.
Some scholars consciously adopt " Daoism " in order to distinguish the Chinese philosophy and religion from what " Taoism " embodied in the 19th-and 20th-century Western imaginations.

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