Northeastern Brazil is known for a distinctive form of literature called literatura de cordel, which are a type of ballads that include elements incorporated into music as " repentismo ", an improvised lyrical contest on themes suggested by the audience.

Mangue bit can be divided into two distinct waves: the first in the early 1990s led by the music groups Chico Science & Nação Zumbi ( Zumbi's Nation ) and Mundo Livre S / A ( Free World Inc .), and the second in the early 2000s led by Re: Combo ( a copyleft movement that uploads half-sampled music for download ) and Cordel do Fogo Encantado ( a music group that started as a roving theatre troupe with roots in a form of literature known as literatura de cordel (" twine literature ")).

They are also known as literatura de cordel ( string literature ), particularly in the northeast of Brazil.

* Brazilian cordel literature data bank ( Memória da Leitura Project, Unicamp )

Cordel literature ( from the Portuguese term Literatura de cordel, literally " string literature ") are popular and inexpensively printed booklets or pamphlets containing folk novels, poems and songs, which are produced and sold in fairs and by sidestreet vendors in the Northeast of Brazil.

The War of Canudos, a military conflict in the state of Bahia, 1896-1897, has been also a frequent theme of cordel literature, due to its epic dimensions and importance for the history of the Northeast backlands.

in addition, he learnt to know the whole range of popular literature ( litteratura de cordel ) songs, comedies, knightly stories and fairy tales, which were then printed in loose sheets ( folhas vol antes ) and sold by the blind in the streets of the capital.

See as an example a masterpiece of the past decades: " A Chegada de Lampião no Inferno " ( The Arrival of Lampião in Hell ) by José Pacheco, as well as today's " A Chegada de Lula no Inferno " ( The Arrival of Lula in Hell ); besides " classics ", living folk poetry say to us much both about cordel and its strong roots in the day-to-day life of the people and its place in the Brazilian Culture as a whole.

Descended from the medieval troubadour and chapbook tradition of European literatura de cordel has been published in Brazil for over a century.

There are a lot of not-well-known cordel authors in Brazil, although there are still chapbooks that tell widely known old tales, even reivented, in a new context.

Apart from journalese and vaudeville gags, the anatomical is also found in jocular literature.

Indeed, no richer humor is to be found in the whole of American literature than in the letters of the semi-literate men who wore the blue and the gray.

Reincarnation, called gilgul, became popular in folk belief, and is found in much Yiddish literature among Ashkenazi Jews.

A review of both published and unpublished trials submitted to the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) found that the published trials had a 94 % success in treating depression while the unpublished literature had below 50 % success.

Mentions of banshees can also be found in Norman literature of that time.

There is a rich history of cross-dressing found in folklore, literature, theater, and music.

Note: it is reported in the scientific literature that some " shock " features, such as small shatter cones, which are often reported as being associated only with impact events, have been found in terrestrial volcanic ejecta.

A meta-analysis of research literature by Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, and Sulloway in 2003 found that many factors, such as intolerance of ambiguity and need for cognitive closure, contribute to the degree of one's political conservatism.

A review of all randomized controlled trials in the scientific literature by the Cochrane Collaboration published in JAMA in 2007 found that β-carotene increased mortality by something between 1 and 8 % ( Relative Risk 1. 05, 95 % confidence interval 1. 01-1. 08 ).

Similar objects found later were often called " QB1-o's ", or " cubewanos ", after this object, though the term " classical " is much more frequently used in the scientific literature.

Biographer David Buckley writes, " The essence of Bowie's contribution to popular music can be found in his outstanding ability to analyse and select ideas from outside the mainstream — from art, literature, theatre and film — and to bring them inside, so that the currency of pop is constantly being changed.

" References to the Britannica can be found throughout English literature, most notably in one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, " The Red-Headed League ".

The most prominent reference to the term evangelist in the denomination's literature is found in its Articles of Faith, derived from the Wentworth letter, a statement by Joseph Smith in 1842 to a Chicago newspaper editor that the church believes in " the same organization that existed in the primitive church ", including " evangelists ".

Some statements found in rabbinic literature ( Radak – R. David Kimkhi – in his commentary on Ezekiel 1: 3, based on Targum Yerushalmi ) posits that Ezekiel was the son of Jeremiah, who was ( also ) called " Buzi " because he was despised by the Jews.

Moreover, numerous fragments and testimonies are found throughout ancient Greek and Roman literature, a collection of which can be found in Usener's Epicurea.

Today, meta-analysis is among the most common types of literature review found in educational psychology research.

In the interpretation of the currently dominant view of classical economic theory developed by neoclassical economists, the term " factors " did not exist until after the classical period and is not to be found in any of the literature of that time.

Fables can be found in the literature of almost every country.

Some identify two forms of gematria: the " revealed " form, which is prevalent in many hermeneutic methods found throughout Rabbinic literature, and the " mystical " form, a largely Kabbalistic practice.

The following aspectual terms are found in the literature.

It is characteristic of early literature that the evolution of the thought, or the grammatical form of the sentence, is guided by the structure of the verse ; and the correspondence which consequently obtains between the rhythm and the syntax — the thought being given out in lengths, as it were, and these again divided by tolerably uniform pauses — produces a swift flowing movement such as is rarely found when periods are constructed without direct reference to the metre.

The term Ruach HaKodesh ( Holy Spirit ) is found frequently in Talmudic and Midrashic literature.

Anatoli's example of broad-minded study of Christian literature and intercourse with Christian scholars found many followers, as, for example, Moses ben Solomon of Salerno ; and his work was an important factor in bringing the Jews of Italy into close contact with their Christian fellow students.

In rabbinic literature, the Rabbis elaborated and explained the prophecies that were found in the Hebrew Bible along with the oral law and Rabbinic traditions about its meaning.

But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.

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.

Thus the student of literature may sometimes find it helpful to classify a poem or an essay as being in idea or in ideal content or subject matter typical or atypical of its period.

We may thus trace the notion of individual autonomy from its manifestation in religious practice and theological reflection through practical politics and political theory into literature and the arts.

Even more important, in his Poetics, Aristotle differs somewhat from Plato when he moves in the direction of treating literature as a unique thing, separate and apart from its causes and its effects.

For here if anywhere in contemporary literature is a major effort to counterbalance Existentialism and restore some of its former lustre to the tarnished image of the species Man, or, as Malraux himself puts it, `` to make men conscious of the grandeur they ignore in themselves ''.

Even in its present form, however, the first part of Malraux's unrecoverable novel is among the greatest works of mid-twentieth century literature ; ;

It was `` the creation of a monstrous historical period wherein it thought it had to synthesize literature and politics and avant-garde art of every kind with its writers crazily trying to outdo each other in Spenglerian inclusiveness.

if it had never printed a word of literature its contribution to the politico-sociological area would still be historic.

Related to written literature, and often remaining temporarily frozen in written form, it loses its vitality when transcribed or removed from its oral existence.

In fact, during the first century B.C., an extensive literature sprang up devoted to these subjects, finding its typical expression in the so-called `` wei books '', a number of which were specifically devoted to the Lo Shu and related numerical diagrams, especially in connection with divination.

The historic roots of Algerian literature goes back to the Numidian era, when Apuleius wrote The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety.

Today Algeria contains, in its literary landscape, big names having not only marked the Algerian literature, but also the universal literary heritage in Arabic and French.

In literature, it is memorable from Byron having adopted its name in The Bride of Abydos.

AA receives proceeds from books and literature that constitute more than 50 % of the income for its General Service Office ( GSO ).

* Morris Jastrow, Jr., The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: its remains, language, history, religion, commerce, law, art, and literature, London: Lippincott ( 1915 ) — a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; also available in layered PDF format

Almost without exception in early literature, blind people could bring this condition down upon themselves through sin or trespasses against the gods, but were never the sole instruments of its reversal.

Euskara Batua was created so that Basque language could be used — and easily understood by all Basque speakers — in formal situations ( education, mass media, literature ), and this is its main use nowadays.

Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature.

Kings is " history-like ," but it mixes legends, folktales, miracle stories and fiction in with the annals, and its primary explanation for all that happens is God's offended sense of what is right ; it is therefore more fruitful to read it as theological literature in the form of history.

The absence of native British literature during the early part of the first millennium means that Britain owes its knowledge of Boudica's rebellion solely to the writings of the Romans.

Sometimes he had to justify his European fame: ' According to the Union of Soviet Writers, some literature circles of the West see unusual importance of my work, not matching its modesty and low productivity …'"

The zebrafish was referred to in literature as Brachydanio rerio for many years until its reassignment to the genus Danio.