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What was the first play that appeared in print in Europe?
The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue is an “international database of 15th-century European printing” created by the British Library, and now operated by the Consortium of European Research Libraries. ...
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Which literary movement do Pushkin's Little Tragedies belong to?
It seems that authors find elements of both realism and romanticism in Little Tragedies.
The Pushkin Handbook (2005) explains that Soviet authors overstated a case for realism for ideological reasons:
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What's the earliest fictional work of literature that contains an allusion to an earlier fictional work of literature?
The Bible is loaded with allusions to other books of the Bible, without explicitly saying so, presuming the reader is already familiar with it. Less commonly, the Bible also makes allusions to (...
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What's the earliest fictional work of literature that contains an allusion to an earlier fictional work of literature?
The Instruction of Ptahhotep is an old Egyptian wisdom text, similar to a book of proverbs or a Mirror for Princes. Wikipedia says it was written during the Fifth Dynasty, though the Egyptologist ...
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What's the earliest fictional work of literature that contains an allusion to an earlier fictional work of literature?
Enuma Elish is a Babylonian creation myth that probably dates back to the late 2nd millennium BC (O'Brien & Major, 10). The fourth tablet (out of the seven that make up the entire myth) contains a ...
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What's the earliest fictional work of literature that contains an allusion to an earlier fictional work of literature?
Parody is a genre in which a writer makes a series of allusions to a specific work, or to the works of another writer generally, or to a whole genre or style. The target of a parody is usually not ...
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When did the terms "Mester de Clerecía" and "Mester de Juglaría" start to be used?
As the question notes, the change from mester de juglaría to mester de clerecía marks a change from an oral tradition to a more formalised written genre. The terms are certainly well used in Spain - ...
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Romanticism and knowledge/intellectualism
Most thinkers (and educated people) now consider science, philosophy and religion as separate domains; this is one of the accomplishments of the Enlightenment. The Romantics, however, tended to see ...
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The Beat-Generation and anti-intellectualism
There are a number of ways in which beat literature can be characterised as anti-intellectual. For starters, the beats generally valued spontaneity. Kerouac wrote a short essay called Essentials of ...
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Is spirituality/mysticism an inherent feature of the Beat Generation?
Broadly, the answer is yes. Allen Ginsberg summed this up well when he laid out his characteristics of beat literature in 1982, two decades after the beat movement had burned out and thus plenty of ...
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