Books Included for This Word Counting

One of the great figures in German literature, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) began his career as a composer and turned to writing only after losing a lengthy battle with the German musical establishment, which had dismissed his works as cranky.

Hinduism is the essence of such a vast ocean of spiritual literature, however, that it is always possible to dispute any firm view about it and find proof for a contrary view.

Too much testosterone in men may lead to some of the behaviours we associate with the stormy lovers of literature and history - Lord Byron, Don Juan, Heathcliff, Deuce Bigalow.

But theatre is not a branch of literature and the more particular the work of the director, the more it enhances the work of the writer and the more exciting it is for an audience.As a seafaring tragedy set in the 1860s, the book inhabits the literature of struggle, in which lives are forged against the forces of nature in a pitiless world.

Even though it will surely be placed in the "serious literature" category for 2004, it never takes the risks, or makes the effort, which make great literature great.

To some degree, Eisner has used his position as a bully pulpit, championing comic books as legitimate art and literature.

First, obscure references to American literature come up rarely at National Football League press conferences.

You get the sense reading these essays that Rotella, who now teaches literature at Boston College, feels slightly cosseted in his academic environment; that he wants to get out.

With etymological allusion: relating to a dog". More than once in literature, this etymological relationship to a dog has been introduced when a cynic is paraded in front of us.

Ms. Davis presides over the women-only Isabella Eldridge Club, which requires members to give monthly lectures on topics like Islamic architecture or Russian literature.

She was a second-rank novelist and a worse poet, a lesbian of hysterical temperament, a fine teacher of literature who inspired tremendous devotion, and not only among young women.

"There's lots of good literature for kids in the 10-14 age bracket, but not a lot about language.

And if you think about it, that's the way poetry works, it's the way literature works, that richness, the extra layers of meaning of words and themes.

"But people will at least leave the theatre having been in contact with a truly major piece of literature, and a work of art you wouldn't normally sit in bed and read.

Last winter, I was enrolled in Japanese 425, a literature course on haiku poetry taught by Professor Stephen Kohl.

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