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Theater
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The Art of Theater
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.
Theater at EpidaurusAncient Greek dramas were performed in open-air theaters like this one in Epidaurus, Greece, which was designed byPolyclitus the Younger in 350 bc. A festival of ancient Greek drama is still held in the summer in this 14,000-seat theater.Roger Wood/Corbis Fundamental to the theater experience is the act of seeing and being seen; in fact, the word theater comes from the Greek word theatron , meaning 'seeing place.' Throughout the history of world cultures, actors have used...
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V oir la carte
État insulaire d'Europe occidentale, densément peuplé et
fortement urbanisé, le Royaume-Uni est une vieille monarchie
parlementaire qui fait partie de l'Union européenne.
rencontrent dans le Sud-Est), et connaissent des maxima de 2 100 mm sur les massifs écossais. Elles sont très régulières et bien réparties : 165 jours à Londres, plus de 200 sur les massifs montagneux. Le degré d'humidité se traduit aussi par l'importante nébulosité et par la fréquence des brumes et des brouillards. La combinaison de ces phénomènes naturels ( fog ) avec les émissions de fumées ( smoke ) provoqua les célèbres brouillards polluants ( smog ) dans les agglomérations indus...
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À l'extrémité occidentale de l'Eurasie, la France occupe une
position charnière entre l'Europe du Nord et l'Europe du Sud.
Géographie Les conditions naturelles Ni le relief, ni les sols, ni les conditions climatiques n'ont été des obstacles au peuplement et au développement économique. La France n'a certes pas de climat qui permette plusieurs récoltes par an, ni de delta particulièrement fertile, mais elle ne connaît aucun facteur physique trop contraignant, n'est pas affectée d'une grande probabilité de risques naturels majeurs, et bénéficie par ailleurs d'une grande diversité de terroirs. L'évolution géolog...
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Anti-utopies et principe espérance dans Les Châtiments de Victor Hugo
évolue. Hugo, qui affirme dans Les Contemplations l'identité entre l'utopiste et le poète, est lui-même parfois sévère, notamment àl'égard des utopies régressives. Il n'envisage pas de revenir à l'âge des cavernes. Au XIXe siècle, l'utopie se fait rare, au contrairede l'utopisme que l'on peut assimiler au principe espérance défini par Ernst Bloch. L'uchronie de Louis-Sébastien Mercier, L'An2440, est passée par là. La philosophie du progrès, les utopismes programmatiques l'emportent sur les voyag...
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LE SOCIAL ET L'INDIVIDUEL
et déjà la main à la charrue -alors que personne ne saurait encore nous montrer les graines qu'il s'agira zo de semer ensuite sur le terrain labouré. Faisons donc confiance « au bon sens et à l'égoïsme des hommes » pour laisser subsister l':f:.tat encore un bon bout de temps et parer aux tentatives destructrices de certains, trop zélés et trop pressés avec leur demi-savoir! » NIETZSCHE Constatant que l'humanité est passée, durant la phas...
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Dominikanische Republik - geographie.
Reformista Social Cristiano (PRSC, Christlichsoziale Reformpartei) und der Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD, Dominikanische Befreiungspartei), der sich 1973 vom PRD abgespalten hatte. 7 WIRTSCHAFT Grundlagen der Wirtschaft sind der Tourismus, die Landwirtschaft und der Bergbau. Insbesondere die Einnahmen aus dem Fremdenverkehr sind in den vergangenen Jahrenstark angestiegen. Die Wirtschaft ist aber nach wie vor auf den Export landwirtschaftlicher Güter konzentriert. Neben dem Hauptan...
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poésie - littérature.
3. 1 Origines antiques La poésie est un genre ancien, probablement aussi ancien que les civilisations humaines. Aussi loin que l'on puisse remonter dans le temps, il semble en effet que toutes les cultures humaines, parce qu'elles n'avaient pas encore connaissance de l'écriture ou par choix délibéré, ont eu recours à une tradition orale pour fixer leur histoire et relater le mythe de leurs origines ( voir mythologie). Le langage rythmé, scandé, associé sans doute à la musique, était utilisé po...
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Paris (city, France) - geography.
and its vibrant public square, frequented by street performers, soon became among the most popular landmarks in the city. West of the Pompidou Center is Les Halles, the site of the central market of Paris from the 12th century until 1969. The market was subsequently replaced by the Forum LesHalles, a multilevel underground complex featuring a shopping mall, museums, the Paris film library ( vidéothèque ), and a sports center. The street level of Les Halles features a garden, the Jardin des Halle...
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Mythology
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Mythology, the body of myths of a particular culture, and the study and interpretation of such myths.
usually define a myth as a story that has compelling drama and deals with basic elements and assumptions of a culture. Myths explain, for example, how the worldbegan; how humans and animals came into being; how certain customs, gestures, or forms of human activity originated; and how the divine and human worlds interact.Many myths take place at a time before the world as human beings know it came into being. Because myth-making often involves gods, other supernatural beings, andprocesses beyond...
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Kiribati - country.
mainly from Japan, the European Union (EU), and Australia. Kiribati’s only major exports are copra (dried coconut meat), cultivated seaweed, and fish. The United States, Australia, and New Zealand are the leading purchasers ofthe country’s exports. Despite the cultivation of crops for local consumption, Kiribati is heavily dependent upon imported foods. Other imports include machinery andequipment, manufactured goods, and imported fossil fuels, which supply most of the country’s energy. Australi...
- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott - écrivain.
- MAURICE (littérature de l'île)
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Britischer Film.
Thematisch und stilistisch weit ihrer Zeit voraus waren Anthony Asquith’ The Browning Version (1951; Konflikt des Herzens ) und Michael Powells Peeping Tom (1960; Peeping Tom ). Diese Filme ebneten den Weg für die britische „New Wave” und das Kino der „Angry young men”. 3 DER MODERNE BRITISCHE FILM 1956 hatte John Osborne mit seinem skandalisierten Theaterstück Look Back in Anger den Generationenbruch auf der Bühne vollzogen. Gleichzeitig forderte die Bewegung „Free Cinema” künstlerisch...
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Préférez-vous le livre ou le cinéma ?
1. Limites et faiblesses du cinéma Simone de Beauvoir adresse au cinéma et à la télévision ce reproche : « Par sa plénitude inéluctable la photographiearrête ma rêverie. » Il est vrai que l'image cinématographique offre aux spectateurs un contenu limité, et qu'il fautaccepter tel qu'il est, alors que le roman laisse toujours la possibilité d'imaginer les héros et les lieux comme cela nous plait. On est souvent déçu par l'adaptation au cinéma d'un roman et cela d'autant plus qu'on l'aaimé et qu'o...
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Le romantisme en Europe (Exposé – Art & Littérature – Collège/Lycée)
LA LATINITÉ OUBLIÉE Mouvement du Nord, opposé à un· classicisme dont les grandes références étaient grecques et romaines, le romantisme n'a presque pas pris racine dans le Sud : ni en Espagne ni au Portugal il n'a donné naissance à des œuvres d'envergure. Il existe en revanche un romantisme italien, avec les figures de Ugo Foscolo. Alessandro Mauoni et celle, plus discrète, de Giacomo Leopardi. Le Sud méditerranéen, pourtan� n'est pas absent du...
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Expliquez et discutez cette critique des Misérables par Flaubert : Les Misérables m'exaspèrent... je ne trouve dans ce livre ni vérité, ni grandeur... Hugo a des attentions et des prévenances pour tout le monde. Saint-Simoniens, Philippistes et jusqu'aux aubergistes, tous sont platement adulés. Et des types tout d'une pièce comme dans les tragédies !... Ce livre est fait pour la crapule catholico-socialiste, pour toute la vermine philosophico-évangélique... La postérité ne lui pardonne
d'une pièce, comme les héros de tragédie, auxquels Molière reprochait déjà de ne pas être réels. Or le roman permet des analyses détaillées et nuancées : le romancier n'a pas l'excuse del'optique théâtrale et des exigences de la scène. • La troisième critique porte sur la philosophie de Victor Hugo, qu'il trouvedéplacée dans le roman et ridicule en soi, M. Prudhomme étant le symbole dela bourgeoisie solennelle et stupide. Ce grief déborde donc le cas desMisérables et peut s'appliqu...
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Biathlon: Medaillengewinner der Weltmeisterschaften.
1958 Adolf Wiklund, SWE Ole Gunneriusson, SWE Wiktor Butakow, URS 1959 Wladimir Melanin, URS Dimitri Sokolow, URS Sven Agge, SWE 1961 Kalevi Huuskonen, FIN Alexander Priwalow, URS Pavo Reepo, FIN 1962 Wladimir Melanin, URS Antti Tyrväinen, FIN Walentin Pschenitsin, URS 1963 Wladimir Melanin, URS Antti Tyrväinen, FIN Hannu Pösti, FIN 1965 Olav Jordet, NOR Nikolaj Pusanow, URS Antti Tyrväinen, FIN 1966 Jon Istad, NOR Jozef Sobczak-Gasienica, POL Wladimir Gundarzew, URS 1967 Wiktor Mamatow, URS Sta...
- Crébillon fils - littérature.
- L'abbatiale de Saint-Pierre à Moissac
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Han Dynasty - History.
However, these reforms faced serious opposition. The feudal barons formed an alliance and rebelled against Wang Mang. They were joined by members of the Liufamily, who were descended from Jingdi (Ching-ti), a former Han emperor, and a civil war followed. As the empire fell into disorder, militant secret societies formedarmed bands and attacked villages and towns. Wang Mang had believed that proper institutions would eventually bring peace to China, but in AD 23, an army led by the Liu clan brea...
- Simon, Claude - littérature française.
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Western Philosophy.
the popular belief in personal deities, but he failed to explain the way in which the familiar objects of experience could develop out of elements that are totally differentfrom them. Anaxagoras therefore suggested that all things are composed of very small particles, or “seeds,” which exist in infinite variety. To explain the way in whichthese particles combine to form the objects that constitute the familiar world, Anaxagoras developed a theory of cosmic evolution. He maintained that the activ...
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Iceland - country.
III PEOPLE Icelanders are one of the most homogenous peoples in the world. They are predominantly of Nordic origin, descendants of the hardy people who emigrated fromNorway to Iceland in the Middle Ages. There are also some Celtic influences from Irish and Scottish immigrants who arrived from the British Isles ( see Celts). The population of Iceland (2008 estimate) is 304,367. Numerous times in its history, Iceland has suffered major population losses due to epidemics, volcanic eruptions, and...
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Honduras - country.
A Principal Cities The capital and largest city of Honduras is Tegucigalpa (2006 estimate, 1,324,000), located in the south-central highlands region. The country’s second largest city isSan Pedro Sula (549,498). The principal city and commercial center in the north, it lies in the heart of the vast banana plantations on the Caribbean Sea. La Ceiba(127,590) and Puerto Cortés (90,161) are among the leading Caribbean ports. B Language and Religion Spanish is the official language and is spoken by...
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Serbia - country.
Minority groups speak their own languages, such as Albanian and Hungarian. Bosniaks generally speak Bosnian and write it with the Latin alphabet. Serbs are by tradition Orthodox Christians. The Roman Catholic and Protestant churches also have adherents in Serbia. Most of the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo areSunni Muslims ( see Sunni Islam), as are the Bosniaks of the Sandžak region. Bosniaks are descendants of Slavs who converted to Islam in the 15th and 16th centuries. B Education The leading in...
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Azerbaijan - country.
second most important industrial center after Baku. A Ethnic Groups Azerbaijan, including the autonomous exclave of Naxçivan, is populated mostly by ethnic Azerbaijanis, who are also known as Azeris. The ethnic composition of thecountry changed due to a civil war between the government of Azerbaijan and Armenian secessionists in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. Beginning in 1988, when thepeople of Nagorno-Karabakh unilaterally decided to secede from Azerbaijan, nearly the entire Azerbaijani popula...
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Immigration.
1655, only to lose all of their North American colonies to the British in 1664. These early colonies were often quite cosmopolitan, drawing settlers from many nations.When the English seized New Amsterdam, the city was home to perhaps 1500 residents, including Walloons, Huguenots, Swedes, Dutchmen, and African Americans. C The French and Spanish The French and Spanish also established colonies in North America. The Spanish established the oldest permanent European settlement in Saint Augustine,...
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Immigration - U.
1655, only to lose all of their North American colonies to the British in 1664. These early colonies were often quite cosmopolitan, drawing settlers from many nations.When the English seized New Amsterdam, the city was home to perhaps 1500 residents, including Walloons, Huguenots, Swedes, Dutchmen, and African Americans. C The French and Spanish The French and Spanish also established colonies in North America. The Spanish established the oldest permanent European settlement in Saint Augustine,...
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Dominican Republic - country.
Manatees and sea turtles also live in Dominican waters. Common birds include blue herons, glossy ibis, flamingos, and brown pelicans. E Environmental Issues Urban dwellers of the Dominican Republic enjoy good access to safe water, but rural communities do not. While current water use is low relative to available resources,water shortages do occur. Although deforestation was once a serious problem in the Dominican Republic, by the beginning of the 21st century, the annual rate of deforestation h...
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Library (institution).
rooms, special galleries for exhibitions, auditoriums for lectures or concerts, computer rooms, children’s rooms, photocopy rooms, and classrooms. A3 Lending Materials As part of their mission to provide information resources to the community, public libraries allow users to borrow items from their collections for limited amounts of time.To be eligible to borrow public library materials, a user must register her or his name, address, and other basic information with the local library’s circulat...
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Haiti - country.
Haitian Creole and French are the official languages of Haiti. Haitian Creole, a French-based Creole with influences from West African languages, was made an officiallanguage under the 1987 constitution. It is the mother tongue for nearly the entire population of Haiti and the language of instruction in schools. French is spokenmainly as a second language by a small section of the population. B Religion About 80 percent of Haiti’s people are nominal Roman Catholics, many of them combining an Af...
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Belarus - country.
In the last complete census conducted in the Soviet Union in 1989, the population of Belarus was 10,151,806; a 2008 estimate was 9,685,768, giving the country apopulation density of 47 persons per sq km (121 per sq mi). The most notable demographic trend since the 1950s has been the steady migration of the population fromthe villages to urban centers, and the correspondent aging of the population remaining in the rural areas. In 1959 urban residents accounted for 31 percent of thepopulation; in...
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LITTERATURE AU MOYEN AGE
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Bulgaria - country.
E Climate Most of Bulgaria has a continental climate, with cold winters and hot summers. The climate in general is more severe than in other European areas of the samelatitudes, and the average annual temperature range is greater than that of neighboring countries. Severe droughts, frosts, winds, and hail storms frequently damagecrops. A Mediterranean climate, with dry summers and mild, humid winters, prevails in the valley of the southwestern Rhodope Mountains; the northern limit of theclimati...
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Holocaust
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Holocaust, the almost complete destruction of Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II (1939-1945).
relation to the Jews. He claimed that the Jews had achieved economic dominance and the ability to control and manipulate the mass media to their own advantage. Hewrote of the need to eradicate their powerful economic position, if necessary by means of their physical removal. IV UNIQUENESS OF NAZI ANTI-SEMITISM The linking of anti-Semitic accusations to race struggle is what made Nazism so genocidal. The Nazis believed the Jews were responsible for what they regarded as thedegeneracy of modern...
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Holocaust .
relation to the Jews. He claimed that the Jews had achieved economic dominance and the ability to control and manipulate the mass media to their own advantage. Hewrote of the need to eradicate their powerful economic position, if necessary by means of their physical removal. IV UNIQUENESS OF NAZI ANTI-SEMITISM The linking of anti-Semitic accusations to race struggle is what made Nazism so genocidal. The Nazis believed the Jews were responsible for what they regarded as thedegeneracy of modern...
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Mexico City - geography.
The park houses some of Mexico's most important public buildings, including Chapultepec Castle. Construction of the castle began in 1783. Positioned on the park’shighest elevation, the castle functioned as a fortress during colonial times. It once served as the presidential residence and now houses the National Museum of History,which includes murals by 20th-century Mexican painter Juan O'Gorman. Los Pinos, the official residence and working offices of the president, is also on the grounds, buti...
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THEORIE ET PRATIQUE DE LA TRADUCTION
CZU 81’25(075.8) G98 Le présent support didactique est élaboré à l’intention des étudiants du cycle licence de la Faculté de Langues Etrangères, Département de Philologie Française de l’Université Libre Internationale de Moldova. Le cursus est prévu pour 20 heures de conférences et comprend 10 sujets qui viennent initier les apprenants à la théorie et la pratique de la traduction. Suite à ce cursus les étudiants doivent acquérir des compétences visant les...
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CHAPITRE 7 DU CANDIDE DE VOLTAIRE (lecture analytique)
Si on a souvent remarqué à quel point l'invraisemblance du genre romanesque est parodiée dans Candide, on n'a pasassez réfléchi, semble-t-il, sur le double aspect de cette parodie, non plus que sur ses limites à l'intérieur del'oeuvre. Un roman traditionnel, c'est encore certes, du temps de Voltaire comme au XVIIe siècle, un " ouvrage enprose contenant des aventures fabuleuses " (Dictionnaire de l'Académie, 1694). Mais cette notion de fabuleux,d'invraisemblable, telle qu'elle a...
- Venus - Mythology.
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El Salvador - country.
III PEOPLE The Spanish subjugated the native population of El Salvador in the 16th century. Few Spanish women came to the country, however, so many Spanish men took NativeAmerican women as their mates. Today nearly 90 percent of the population is mestizo , of mixed European and Native American descent. People of purely Native American descent represent about 5 to 10 percent of the population, while people of European descent represent only about 1 percent. El Salvador’s population, 5.2 millio...
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United Kingdom - country.
B Natural Regions and Topography The island of Great Britain can be divided into two major natural regions—the highland zone and the lowland zone. The highland zone is an area of high hills andmountains in the north and west. The lowland zone in the south and east consists mostly of rolling plains. The zones are divided by an imaginary line running throughEngland from the River Exe on the southwest coast to the mouth of the River Tees on the northeast coast. The lowland zone has a milder climat...
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Boston - geography.
The neighborhoods of Allston and Brighton occupy the northwest corner of the city to the west of Fenway. The Allston-Brighton area is bordered to the east, north, andwest by the Charles River and to the south by the Massachusetts Turnpike and the town of Brookline. It is an industrial and residential neighborhood that is also thelocation of Boston College and Harvard University Business School. Boston has been unsuccessful in annexing Brookline, the birthplace of U.S. president John F.Kennedy an...
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Vietnam - country.
E Natural Resources Vietnam’s most valuable natural resource is its land, particularly the fertile, alluvial soils in the Red and Mekong deltas. Some 29 percent of the land is currently beingcultivated. Vietnam has some valuable mineral resources, including gold, iron, tin, zinc, phosphate, chromite, apatite, and anthracite coal. Most deposits are located in the northernpart of the country. Few attempts were made to extract these minerals until the French takeover of Vietnam at the end of the 1...
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Chemistry - chemistry.
parts of oxygen by weight, which is a ratio of about 1 to 8, regardless of whether the water came from the Mississippi River or the ice of Antarctica. In other words, acompound has a definite, invariable composition, always containing the same elements in the same proportions by weight; this is the law of definite proportions. Many elements combine in more than one ratio, giving different compounds. In addition to forming water, hydrogen and oxygen also form hydrogen peroxide.Hydrogen peroxide h...
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Africa.
The highest elevations in Africa are found in the various ranges of East Africa. After Kilimanjaro, the next highest peaks are Mount Kenya (5,199 m/17,057 ft), north ofKilimanjaro in central Kenya; Margherita Peak (5,109 m/ 16,762 ft) in the Ruwenzori Range on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo(DRC); Ras Dashen (4,620 m/ 15,157 ft) in the Ethiopian Highlands of northern Ethiopia; Mount Meru (4,565 m/ 14,977 ft), close to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania; and MountElgon (4,...
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Africa - Geography.
The highest elevations in Africa are found in the various ranges of East Africa. After Kilimanjaro, the next highest peaks are Mount Kenya (5,199 m/17,057 ft), north ofKilimanjaro in central Kenya; Margherita Peak (5,109 m/ 16,762 ft) in the Ruwenzori Range on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo(DRC); Ras Dashen (4,620 m/ 15,157 ft) in the Ethiopian Highlands of northern Ethiopia; Mount Meru (4,565 m/ 14,977 ft), close to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania; and MountElgon (4,...
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English Literature
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English Literature, literature produced in England, from the introduction of Old English by the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century to the present.
evident. That feature is typical of other Old English literature, for almost all of what survives was preserved by monastic copyists. Most of it was actually composed byreligious writers after the early conversion of the people from their faith in the older Germanic divinities. Sacred legend and story were reduced to verse in poems resembling Beowulf in form. At first such verse was rendered in the somewhat simple, stark style of the poems of Caedmon, a humble man of the late 7th century who w...