chansons, secular lyric poetry, Troubadour Poetry, Atticism, ecclesiastical

The first thing that pops to mind is Walden by Henry David Thoreau. That whole book is a reflection of his views on the world itself. Of course, you could say that about any book I imagine!

i need help asap can sameone unscambled this word the letters are eshist and it makes a form of literature?

it unscrambles to thesis, but that's not really a 'form' of literature, per se.

Oral literature was the graddaddy of the fable, anecdote, parable, heroic poetry, heroic prose and allegory ….all oral in ancient times, then written down.

like fantacy novels romance novels fictional books and such.

yes there is wisdom in all things even in nature there is wisdom in it.

I’m doing a paper on allusions in literature with biblical allusions and my topic is Moses and the Red Sea in literature. I just can’t find any pieces of literature with an allusion to the Moses and the Red Sea biblical story. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

The story goes that up on Mt.Sinai, god spoke to Moses and after giving him the ten commandments written by his finger in stone “Mene, mene, tekel upsharsim.” the moving finger writ, and having writ died down. Send me an email address in which I can send you a copy of Titian’s painting “Joseph and the Wife of Potifar, in which the moving finger is used as a signature for Titian. God also commanded Moses to take threads of crimson, blue and white to create the tabernacle and adorn it with tassels and embroidery. On display right now in Liverpool, England, at one of the museums, is pharaoh’s belt. A 15 m long tapered piece of weaving created with threads of crimson, blue and white. the white would be the bleached linen, the blue Indian indigo and the red an organic dye from tree leaves.
Again I can send you a photograph of this belt. To my mind, it was moe a girdle, wound around the waist and fastened which would have formed an armor for the king’s body. It was found in the tomb of Rameses III, 1180 B.C. Interestingly, Cecil B. DeMille’s “Ten Commandments” of 1954 had Yul Brynner playing Rameses. I had thought it to have been Rameses II, though. His father was called Seti,
if that helps by elimination.

DeMillle literally accepted the story of the Red Sea opening up. well, of course, that is a good story but hardly factual. I have the impression that it was a tsunami that might have been the prototype of the story and the pillar of fire a meteorite trail, the impact of which could have dislodged a sizeable portion of the continental shelf along fault planes which creating a swirl in the sea making it retreat, only to come back in as a deluge.

A similar thing happened in Italy ca 501 A.D. It is recorded in the monumental work “The fall and Decline of the Roman Empire.” I cannot think of the authors’ names off hand, but it was published in the eighteenth century. Your library should have a copy of it. (In no way am I referring to the old movie.) If anything, this would probably be the one source for you to gain references from, not many but a few.
There isn’t anything at all in the ancient Egyptian literature. but the golden calf which the Hebrews made under the direction of the brother of Moses, a goldmith, was directly adapted from the Egyptians. As was the gold they obviously were supposed to have. The bible says they were told to ask the Egyptians for it. A big ask for slaves, I would think. But, religions well know that you do not spoil a good story with the truth. My address is potifar@optusnet.com.aus, king of the gods in the Ancient Greek pantheon, also assumed the shape of a cloud to seduce mortal women. A different story, of course, but one has borrowed from the other or they both had a common ancestry. common ancestry is my thought. Titian has painted both women, one in several versions. The impregnation was accomplished via a shower of gold, indicated by gold coins fallng from the cloud above her naked body. So much for divine intelligence. As long as there are idiots kept uneducated, there ill always be somebody to believe it. If there was a god, I’m sure he’d weep in shame to see how abused his name has become.

Yours, etc. Barrie O.

I was just wondering what exactly this class teaches, or what is involved?

I guess it's about different types of literature, like fiction, poem, drama, etc. You may need to study the structure and linguistic features of those genres (e.g. rhyme).

I'm preparing a presentation on how form is one of the best contemporary devices; does anyone have any examples of how normal form in literature, poetry and film has been pushed beyond expected boundaries?

For example, Mark Z Danielewski's "House of Leaves" isn't just prose, it's fictional newspaper articles, letters, clippings etc … Ang Lee's "Hulk" is like a film version of a comic book, with panels etc.

Does anyone have any more examples like these? Thanks!

In poetry, Flarf challenges notions of authorship in literature. Flarf writes poems text gleaned from internet searches. Search for Flarf and you'll find a ton of info.

In film, La Jetee uses only still photos to make a motion picture, blurring the bounds between photogaphy and cinema.

personally i think english lit is great, i really enjoyed studying plays however not everyone is this way enclined and it should only be choice to get into as not everyone will do so well in this class if they dont have a creative flair

I am a student in college. We are taking up now about literature. the questions are: What is literature? What are the uses or functions of literature? Enumerate the types of literature. So, I need your help by answering my question. Thanks in advance and hope I can get the answer as soon as possible. Anyway we also taking up but on going about Job, Solomon, the prodical sun, the good samaritan(I need a story) Thanks.

When children learn to speak, their (and their parents´) focus is basically on words (lexicon) and pronunciation (phonology). As they grow (as soon as they master the phonological system of their mother tongue, by the age of seven or so), other linguistic levels (syntax, semantics, discourse) become as important or even more important than building up one´s vocabulary. Gradually, between adolescence and early adulthood, they have to be competent at the conversational level. That´s when they learn/acquire rules of conversation (talk, respond, ask questions, take turns, etc.). This is what is called "communicative competence" (cf. Krashen). But, that´s not the end of the road. People need to know how to read/interpret texts (not only in everyday English, but also in metaphorical language). Being able to read/interpret literary texts (the so-called interpretive competence) opens up one´s mind (and one's heart) to symbolic meaning. As a matter of fact, even everyday language is symbolic (cf. "metonymy").

Here´s what some writers have said about poetry (the most difficult texts to interpret), which, to a certain degree, also applies to literature in general (short stories and novels):

"Absolute poetry is the concrete and artistic expression of the human mind in emotional and rhythmical language" (Theodore Watts-Dunton;in Holman:404).

"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." (Shelley; in Holman, idem).

"The proper and immediate object of Science is the acquirement or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of Poetry is the communication of pleasure". (Samuel Taylor Coleridge; in Holman, idem).