In order to make this lesson concrete, I used a transparency projector to show two pages that I had copied from Ian Watt's Rise of the Novel, a highly regarded book on the literary period we were examining in the course.
The literary period in which Prus wrote was ostensibly a prosaic one, by contrast with the poetry of the Romantics; but Prus' prose is often a poetic prose.
The Literary Period Piece: Forever Current: are these the literary adaptations we deserve – and want?
Certainly, some of the exam work may prove relevant, but students should also remember that the examination is the central means of certifying their expertise in a literary period.
The structure is 25 feet wide and nine feet tall, with a total of 22 different titles displayed that range in genre and literary period from Tao Te Ching and Romeo and Juliet to Lord of the Rings.
The court poets, however, remained prolific: 15 imperially sponsored anthologies were completed between 1188 and 1439, and most of the tanka followed the stereotypes established in earlier literary periods.
Petőfi played a leading role in the literary life of the period preceding the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
François-Marie also acquired an introduction to modern letters from his father who was active in the literary culture of the period both in Paris and at the royal court of Versailles.
The exam covers a literary period, to consist of in-depth knowledge of a period of approximately a century in three or more literatures with primary emphasis on a single national literature or, in occasional cases, two national literatures.
My mother, Anne Roiphe, recently finished a memoir about that same period in the literary circles orbiting the Paris Review.
In the literary arts this was a period of creativity; thus the later Babylonians with good reason regarded the time of Nebuchadrezzar I as one of the great eras of their history.
