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  2. Renaissance literature - Wikipedia

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    The period focused on self-actualization and one's ability to accept what is going on in one's life. [citation needed] The earliest Renaissance literature appeared in Italy in the 14th century; Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Ariosto are notable examples of Italian Renaissance writers. From Italy, the influence of the Renaissance spread at different ...

  3. Essays (Montaigne) - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, his Essays were seen as an important contribution to both writing form and skepticism. The name itself comes from the French word essais, meaning "attempts" or "tests", which shows how this new form of writing did not aim to educate or prove. Rather, his essays examine an enormous range of topics to reflect on the diversity of ...

  4. French Renaissance literature - Wikipedia

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    The 16th century in France was a remarkable period of literary creation (the language of this period is called Middle French).The use of the printing press (aiding the diffusion of works by ancient Latin and Greek authors; the printing press was introduced in 1470 in Paris, and in 1473 in Lyon), the development of Renaissance humanism and Neoplatonism, and the discovery (through the wars in ...

  5. Biography in literature - Wikipedia

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    This longstanding critical method dates back at least to the Renaissance period, [10] and was employed extensively by Samuel Johnson in his Lives of the Poets (1779–81). [ 11 ] Like any critical methodology, biographical criticism can be used with discretion and insight or employed as a superficial shortcut to understanding the literary work ...

  6. Sonnet 60 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 60 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the form's typical rhyme, abab cdcd efef gg and is written a type of poetic metre called iambic pentameter based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.

  7. Joan Kelly - Wikipedia

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    In the highly influential essay Did Women Have a Renaissance? (1976), Kelly explored women's roles in Renaissance society. [ 5 ] She challenged traditional periodization, saying that women's historical experience was different to that of men's, and that while men's options may have expanded during the Renaissance period that the opposite was ...

  8. NFL playoff schedule: Dates, times, TV info for wild-card ...

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    The NFL playoff schedule is about to be set, with the wild-card dates and times for every matchup to be revealed during Week 18.

  9. Restoration literature - Wikipedia

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    The questions mainly dealt with love and health, but there were some bizarre and intentionally amusing questions as well (e.g. a question on why a person shivers after urination, written in rhyming couplets). The questions section allowed the journal to sell well and to be profitable.