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  2. Southern Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The Southern Renaissance (also known as Southern Renascence) [1] was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers such as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Caroline Gordon, Margaret Mitchell, Katherine Anne Porter, Erskine Caldwell, Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams, Robert Penn Warren, and Zora Neale Hurston, among others.

  3. Cultural depictions of Julius Caesar - Wikipedia

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    The Adventures of Alix, where he is the political protector of the main character. Asterix comics, written by René Goscinny and drawn by Albert Uderzo, include a fictionalized Julius Caesar (complete with Roman nose) as the main antagonist. Caesar appears in Neil Gaiman's Sandman #30, "August" (collected in The Sandman: Fables & Reflections).

  4. Medieval literature - Wikipedia

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    Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th, 15th or 16th century, depending on country). The literature of this time ...

  5. Category:Female characters in literature - Wikipedia

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    A. A Story of Oki Islands; Hannah Abbott; Vanessa Abrams; Kay Adams-Corleone; Irene Adler; Aunt Agatha; Akivasha; Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) Cathy Ames

  6. Category:Literary characters - Wikipedia

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    Alemannisch; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская ...

  7. Iliad - Wikipedia

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    Literature was central to the educational-cultural function of the itinerant rhapsode, who composed consistent epic poems from memory and improvisation and disseminated them, via song and chant, in his travels and at the Panathenaic Festival of athletics, music, poetics, and sacrifice, celebrating Athena's birthday.

  8. American Renaissance (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Literary nationalists at this time were calling for a movement that would develop a unique American literary style to distinguish American literature from British literature. [1] Walter Channing in a November 1815 issue of the North American Review called for American authors to form "a literature of our own," which was amplified by John Neal ...

  9. Jane Austen in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) borrowed its basic plot elements from Pride and Prejudice, and the character of Mark Darcy (played in the film by Colin Firth, who played Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television Pride and Prejudice) is named in deliberate homage to the original character. Bride & Prejudice transports most of the plot to present-day India.