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5th Generation (religious association), a Brazilian Christian association founded in 2014 by Gabriel Gomes; Fifth generation of Chinese leadership, the expected Communist Chinese leadership from the 2012 18th Party Congress; Fifth Generation, a 1980s-1990s collective of filmmakers in the cinema of China; Gen V, American superhero television series
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Gosei (五世, transl. 'fifth generation') is a Japanese diasporic term used in countries, particularly in North America and South America, to specify the great-great-grandchildren of Japanese immigrants . The children of Issei are Nisei (the second generation). Sansei are the third generation, and their offspring are Yonsei. [1]
Scholars have disagreed concerning when written record-keeping became more like literature, but the oldest surviving literary texts date from a full millennium after the invention of writing. The earliest literary author known by name is Enheduanna , who is credited as the author of a number of works of Sumerian literature, including Exaltation ...
In this era, the kitab-khana ("book house") was a term serving three definitions – first, it was a public library for the storing and preservation of the books; secondly, it also referred to an individual's own private collection of books; and thirdly to a workshop where books were made with calligraphers, bookbinders and papermakers worked ...
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems. [1] It includes both print and digital writing. [2] In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed.
Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other “elemental stuff” of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for writing ...
Japanese literature first diverged from Chinese literature around the eighth century. [98] Fudoki were eighth century records that were typically written in Chinese and documented both historical and mythological stories. [99] Folk ballads were also common, including those recorded in the fudoki and musical ballads.