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  • 111Hebrew literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the Hebrew language and distinct from Jewish literature, which also exists in other languages.       Literature in Hebrew has been produced uninterruptedly from the early 12th century BC,… …

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  • 112Kazakh literature —       the body of literature, both oral and written, produced in the Kazakh language (Kazak language) by the Kazakh people of Central Asia.       The Kazakh professional bard once preserved a large repertoire of centuries old poetry. In the mid… …

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  • 113Latin literature — Introduction       the body of writings in Latin, primarily produced during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, when Latin was a spoken language. When Rome fell, Latin remained the literary language of the Western medieval world until it was …

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  • 114Old English literature — This article is part of a series on: Old English Dialects …

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  • 115GEONIC LITERATURE — This entry includes the basic books of geonic literature, which were compiled during the geonic period – from the year 600 to 1040, approximately. Geonic literature includes several types of works: 1. Commentaries on the Bible 2. Commentaries on… …

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  • 116Kannada literature in the Western Chalukya Empire — The Western Chalukya Empire (973 ndash;1200), in what is now southern India, produced a large body of literature in the Kannada language. This dynasty, which ruled most of the western Deccan, South India, is sometimes called the Kalyani Chalukya… …

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  • 117Danish literature — Introduction       the body of writings produced in the Danish and Latin languages.       During Denmark s long union with Norway (1380–1814), the Danish language became the official language and the most widely used literary medium in the… …

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  • 118Hungarian literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the Hungarian language.       No written evidence remains of the earliest Hungarian literature, but through Hungarian folktales and folk songs elements have survived that can be traced back …

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  • 119CANADIAN LITERATURE — English A.M. Klein (1909–1972), the founding father of Canadian Jewish literature, grew up in Montreal, the birthplace of that body of writing. A polyglot and autodidact, Klein absorbed his Hebrew and Yiddish heritages, as well as traditional… …

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  • 120Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature — is the literature written in the Dutch language in the Low Countries from around 1550 to around 1700. This period saw great political and religious changes as the Reformation spread across Northern and Western Europe and the Netherlands fought… …

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