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1293: 445: 738:), in that the novel form would be the direct result of poking fun at a collection of heroic folk legends. This is fully in keeping with the spirit of the age of enlightenment which began from about this time and delighted in giving a satirical twist to the stories and ideas of the past. It is worth noting that this trend toward satirising previous writings was only made possible by the 938:. Slaves were also bought or received as gifts. They were made to serve as pages at court or in the households of the affluent, or as soldiers and bodyguards. Young men, slaves or not, also, served wine at banquets and receptions, and the more gifted among them could play music and maintain a cultivated conversation. It was 729:
has been called "the first novel" by many literary scholars (or the first of the modern European novels). It was published in two parts. The first part was published in 1605 and the second in 1615. It might be viewed as a parody of
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Many genres of literature made their début during the Edo Period, helped by a rising literacy rate among the growing population of townspeople, as well as the development of lending libraries. Although there was a
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Until the 19th century, Ottoman prose never managed to develop to the extent that contemporary Divan poetry did. A large part of the reason for this was that much prose was expected to adhere to the rules of
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might be said to have given birth to the modern consciousness of the novel in Japan, mixing vernacular dialogue into his humorous and cautionary tales of the pleasure quarters.
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copies of a book it would not be possible to assume the reader will have seen the earlier work and will thus understand the references within the text. In the 18th century
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A new spirit of science and investigation in Europe was part of a general upheaval in human understanding, which began with the discovery of the
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performers improvised in the streets of Italy and France. Some Commedia dell'arte plays were written down. Both the written plays and the
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became established as a form there first had to be a transitional stage when "novelty" began to appear in the style of the epic poem.
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Plays for entertainment (as opposed to religious enlightenment) returned to Europe's stages in the early modern period.
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which was the subject of lyrical introductions to panegyrics from the beginning of Persian poetry, and of the ghazal."
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were influential upon literature of the time, particularly upon the work of Molière. Shakespeare drew upon the arts of
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is the most notable of the early modern playwrighters, but numerous others made important contributions, including
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notes, "As a rule, the beloved is not a woman, but a young man. In the early centuries of Islam, the raids into
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and strolling players in creating new style comedies. All the parts, even the female ones, were played by men (
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Nevertheless, there was a tradition of prose in the literature of the time. This tradition was exclusively
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remains mostly unaffected by European influence, and effects of modernization that would lead up to the
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and which prescribed that between each adjective and noun in a sentence, there must be a
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art form. From the Persian poetry that largely inspired it, it inherited a wealth of
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in 1492 and continues through the subsequent centuries, even up to the present day.
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Cambridge History of Iran. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.973-974. 1986
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In Europe, the Early Modern period lasts roughly from 1550 to 1750, spanning the
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in the sense the work is usually understood dates from around 1597. It is
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love toward young pages, soldiers, or novices in trades and professions
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whose meanings and interrelationships—both of similitude (مراعات نظير
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The two primary streams of Ottoman written literature are poetry and
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went into decline in the High Middle Ages, to the benefit of
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became apparent only from the Late Qing period in the 1890s.
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that was written in 1796, though not published until 1867.
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sees the development of various literary dialects such as
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Regarding the tradition of Persian love poetry during the
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The form of writing now commonplace across the world—the
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underwent various attempts of modernization from 1828 (
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History of literature
Ancient
corpora
Bronze Age
Ancient Egyptian
Akkadian
Elamite
Hattic
Hittite
Hurro-Urartian
Luwian
Lydian
Sumerian
Ugarit
Classical
Ancient Greek
Ancient Hebrew
Ancient Prakrit
Aramaic
Classical Chinese
Classical Latin
Parthian
Phrygian
Old Persian
Old Tamil
Sanskrit
Syriac
Early medieval
Arabic
Armenian

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